Olive Garden Incident

Photo taken after the incident by u/ariniv

On December 10, 2023, Daniel Larson started a live stream on YouTube while at a Denver, Colorado Olive Garden. Daniel, under a possibly manager-fed delusion, attempted to get him and Grace VanderWaal a reservation at said Olive Garden, but was subsequently trespassed and kicked out of the restaurant after repeatedly being told not to film inside, demanding a table for 8 people, causing a scene inside the restaurant when confronted, yelling expletives at the staff, attempting to perform a citizens arrest on everyone inside, and, most notably, pulling the fire alarm at the prompt of his chat.

Coincidentally, this incident occurred on the one-year anniversary of one of Daniel’s most infamous meltdowns. More interestingly, This incident gained viral TikTok attention, as Noah Glenn Carter (a TikToker with 8 million followers) made a TikTok video about it.

The Incident

In the beginning of the live stream, Daniel is seen seated at a table in a Denver, Colorado Olive Garden, where the subsequent incident would take place. Daniel came to the Olive Garden in the hopes of meeting up with his long-time victim of stalking, Grace VanderWaal, her family, Daniel McDougal, and other supposed celebrities. What is important to know is that before this, trolls pretending to be Grace VanderWaal, and her mother, Tina VanderWaal, had repeatedly attempted to arrange meetings with Daniel to troll him, this being another one of these attempts.

When inside, Daniel even went as far as to ask for a table for eight, which he surprisingly managed to obtain without any issue. According to a worker who posted to the R/Daniellarson Subreddit, even though Daniel got his tables, the staff was not happy as it caused a loss in revenue for the restaurant.

" When I came in I noticed him sitting at a table with eight menus. He came saying he was coming with 8 people. My coworker was pissed because she lost money cuz he was occupying one of her big tables :/ "

Even though Daniel was seated, he refused to order any food until Grace, or anyone else, came to meet him. When a waiter came to tend to Daniel, he immediately started to ask if the Olive Garden had steak, showing a complete lack of knowledge of money management at all, which he exhibited in the past. It is also plausible that Daniel expected them to pay, which is highly likely. However, when told he could only have a side order of it, he said to the waiter, "Um… give me a second, let me make a phone call and let me double check, and we'll go from there", referring to the trolls pretending to be Grace and her family. Every so often, Daniel is approached by workers at the Olive Garden, being politely asked to stop filming, however, Daniel claimed he could not stop because LBI Entertainment did not want him to stop.

The employee then makes Daniel aware that "…they're blowing our phones up", and that the Olive Garden he was staying at had been receiving multiple phone calls, with people on the other line, claiming that Daniel was breaking objects, along with warnings that that Daniel was going to dine and dash, leaving without paying his tab. Daniel was then asked to stop filming again, being told that the restaurant he was staying at was, "...not a public place, but a private place," where filming was not permitted unless permission was given, and additionally stating that they would not allow him to buy any more food unless there was proof of people showing up, as there was none.

Even when told this, Daniel refused to stop filming, following up by saying that the FBI was here and coming to dinner with him, and was coming to sort out the situation. The manager proceeded to leave, presumably after realizing she could not talk any type of sense into Daniel.

That's totally Grace being arrested, folks.

Over the course of the live stream, after receiving several texts from trolls, Daniel began to claim that members of his security team, Tina VanderWaal and Rick Yorn, alerted him that the workers there were "compromised" and might put their hands onto him, and more importantly, that the manager of that Olive Garden had leaked his location and was printing out his nude photos that she'd found on a, quote, "troll website." In a fit of hysteria, Daniel then claimed that Grace VanderWaal was in the parking lot of the Olive Garden being arrested, although this was soon found out to a photo that was, in fact, not Grace, but a photo from Google Images, taken years ago, and in Australia. It begs the question as to why Daniel never went into the parking lot to see Grace, the girl he apparently loves, in person, but we will never receive an answer to this.

In the heat of the moment, Daniel then confronted an employee about his suspicions, claiming that the FBI was is in the parking lot, and was working with the Olive Garden company to fire the head manager.

The employee encourages Daniel to have the FBI come in, as another employee attempted to convince Daniel that there is no manager committing a cyberattack on Daniel, however the attempt is unsuccessful and Daniel continues to mouth off at the staff inside.

Daniel then proceeds to sit at a table for over a half an hour, waiting for the FBI, while not purchasing any food and holding up a table anyone else waiting could potentially use. Daniel then claims that his management is sending images of the police attacking Grace. He proceeds to run to the lobby of the building, where he confronts multiple employees, to which he is told to calm down, mainly on account of the fact that Daniel was yelling expletives at the staff, and yelling about nude photographs of himself being printed where children were eating with their families.

During the confrontation, Daniel attempts to perform a citizen's arrest on the staff, with the intention of holding every single staff member at the Olive Garden there, up until the FBI and/or police arrived. Daniel then singles out an employee, alleging that she was the so-called manager who had been "cyber-attacking" him.

The manager of the Olive Garden once again told him to stop filming, to calm down, and more importantly, threatened to call the police if Daniel did not leave that very moment, which she had to do when Daniel told her to call the police. The manager, while dialing 911, details that there was, "...a man harassing employees at the Olive Garden", and when asked if Daniel had any weapons, Daniel confirms that he does not have any weapons on his person. Daniel then tells the employee that she has been fired, and LBI entertainment was going to sue her following this.

Daniel begins harassing the employee about the legitimacy of the police. After loitering in the lobby for a few more minutes, Daniel dashes towards the fire alarm, and pulls it. An employee attempted to stop Daniel, but Daniel was successful in setting off the alarm. In the same Reddit post made by an employee of the Olive Garden, they state that, if anything, everyone was just merely confused as to why the fire alarm went off.

" All my coworkers in the kitchen were hella confused as to why the fire alarm went off twice. We were all giggling "

He then returns to the lobby, where multiple people can be seen exiting. He complains that the staff is calling 911 again. The live ends with the Olive Garden employees struggling to disable the alarm as Daniel shouts at them that they are a bunch of trolls for supposedly printing out his nudes. The live stream proceeded to end when the fire department went into the Olive Garden, proceeding to question Daniel as to why he pulled the fire alarm.

Aftermath

Shortly after the live stream ended, Reddit user u/airniv uploaded an image to r/Daniellarson of Daniel talking to a police officer in a parking lot. Daniel went live again in a stream titled "Daniel Larson filling out a police report at Olive garden" in the stream, a police officer gives Daniel a trespass notice for Olive Garden for a year as well as a criminal charge for pulling the fire alarm. Additionally, Daniel is given a February 14, 2024, court date at Jefferson County for this.

Photo taken by Olive Garden employee

Olive Garden Employees speaks out

An employee of the Olive Garden posted a photo of him on /r/daniellarson while he was talking with police officers inside. In the comment thread under the photo, the employee revealed that Daniel was able to obtain a table for eight, and that even though he should be, Daniel was not banned from entering that Olive Garden.

Old Chicago

The following day, December 11, Daniel was convinced that he was "training for LBl entertainment and the Vanderwaal management team" which included needing to thank customer service workers for their service. Daniel chose to do so at an Old Chicago chain. Eventually Daniel was approached by restaurant staff, including the line cook guy. Daniel was escorted out by police officers after being repeatedly asked by staff to leave. Outside Daniel and the officers discussed the previous night at Olive Garden and how he can try and prevent running into the law in the future. Unlike the videos from Olive Garden, these videos were removed from YouTube.