Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Bowls Is Back for 2024! How It Works

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Listen, we’ve found lots of Olive Garden deals, but few of these food deals ever come close to being as good as the Olive Garden Never Ending Pasta Bowl. During this event, you can purchase one of the many Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Bowl combinations, and then have that bowl refilled as many times as you want during that visit. And it returned to all Olive Garden locations on Aug. 26, 2024.

This is just one of the many great dining deals available; look for more bargains at places like Panera Bread, Outback Steakhouse, and McDonald's that you can get throughout the year.

Here's everything you need to know, including how long this deal will last, how much the Never Ending Pasta Bowls will cost you, and what kinds of pasta you’ll be able to grab.

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Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Bowl is an annual multi-week promotion where you can enjoy unlimited pasta for $13.99 per person.

Each year, Olive Garden holds their Never Ending Pasta Bowl promotion (you can enjoy never ending pasta for $13.99 per person) during the fall. Although it's available to everyone as of Aug. 26, 2024, Olive Garden eClub members and Olive Garden social media followers enjoyed early access to the Never Ending Pasta Bowl promo beginning Aug. 19. Early access was available if you signed up to the rewards program or followed Olive Garden on Facebook, Instagram, X, and TikTok.

Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Bowl started Aug. 26 for everyone.

Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Bowl promo started on Aug. 26 for everyone. (All eClub members and @OliveGarden social media followers got early access on Aug. 19.) If you're a huge pasta fan, this is your opportunity to eat pasta until you drop for the same price ($13.99) as it was in 2022 and 2023.

Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Bowls will cost $13.99 — up to 39% cheaper than one pasta dish at Olive Garden.

A person sitting at a table at Olive Garden, taking a breadstick from the bread basket and putting a fork into a bowl of pasta.

The Olive Garden Never Ending Pasta Bowl is an annual promotion at Olive Garden that gives customers the opportunity to order bowl after bowl of pasta accompanied by unlimited breadsticks and soup or salad for $13.99. A standard bowl of pasta from Olive Garden can cost from $16.29 - $22.99.

The Never Ending Pasta Bowls will last from Aug. 26 - Nov. 17.

An Olive Garden server grating cheese onto a pasta dish sitting on the table in front of a customer.

The pasta is never-ending, but the promotion will only last for 12 weeks. The Never Ending Pasta Bowls will last from Aug. 26 to Nov. 17 — that’s twice as long as the promotion ran in 2023.

KCL TIP: This pasta promotion is available during both lunch and dinner. It’s the same price regardless of when you show up.

You can't split a Never Ending Pasta Bowl with anyone.

If you’re looking to cut costs by sharing a Never Ending Pasta Bowl, you’re out of luck. Sharing isn't allowed; they’ll charge each person who’s sharing the pasta $13.99.

There are over 80 Never Ending Pasta Bowl combinations.

With the Olive Garden Never Ending Pasta Bowl, you can get four types of pasta and five types of sauces. Plus, if you get the never-ending toppings (an extra $4.99) you’ll get three topping options. Here are the options that you can get:

Pastas:

Fettuccine
Spaghetti
Rigatoni
Angel Hair

Sauces:

Creamy Mushroom
Traditional Marinara
Five-Cheese Marinara
Traditional Meat Sauce
Alfredo

Toppings:

Meatballs
Italian Sausage
Crispy Chicken Frittas

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You won’t be able to take your Never Ending Pasta Bowl to go.

A to-go order from Olive Garden on a dining room table.

Unfortunately, you won’t be able to order your Never Ending Pasta Bowl to go.

If you want a pasta bowl-sized dish from Olive Garden takeout, order when it’s lunchtime to get “Lunch-Sized Favorites” for $10.99 - $11.99. Otherwise, a dinnertime pasta bowl will run you $16.99 - $22.99 when you order to go.

Soup, salad, breadsticks, and soda are always never ending at Olive Garden.

A person using the salad tongs to grab some salad out of the large Olive Garden salad serving bowl.

With every meal at Olive Garden, you’ll get endless breadsticks and soup or salad. That includes your order of a Never Ending Pasta Bowl. And if you decide to get a soft drink for $3.69, you’ll be able to grab unlimited refills for the duration of your visit.