Olive Garden: Buy 1 Entree, Take 1 Home FREE

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If you’re planning a trip to Olive Garden in the near future, you may be interested to know that this offer is back! Whenever you purchase 1 entree (dine-in only), you can take one home for FREE – NO coupon needed! Go here for more details.

Buy One, Take One is back! Start with unlimited soup or salad and an entrée. Then select a second entrée to enjoy at home. All this starting at $12.99.

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Comments 31

  1. Reyna

    Does anyone know what I can do with ink cartridges? Is there a place where I can recycle them or a rewards program. Thank you

    • lancy

      they do at staples and office depot. you can check their website for details.

      • Reyna

        Thankyou

    • Allison

      You can take it to Staples and get a $2 easy rebate!

      • Reyna

        THank you

    • Michelle Sanchez

      Staples has a recycling rewards program. If u have school age children, check with their teachers, a lot of teachers recycle them and use the rewards to buy school supplies for the kids!

    • Shopper

      Note with Staples rewards, you need to have a minimum of $30 in qualifiing purchases in the last (I think) 90 days before ink credit is given.

      Best Buy has recycle bins right inside door for small items, like ink. Staples and Office Max/Depot will recycle ink without being a reward holder.

    • 78Brownie

      Did Staples stop? Last I checked, you get $2 per from Staples and Office Max/ Depot. There was also one company online that I…cannot remember the name of. Green something. I’m not even sure their still in business. Good luck. Share any info you get, please.
      Thanks for posting Erica! I wish they picked choices I like. I would even pay a surcharge 😞

      • Reyna

        Thank you !

    • Ruthi

      If you watch for super deals, you can get double or triple money per cartridge. We have found that Office Depot/Office Max tends to do the extra money per cartridge more frequently than Staples.

    • JA

      My post office has postage paid bags to send them to get recycled.

    • Tara

      Take them to your closest public school. Most public schools have a recycle program. You drop off your ink cartridges (plus a long list of other stuff) and the school will get the rewards.

  2. khope2014

    Does anyone use insta gift card? If so what are your thoughts?

  3. gem

    Love this promo! !! 🙂

  4. Tracy

    Not a lot of choices. Whenever I go to olive garden tgere isn’t much flavor in my opinion. But I go every once in awhile to see if there is anything new worth trying. But it takes me forever to finally choose an item for my meal at most restaurants, olive garden is much harder for me to decide for some reason. But their breadsticks are good. On a side not one of the best breadsticks ove had at a chain restaurant is tgi fridays. They are awesome and addicting!!! I could just eat those for dinner lol

    • Ararat

      I hear what you are saying. That’s because of all the Italian names in their menu. Each time I look into their menu I wish I knew Italian, sigh… And then I order only one of those few dishes that I am well familiar with and know what’s in them.

  5. Pinky

    So do they give you extra salad and bread sticks to take home with your extra pasta? Because in my opinion, that’s the best part of their meals

    • Ashley57

      You can request extra breadsticks. They don’t give extra salad – it wouldn’t stay good with the dressing on it.

      • Shopper

        You can always ask for dressing on the side and no butter on the bread.

  6. Kristy

    My husband used to work at Olive Garden and he hated this promo and the unlimited soup and salad promo. Guests over worked him and bc it was so cheap they tipped him cheap. Please be kind to your servers and tip generously.

    • Guest

      People are ridiculous. I recently dined out with a local promo. Dinner was Only $30 for 6 of us. I made sure tip off of original amount which ended up being like a $13 tip

  7. Eli

    On the website it says that the to go order does noy include breadsticks, soup or salad.

  8. Suzanne

    We just missed this a see ate there on Saturday, bummer! Plus they got rid of their raspberry cheesecake recent—what the heck is up with that?? Why get rid of what people want???

  9. Shawna

    Looks like chicken scampi and stuffed chicken Marsala, and carbonara is included. They usually aren’t. This is a good deal!

    • cbeths

      I don’t see those when I look at the website, this is all I see listed. And some for an “additional cost” Fettuccine Alfredo, Mezzaluna Ravioli with Marinara,Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, Five Cheese Ziti Al Forno, Smoked Mozzarella Chicken* Chicken Scampi*
      Baked Parmesan Shrimp*
      *For an additional price

      • Casey

        I believe you pay extra for those and extra for chicken for the alfredo..and then you also have to pay extra for the one you take home. Ends up costing a good bit if you dont get exactly whats on their list.

  10. Sid

    How long is this offer valid? I couldn’t find anything on the website.

    • Shopper

      They don’t give an end date ever, it just started though : )

  11. Sam

    I work at Olive Garden : ). You have to pay extra if you want to take a soup or salad home with the to go meal but you can have unlimited soup or salad at the restaurant while you eat. And yes you always have to pay extra if you are adding chicken or wanting to order an entree not included in the deal : ). I actually think this is a way better deal than the never ending pasta bowl because how much can you really eat at once? Sometimes I order this after my shift and take the extra entree home for lunch the next day! And yes we do ALOT of running around for the soup salad and breadsticks!

    • alicia

      Any idea if this promo is available for gluten free pasta also? I hope!

  12. Mary

    I was able to order the buy1take1 offer online to go and it included my choice of soup or salad (salad dressing and croutons and cheese served on the side) as well as 2 bread sticks. Total was $12.99 plus tax for 2 entrees a soup a salad and 4 breadsticks.

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