Spencer Jakab
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981 appearances
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first heard Jul 2017
last heard Jun 2021
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · The Math Behind Olive Garden's 'Never Ending Pasta Pass' · 19 Aug 2019
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I asked the guy at the gym, the guy who runs the gym, who, ironically enough, he was the trainer for the cast of The Sopranos.
Oh, my gosh.
I said, hey, do you think I could eat all this pasta and not gain weight, maybe turn it into muscle?
And he looked at me like, he thought I was pulling his leg, but he was, no way.
It's pasta.
You're going to get fat.
And I gained six pounds, so don't eat at Olive Garden every day.
Don't eat everything on your plate like I did yesterday.
In terms of being a pure moneymaker, it's probably not going to move the needle very much.
This year they had 24,000.
They've been raising the number every single year.
On average, last year, people used it 14 times.
You break even on the ninth time.
But it's not like people were going to go 14 times during that nine-week period.
Also, that's at the retail price.
I mean, the cost of pasta is not that high, even with the toppings and meat and stuff like that.
You know, they're making a pretty nice margin on this food.
So, you know, you would have to eat there a lot more than 14 times to actually cost them money.
Now, Alan Martin, who holds the record at 140 times, he costs them money.
But actually, he gets a pasta pass for free every year.
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