How to get more for your money at Olive Garden?

How to get more for your money at Olive Garden?

If you are by yourself...

Well, you know how each pasta dish includes a soup or a salad and bread sticks? Order any pasta dish and select either soup or salad. When the bread sticks and soup or salad arrive, finish it and ask for a refill. When the pasta comes, don't eat it. Continually ask for more bread sticks and soup or salad until you are full. Then, ask to take home your uneaten pasta. Guess what?? Dinner is already taken care of for you.

If you are with someone else...

The same applies. Each of you order a pasta, but make sure only one of you chooses soup and the other selects salad. That way, you can have the soup and then ask for a refill, but for your friend, and your friend can the salad with you, or vice versa. When the pasta comes, don't eat it. Continually ask for more bread sticks and soup or salad until you are full. Then, ask to take home your uneaten pasta. Guess what?? Dinner is already taken care of for you both.

Other tips...

Never go on Saturday, Sunday or Dinner, unless they are offering the Never-Ending Pasta Bowl special where you can have unlimited pasta for under $8.00. Otherwise you get charged more for the same pasta you can have during lunch.

If they offer the Never-Ending Pasta Bowl special where you can have unlimited pasta for under $8.00, go for it, even if you think you can't eat more than one serving. It's cheaper than most other items on the menu anyway.

Further, this goes for all restaurants, drink water... don't pay $3.00 for a soda you can get for 25 cents at a vending machine. Also, by the time you dessert is offered to you, you should be full...

In addition, if you havent gotten one of those no-annual fee credit cards that offer you points for every dollar you spend, feel free to do so, and you save about one ot two percent every time you go out.

Lastly, since you saved all that money and if you think service was good, you could consider tipping the server a little extra. It's amazing how an extra dollar can brighten somebody's day.

Source: Frugality 101 (http://frugality101.blogspot.com)