Olive Garden adding annual option to Never Ending Pasta Bowl deal
Olive Garden said Tuesday that in addition to the eight-week Never Ending Pasta Pass, the brand’s biggest promotion of the year, customers can also choose the Annual Pasta Pass, which will get them access to the unlimited pasta bowl for an entire year. The pasta bowl menu includes a variety of pastas that can be paired with sauces like Alfredo and creamy mushroom. For an additional price, customers can add a topping like meatballs. The meals are accompanied by unlimited soup or salad and breadsticks. This is the first year Olive Garden will offer the annual option, priced for $300. The Italian restaurant chain is making 1,000 of the passes available, priced for $300. There will be 23,000 Never Ending Pasta Passes priced at $100, which offer unlimited pasta bowls for eight weeks starting Sept. 24. The passes will be available on Aug. 23 at 2 pm ET for 30 mins. The Never Ending passes have sold out in seconds in years past. Never Ending Pasta Bowls will also be available with soup or salad and breadsticks for $10.99. Olive Garden is a Darden Restaurants Inc. chain. Darden shares have rallied 18.7% for the year to date, outpacing the S&P 500 index , which is up 7.3% for the period.
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