Gay Redditors defend twink who got called a cheapskate for taking his date to Olive Garden
his post on the r/askgaybros subreddit, our hero identifies himself as a 21-year-old guy who works at a restaurant chain owned by Darden Restaurants, the company behind Eddie V’s, The Capital Grille, LongHorn Steakhouse, and—yes—Olive Garden.
The guy—let’s call him Eddie—says that one perk of working for Darden is getting a 25-percent discount at any of the company’s restaurants.Eddie tells his fellow Redditors that he recently met a 23-year-old and asked him out.
They agreed to meet for dinner, but the date asked Eddie to foot the bill because he was low on money. Eddie agreed, and he suggested Olive Garden.
The date went OK, Eddie writes, until he got the check and applied his employee discount.“After we left, said guy texted me, calling me a cheapskate and said he couldn’t believe I took him to a restaurant where I could get a discount and didn’t tell him beforehand,” Eddie adds. “I told him that it’s not as if Olive Garden is some obscure restaurant and that if he wanted to dine elsewhere I would’ve taken him there, too.
