Pasta eatery Olive Garden found itself under the broilers this week when activist investor Starboard Value attacked just about every business practice owner Darden Restaurants put in place for the struggling chain. In a 294-slide presentation, Starboard took jabs at Olive Garden for everything from its to-go containers to its heavy-handed servers leaving too many cold, uneaten breadsticks on diners’ tables.
To save you from having to dig through the entire report, which can be found here, we pulled out 14 of the most scathing complaints Starboard made about the chain, taken straight from the presentation.
