# The man with the lifetime pasta pass > One of 50 people alive with unlimited Olive Garden pasta forever, and he built a website so you can vote on his next order. - Title: The man with the lifetime pasta pass · WIRED | Shortify - Summary: One of 50 people alive with unlimited Olive Garden pasta forever, and he built a website so you can vote on his next order. A weird privilege gets… - Keywords: olive garden, internet culture, data, food, fandom, man, lifetime, pasta, pass, WIRED - Source: WIRED — https://wired.com/story/this-man-has-a-cult-internet-following-over-his-olive-garden-lifetime-pasta-pass - Author: Miles Klee - Published: 2026-09-11T11:00:00+00:00 - Read time: 2 min - Topics: olive garden, internet culture, data, food, fandom ## Called Breadsticks at ten A Little League coach nicknamed Braden Sinclair "Breadsticks" after he ate too much at an Olive Garden birthday dinner and missed a whole game. His initials are B.S., his number was 11. > I had to be called 'Breadsticks' for the rest of the season. ## One of fifty on Earth In 2019 Sinclair got an Olive Garden Lifetime Pasta Pass. Only 50 people have ever held one. ## A gold card with no end date The pass covers unlimited pasta, toppings, breadsticks, and soup or salad for as long as the chain exists and he keeps showing up. Dine-in only, no delivery. ## How he won it Olive Garden offered the first 50 buyers of a temporary pass the chance to upgrade to lifetime for $400 more. Sinclair had been trading jokes with the brand's Instagram for years and still wonders if he was picked. > It felt a little weird, something like divine intervention. ## Staff either gasp or squint Servers carry the card back to the kitchen to show everyone. Occasionally he has to prove it is real, which he says he understands completely. > If someone came in with a gold card that said I don't need to pay, I would also have questions. ## Pasta as a comfort object Olive Garden was steady ground when his family moved from Maine to Wisconsin as a kid. He has a tattoo of the rotary cheese grater captioned "SAY WHEN" and collects 1980s and 90s chain merch. ## Then he built the dashboard Lifetimepastapass.com logs 112 visits since 2019, 152 bowls of pasta, 154,817 calories, $1,878.87 in meal value, and $607 in tips. ## Rigatoni, alfredo, chicken fritta Charts break down his favorite noodle, sauce, and topping, plus a map of every location he has tried up and down the East Coast. He hit nine visits in August, his busiest month since a record 20 in October 2019. ## Strangers order for him He added a poll so anyone can vote on his next combination. He expected ten friends to play along. A couple of Reddit posts later, 700 votes decided he was eating angel hair with spicy alfredo and crispy shrimp fritta. > I thought it was just gonna be a joke among my friends. ## The vote broke his rut Left alone he ordered the same thing every time. Outsourcing the decision turned up a combination he now swears by. > I realized that alfredo and meatballs is an insane combination. ## Power used quietly He tips every visit, skips refills, and tries to be a low-impact diner rather than the kind who buries a bowl in grated Parmesan because he can. The trophies he chases are his own. > I see some pictures of people with the pasta passes who go crazy. ## Lonely at the top Covid hit right after the cards went out, so Olive Garden never connected the winners and friends tire of free breadsticks. His 4-year-old, though, is pasta-obsessed and next in line. > There's only so many times I can go sit at the Olive Garden by myself. ## Key takeaway A weird privilege gets interesting when you treat it as a public record and let strangers have a say in it.