All You Can Eat Entrees

I just saw an all you can eat ad on TV from Olive Garden for $8.99 for unlimited pasta and salad.

How can this be a deal?

But they make it look so enticing in the add with a whole bunch of different pasta/sauce combinations.

Perhaps when I was in my teens or twenties, I could have really gorged myself and found this a deal. I'm guessing most people will be filled up after a bowl of pasta, a salad and some bread.

I've recently lost 45 lbs. just by watching portion sizes.

I'm also guessing there are no dogie bags for the all you can eat special, but I could be wrong. (Perhaps Noahcat can sneak in some of her buffet Ziplocks!)

I'm guessing there's not too many mega eaters left that will get EXCEPTIONAL value from this deal. Does this constitute false advertising?

What about other all you can eat deals? Does anyone see any real prizes, nationally or in Vegas?

All you can eat options appeal to me about as much as dinner buffets. I don't need three plates of food for dinner. Just give me one plate of good food and I'll be satisfied.

Good Luck!
Ric at Joes

how is this false advertising?

The people that hit the "buffets" exceptionally hard are the ones who may get their monies worth on this promotion. I think they do this about every year at this time, nothing new too see- "keep moving"

If you think our country is running low on "mega eaters" just look around! More fat fu*ks than ever before.

Congrats on the weight loss.

I agree with the original poster. I prefer quality over quantity.


I don't know about Olive Garden, but Sizzler once had an "all the ribs you can eat". They gave a decent portion on the original order. The waitress came by and asked if I wanted more. I told her I did and she came back with a very small portion. After that, she didn't come back for fifteen minutes. They can overcome the "all you can eat" bit by serving smaller portions and not coming back very often.

You don't think $8.99 all you can eat pasta and salad served in a restaurant setting is a good deal? Maybe its not a good deal to you since you just dropped 45 lbs and probably eat very small potions but to the majority of people $8.99 all you can eat is a good deal. The Olive Garden probably makes very little, if any money on this
promo. They make it on the $3 soft drinks and other beverage offerings.