Olive Garden offers 7 weeks of unlimited pasta for $100

[joeybee12]

Olive Garden is already famous for bottomless meals – endless soup, salad and breadsticks, anyone? But now the restaurant is targeting carb addicts with a bottomless pasta option.

1,000 diners will be able to eat unlimited pasta for the next seven weeks for just $100 each. (Olive Garden has already offered a never-ending pasta bowl deal for about $10; this deal gives you access to that same never-ending bowl for seven weeks for the cost of two New York dinners.)

“I can imagine if I was in college I would have loved this deal,” said Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Aaron Task. “But it’s hard to believe many people other than college students or young athletes [would want this].”

But Olive Garden isn’t alone in this all-you-can-eat marketing. In July, TGIFriday’s announced an unlimited appetizer promotion. For $10, diners could eat an endless supply of an appetizer, as long as they stuck to one dish – no switching from mozzarella sticks to wings mid-meal.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/hot-stock-minute/olive-garden-offers-7-weeks-of-unlimited-pasta-for--100-132646813.html

[E-Z-B]

1. Yeah, but then you have to eat their pasta.

[JaneyVee]

2. Olive Garden pasta or from anywhere?

[eShirl]

3. “But it’s hard to believe many people other than college students or young athletes .”

OR POOR PEOPLE

[Quantess]

34. Poor people who don't have their own kitchens, maybe.

I wouldn't do it. As much as I love being stingy with my money, I wouldn't spend 100 on pasta dishes in one month.

But then, I don't even like pasta very much.

Sounds like an easy way to put on 20 pounds fast!

[Dreamer Tatum]

4. It's called breakage

the idea that if you pay for X, not only are they still making money, but you probably won't use all of X.

[itsrobert]

24. And hauling other people with you

"Hey team, let's go to Olive Garden for lunch"

[NYC_SKP]

5. That's a buck a meal for lunch and dinner daily, but not very nutritious. nt

[Initech]

6. "Ah yes this should provide adequate sustinance for the Dr. Who marathon!"

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. .

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[NuclearDem]

10. Pahahaha

Yes, I did read it in the voice.

[Initech]

13. "Come back! Those are prescription pants!"

[Codeine]

15. Worst. Pasta. Ever. nt

[hifiguy]

20. Bwahahaha!

[eShirl]

8. official site: "only" 1,000 available starting at 3pm eastern

http://www.olivegarden.com/specials/never-ending-pasta-pass

Pasta lovers love Pasta Pass.
The Never Ending Pasta Pass is the best way to enjoy your Never Ending Pasta Bowl.®
Limited Edition Never Ending Pasta Pass

Only 1,000 available – so get yours for just $100 before they’re all gone.
The Never Ending Pasta Pass can be used any day of the week or every day of the week from
September 22 - November 9, 2014
Enjoy more than 150 combinations of pasta, sauce and toppings
Unlimited Coca-Cola® soft drinks for you and same-table guests

Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Pass entitles the named passholder to unlimited Never Ending Pasta Bowl entrees and toppings 9/22/14-11/9/14 at any Olive Garden location in the United States. One use per visit. Passholder and guests at same table also receive Coca-Cola soft drinks and refills. Present to server at time of ordering. Excludes gratuity, alcohol, and any other menu item not listed herein. This is not a gift card and is not reloadable. Non-transferable and may not be re-sold. The Pasta Pass itself holds no value and amount paid for the Pasta Pass (if applicable) is non-refundable. Must be 18 or older to purchase the Pasta Pass. Use of the Pasta Pass signifies agreement to terms of the Pasta Pass, applicable rules or regulations, and Olive Garden's Privacy Policy (www.olivegarden.com/privacy-policy). Questions? Contact Olive Garden Guest Relations at [phone]. Expires 11/9/14.

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12. well if i can't buy 1,500 then i'm not interested!

[joeybee12]

19. I might make my money back on the diet coke alone...

Certainly not on rubbery pasta.

[randome]

9. This is the inevitable result of too much competition.

It gets to the point where the only thing a big business can do is encourage more and more consumption.

And too much competition stems from too many people.
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[NightWatcher]

11. reminds me of the deluxe meal plan at college

[Kablooie]

14. The Flying Spaghetti Monster will be muchly appeased.

It's nice of Olive Garden to offer up human sacrifices this way.

[underpants]

27. LOL

Exploding human sacrifices at that!!!

R'Amen!

[Sheldon Cooper]

16. Does that include any actual meat, or is it just pasta and sauce?

[closeupready]

17. No thanks. I'd rather eat nutritiously - like cheddar/apple slices,

or a salad from a buffet. Same price, actual food.

[KamaAina]

18. But you have to put up with all the smoking. And pit bulls. And breastfeeding.

[hifiguy]

21. . . .

[Blue_Tires]

31. Doesn't Olive Garden also use Kudzu in their landscaping?

[KamaAina]

33. DUzy!!

[conservaphobe]

22. Sounds like a decent deal.

I've only eaten there once, but loved their food.

Everyone I know loves their food.

The only criticism I run into is online, but that's with anything.

But as someone on a 1,500 calorie diet... I wouldn't take them up on this offer.

[jmowreader]

23. $100 for potentially 98 meals is not outrageous

Imagine a latter-day Morgan Spurlock buying one of these and eating two meals a day there for the length of the pass.

[Glassunion]

25. From the offices of the American Heart Association

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[eggplant]

32. Maybe it comes with unlimited insulin as well. n/t

[Sanity Claws]

26. Do you have to bring a pit bull with you?

[trumad]

28. Awesome...

I love Olive Garden. Best Italian food I ever ate was at the Olive Garden in Time Square. NY.

[brooklynite]

39. Now that statement is either sarcasm or incredibly painful.....

[TheVisitor]

29. Wow, sold out...

That's alotta pasta!

[NaturalHigh]

30. I wish we had an Olive Garden in my home town.

Some people don't like their food, but I always enjoy it and walk out stuffed like a couch cushion.

[Kalidurga]

35. When did Olive Garden start serving pasta?

When I went there I got some over cooked noodles with some overrated sauce.

[Blue Owl]

36. End up paying more for toilet paper

n/t

[aikoaiko]

37. Reminds me all-you-can-eat pasta at Cafe Express in Flagstaff

In the eighties Cafe Express (aka Cafe In Distress) in Flagstaff had all you can eat pasta nights and me and my college would come hungry.

Cafe Express isn't there anymore but it was a forward thinking vegetarian restaurant in AZ.

Anybody remember it?

[brooklynite]

38. I assume the theory is that you'll die of congested arteries after five?