Background
I was sitting at work one day reading usatoday.com and I came across an article about Olive Garden selling a Never Ending Pasta Pass for $100 which entitled the bearer to unlimited pasta for 7 weeks. I debated on getting the pass for a while, but in the end I was going to give it the ol' college try.
I got on olivegarden.com a few minutes before 1:00pm Mountain Standard Time to find that the sale had already begun. I feverishly tried to buy a pass, but the entire site had crashed. I continued trying for nearly 25 minutes and just as I was about to give up hope, it finally let me buy the pass. I thought there was no possible way that any passes were still available after 25 minutes (because they allegedly only sold 1,000 passes nationwide); however, it said it went through.
Before the actual pass arrived, I started wondering if I had made a mistake because I didn't know how I was going to eat enough pasta to justify buying the $100 pass. I decided it might be fun to randomly take Olive Garden to people--Random Acts of Pasta
Fast forward to Friday, September 19, 2014. Much to my surprise, I arrived home from work to find a little package from the United Parcel Service sitting on my front porch. Inside? My pasta pass. Needless to say, I was pretty excited. I lobbed a phone call to Olive Garden’s customer relations department to inquire as to whether take-out was permitted with my newly obtained pass. The answer? A resounding yes. Holy crap—this was the best news I had ever received. Random Acts of Pasta was now in full effect. Well, technically it wasn't anything until the following Monday because that’s when the promotion started.
I got on olivegarden.com a few minutes before 1:00pm Mountain Standard Time to find that the sale had already begun. I feverishly tried to buy a pass, but the entire site had crashed. I continued trying for nearly 25 minutes and just as I was about to give up hope, it finally let me buy the pass. I thought there was no possible way that any passes were still available after 25 minutes (because they allegedly only sold 1,000 passes nationwide); however, it said it went through.
Before the actual pass arrived, I started wondering if I had made a mistake because I didn't know how I was going to eat enough pasta to justify buying the $100 pass. I decided it might be fun to randomly take Olive Garden to people--Random Acts of Pasta
Fast forward to Friday, September 19, 2014. Much to my surprise, I arrived home from work to find a little package from the United Parcel Service sitting on my front porch. Inside? My pasta pass. Needless to say, I was pretty excited. I lobbed a phone call to Olive Garden’s customer relations department to inquire as to whether take-out was permitted with my newly obtained pass. The answer? A resounding yes. Holy crap—this was the best news I had ever received. Random Acts of Pasta was now in full effect. Well, technically it wasn't anything until the following Monday because that’s when the promotion started.
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