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9. Olive Garden will cater your party. And yes, breadsticks are included.

The deal according to Olive Garden

Olive Garden offers unlimited breadsticks, salad, and soup on both lunch and dinner menus, but at different price points. At lunch the meal costs about $7.99, while for dinner it's about $9.99 (depending on location).

As Reader's Digest reveals, Olive Garden breadsticks get a lot less endless if you're not actually paying for a meal. When a party first sits down, RD explains, they'll receive a basket of breadsticks equal to the number of people in their party plus one.

Sign up for Olive Garden eClub and get a free appetizer.

You'll receive a coupon for a free appetizer or dessert (up to a $10 value) with the purchase of two adult entrees. The coupon expires in two weeks.

Yes, you can just buy Olive Garden breadsticks. You can eat them at the restaurant or order them for carryout.

Olive Garden does have a policy on breadsticks. Typically, a server is supposed to bring one stick per person plus one extra for the first basket. After that, the rule of thumb is one breadstick per person.

Made fresh daily at a price you'll love. *Never-Ending refills of Soup, Salad & Breadsticks available dine-in only.

Olive Garden's secret menu has been brushed off as nonexistent for years, but we did our digging and found super simple (and delicious) menu hacks you have to try. We're here to tell you that you can, in fact, customize just about anything on the menu.

Another dine-in chain that boasts about never-ending appetizers and even pasta entrées, Olive Garden servers offer complimentary refills on soft drinks, raspberry lemonade, teas, fruit juices, and "Caffè la Toscana" when requested.

Gather together with the people you love over a meal worth sharing at Olive Garden. We're all family here. We like this Olive Garden very much, especially as we can share an entree. We most often share eggplant parmesan and ask for extra marinara sauce.

Does Olive Garden offer catering? Our Catering Menu features generous family-sized Italian meals available for pickup that make party planning easy. So, for your next family dinner, special party or office gathering let Olive Garden help you delight guests with delicious Italian specialties.

Purchase of our unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks entrée now includes a free drink –that's what we call a lunch break done right!

Olive Garden has poor customer service. Darden is spending tons of money remodeling its restaurants instead of improving customer service, Starboard says. The company is spending up to $600,000 per restaurant on renovations.

They actually don't microwave their food. There are a lot of rumors out there that Olive Garden microwaves most of the food they're serving you — basically, that nothing is fresh and everything is pre-packaged. A few employees debunked this myth.

Worst: Chicken and Gnocchi Soup

"It's a close call between the Chicken and Gnocchi soup and the Zuppa Toscana, however, with more than half your daily sodium needs and nearly twice as much saturated fat that's recommended per serving, the Chicken and Gnocchi soup is the least healthy," say McGrane.

It's said Olive Garden's chicken isn't real.

"It's not 100 percent chicken, and the chicken that comes on the never-ending pasta bowl is actually canned chicken.