Olive Garden Italian Restaurant — Restaurant in Jacksonville

Re-add/name call it the Pasta Red bowls challenge add two hour limit with a happy hour drink 2,3,5,6 dollar. Must finish bread stick and full bowl salad limit 6-8 bowls with one meat or upcharge if change. Manager come over as verify you completed the challenge of completion you walk with two pasta bowl or dessert free or 75 % off or keep 6.00 or Add 6.00 dessert one take home free.

I would love to see the lifetime pasta pass come back too. Add a mini size of the tour de France meal.

Olive Garden has offered a limited-time Lifetime Pasta Pass, but it is not currently available. The pass allowed 50 people to purchase a lifetime of unlimited pasta, soup or salad, and breadsticks for a one-time fee of $500, with an additional $400 upgrade option for those who purchased the regular Never Ending Pasta Pass. These passes were available for purchase during a limited window of time, and the opportunity to upgrade to the Lifetime Pasta Pass was only offered to the first 50 people who purchased the regular Pasta Pass and opted in to the upgrade.

How it worked (past offering):

Purchase a Never Ending Pasta Pass:

Olive Garden first offered a limited number of $100 Never Ending Pasta Passes, which granted access to unlimited pasta, soup or salad, and breadsticks for a specific period (typically nine weeks).

Opt-in for the Upgrade:

The first 50 people to purchase the regular Pasta Pass and opt-in for the upgrade were given the chance to purchase the Lifetime Pasta Pass.

Upgrade to Lifetime:

Those selected had a limited time (48 hours) to complete the additional $400 purchase to secure their Lifetime Pasta Pass.

Important notes:

The Lifetime Pasta Pass is only valid for the named passholder.

It is only valid for dine-in orders, not to-go or online orders.

Gratuity and beverages are not included.

The pass is not transferable and holds no cash value.

The Lifetime Pasta Pass is subject to menu changes and may not be available at all Olive Garden locations.

To find out about future offers:

Keep an eye on Olive Garden's website and social media channels for announcements about future Pasta Pass promotions.

Sign up for Olive Garden's email list to receive updates on special offers...

To be fair, I have Celiac Disease & have not been to an Olive Garden since my diagnosis. However, this is a favorite of my elderly mother and several of us siblings were in town, so we went to Olive Garden.

We used call ahead seating so that cut our in restaurant wait time to 40 min. Others waiting longer complained when our party was called because Hostess’ did not seem organized or competent.

When I asked server for allergen friendly menu, he couldn’t find it on the tabletop computer. It got weird, him fumbling so I told him I would fiddle with it. He then plopped a basket of breadsticks at my place!

It was a very busy Saturday night, we didn’t really care that everything was slow because we were visiting. But we did not enjoy the forgotten (until the last minutes before entrees arrived) bread sauce (despite receiving more breadsticks—yes this part of review for rest of my family as I didn’t eat them myself.)

My entree was ordered from the gluten sensitive menu. Sirloin cooked medium, salad no croutons.

Salad was ok. Entrees arrived. My steak had a side of fettuccine alfredo.NOPE!!!! Not going to eat that (even IF it was their gluten free pasta; I have Celiac Disease & there’s no way I’m eating any pasta in a “shared kitchen”.)

Everyone else’s dinners: too undercooked pasta. My Moms salmon was burnt on the bottom & her broccoli not cooked.

20 minutes later when my steak FINALLY arrived, it was burnt on the outside, brown all the way through & our server tells me that the server who delivered the entrees had simply picked up the wrong steak! So mine sat there for 15 getting cold only to be burned on the reheat. My broccoli was also barely warm and vastly undercooked.

Within a half an hour of getting home, I was sick & knew I had gotten “gluttened” at Olive Garden😩

Next time I will bow out of going to dinner IF Mom picks Olive...

We decided on olive garden today while passing through the area. It's the worst olive garden we have ever been to.

First, we were seated rite away, and our server would be with us shortly.

The waitress showed up and asked what we wanted to drink and was about to walk away when I asked if we could order now. (We frequently visit Olive Garden, so we don't need a menu, really) she snapped and was like now. Oh, um, ok. Not friendly at all. We ordered our simple meals.

So for 10 minutes we listened to 3 young waitress talk about their problems at home and was just not something you should talk about at work where customers are trying to enjoy a meal.

She comes back about 10 min later with our drinks, bread sticks, and soups. OK, I went to take a drink and about spit it every where is was absolutely horrible. Now I get this tea every time I visit Olive Garden, so I know it was wrong. Now, to the soup, it was ok but undercooked, and the bread sticks were hard.

(For about 5 minutes we had the pleasure of listening to two other waitress stand rite behind us talking about all there tables and how they were dressed or if they thought they had money or not absolutely unprofessional)

Our meals showed up shortly after the soup. I asked if I could get fresh bread sticks and another soup to see if maybe it would be different. The waitress gave me a dirty look and said yeah sure. I tasted my meal, barely any Alfredo sauce, and the noodles were half uncooked/dried out.

She brought me another soup and the bill. Never asked if we wanted desert or needed anything at all.

Not only was the service extremely unprofessional, but the food was horrible as well. No manager was...