There is nothing more American than unlimited breadsticks | Emma Brockes

Forget those classist hedge-funders and their 300-page report on pasta water. What could be more authentically itself than Olive Garden?

Id never been to an Olive Garden before this week, but Id thought about it a lot: everything looks so delicious in the commercials. And it sounds nice, doesnt it? Olive Garden, like somewhere youd want to hang out, idling beneath vine leaves and drinking a glass of wine.

I have been thinking about Olive Garden more than usual the past few days specifically its breadsticks, which were singled out for abuse in a 300-page report written by one of the restaurant chains investors, a hedge-fund up in arms at the perceived waste of food (and trying to gain greater control of the parent companys board).