Olive Garden Coupons
Olive Garden coupons let you enjoy the menu of America's largest Italian sit-down restaurant chain. Olive Garden was started in the 1980s by General Mills as a companion to their newly-purchased Red Lobster chain, a franchise which was beginning to branch out across America. Olive Garden ended the decade of the Eighties as one of the fastest-growing restaurant properties in the nation.
Though it's not always been a hit with food critics, Olive Garden, which was originally named "Green Frog" to brand the franchise similarly to Red Lobster, always has been a hit with the restaurant-going public. The restaurant chain had grown to 150 restaurants in America by the end of the 1980s, but has over 500 locations in the United States and Puerto Rico today. In earlier years, Olive Garden had a number of American menu items alongside the salads, tiramisu, and pasta, but the General Mills has worked with an Italian food preparation school to augment the menu with more traditional Italian foods.
Olive Garden Menu and Prices
Entrees on the Olive Garden menu range range in prices from $12 to $16.
The Olive Garden menu also has bottles of wine for as low as $5. But if you
dine at the Olive Garden often, you probably think the prices are too high,
and you'll want to supplement any special discounts they have with
printable Olive Garden coupons and/or Olive Garden promotional coupon codes.
Because you're shopping online for printable coupons, you'll be able to find
all the latest Olive Garden coupons for 2011, as well as a few moving
into early 2012.
Olive Garden Printable Coupons 2012
Go to a site like Retail Me Not and you'll find that their average coupon shopper saves $5.31 every time they use a discounted item from their website at Olive Garden. Five dollars might not sound like a whole lot, but if you happen to go with your friends (or spouse) to Olive Garden an average of once per week, after a year that becomes savings of over $250. Even if you spread out your dining experiences over a number of restaurants, you can find coupons for those. Two dineout experiences a week and you're probably going to save $500 a year, which probably helps a whole lot with your Christmas shopping, for instance.
You might not dine out twice a week. You might not get a $5 discount
every time you walk into Olive Garden. But there's no reason why a person
shouldn't use printed coupons from the Internet when eating, because they
are easy to find, easy to print, and translate into real savings you can
spend elsewhere.
Right now, you can find $4 off any two entrees at Olive Garden. On lunch items, you'll get $1 off on every lunch entree for up to two meals per coupon. You'll even find a few Olive Garden outlets which honor the current 2011 categorical $5 off coupon. You can get $2 off when you buy two paninis (Italian sandwich cooked in a kind of griddle).
Panini Coupons at Olive Garden
The two paninis coupon is an interesting deal, because the paninis (in some locations) are served with unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks. That might sound remarkable, but according to the shoppers on RetailMeNot who have tried to use this coupon, it only works in 52% of the Olive Garden establishments where the coupon code has been taken. That number could be skewed in either direction, but it's a good indication you'll only have about a 50-50 chance of getting this bargain. Either way, I recommend you try the paninis at Olive Garden, which come in three flavors: Grilled Chicken Caprese, Grilled Chicken Florentine, and Grilled Steak & Portobello. I've had all three and they're all to-die-for, though I recommend you start with my favorite the Grilled Chicken Florentine.
Olive Garden Discounts
Remember, when your server at Olive Garden asks you whether you'll fill out a survey, do it. This might seem like an intrusion or a nuisance in the moment, but these surveys qualify you for special discounts and promotions. The typical coupon is for $5 or $10 off your next meal at Olive Garden. These are particularly good coupons to have, because they take the price off the meal, meaning you have the full range of menu selections to choose from.
Olive Garden Coupons on Facebook
Find Olive Garden's official Facebook page to learn about the latest discounts, sales items, and coupon options. Not only does Olive Garden's corporate sales staff post on this site when new sales are announced, but you can meet other coupon shoppers who love Olive Garden and learn what they know about the latest discount. Joining the Facebook Olive Garden page is like having a newsletter mailed to your email inbox, while also being a member of a coupon club.