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Showing Original Post only (View all)This Man Used His Unlimited Olive Garden Pasta Pass To Feed The Homeless {IMAGES} [View all]
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-man-used-his-unlimited-olive-garden-pasta-pass-to-feed-the-homeless-2014-11Ogden, Utah's Matt Tribe was the lucky recipient of one of Olive Garden's $100 Unlimited Pasta Pass. Instead of using the pass on himself, he decided to give it out to random people.
For $100, the pass offers unlimited pasta, breadsticks, salad, and Coca-Cola beverages for 49 straight days. The passes expired November 9. Only 1,000 passes were made available.
While Business Insider Intelligence's own John Greenough snagged a pass and used it to eat only Olive Garden for an entire month, Tribe had a different idea. He decided to try to feed as many people as could off the pass over the course of the seven weeks. He called it Random Acts of Pasta.
While he initially fed random people all over Utah, he soon realized that he could feed those who could use the meals the most: the homeless.
This is Matt Tribe's Olive Garden's $100 unlimited pasta pass. When he bought the pass, he planned on using it for himself. Then he realized that it was far more food than he would ever need.
Tribe came up with a new plan: use the pass 100 times during the seven weeks to feed random people. He called it "Random Acts of Pasta."
He initially fed friends and neighbors, but often people weren't home when he came to give them the meals. Then he decided to hand out meals to homeless people. The homeless people he gave meals to were extremely grateful.
Each day, he went to Olive Garden several times to pick up pasta. The most he visited Olive Garden in a single day was nine times. He went to eleven different Olive Gardens over the course of the pass.
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This Man Used His Unlimited Olive Garden Pasta Pass To Feed The Homeless {IMAGES} [View all]
xchrom
Nov 2014
OP
I'll bet olive garden does something about that before they offer this promotion again. ..
pipoman
Nov 2014
#4
Everyone should send Olive Garden a thank you email. Maybe they'd get the message. nm
rhett o rick
Nov 2014
#22
Agree with you, somehow there is no shortage of nasty people here who will do anything to
cpamomfromtexas
Nov 2014
#35
Certainly none by fraudulent means while posting my "heroics" to the Internet.
alphafemale
Nov 2014
#85
If he brought it home and gave it to his wife and family instead, would you be still attacking him?
enigmatic
Nov 2014
#119
Spending other people's money!!! The bar for heroics can be scaled by a slug.
alphafemale
Nov 2014
#104
Some do. Some grocery stores contribute the food they can no longer sell to charities.
JDPriestly
Nov 2014
#72
It's OK to be fraudulent against businesses. Especially less than popular ones.
alphafemale
Nov 2014
#110
If it is wrong to steal from a poor person then it is wrong to steal from a rich person.
alphafemale
Dec 2014
#158
heh, Hey everyone of these franchise owners has truckloads of cash pull up
alphafemale
Nov 2014
#113
Glad to see your post. I was thinking about the publicity being an encouragement for some, also.
Judi Lynn
Nov 2014
#87
The Pasta Pass is intended for use by the card holder whose name appears on the printed Pasta Pass.
ablamj
Nov 2014
#63
I hope he did tip all of the workers, but the food is not coming out of their salaries.
Rex
Dec 2014
#154
And you are remarkably callous, judgemetal, and insincere to the point of blatant dishonesty.
denbot
Nov 2014
#125
Nailed it! Except it was a really OG doing the shameless self promotion.
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2014
#152
Agreement. The overdone background music. The timing. The scriptedness. The "want some OG?"
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2014
#151
A selfless man that gives to others. Wow! We need to see MORE of this in this Country.
jillan
Nov 2014
#57
Would you have a problem with this if he was eating all those meals himself?
justiceischeap
Nov 2014
#136
Nice story of small kindnesses created gnashing of teeth once again proving beyond any doubt
TheKentuckian
Nov 2014
#130
Mind blowing levels of fucked up. It is everyday, issue after issue but what a stark illustration!
TheKentuckian
Nov 2014
#139
Hey all you 143 recommenders! You just promoted a Olive Garden commercial!
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2014
#142