You can stop that summer diet immediately: swimsuit season is over and Olive Garden is offering unlimited pasta for seven whole weeks.
Starting Monday at 3 p.m. EST, the Italian food chain will start selling its new “Never Ending Pasta Pass,” an unprecedented marketing ploy that may help ensure America’s obesity rate never plummets: for $100, customers can order unlimited pasta dishes and unlimited Coca-Cola drinks for nearly two months.
Imagine slurping down endless fettuccine drenched in thick Alfredo sauce, or twirling strands of angel hair topped with shrimp scampi fritta as you laugh to yourself, "I'll have what I'm having."
You'll have to act fast: only 1,000 of the passes will be sold before the promotion begins on September 22.
This is what one looks like:
Appropriately, the Internet is both disgusted and elated by the new deal:
The deal runs alongside Olive Garden's annual -- yet sadly single-meal -- $9.99 "Never Ending Pasta Bowl" promotion. There's just one caveat, though: you can’t share your Pasta Pass pasta, which seems to directly contradict the restaurant chain's motto, “When you’re here, you’re family.” Families share, Olive Garden!
Executive vice president of marketing Jay Spenchian said in statement that last year the company served more than 13 million bowls of pasta during its usual "Never Ending Pasta Bowl" promotion.
"We're excited to celebrate pasta superfans with our limited edition Pasta Pass, which brings even more value and excitement to our guests' Never Ending Pasta Bowl' experiences," he added.
If pasta isn't your thing, competitor TGI Friday's is running an "Endless Appetizers" promotion -- "for just $10, your choice of appetizer never stops coming," the chain says.
Starting Monday at 3 p.m. EST, the Italian food chain will start selling its new “Never Ending Pasta Pass,” an unprecedented marketing ploy that may help ensure America’s obesity rate never plummets: for $100, customers can order unlimited pasta dishes and unlimited Coca-Cola drinks for nearly two months.
Imagine slurping down endless fettuccine drenched in thick Alfredo sauce, or twirling strands of angel hair topped with shrimp scampi fritta as you laugh to yourself, "I'll have what I'm having."
You'll have to act fast: only 1,000 of the passes will be sold before the promotion begins on September 22.
This is what one looks like:
Here's the actual pass http://t.co/4IKKnslm05 http://ift.tt/1q7UjiO
— Hayley Peterson (@hcpeterson) September 8, 2014 Appropriately, the Internet is both disgusted and elated by the new deal:
If you guys need me, I'll be at Olive Garden in a diaper. http://t.co/RQe1AvXrmv
— Ashley Burns (@MayorBurnsy) September 8, 2014
Only $100 for SEVEN WEEKS of all-I-can-eat Olive Garden? Unfortunately, all I can eat of Olive Garden is none. http://t.co/uzIT1W5X5F
— Cody Lee Rhodes (@socialcody) September 8, 2014
Olive Garden is the Jos A Bank of pasta http://t.co/SW2Ig3B4bv
— Arthur Delaney (@ArthurDelaneyHP) September 8, 2014 The deal runs alongside Olive Garden's annual -- yet sadly single-meal -- $9.99 "Never Ending Pasta Bowl" promotion. There's just one caveat, though: you can’t share your Pasta Pass pasta, which seems to directly contradict the restaurant chain's motto, “When you’re here, you’re family.” Families share, Olive Garden!
Executive vice president of marketing Jay Spenchian said in statement that last year the company served more than 13 million bowls of pasta during its usual "Never Ending Pasta Bowl" promotion.
"We're excited to celebrate pasta superfans with our limited edition Pasta Pass, which brings even more value and excitement to our guests' Never Ending Pasta Bowl' experiences," he added.
If pasta isn't your thing, competitor TGI Friday's is running an "Endless Appetizers" promotion -- "for just $10, your choice of appetizer never stops coming," the chain says.
No comments:
Post a Comment