Olive Garden’s unlimited pasta passes are back

Pasta lovers, flex your fingers.

Last year, Olive Garden sold 2,000 Never Ending Pasta Passes in less than a minute, so this year they’re making a few more available. To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the chain’s Never Ending Pasta Bowl, Olive Garden will award up to 21,000 of the passes. They’re $100 each, and each pass-holder gets unlimited pasta, sauces, toppings, soup or salad, breadsticks and soft drinks from Oct. 3 through Nov. 20.

The sale starts at 2 p.m. Eastern (that would be 11 a.m. Pacific time) on Thursday on www.olivegarden.com.

After the online sale is complete, the company will auction additional passes on eBay, and will donate 100 percent of proceeds from the auction to Feeding America. For details on all of it, go to www.olivegarden.com.

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