Olive Garden’s all-you-can-eat passes sold out in record time

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Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Passes sold out in less than one second on Thursday, the company said.

For $100, the passes offer seven weeks straight of unlimited pasta, breadsticks, salad, and Coca-Cola beverages.

The chain sold all 2,000 passes, including 1,000 that extend the unlimited pasta offer to an entire family, the company told Business Insider.

The passes went on sale at 2 p.m.

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