Following a corporate merger with Olive Garden, Starboard Value shocked the business world by eliminating the famous all-the-breadsticks-you-can-eat policy — believing that hungrier customers would buy more entrees. It worked. Olive Garden stock skyrocketed by 47%.
They were created as an intestinal disorder remedy that encouraged the appetite of the nine-year-old duke, Vittorio Amedeo II de Savoia, House of Savoy — eventually saving his life.
A Florentine abbot originally described grissini as "long-shaped, bone thin" bread made in a town outside of Turin.
