Olive Garden's Pasta Pass Still Available at Auction for Charity

Good news for pasta lovers in Arcadia! Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta is back. The bad news is that only a handful remain available through Ebay Auction.

"We’re auctioning 21 Pasta Passes through Sept 18, hosted by eBay. All sales proceeds go to Feeding America®, all the pasta goes to you," the website stated.

The pass went on sale Thursday at 11 a.m. Pacific time.

Last year, 2,000 Never Ending Pasta Passes were offered and claimed in less than a minute -- in one second, to be exact, according to officials at the Orlando-based chain. In 2016, the 21,000 available passes sold out in under an hour.

“Within seconds of last year’s Pasta Pass sale beginning, our most enthusiastic fans clicked ‘purchase,’ becoming part of an exclusive club and the envy of pasta lovers everywhere,” said Jose Duenas, executive vice president of marketing for Olive Garden. “We know there are more fans than there were Pasta Passes so we’re expanding the club tenfold to give more guests an all-access pass to our most popular promotion of the year.”

So what does a pass holder get? For seven weeks, from Oct. 3 through Nov. 20, every Pasta Pass holder dining at Olive Garden can order unlimited pasta, sauces, toppings, soup or salad, breadsticks and Coca-Cola soft drinks.

If interested, here are the details to score a pass that can be used at all Olive Gardens, including six in the Los Angels area.

To bid on a Pasta Pass, visit: www.ebay.com

In the Los Angeles, the Italian restaurant has locales in Arcadia, 430 E. Huntington Drive; Downey, 9253 Firestone Blvd.; Glendale, 101 N. Brand Blvd.; Burbank, 1741 N. Victory Place; Culver City, 6000 Sepulveda Blvd.; and Montebello, 1866 Montebello Town Center. Find other locations here.

For more information, terms and conditions, follow this link.
--Sue Schena contributed to this report. Photo courtesy of Olive Garden