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Delivering Free Lunches On Labor Day

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MANKATO , MINN. -

Today Olive Garden employee Katelyn Laue has an extra job. She's making a delivery. Laue says, "We've been planning this all day." 

On Labor Day hundreds of Olive Garden restaurants deliver lunches to local organizations as a thank you for their dedicated service to the community. Olive Garden manager Barbara Horsch says, says, "We picked the CADA House which is a committee against domestic assault."

Filling bags with a classic Italian meal and desert.  Working inside and outside the office on Labor Day. Laue says, "I think it shows the community that we do care and that we may be a corporation but we are part of the community as well."

Hoping to help lighten another worker's labor.