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Imagine never paying for another bowl of Cavatappi with Five Cheese Marinara ever again.
That is, in fact, a reality for 50 lucky Olive Garden fans, as the restaurant chain has announced plans to offer its very first Lifetime Pasta Passes during this year’s Never Ending Pasta Pass promotion.
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“Olive Garden has always been known for Italian Generosity and making everyone feel like family, which is why we introduced our Pasta Pass five years ago,” said Jennifer Arguello, executive vice president of marketing for Olive Garden, in a press release. “With the introduction of our new Lifetime Pasta Pass, we’re excited to be a part of our biggest fans’ memories around the table for years to come.”
The Lifetime Pasta Passes — which are available to the first 50 people lucky enough to snag a Pasta Pass on Aug. 15 — will entitle the lucky recipients to unlimited pasta, soup, salad and breadsticks for their entire lifetimes. (Olive Garden)
The Lifetime Pasta Passes — which are, essentially, exactly what they sound like — will entitle 50 lucky recipients to unlimited pasta, soup, salad and breadsticks for their entire lifetimes.
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The passes, however, will only be available to those fast enough to purchase the original Never Ending Pasta Passes. Here’s how it works: On Aug. 15 at 2 p.m. EST sharp, the original Never Ending Pasta Passes will go on sale at www.PastaPass.com for $100 apiece (plus tax) and only for 30 minutes, or until sold out. The first 50 to complete their transactions will be offered the opportunity to opt-in for the Lifetime Pasta Passes for an additional $400, plus tax.
Those who opted in for the Lifetime passes will be notified if they qualify the following day, at which point they can finish their transactions and start scoping out real-estate listings near their preferred Olive Garden.
“This never-before offered pass will be paid off, on average, by the time you hit your 45th bowl,” the press release estimates.
Olive Garden claimed that, if one were to purchase the $500 Lifetime Pasta Pass and somehow consume a bowl of pasta per day for 60 years, each bowl would cost less than three cents apiece. (Olive Garden)
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The recipients of the remaining 23,950 regular Pasta Passes, meanwhile, will need to begrudgingly enjoy the nine weeks of unlimited pasta they will subsequently be entitled to.
Anyone who wants to get a Lifetime pass — or just a regular pass — needs to act quick, though. In 2018, Olive Garden’s limited Annual Pasta Passes, which allows the bearer to a year’s worth of unlimited food, sold out in less than 1 second, per the Daily Meal. All 22,000 of the passes the company offered in 2017 sold out in one second as well.
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“Guests are encouraged to visit the website early to join the online waiting room starting at 1:55 p.m. ET,” the company suggests.