When we think of chain restaurants, we often don’t think abut what it was like when they first came to be?

Take Olive Garden, for example. The breadsticks, the microwaved lasagna, the chicken parm that would make your Italian grandmother cringe, but sometimes it’s all just exactly what you need because “When You’re Here, You’re Family.”

Over the years, we’ve become a little less enthused by chain restaurants, but this video shows what it was like back in the day!