ORLANDO, Fla. — Can’t get enough of Olive Garden’s breadsticks? Soon, they will become a part of two sandwiches.
The Darden Restaurants chain said Monday it will start serving on June 1 meatball and chicken parmesan sandwiches made with its famous breadsticks.
The Orlando-based company said it will make a shorter and wider version of breadstick for the dishes, which will be served with fries, soup or salad and cost $6.99 for the meatball dish and $7.99 for chicken parmesan.
Offered only at lunch, both also will come with unlimited, regular breadsticks on the side.
“This is part of a strategy to take our menu items that people love and know and putting them together in new and interesting ways,” said Olive Garden spokesman Justin Sikora.
Jeff Smith, chairman of Olive Garden parent Darden Restaurants, teased the new sandwiches Sunday on financial news TV show “Wall Street Week.”
“We are about to come out with a breadstick sandwich,” said Smith, also the CEO of activist investor hedge fund Starboard Value. “We’re going to put chicken parm on a sandwich.”
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