Olive Garden offers all you can eat -- for seven weeks

Olive Garden is offering a $100 all-you-can-eat pasta deal for that goes on sale on the restaurant chain's website at 3 p.m. ET. Only 1,000 of the personalized passes, that run from Sept. 22 to Nov. 9, will be sold.

Any customer who buys the "Never Ending Pasta Pass" will have unrestricted access to pasta with toppings like chicken and shrimp fritta, and can wash it down with an infinite supply of Coca-Cola (CCE) soft drinks.

The special offer is an advanced version of the Never Ending Pasta Bowl, an annual, limited-time, all-you-can-eat pasta deal for $10. Customers consumed 13 million bowls of pasta during last year's promo, according to the company.

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