Olive Garden is open

maxim · #1 11-20-2006, 10:30 AM

From the HA website...

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/a...EWS01/61120009

Olive Garden opens today

If you’ve been craving endless soup and salad bowls, your day has come. The Olive Garden on U.S. 98 is slated to open today at 4 p.m. for dinner and will open Nov. 27 for lunch and dinner.

Not my favorite Italian place, but quite good. Reasonable prices, reasonable food. I'm betting it will be hard to get a place for a month or two.

Comments

thanks for posting this

sackett22 · #2 11-20-2006, 10:43 AM

Yay now we can all puke pasta and endless soup and salad. LOL

Southern_Belle · #3 11-20-2006, 10:46 AM

i absolutely LOVE this place. i could eat the salad all day, every day!

nooskye · #4 11-20-2006, 01:33 PM

i bet the wait will be longer than a month or two ... hattiesburg has been waiting a long time for this one!

citygirl · #5 11-20-2006, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Southern_Belle

i absolutely LOVE this place. i could eat the salad all day, every day!

Me too! We'll definitely have to have a gathering there. Hubby doesn't care much for them so the only way I'll get to go is with friends or by myself.

58ford · #6 11-20-2006, 02:17 PM

Put it between the Starbucks & the Pottery Barn & you will have completely destroyed American culture.

daisy · #7 11-20-2006, 02:39 PM

I have been to the one on the coast 1 time and ordered eggplant something??? ok but not great.. The commercials make it look so good. I'll try again.

Maggie-Doodle · #8 11-20-2006, 03:32 PM

I will not dare go there until after the first of the year...NO WAY will I stand in the lines I know they will have!

Conveyor Belt · #9 11-20-2006, 03:34 PM

The upper management think the Hattiesburg store will be one of the busiest. So much so that they've stocked it with at least one more salaried manager than would normally be required in a city this size.

Makes me wonder what took them so long to get it going if they knew it was going to be this great...

58ford · #10 11-20-2006, 03:40 PM

America is bobsledding to hell in an endless salad bowl.

#11 11-20-2006, 05:02 PM

while i do think olive garden is usually tasty...

i think its bastardizing what true italian food is supposed to taste like

im with ford, these trendy places are not only destroying the melting pot of american culture, but of the other cultures they intend to mimic

Olohian · #12 11-26-2006, 06:25 PM

Today (Sunday) we went there for lunch, but it doesn't open till 4:00 on Sundays. "Good for them" everyone should be allowed Sunday mornings off - to go to church.

We ate at the Longhorn next door, and it was really good. Longhorn was very busy, because everyone that went to Olive Garden saw that it was closed and did like we did and came next door.

AS FAR it "destroying American culture" Are you talking about McDonalds? I would prefer eat aunt Betty's home cooking, but sometimes it is nice to eat out.

I love all the choices we have now. Think twenty years ago - The Coca-Cola and Methodist Hospital were the only thing on Hwy 98 untill you got to Columbia. It is really growing. We have got to get a bypass on the south and north side of 98, or traffic problems will kill us.

Kitty · #13 11-26-2006, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by cssamo

I love all the choices we have now. Think twenty years ago - The Coca-Cola and Methodist Hospital were the only thing on Hwy 98 untill you got to Columbia. It is really growing. We have got to get a bypass on the south and north side of 98, or traffic problems will kill us.

I love all the choices, too.

Your location of "Oloh Metro" (very cool, btw!) likely will be smack dab in the middle of the continued westward growth toward Marion County.

The people who said that one day Hattiesburg and Columbia would be connected are probably correct.

Conveyor Belt · #14 11-26-2006, 08:29 PM

Olive Garden is only open limited hours (after 4pm) for the first week or so to get all the wrinkles out of the staff before opening up for regular hours, which will include Sunday.

Little-ole-me · #15 11-26-2006, 09:53 PM

My Daughter went there the other night and said the food was really Great.I guess i'll try and get over there one day myself. I still love the little resturant in the shell gas station. They food is Wonderful.

Tully Mars · #16 11-26-2006, 09:57 PM

We tried to go around 8:00 last night and just judging by the number of people standing around outside I figured it would be 10:00 before we got a seat.

Tully Mars · #17 11-26-2006, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by kevin

That's way too much for me you could go to Jackson by the time your seated.I tried the other day I just wish we had something better than these subpar Mexican Restaurants.Anyone try Sake' cafe?

I love Sake' Cafe, IMO the best sushi in Hattiesburg.:smt038