{"id":44024,"date":"2014-09-16T08:01:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T12:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44024"},"modified":"2014-09-16T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T12:01:24","slug":"olive-garden-to-hedge-fund-hands-off-our-breadsticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2014\/olive-garden-to-hedge-fund-hands-off-our-breadsticks.html","title":{"rendered":"Olive Garden to hedge fund: Hands off our breadsticks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA Daily &#8211;  Olive Garden is defending its practice of giving customers as many breadsticks as they want, saying the policy conveys \u201cItalian generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remark is part of a response by the chain\u2019s parent company, Darden Restaurants Inc., to a nearly 300-page criticism released by hedge fund Starboard Value last week. Starboard took Olive Garden and its management to task for a litany of issues, including its liberal distribution of breadsticks, its failure to salt the water used to boil its pasta and even the length of the asparagus it serves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/business\/20140915\/olive-garden-to-hedge-fund-hands-off-our-breadsticks\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Daily &#8211; Olive Garden is defending its practice of giving customers as many breadsticks as they want, saying the policy conveys \u201cItalian generosity.\u201d The remark is part of a response by the chain\u2019s parent company, Darden Restaurants Inc., to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44025,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44024\/revisions\/44025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}