I waited on another football player tonight

JeeberD · 03-12-2003, 11:05 PM

You may remember that a few weeks ago I waited on Ron Stone, OG for the San Fran Fag... err, Niners. Well, tonight another pro football player came into Olive Garden. This time it was Dat Nguyen of my beloved Cowboys. He came in with his wife (who I recognized from Hard Knocks) and I guess either his little brother and sister or his neice and nephew. The man ate a ton of salad, more than just about anyone I've seen there. He changed his order three times on me (after the order had been sent to the kitchen), and sucked down his water like there was no tomorrow. He seemed like a nice guy, and his wife was very friendly. Hmm, nothing else very exciting to report about this...

bbor · 03-12-2003, 11:12 PM

Can you get them to bring Olive Garden back to Canada please...i love that place...the tour of Italy rawks.

Marmel · 03-12-2003, 11:16 PM

bbor, you guys must have some BAD food up in Canada if you are asking for Olive Garden. That place tastes like frozen dinners. You can call them Italian food, but really it sucks.

bbor · 03-12-2003, 11:17 PM

I just like Lasagna...but it's a pain in the ass to make.

Easy Mac · 03-12-2003, 11:18 PM

Overpriced, overrated, and over shitty. I have had a $25 gift card there for over 3 months and have yet to use it.

bbor · 03-12-2003, 11:18 PM

DOLA...all you can eat salad and bread sticks rawk also

JeeberD · 03-12-2003, 11:20 PM

It's not too bad, Marm. Personally, there are a few Ma and Pop Italian restaurants in the are that I prefer to take my girlfriend to. OG certainly isn't the greatest, but it's not bad. Man, I almost busted out laughing at school yesterday when I overheard a girl sitting behind me telling her friend about how her mom was so overwhelmed when her husband took her to OG for V-Day. I feel sorry for that woman if the highlight of her year is eating at OG...

vex · 03-12-2003, 11:29 PM

I love the Olive Garden.

Swaggs · 03-12-2003, 11:38 PM

I like the Olive Garden. Anyone eaten at the Macaroni Grille? I got hooked on it when I lived up in Akron. Good stuff.

JeeberD · 03-12-2003, 11:43 PM

Never eaten at Mac Grill. But Johnny Carino's has some bad-ass stuffed mushrooms...

Logan · 03-12-2003, 11:57 PM

How was the tip?

JeeberD · 03-13-2003, 12:10 AM

Decent for a normal person, but disappointing for a millionaire football player. Their check was about $30 and they left me nbearly six. His wife was the one who signed the credit card slip.

Larry Allen is still my pro football player tipping champ with his thirty dollar tip on a seventy dollar check...

AgPete · 03-13-2003, 12:13 AM

I love the Olive Garden's side orders.

I'm addicted to their salad dressing, breadsticks with alfredo, soups, desserts and other compliments. Their main dishes....well...I get the feeling I could make something comparable to most of them. I have the same question as Logan, what kind of tip did Dat leave? I worked with one of his cousins before, she was a nice (and very smart!) lady. I wish the Wrecking Crew still had players like Dat.

Travis · 03-13-2003, 12:40 AM

We still have Olive Garden in Edmonton, a couple actually, not bad food for the price.

cthomer5000 · 03-13-2003, 05:40 AM

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Originally posted by JeeberD
Decent for a normal person, but disappointing for a millionaire football player. Their check was about $30 and they left me nbearly six. His wife was the one who signed the credit card slip.

Larry Allen is still my pro football player tipping champ with his thirty dollar tip on a seventy dollar check...

So because people have more money, you feel they're obligated to give you a ridiculous tip?

Blackadar · 03-13-2003, 06:18 AM

Mac Grill. Yummmmmmmmmm.

Ksyrup · 03-13-2003, 06:55 AM

I like Olive Garden a little, but mostly for the all you can eat soup and salad lunches. Mac Grille is fantastic, but nothing beats Carrabba's. If you haven't had it, you're missing something special.

Of course, while I'm on Atkins, I've stayed far away from all three. I could find a meal without pasta at Carrabba's, but watching everyone eat their great bread would kill me.

