Olive Garden’s ‘Never Ending Pasta Bowl’ Returns For 2025

Olive Garden is refusing to lower the cost of its most well-liked offer in spite of inflation and tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.

On August 25, 2025, Olive Garden’s “Never Ending Pasta Bowl” promotion will resume.

On Monday, August 25, Olive Garden’s beloved “Never Ending Pasta Bowl” will be back. For the same $13.99 price as in 2022, the offer includes unlimited spaghetti, soup or salad, and trademark breadsticks.

As menu prices across the country reach all-time highs, the promotion is particularly noteworthy.

According to a news release from the Italian restaurant chain, “Olive Garden is keeping the price of its most beloved offer exactly the same in a time when prices seem to rise with every season.”

On Monday, August 18, members of Olive Garden’s eClub began to have early access. Through Sunday, November 16, the Never Ending Pasta Bowl will continue.

The new Spicy Three-Meat Sauce, which combines the restaurant’s own meat sauce with chili flakes, cherry peppers, red bell pepper, pepperoni, red wine, garlic, and herbs, is part of the 2025 menu. Along with six sauce options, diners can combine 96 different pasta flavors, including fettuccine, spaghetti, angel hair, and rigatoni.

Menu prices have increased by over 30% since February 2020, according to a recent report from the National Restaurant Association. The increase was deemed “on par with the increase needed” to sustain an average profit margin of 5%.

However, according to CNN, Olive Garden only increased costs by 2% in 2024. The firm reported a 12.7% profit growth in its most recent quarter, while raising prices below the rate of inflation.

Olive Garden continues to earn a profit, according to Maeve Webster, owner of consulting firm Menu Matters, because of bulk purchases and customers who frequently buy more expensive extras like appetizers, beverages, and desserts.

“If the pasta brings them in the door and they purchase other profitable items, then it definitely makes sense in the long run,” Webster stated on CNN. “Olive Garden has probably calculated the number of customers who will eat far more than just $13 worth of pasta. Of course, some will, but generally speaking, it will work out well for them.

Since its 1995 inception, the Never Ending Pasta Bowl has become a seasonal favorite, with the exception of a brief lull at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic. According to Olive Garden management, the timing of the agreement is intended to assist families during the back-to-school period.

In 1982, Olive Garden was established in Orlando, Florida.