As a veteran, I appreciate the free meal Olive Gar...

As a veteran, I appreciate the free meal Olive Garden offers for my brothers and sisters as a thank you for our service.
But as a reviewer I must be honest. This was one of the worse meals I have had in Olive Garden. We arrived for lunch and were quickly seated. It went down hill from there. I do not drink alcohol so asked for water with no lemon inside. As you can probably quess my water came with two lemons, the water itself had the taste of tap water, a iron tasting after taste that s unmistakable.
We had a soup and salad, the dressing on the salad which is pretty standard for all the Olive Gardens, was extremely salty for some reason and we had to leave it so I wouldn t go into a diabetic shock, it was that salty. The soup was a was zoupa toscana, it was watery and not as I remembered in the many times I have been to OG.
The main meal was a pasta and braised beef bolognese, and it came out very dry from being under the heat lamp too long so we asked for a little extra sauce and the waitress brought back a regular bolognese sauce that tasted much different the actual meal sauce. The pasta itself seemed to be cooked with the same water they served me earlier, because it had an odd flavor to them. Both my wife and I tasted it and were confused at the odd taste of the pasta.
I would normally not write such a bad review on a place but the table sitting behind returned 3 of their meals so we were not the only ones that were disappointed with the meals. There were others things that we found disappointing but I think you get the idea. I am going to chalk this up as a bad day because normally OG is a wonderful place to eat. Hopefully the fix the problem and get back on track.