Bee · 03-13-2003, 07:00 AM

I always looked at the Olive Garden as one step above McDonalds. I guess Dat Nguyen is playing for the league minimum now?

Radii · 03-13-2003, 07:57 AM

For all of the Atlanta people, Ippolitos is the best Italian around, mmm mm good

Celeval · 03-13-2003, 09:42 AM

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Originally posted by Radii
For all of the Atlanta people, Ippolitos is the best Italian around, mmm mm good

Hell yeah, damn good stuff there.

Although I like Bambinelli's (mom & pop place in Northlake), too - nothing like eating Italian with some guy in the corner playing random music on a piano.

Kevin

Radii · 03-13-2003, 09:48 AM

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Originally posted by Celeval
Hell yeah, damn good stuff there.

Although I like Bambinelli's (mom & pop place in Northlake), too - nothing like eating Italian with some guy in the corner playing random music on a piano.

Kevin

sweet, I've never heard of that, I'll have to look it up

cincyreds · 03-13-2003, 09:59 AM

Easy Mac can I please have your $25 gift card?

Anrhydeddu · 03-13-2003, 10:13 AM

Believe it or not, my wife and I ranks Macaroni Grill as one of the best restaraunts we've been to in the country.

Bee · 03-13-2003, 10:23 AM

You guys really need to get out more.

Buzzbee · 03-13-2003, 10:29 AM

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Originally posted by Radii
For all of the Atlanta people, Ippolitos is the best Italian around, mmm mm good

Yes! I agree completely. Ipps is a great place. I've had many lunches there. Probably too many.

There is also a place near where I live called Italian Oven. Food is pretty good, service is GREAT, and the prices are pretty good too.

bbor · 03-13-2003, 11:53 AM

Kill this thread...it makes me hungry

JeeberD · 03-13-2003, 12:27 PM

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Originally posted by cthomer5000
So because people have more money, you feel they're obligated to give you a ridiculous tip?

Well, I help pay his salary by paying ridiculous amounts of money for tickets to his games, so why can't he return the favor?

sabotai · 03-13-2003, 12:41 PM

I like the Olive Garden too. It's one of the places me and my girlfriend go one those 'special holidays'. But that's only because we are both poor. If we were older and had money, we'd be going to other places on those holidays.

But for a regualr dinner, I like it. Good stuff. The Tour of Italy is what I usually order.

JeeberD · 03-13-2003, 12:43 PM

Ya'll need to try the Chicken Marsala. It's soooo good, my favorite thing on the menu...

cuervo72 · 03-13-2003, 12:54 PM

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Originally posted by Buzzbee

There is also a place near where I live called Italian Oven. Food is pretty good, service is GREAT, and the prices are pretty good too.

There was an Italian Oven outside of Baltimore (Severna Park), that was great, but it turned into a steak place. We have one in a local mall where I live now, and it's not as good. Well, the food might be, but the service was extremely slow not once but twice, so we haven't been back (when you have kids 3 and under, you can't afford to wait very long for your food).

I can't wait 'till they finish the Macaroni Grill near us. I like Olive Garden ok (though their prices keep going up and up - 7.25 for a lunch portion of Chicken Giardino??), but I love the Macaroni Grill. Knowing they were building one by us was enough for me to abandon the Atkins Diet (ok, after only 2 weeks). I could eat their bread and olive oil alone all day.

JeeberD · 09-08-2004, 08:59 AM

Waited on Richie Anderson and his family last night. Nice people.

Bradie James has also been in the restaurant a few times over the past few months, but I haven't waited on him personally...

Logan · 09-08-2004, 09:08 AM

It completely fucks with my head when someone brings back an old thread and I don't realize it. Especially when I'm scrolling through quickly and see something like:

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Originally Posted by AgPete

I have the same question as Logan

...and I start thinking that I made some drunken post about the Olive Garden last night.

Ksyrup · 09-08-2004, 09:34 AM

Happened to me too. Until I read my post, I was about to post what I posted a year and a half ago.

