Inflation Be Damned: Olive Garden’s Never-Ending Pasta Bowl Is Back and Butter Than Ever
Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and the annual “Never-Ending Pasta Bowl” promotion touted by a certain middlebrow Italian-flecked chain restaurant.
In a landscape awash in uncertainty, where the only constant is change, Olive Garden abides. Not only will it be bringing back the Never-Ending Pasta Bowl for its 27th year on the menu, but the price—$13.99—will be the same as last year, and the year before.
Although inflation apparently doesn’t exist in the pocket universe occupied by the Garden, the pandemic and its aftershocks undoubtedly do. In 2020, the company put the Never-Ending Pasta Bowl into hibernation, to much wailing and gnashing of teeth.