Olive Garden Is Offering A $100 "Never Ending Pasta Pass" Which Buys You Unlimited Pasta For Seven Week

(Source) Olive Garden is trying a new tactic for drawing in customers.  The struggling Italian chain is offering a “Never Ending Pasta Pass” for $100 that buys seven weeks of unlimited pasta, breadsticks, salad and Coca-Cola beverages, USA Today reports.  There are only 1,000 passes and they will be sold on the company’s website beginning at 3 p.m. If a customer uses the pass once every day for the 49-day period, they would effectively be paying about $2 per meal. 

The chain’s pasta dishes average around 1,000 calories for a single serving.  “What we’re trying to do is get some attention,” Jay Spenchian, Olive Garden’s executive vice president of marketing, told USA Today. “It’s sure to provoke a reaction.” Olive Garden’s same-store sales dropped 1.3% in the most recent quarter.

The new promotion is running at the same time as its “Never Ending Pasta Bowl” offer, which lets customers eat unlimited pasta for $9.99. This is the latest in a string of promotions offering unlimited food by struggling casual dining restaurants. TGIFridays launched a $10 “Endless Appetizers” deal in July and Red Lobster is currently offering “Endless Shrimp” for $15.99.

Sold. Sold and genius. Olive Garden wanted my attention, well now you have it. It’s disgusting but that’s besides the point. The deal can not be ignored. Never ending anything is too good to be passed up. It’s like whenever someone asks me what my favorite restaurant is I always answer the same thing. I haven’t found it yet but I know that it’s some form of buffet. You give me never ending anything and I’ll eat your company broke. It’s my one weakness. I’m like a goldfish or a Labrador retriever. We will eat ourselves to death, just try us, we’ll fucking do it.

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I was searching to see if anyone had blogged this and came across this blog from a year ago. The Olive Garden menu fort so you don’t have to talk to your girlfriend. So underrated.