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Olive Garden can’t end ‘Never Ending Pasta Bowl’ deal
By Lisa Fickenscher
December 19, 2019

Olive Garden tried — and failed — to cure its customers’ craving for all-you-can-eat deals.

Shares of the red-sauce mecca’s owner, Darden Restaurants, tumbled 5 percent Thursday after it revealed sputtering sales in the most recent quarter were only revived because it reintroduced its “Never Ending Pasta Bowl.”

Comparable sales across Olive Garden’s 900 eateries nationwide rose 1.5 percent — their skimpiest increase in two years — and likely would have dropped if management hadn’t begun dangling discounts in late September for the nine-week promotion, officials admitted. ...
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I think Mrs. S in CA's usual order is, theoretically, "never-ending", though she seldom eats as much as half of it. So it's my lunch a couple of days later. She gets spaghetti, and though she's not into "al dente" our most couple of visits it's been too mushy by her standards.

The sector of the restaurant into which Olive Garden or Red Lobster fit, "near fine dining" is facing challenges of late. Cooking shows on The Food Channel and HGTV have raised customers' expectations. OTOH, arbitrary raises of the minimum wage by some cities' governments have put the squeeze of profits and levels of service.
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We visit Olive Garden a couple times a year.  Not because we don't like their food, but there are other restaurants closer to us and I have difficulty with acidic foods and tomatoes rank right up there.  The Alfredo is great ... but oh ... the cholesterol!  So a couple times of year is about it for us as a special treat.
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We visit Olive Garden a couple times a year.  Not because we don't like their food, but there are other restaurants closer to us and I have difficulty with acidic foods and tomatoes rank right up there.  The Alfredo is great ... but oh ... the cholesterol!  So a couple times of year is about it for us as a special treat.

Next visit ask then if they can do "red and white", part meat sauce, part Alfredo.
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