![]() ![]() Now, I am sure that the song they sing today at the Olive Garden is probably different from this one. You might be wondering why restaurants go out of their way and take the time to write a birthday song for its customers when Happy Birthday exists. ![]() I must have sang this 200 times while I worked there. The songs style usually reflects the restaurants ambiance and the song typically includes the name of the restaurant within the lyrics of the song. Don't you just love those sincere birthday songs the waiters sing at restaurants Here's the ultimate restaurant birthday song. Yeah – it really doesn’t make much sense, does it? Unfortunately, it’s seared into my brain like my address or phone number. Restaurants are not able to sing Happy Birthday because of a copyright issue. (Sing while clapping loudly with group of degraded waiters and acting excited or else.) So, they put their Marketing Genius Hats on and came up with this ditty: The birthday song was written back in 1968 by Paul. I guess the geniuses at Olive Garden Corporate Headquarters must have thought that no chain restaurant would be complete without the requisite birthday song. They say it’s your birthday This is such a popular song for the dance floor and for celebrating a birthday. This was way back when Bennigan’s was hip and cool, so other chains began to follow suit. Then in the 80s when I was in college, they started doing the group birthday song at Bennigan’s. This probably has something to do with why I don’t like ice cream. Happy birthday in the style of our favorite late restaurant chichis. I was terrified of sparklers for the longest time and having one in my face for 5 minutes wasn’t exactly my cup of tea. Frankly, it used to scare the hell out of me when I was small. And I thought Restaurant staffs no longer dang the. They’d bring out some ginormous ice cream confection with a bunch of sparklers all over it and sing you a silly song for your birthday. Then on March 4, 1924, Claydon Sunny printed the melody and Happy Birthday lyrics together in a songbook. The first place I really remember them singing you a birthday song was the Farrel’s Ice Cream when I was a kid. restaurant made up to sing so that they wont be sued for copyright infringement Happy Birthday to You was written in 1893 by Patty Hill and Mildred Hill. Nothing was more degrading than having to round up your fellow depressed waiters and beg them to help you sing a lame song to some lame customers that 90% of the time just want the free cake and don’t even really have a birthday. Do they still even do that any more? For the sake of anyone working there today I sincerely hope not. ![]()
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