Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta has been all the rage across social media. Whenever this deal launches every year, people rush to their nearest location to take advantage of it. After all, who doesn’t love unlimited pasta breadsticks, soup, and salad for $13.99? While dining in at an Olive Garden, one group of friends documented an unorthodox method for enjoying the unlimited promotion to-go: by stuffing as much pasta as possible inside Ziploc bags.
Olive Garden hack in action
“How much pasta we can finesse at Olive Garden’s endless pasta deal,” TikTok creator Bridgitte (@halfevil___333) writes in the text overlay.
First, her female friend attempts to cram her full plate of spaghetti into a bag, laughing at her unsuccessful attempt. Then, she pulls out another bag, hovers it over a plate, and slides the pasta into it, creating a small mess. When the content creator pans the camera over to her male friend, he hands a bag full of breadsticks to the female friend, who shoves it into her bag.
Next, the same female friend tries to cram a full plate of rigatoni into another bag. This time, all of the pasta fell in with ease. As Brigitte shifts the camera back to the male friend, he dumps his plateful of penne into a bag on his lap.
Once the trio walks into the parking lot, the content creator proclaims, “Olive Garden haul!” One by one, each member reveals what they snuck off with.
“Fresh mints,” Bridgitte says, dumping a handful of complimentary chocolate mints onto the ground.
“Penne,” the male friend says, unveiling his bag of penne.
“A bag of soup,” the female friend adds, showing off the Zupa Toscana.
“Breadsticks,” Bridgitte chimes in, showing off the breadsticks.
“Pasta,” the female friend states, holding spaghetti and rigatoni in separate bags, followed by meatballs in another one.
What did viewers say?
The original clip amassed over 407,000 views, where Bridgitte turned off her comments. But this didn’t stop her and her friends from confronting them. In the next video, she and her female friend ‘thanked’ an insulting commenter. However, some negative remarks managed to slip into this comments section.
“Thieves in action. if you can’t afford it don’t go,” one viewer remarked.
“Y’all should just take it down anyways before Olive Garden sees it,” another stated.
On the flip side, many defended the trio and applauded their hack.
“All I saw was baddies on a budget and as a fellow budget baddie I salute your service,” one commenter wrote.
“I just wanted to say I thought the Olive Garden idea was genius,” a second praised.
“I’m going to do this the next time I go, thank you,” a third said.
Why did Bridgitte disable the comments in the original video?
The content creator explained this in response to a viewer.
“Well first off, that’s my friend, [this] isn’t her account. And second, I was more annoyed w all the comments saying [‘just get boxes’ or ‘use bigger bags.]’ Like everyone just [complains] no matter what so I turned it off,” she replied in the comments section.
Can you take home the Never-Ending Pasta while dining at Olive Garden?
No, you cannot. This promotion and the refills are exclusive to dine-in only. On the other hand, you can take whatever leftovers you have on your plate home, depending on your server, according to Yahoo. Because servers have complained about how taxing and with little reward these promotions are, consider tipping them nicely if they allow you to do this.
@halfevil___333 Ayyee Olive Garden hack ?? wait till the end to see all what we got ‼️
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The Mary Sue reached out to Bridgitte via Instagram direct message and TikTok comment as well as Olive Garden via press email.
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