"I give two stars because the food was good and the server was working her tail off to basically run that entire restaurant last night at about 7-8pm. But I think I'll be going to a different olive garden location from now on. We waited for thirty minutes to get seated. Yes I understand short staff and blah blah blah, but I also understand that there were constantly people just sitting around doing literally nothing. At one point in the evening, while we were waiting to be seated, I counted 7 staff, standing behind the host-counter in the beginning/front of the store just chit-chatting when some of those people could have been clearing tables to seat people, not their job or their problem I guess. I just took matters in my own hand and cleared a table with only a few things on it that sat there for 15 mins+ after the elderly woman finished her food and left, that was after the manager asked for that table to be cleared and some kid comes out, picks up a single wine glass, then leaves back to the kitchen. Thank goodness when we finally got seated, our waitress, the only person working in the building, was GREAT! To top it off, I saw black mold in the kitchen, just blatantly out right there behind the bar. If the owner wants, I can share a picture with them of that but only by request because I don't want to post it here if the owner can reach out to me in good faith and request."
