Olive Garden’s Lifetime Pasta Pass Apparently Sold Out In ‘Milliseconds’ So Better Luck Next Year
Scoring one of Olive Garden's Unlimited Lifetime Pasta Passes is truly a dream. And it will continue to be a dream for most of us since all every single pass apparently sold out in "milliseconds."
Jessica Dinon, a director of brand communications at Darden Restaurants (which owns Olive Garden), told the Orlando Sentinel that all the passes, including the 50 coveted lifetime pasta passes, were sold so quickly on Thursday that, to her, it felt "up there" with the quickest these types of passes have ever sold.
In case you weren't aware, Olive Garden offered its Never Ending Pasta Pass promotion for the third time this year, which includes unlimited pasta, sauces, topping, soup, salad, and breadsticks for nine weeks (from September 23 through November 24) for $100. But in addition, the chain also upped the pasta pass game this year, offering customers a chance to upgrade to an Unlimited Lifetime Pasta Pass, which would get them free pasta dishes for life.
This lifetime pass was an additional $400 upgrade, bringing the grand total to $500 for that deal. It may seem like a lot, but the pass is expected to pay for itself after 45 trips for pasta, which honestly sounds like a typical year for me!
The 50 lucky passholders who were actually approved for the upgrade to the lifetime pass won't know until sometime on Friday if they got it, so there's still hope if you got in early enough!
Even if you didn't qualify for the upgrade to the lifetime pass, the chances were a little bit better that you were able to score the nine-week pasta pass because those went out to 24,000 customers. So if you purchased one of those, you can still drown your sorrows in unlimited pasta for a limited time. Sounds great to me.
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