YOUR LIFETIME PASTA PASS™ GETS YOU... Lifetime access to UNLIMITED servings of your favorite pastas, sauces and toppings*. UNLIMITED servings of soup or salad and breadsticks.

Each unlimited pasta combo will cost $13.99 and includes as much pasta as you can eat, along with soup or salad and those iconic Olive Garden breadsticks. For an additional $4.99, diners can add one of three Never Ending toppings: meatballs, Italian sausage, or a crispy chicken fritta.

Olive Garden is bringing back its Never Ending Pasta Bowl promotion for the first time in two years, putting an end to questions about whether the offer was gone for good.

Though the promotion is a great deal if you're dining in with a big appetite, the unlimited aspect unfortunately doesn't extend to any take-home portions. If your server is feeling generous, they will let you box up your leftovers if you have an unfinished plate, or you could wind up with some extra breadsticks.

Olive Garden apologizes to KC police officer asked to leave because he was armed. The president of the Olive Garden restaurant chain called and apologized to a Kansas City police officer who was asked to leave an Independence restaurant because he was armed, a company spokesman said Sunday evening.

Italian pasta shapes are coded by their ending: -ini, -elli, -illi or -etti mean “little,” and -oni, or “one,” means “large.” Other suffixes include -otti (“largish”) and -acci (“badly made”). Example: Spaghettini is very thin, spaghetti is the common medium round rod and spaghettoni is thick, round noodles.

Pasta bowls are specifically designed to enhance the enjoyment of pasta dishes. Their wide and shallow shape allows for easy tossing and mixing of pasta with sauces, ensuring each strand is coated evenly.

The Never-Ending Pasta Pass® allows a Passholder to enjoy the Never-Ending Pasta Bowl® menu at Olive Garden as many times as they wish in-restaurant for 9 weeks. That's right - unlimited pasta, sauce and toppings, plus all the soup or salad and breadsticks at Olive Garden for 9 weeks!

Rice and pasta can contain bacteria whose spores survive the cooking process. If boiled rice or pasta are left out at 12-14o C for a long time (more than 4-6 hours), it can become extremely dangerous to eat. At this temperature the spore producing bacteria can form heat resistant toxins.

If there's a fat or sauce component that's dressed the starch, it will be captured as the starch structures close up, so the experience of eating leftover pizza, pasta, or even a roast potato is intensified as they act as a flavour vacuum.

Olive Garden is an American casual dining restaurant chain specializing in Italian–American cuisine. It is a subsidiary of Darden Restaurants, Inc., which is headquartered in Orange County, Florida.

Olive Garden is one of those chain restaurants that will always have a special place in most people's hearts - in large part, because of the breadsticks. The Italian-American chain is known for their unlimited salads, endless pasta offerings and those famously warm, soft breadsticks that make customer feel like family.