I’ve never liked Olive Garden. It’s not bad, but it’s not good either. But it’s all about taste.
If you need a quick reasonably priced lunch and you’ve got a big appetite, their soup and salad special is far superior to fast food and not all that bad. Unlimited garlic breadsticks, unlimited salad, unlimited soup, two kinds, Pasta Fagioli or Zuppa Toscana. The rest of their food is too formulaic and institutional for the price. The lunch special soup and salad is really the only thing I ever get there.