THANKS to a TIkToker who is famous for revealing industry secrets, people have just discovered where to find one restaurant’s coveted after-meal treat.
Jordan Howlett, @jordan_the_stallion8 on TikTok, has created. following by sharing restaurant and other establishments’ trade secrets on the social media platform.
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This time he has spoken out about Olive Garden’s famous after-meal mints that plenty of people rave about.
In previous videos, he shared the distributor Olive Garden buys their bread sticks from and how to acquire the same cheese grater that the company uses for tableside service.
Howlett claimed in his most recent video that the restaurant has a bone to pick with him after his cheese grater video allegedly caused a shortage for the company and he also revealed their alfredo sauce recipe.
In his video, he first sets off to find out if customers can buy a box of the minty chocolates directly from the restaurant.
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“Now, Olive Garden is not too happy with me,” Howlett said introducing his newest Olive Garden-centric video.
“But I’m gonna sneak in there and see if it’s true, and hopefully they don’t recognize me.”
As he entered the establishment, it was clear that the local restaurant had not forgotten him.
“There are wanted posters of me in this Olive Garden,” Howlett laughed while showing the posters.
“Wanted by Olive Garden. When he’s here, he’s not family,” read the caption.
“There are so many, they’re in the bathroom,” he marveled.
After his in-restaurant sting, Howlett concluded that the store does not sell their mints by the box.
“So, they don’t sell their chocolate, you can’t get a box of chocolate but I guess you can get a wanted poster,” he concluded the video holding a small stack of the posters.
“Everybody inside was so nice! I don’t know who made them, but I’m keeping them.”
While that was where Howlett stopped his investigation, viewers took to the comments to share more information on the minty chocolates.
“They’re just Andes Mints, available at any store,” one user wrote.
“They are Andes mints with specially made OG wrappers,” confirmed another.
“You can buy a bag of Andes mint chocolate for $1.25 at Family Dollar,” provided another viewer.
Andes Mints are available at most grocery chains and other retailers such as Dollar Tree, Walmart, Target and even Staples.
Although other followers claimed that the store-bought mints were not exactly the same as those form Olive Garden.
“I know you are correct but the ones from Olive Garden just hit different. The store ones never seem to taste as good,” called out one user.
“They keep them in the freezer,” provided another.
It turns out that both sides of the argument were a little correct.
“We first partnered with Andes in 1986 – just two years after Olive Garden opened – and we’ve been serving our specially-made Andes After-Dinner Mints ever since,” Jaime Bunker, the senior vice president of marketing at Olive Garden, said in an email to Salon.
One user tried to pinpoint the difference with a quick math lesson.
“Olive Garden Andes mints are actually a different ratio than the ones at the store. I think it’s 2/3 chocolate and 1/3 mint at the restaurant,” they wrote.
“At the store it’s usually a 1:1 ratio between chocolate and mint. That’s why they taste so much better at the restaurant,” they continued in another comment.
Olive Garden has not immediately responded to request for comment by the U.S. Sun.