Dutch · 09-08-2004, 09:55 AM

I love Olive Garden, they have a professionally trained staff of cork soakers that are just out of this world. It really helps the flavor of the white's. But I know, I know, most people prefer a good red while enjoying Olive Garden, and they have expert cork soakers for that too.

tategter · 09-08-2004, 10:39 AM

My wife and I love Mac Grill and have been tortured by their local commercials even though they don't have a restaurant anywhere near here. When we go on vacation we always try to stop where we find one. Heard a rumor that they might be opening one in town in the next few months. Can't wait.

Jeeb, do you work across the street from a stadium or something?

Draft Dodger · 09-08-2004, 10:50 AM

I sold a computer to Dat Nguyen a couple weeks ago.

except, not THAT Dat Nguyen

spleen1015 · 09-08-2004, 10:52 AM

I dated a girl that went to Texas A&M while Dat was playing there. I met him at a party. Nice guy.

JeeberD · 09-08-2004, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by tategter

Jeeb, do you work across the street from a stadium or something?

Nah, but the restaurant is in a nice, central part of the DFW area. It's also not too far from the Cowboys facilities in Valley Ranch...

bbor · 09-08-2004, 11:20 AM

Damn....you dragged this old thread up from the bowels of hell eh?

JeeberD · 09-08-2004, 03:01 PM

Just a year and a half later, bbor...

Cap Ologist · 04-27-2005, 09:24 PM

Although I'm not a pro football player, I did play flag football yesterday and JeeberD was my waiter tonight at Olive Garden.

Pumpy Tudors · 04-27-2005, 09:28 PM

I went to Olive Garden tonight and ate JeeberD.

Just kidding. (I didn't go to Olive Garden)

General Mike · 04-27-2005, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Cap Ologist

Although I'm not a pro football player, I did play flag football yesterday and JeeberD was my waiter tonight at Olive Garden.

I've only been to Olve Garden once, and it was like 10 years ago.

CHEMICAL SOLDIER · 04-27-2005, 09:31 PM

You get his autograph?

SFL Cat · 04-27-2005, 09:47 PM

I'll take Macaroni Grille or Carabbas over Olive Garden any day of the week.

Dutch · 04-27-2005, 09:57 PM

Hey, we just got a Macaroni Grill in Shreveport, I think I'll have to check that out.

st.cronin · 04-27-2005, 09:58 PM

I briefly had a bartending gig in Milwaukee, got to serve quite a few NBAers. Dikembe Mutombo is the tallest motherfucker you can imagine. Tracy McGrady likes to drink. Toni Kukoc, I think, is always in agonizing pain. Always.

JeeberD · 04-27-2005, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Cap Ologist

Although I'm not a pro football player, I did play flag football yesterday and JeeberD was my waiter tonight at Olive Garden.

Dammit Cap, why didn't you tell me it was you?!?! I met my first FOFCer and didn't even realize it...

Oh, and by the way, Cap, nice catch...

Cap Ologist · 04-27-2005, 10:06 PM

Thanks. I just couldn't figure out how to explain to her how I knew who you were without knowing you. The crazy world of text sims is so strange to outsiders!

Ragone · 04-27-2005, 10:11 PM

i'm still curious how cap knew who you were.. i have a photographic memory and i don't think i could remember what you looked like

So Either

A. Jeeberd has a name tag that says "Jeeberd"

or

B. Cap Ologist is a stalker

03-12-2003, 11:12 PM	#2
bbor Pro Starter Join Date: May 2001 Location: toronto	Can you get them to bring Olive Garden back to Canada please...i love that place...the tour of Italy rawks. __________________ Pumpy Tudors Now that I've cracked and made that admission, I wonder if I'm only a couple of steps away from wanting to tongue-kiss Jaromir Jagr and give Bobby Clarke a blowjob.

03-12-2003, 11:16 PM	#3
Marmel Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Manchester, CT	bbor, you guys must have some BAD food up in Canada if you are asking for Olive Garden. That place tastes like frozen dinners. You can call them Italian food, but really it sucks. __________________ 81-78 Cincinnati basketball writer P. Daugherty, "Connor Barwin playing several minutes against Syracuse is like kids with slingshots taking down Caesar's legions."

03-12-2003, 11:17 PM	#4
bbor Pro Starter Join Date: May 2001 Location: toronto	I just like Lasagna...but it's a pain in the ass to make. __________________ Pumpy Tudors Now that I've cracked and made that admission, I wonder if I'm only a couple of steps away from wanting to tongue-kiss Jaromir Jagr and give Bobby Clarke a blowjob.

