Times Square Olive Garden Manager Date Tweets

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Around this time last year, we were reading one man’s epic journey to buy a McDonald’s milkshake at 1 a.m. He live-Tweeted the whole experience, and we followed the entertaining play-by-play. If you too got sucked into the story, you probably remember how disappointing it was to find out a few days later that the man embellished to amuse his followers. You may not have completely recovered from the blow of finding out this tale was faked, but we just came across another food-centric live-tweeted saga, and if it’s true, it may make us forget all about being duped.

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Last night, a twitter user named Joe Wadlington went on a date with a man who allegedly used to be the general manager of the Olive Garden in Times Square. And, it should come as no surprise, that this guy had some stories. Joe's date shared the stories with him, and Joe shared them with the internet.

Earlier today, Wadlington tweeted this message, "I went on a date last night and the guy meekly shared that he used to be THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE TIMES SQUARE OLIVE GARDEN." When we saw this, we immediately needed to know more. Wadlington didn't let us down.

I went on a date last night and the guy meekly shared that he used to be THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE TIMES SQUARE OLIVE GARDEN.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

According to the many tweets that followed, Twitter users took up most of the date grilling the guy about what it was like to work at the gigantic Olive Garden location. Wadlington wrote, "Clearly, he'd seen some shit. So the next hour and a half was me asking questions. I tried to do y'all right." We're touched that he risked true love and the promise of a second date just to get us some insider information. Here's what Joe learned:

Q Did y'all ever run out of breadsticks? If so what happened?
A Yes. Twice. Worst shifts of my life. People were angry, kept telling us "no"
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Q: Was everyone from Ohio?
A: Brazil, Puerto Rico, & Ohio. The foreigners I understood. They'd grown up watching O.G. commercials.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Q: National pricing or city pricing?
A: City pricing. It made no sense why the Americans were there. They were paying 3x for the same food.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

A: How big is it?
Q: Three floors. It may be the biggest Olive Garden in the world. The wait was always 2 hours. Our last seating was at 2AM
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Note: I think he may have been trying to impress me here.
Note, note: It worked.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Q: What was the most popular dish?
A: The tour of Italy
Q: What?
A: It's a plate of lasagna, a chicken parmesan, & one fettuccine alfredo
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Q: That's too much food for one person
A: It's too much food for three people
Q: How much?
A: Maybe $25
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Q Did anyone order the unlimited soup/salad/breadsticks and stay for 8 hours?
A Why would someone do that?
Q You said they were Americans.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

A: Not on my shifts. But if someone wanted to, Olive Garden would not let us remove them. They are "family" and would be allowed to eat.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Q: That's really good to know.
A: People can't eat that much bread.
[I started laughing because he's wrong]
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Q: What's the weirdest thing that ever happened?
A: Oh, there was a knife fight.
Q: Tell me everything.
A: Two women. They came together.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Q: Steak knives? Like the knives from the table or BYOK?
A: From the table. So, it started out as a fist fight and the other manger pulled
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

them apart and put one in the elevator going down to the 1st floor. They were on the third floor. The 2nd woman broke away and ran down the
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Stairs. She stopped the elevator on the 2nd floor and grabbed a knife off someone's table.
A: someone else's knife?!
Q: yes
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Q: So only one woman had a knife.
A: The other woman picked up a knife off a different table. So the other manager, he was a huge guy, 6'6"
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

ran down there and pulled them apart again. They were on the first floor at this point. And he threw them out into the street. So they could
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

deal with it out there.
Q: Did they still have the knives?
A: No, he took them.
Q: Did he give them breadsticks?
A: What? No.
Q: Sorry.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

A: What happened after that?
Q: I don't know. They were outside, so they weren't our problem anymore
A: Would you say they're still "family"
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

A: No.
Q: Wait. You said the shifts where you ran out of breadsticks were the worst. Worse than the shift with a knife fight?
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

A: You may be surprised, but yes, Olive Garden running out of breadsticks is worse than a knife fight.
Q: No, I totally get it.
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Reader, I married him. ?
— Joe Wadlington (@JoeWadlington) April 19, 2017

Of course, we have to remember that this info came from the internet, so we can't be sure it's the truth. All we have to do is think of the milkshake man, and we're reminded once again to take this saga with a grain of salt. Still, we can't help but hope that these jaw-dropping Olive Garden stories really happened.