I was raised by Italians, so we never went to Olive Garden. That could lead to some serious ball-busting from the family, and for good cause: it’s fake Italian. Yet, for this location, they should just close shop. Like some restaurants that die when they become scenes of a mob hit, unless your Sparks Steakhouse in Manhattan or Artie Bucco’s Vesuvio, this story has a similar vein. There was no shooting, but let’s just say the fryers at this location in Pennsylvania are forever shangad, and the never-ending breadsticks can’t save it.
The cook killed himself by shoving his face into the deep fryer. Who the hell wants to eat anything coming out of that kitchen (via NY Post):
An Olive Garden cook has died after he dunked his own head into a searing hot deep fryer — as his co-workers frantically tried to thwart his gruesome suicide, authorities said.
The employee, who hasn’t been identified, stripped his clothes off and thrust his face into the fryer at the chain’s restaurant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, last Friday afternoon, the Smoking Gun reported.
“A male victim went head first into the fryers,” dispatchers could be heard saying in grim 911 audio.
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A female employee suffered minor burns after she and several other workers tried to stop the cook from injuring himself even further.
At least one customer also tried to intervene.
Both Olive Garden and authorities refused to release any details about the ordeal, only describing it as a “suicide attempt.”
First, it’s not an attempt, guys—he died. Second, shut down the joint. No one is going to eat at a place where cooks are dunking their heads in the hot oil.
Absolutely not.