03-12-2003, 11:18 PM	#6
bbor Pro Starter Join Date: May 2001 Location: toronto	DOLA...all you can eat salad and bread sticks rawk also __________________ Pumpy Tudors Now that I've cracked and made that admission, I wonder if I'm only a couple of steps away from wanting to tongue-kiss Jaromir Jagr and give Bobby Clarke a blowjob.

03-12-2003, 11:20 PM	#7
JeeberD General Manager Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Town of Flower Mound	It's not too bad, Marm. Personally, there are a few Ma and Pop Italian restaurants in the are that I prefer to take my girlfriend to. OG certainly isn't the greatest, but it's not bad. Man, I almost busted out laughing at school yesterday when I overheard a girl sitting behind me telling her friend about how her mom was so overwhelmed when her husband took her to OG for V-Day. I feel sorry for that woman if the highlight of her year is eating at OG... __________________ UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO

03-12-2003, 11:18 PM	#5
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	Overpriced, overrated, and over shitty. I have had a $25 gift card there for over 3 months and have yet to use it.

03-12-2003, 11:29 PM	#8
vex Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Tulsa	I love the Olive Garden.

03-12-2003, 11:38 PM	#9
Swaggs Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000	I like the Olive Garden. Anyone eaten at the Macaroni Grille? I got hooked on it when I lived up in Akron. Good stuff. __________________ DOWN WITH HATTRICK!!! The RWBL Are you reading In The Bleachers?

03-12-2003, 11:43 PM	#10
JeeberD General Manager Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Town of Flower Mound	Never eaten at Mac Grill. But Johnny Carino's has some bad-ass stuffed mushrooms... __________________ UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO

03-12-2003, 11:57 PM	#11
Logan Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: NYC	How was the tip?

03-13-2003, 12:10 AM	#12
JeeberD General Manager Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Town of Flower Mound	Decent for a normal person, but disappointing for a millionaire football player. Their check was about $30 and they left me nbearly six. His wife was the one who signed the credit card slip. Larry Allen is still my pro football player tipping champ with his thirty dollar tip on a seventy dollar check... __________________ UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO

03-13-2003, 12:13 AM	#13
AgPete College Prospect Join Date: Jan 2001	I love the Olive Garden's side orders. I'm addicted to their salad dressing, breadsticks with alfredo, soups, desserts and other compliments. Their main dishes....well...I get the feeling I could make something comparable to most of them. I have the same question as Logan, what kind of tip did Dat leave? I worked with one of his cousins before, she was a nice (and very smart!) lady. I wish the Wrecking Crew still had players like Dat. __________________ Click here for the FOF2004 World Football League Dynasty (WFL) - Football Goes Global! OOTP5 Psychology Experiment (Incomplete but fun read for MLB fans.) The FOFC All-Time NFL Team - Voted on by FOFC members.

03-13-2003, 12:40 AM	#14
Travis Pro Rookie Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Canada eh	We still have Olive Garden in Edmonton, a couple actually, not bad food for the price. __________________ "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." - Rogers Hornsby

03-13-2003, 06:18 AM	#16
Blackadar Retired Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Fantasyland	Mac Grill. Yummmmmmmmmm.

03-13-2003, 06:55 AM	#17
Ksyrup This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off. Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: In Absentia	I like Olive Garden a little, but mostly for the all you can eat soup and salad lunches. Mac Grille is fantastic, but nothing beats Carrabba's. If you haven't had it, you're missing something special. Of course, while I'm on Atkins, I've stayed far away from all three. I could find a meal without pasta at Carrabba's, but watching everyone eat their great bread would kill me. __________________ M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete."

03-13-2003, 07:00 AM	#18
Bee Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Fairfax, VA	I always looked at the Olive Garden as one step above McDonalds. I guess Dat Nguyen is playing for the league minimum now?

03-13-2003, 07:57 AM	#19
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	For all of the Atlanta people, Ippolitos is the best Italian around, mmm mm good

03-13-2003, 09:59 AM	#22
cincyreds High School Varsity Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Mississippi	Easy Mac can I please have your $25 gift card? __________________ The Dallas Cowboys!! America's Team will rise again.

