Does Olive Garden Give Military Discount

Olive Garden is known for their casual and stylish Italian food dining.

They have over 800 locations all across the United States.

While Olive Garden runs promotions and accepts coupons, OMK searched their website, Facebook and the internet and it showed they do not have an every day Military Discount at this time.

However, Olive Garden does run a promotion for Military Personnel during Veterans Day.

More information on Olive Garden, their Veteran's Day promotion and how you can save with Olive Garden can be found below.

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About Olive Garden

Olive Garden is a chain restaurant that is included in the publicly traded Darden brands.

Darden brands include other popular restaurant chains such as Longhorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze and Eddie V's.

According to their website, they started in 1982 in Orlando and quickly expanded from there.

Olive Garden's focus is on modern-day Italian Traditions with consistent recipes.

As part of the modern-day tradition, they emphasis that everyone is family there and welcomes children as well as groups at their restaurants.

Olive Garden's Veteran's Day Promotion

Although the promotion is not currently advertised on their website, historically Olive Garden has offered the discount to Military personnel and their entire dining parting.

At participating locations, the promotion has included a free entree for service members and an additional 10% off for the entire dining party.

Keep an eye out for the promotion to begin advertising in November.

Other Ways to Save with Olive Garden

Just because they do not offer a Military Discount, it does not mean that there are not other ways to save when dining at Olive Garden.

OMK found five other ways to save at Olive Garden including signing up for the eClub, Olive Garden Rewards Program, using regular specials/promotions, getting a free dessert on your birthday and using coupons.

1. Join the eClub to Save

Olive Garden's eClub is an email newsletter that allows you to receive information about current promotions, coupons and news about the company.

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Right now when you sign up for eClub, you receive a free appetizer or dessert when you purchase 2 entrees.

To sign up for eClub, visit the website here then enter your email, first name, last name, date of birth and zip code.

When signing up you can also opt in to receive promotions and news about any of the other restaurants in the Darden family.

2. Save with the Rewards Program

Olive Garden rewards program allows you to earn 1 point for every dollar you spend at the restaurant, on ToGo items and with online ordering.

To sign up, visit the website here and select "Join Now".

You will be asked to enter your full name, date of birth, phone number and email address.

What is great about this program is if you visit a restaurant location and forget to tell the server you are a rewards member, you have 30 days to enter the information from your receipt online and you can still receive the rewards points.

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You will receive a free $5 reward after your first visit and the amount of points to redeem each type of meal item is below:

Dessert: 100 points
Kids: 100 points
Lunch: 200 points
Appetizer: 200 points
Entree: 400 points.

Unfortunately not all locations participate but the locations that do participate can be found here.

3. Specials/Promotions

Olive Garden runs different promotions for limited-time periods.

The promotions include deals on lunch, take home meals, discounts on certain entree dishes and more.

You can find a current list of promotions on their website here.

4. Free Birthday Dessert

Olive Garden offers a promotion where you can receive a free dessert on your birthday!

To get your free dessert, bring ID and notify your server that it is your birthday.

You will also receive promotions around your birthday if you are signed up for the eClub newsletter discussed earlier.

5. Coupons

Olive Garden accepts coupons that you can get from a few different places.

They run an ad in most newspapers that has promotion details as well as coupons.

They also accept coupons from online coupon sites outside of their own website.

A few locations to get online coupons for Olive Garden include groupon.com, retailmenot.com and couponcabin.com.

Conclusion

Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant that serves all the favorite classic pasta dishes.

They have over 800 locations and easy online/application ordering.

Currently Olive Garden does not have a discount that is offered to Military every day.

They do however, have a discount for Military members on Veteran's Day.

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The discount allows you to receive a free entree in addition to 10% off for your entire table.

Details on the promotion will be available at participating locations as the day gets closer.

You can save with Olive Garden by signing up for the eClub newsletter, joining the Rewards Program, finding current promotions, getting a free dessert on your birthday and using coupons from various locations.

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Rob V. is the founder of OperationMilitaryKids.org. While he never actually served in the US Military, he has a passion for writing about military related topics.

Born and raised in Woodbridge, NJ, he graduated from the New Jersey Institute Of Technology with an MBA in eCommerce.His hobbies include beach volleyball, target shooting, and lifting.

Rob is also a Commercially rated pilot and Certified Flight Instructor (CFI), with over 1,500 hours of flight time.

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