Various companies nationwide are thanking veterans and active-duty military members for their service by offering deals and freebies on Veterans Day.

Various companies nationwide are thanking veterans and active-duty military members for their service by offering deals and freebies on Veterans Day.

Here are some places veterans and active-duty members can get freebies and deals on Tuesday, Nov. 11.

Marilyn Hagerty, the North Dakota newspaper columnist whose earnest review of her local Olive Garden became a social media sensation, has died.

California could become the first U.S. state to require restaurants to disclose common food allergens in each menu item under legislation being considered by state lawmakers.

Some segments of the U.S. restaurant industry don’t support President Donald Trump’s proposal to eliminate federal taxes on tips.

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave.

U.S. stocks shook off a weak start and ended slightly higher, enough to break a four-week losing streak.

Eating in is in and eating out is out.

Olive Garden is teaming up with Uber to offer delivery for the first time.

An Oakland County man is suing a popular restaurant chain after he says he felt a sharp pain while eating soup and spit out a severed rat’s foot.

The great and wise Oprah Winfrey once said, “I love bread,” and I have never related to a millionaire more in that moment.

FILE - This June 27, 2016 file photo shows an Olive Garden restaurant in Methuen, Mass. Darden Restaurants said Thursday that every hourly restaurant worker will earn at least $10 per hour including tips as of Monday. At one point, same-store sales at Darden, a key reading in retail for the health of a company, plunged 75%. About 99% of Darden's dining rooms have since re-opened with at least partial capacity. AdIn the fiscal third quarter, which ended Feb. 28, Darden’s sales fell 26% to $1.73 billion, better than the $1.6 billion Wall Street had expected, according to FactSet.

So, happy birthday, Leap Day, kids! Olive GardenThis Leap Day, Olive Garden is gifting its “Leapling” guests, whose birthdays are on Leap Day, four FREE Dolicinis to make up for those lost birthdays. The beloved doughnut chain “is celebrating its leap to National Delivery by celebrating those who make possible the most special deliveries of all – Leap Day Babies!” Krispy Kreme’s website says. Anyway, follow the instructions on social media and make your beer purchase between Feb. 26 and Feb. 29. What are your Leap Day plans?

CNN VideoDETROIT - Think you can handle nine weeks of unlimited pasta from Olive Garden? Olive Garden's Never Ending Pasta Pass sale will go on sale onlineThursday. This year, 50 people can pay an additional $400 for a lifetime pasta pass. Those who get the pass get nine weeks of unlimited servings of pastas, sauces and toppings from the restaurant's Never Ending Pasta Bowl menu. People are encouraged to join the waiting room for the sale online at 1:55 p.m.