03-13-2003, 10:13 AM	#23
Anrhydeddu Resident Curmudgeon Join Date: Oct 2002	Believe it or not, my wife and I ranks Macaroni Grill as one of the best restaraunts we've been to in the country.

03-13-2003, 10:23 AM	#24
Bee Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Fairfax, VA	You guys really need to get out more.

03-13-2003, 11:53 AM	#26
bbor Pro Starter Join Date: May 2001 Location: toronto	Kill this thread...it makes me hungry __________________ Pumpy Tudors Now that I've cracked and made that admission, I wonder if I'm only a couple of steps away from wanting to tongue-kiss Jaromir Jagr and give Bobby Clarke a blowjob.

03-13-2003, 12:41 PM	#28
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	I like the Olive Garden too. It's one of the places me and my girlfriend go one those 'special holidays'. But that's only because we are both poor. If we were older and had money, we'd be going to other places on those holidays. But for a regualr dinner, I like it. Good stuff. The Tour of Italy is what I usually order.

03-13-2003, 12:43 PM	#29
JeeberD General Manager Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Town of Flower Mound	Ya'll need to try the Chicken Marsala. It's soooo good, my favorite thing on the menu... __________________ UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO

09-08-2004, 08:59 AM	#31
JeeberD General Manager Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Town of Flower Mound	Waited on Richie Anderson and his family last night. Nice people. Bradie James has also been in the restaurant a few times over the past few months, but I haven't waited on him personally... __________________ UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO

09-08-2004, 09:34 AM	#33
Ksyrup This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off. Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: In Absentia	Happened to me too. Until I read my post, I was about to post what I posted a year and a half ago. __________________ M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete."

09-08-2004, 09:55 AM	#34
Dutch "Dutch" Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Tampa, FL	I love Olive Garden, they have a professionally trained staff of cork soakers that are just out of this world. It really helps the flavor of the white's. But I know, I know, most people prefer a good red while enjoying Olive Garden, and they have expert cork soakers for that too.

09-08-2004, 10:39 AM	#35
tategter High School JV Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Florida Swampland	My wife and I love Mac Grill and have been tortured by their local commercials even though they don't have a restaurant anywhere near here. When we go on vacation we always try to stop where we find one. Heard a rumor that they might be opening one in town in the next few months. Can't wait. Jeeb, do you work across the street from a stadium or something?

09-08-2004, 10:50 AM	#36
Draft Dodger Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Keene, NH	I sold a computer to Dat Nguyen a couple weeks ago. except, not THAT Dat Nguyen __________________ Mile High Hockey

09-08-2004, 10:52 AM	#37
spleen1015 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003	I dated a girl that went to Texas A&M while Dat was playing there. I met him at a party. Nice guy.

09-08-2004, 11:20 AM	#39
bbor Pro Starter Join Date: May 2001 Location: toronto	Damn....you dragged this old thread up from the bowels of hell eh? __________________ Pumpy Tudors Now that I've cracked and made that admission, I wonder if I'm only a couple of steps away from wanting to tongue-kiss Jaromir Jagr and give Bobby Clarke a blowjob.

09-08-2004, 03:01 PM	#40
JeeberD General Manager Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The Town of Flower Mound	Just a year and a half later, bbor... __________________ UTEP Miners!!! I solemnly swear to never cheer for TO

04-27-2005, 09:24 PM	#41
Cap Ologist College Prospect Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Flower Mound, TX	Although I'm not a pro football player, I did play flag football yesterday and JeeberD was my waiter tonight at Olive Garden.

04-27-2005, 09:28 PM	#42
Pumpy Tudors Bounty Hunter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	I went to Olive Garden tonight and ate JeeberD. Just kidding. (I didn't go to Olive Garden) __________________ No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor.

04-27-2005, 09:31 PM	#44
CHEMICAL SOLDIER College Starter Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Henderson, Nevada	You get his autograph? __________________ Toujour Pret

04-27-2005, 09:47 PM	#45
SFL Cat College Starter Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: South Florida	I'll take Macaroni Grille or Carabbas over Olive Garden any day of the week.