I don't eat too often at Longhorn...but we HAVE socialized at Olive Garden and had family dinners at Red Lobster MANY times. Not any more. Darden is getting a note from us...maybe even a snail mail letter, telling them I will no longer spend my money at their establishments.
Why? Because their embrace of government intervention into my choices is repugnant.
what are they doing?
Huh? Sustainability and diversity are more likely to appeal to Food Network types than to the Feds.
Foro those of us who may be ill informed—what are you talking about?
Thanks for posting. We all should let these folks know what we think about this. Call now.
Thanks for the tip. A big Zafat Zero for Darden.
Thanks for the tip. A big Zagat Zero for Darden.
Background Info Thread about this issue:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2778656/posts
I’ll tell my secretary, “No more office fairwell luncheons at OG”.....
I tend to avoid all these listed restaurants anyway, but now I'll make a deliberate effort to never darken their doorways.
Oh, shoot. And someone just gave my wife an Olive Garden gift card for her birthday.
With all the choices for dining out, boycotting Darden is certainly a personal choice one could easily make, but from reading the comments it seems that most boycotts are grounded in anti-Obama feelings rather than what Darden is doing.
Seasons 52 is a very nice upscale restaurant that has long featured entrees below 500 calories, and they did this way before Obama’s food nanny efforts. My wife and I eat there a lot and will continue to do so.
I guess this means low sodium olives in the kid’s martinis at Cap Grille?
For the most part, chain restaurant food is really crappy stuff, loaded with massive amounts of sodium, fat, and empty calories. I personally find the food at Olive Garden and Red Lobster to be unpalatable. So, in my book, it’s a good thing when restaurants attempt to improve the healthfulness of their fare. I just wish they were responding to free-market forces rather than fascist intimidation.