Olive Garden is NOT like what it used to be.

I'd rather go into a local well-known Italian restaurant like Polcari's for Italian cuisine! The variety and choices of fine Italian dishes are much better here.

DE, if those waiters did what you've suspected they might have done, then that is totally and utterly wrong for the following reasons;

1. It's not Serve-Safe. That's not within the requirements and regulations of the local State Health Dept..

2. Anyone who served themselves from either or both of those two salad bowls could have a cold or other contageous illness.

3. Any open food or item that is brought to your table, regardless if it was eaten or not, must be discarded immediately when the party is done with it.

4. Saving money or not, this practice is just not acceptable, should not be tolerated or allowed, and it should be immediately reported to management!!!

5. It can set the wheels in motion for a big lawsuit - costing the co. millions of dollars. Not to memntion the embarrassment and humiliation that they would suffer from widespread publicity should something like this get out to the public, which in all probability, it would!

6. I don't eat at any of those outlets anyway, but thanks for the headsup.

7. I will warn friends and relatives about that.