--- title: Olive Garden Manager Times Square Thread description: According to a former general manager of the Olive Garden in Times Square spilled stories about running out of breadsticks and a knife fight. canonical: https://time.com/4748294/olive-garden-twitter/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-20T17:07:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:00.645Z og:title: Hilarious Tales of This Olive Garden Manager Went Viral og:description: Apparently, Olive Garden running out of breadsticks is scary og:url: https://time.com/4748294/olive-garden-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt276e4b20ae09f8df/6988c3b60a4a225acb9cdcdd/olive-garden-breadsticks-run-out-knife-fight.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Olive Garden Take-Out Order Ahead Of Darden Restaurants Inc. Earning Figures og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hilarious Tales of This Olive Garden Manager Went Viral twitter:description: Apparently, Olive Garden running out of breadsticks is scary twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt276e4b20ae09f8df/6988c3b60a4a225acb9cdcdd/olive-garden-breadsticks-run-out-knife-fight.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Fell in Love With the Hilarious Story of an Olive Garden Manager by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Apr 20, 2017 5:07 PM UTC  An order of breadsticks from a Darden Restaurants Inc. Olive Garden location is arranged for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015\. Darden Restaurants Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on Sept. 22\. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images An order of breadsticks from a Darden Restaurants Inc. Olive Garden location is arranged for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015\. Darden Restaurants Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on Sept. 22\. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Apr 20, 2017 5:07 PM UTC [Olive Garden](http://time.com/12292/olive-gardens-new-logo-probably-cant-save-olive-garden/), destination for [never ending pasta passes](http://time.com/money/4488391/olive-garden-unlimited-pasta-pass-on-sale-2016/), [$400 NYE tickets](http://time.com/4163342/olive-garden-new-years-400-person/) and [carbs in all forms](http://time.com/4348356/olive-garden-spaghetti-pie/), is primarily known for its notorious unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks deal. But what would happen if Olive Garden didn’t have an endless supply of breadsticks to feed their hungry hordes? Thanks to the intrepid journalism of Twitter user Joe Wadlington, who used a first date with the former general manager of the Olive Garden in Times Square to find out the deepest, darkest secrets of the cult chain restaurant, we know now that Olive Garden running out of breadsticks has not only happened, but is arguably more stressful than a knife fight. In a series of tweets, Wadlington disclosed all of the pertinent information we ever needed to know about life, love and Olive Garden. **On how it began**: > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854728312018485248) **On whether or not Olive Garden has ever really run out of breadsticks**: > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854729104662208512) > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854729458443354112) **On the most popular dish**: > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854731404780773377) **On the casual knife fight he says he witnessed at the restaurant that was less stressful than running out of breadsticks**: > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854733109333377024) > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854733319317069824) > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854733530110189568) > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854734141933273089) > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854734371961556992) > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854734904986226688) > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854735908796383232) > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854747008548036609) > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854747287834120192) **On how it ended**: > [](https://twitter.com/JoeWadlington/status/854747467593560064) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4748294/olive-garden-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4748294/olive-garden-twitter/"},"headline":"The Internet Fell in Love With the Hilarious Story of an Olive Garden Manager","datePublished":"2017-04-20T17:07:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:00.645Z","description":"Tales from the Times Square Olive Garden","url":"https://time.com/4748294/olive-garden-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Olive Garden","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt276e4b20ae09f8df/6988c3b60a4a225acb9cdcdd/olive-garden-breadsticks-run-out-knife-fight.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt276e4b20ae09f8df/6988c3b60a4a225acb9cdcdd/olive-garden-breadsticks-run-out-knife-fight.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Olive Garden Take-Out Order Ahead Of Darden Restaurants Inc. 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