What happens if you eat Olive Garden for 7 weeks straight?

Jane King was on Daybreak Friday morning to talk about those stories and other national and local business headlines.

“At sale time, our system allowed in the first 2,000 guests to purchase the available pasta passes, which occurred in less than a second”, said Olive Garden spokesman Justin Sikora.

You can see more upset people react to the sold-out pasta pass on Twitter at #PastaGate.

After the passes sold out, Olive Garden hoped to keep people interested by starting a Twitter #pastapass hashtag and promising to give away more cards through social media.

The promotion this year is a way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Bowl, which cost $9.99 and lets people eat as much pasta as they can in a single visit. The passes were gobbled up in under a second.

Olive Garden isn’t necessarily trying to tap into Americans’ love of unlimited food with the Pasta Pass, Duenas said. Reports said that over 1,000 Pasta passes for family had been handed out last year.

Last year, the passes sold out in 45 minutes, generating bowls of publicity for the restaurant, which is owned by Darden Restaurants Inc.

The “Olive Garden” Never Ending Pasta Pass 2015 could be availed on any day of the week, for seven straight weeks, from October 5, 2015 to November 22, 2015. Because of that, a lot of people put them up for sale on sites like Ebay.