Olive Garden is seeking approval for a new restaurant at 931 Holt Road in Webster, New York, replacing the former UNO Pizzeria & Grill site at Towne Center at Webster. The proposal is scheduled to go before the Webster Planning Board at its Oct. 6 meeting.
Town records list the project as being in site-plan review, which means the restaurant is proposed rather than approved. Local reporting says the new Olive Garden would seat more than 200 people and include a dedicated to-go area. An opening date has not been announced.
A 200-Plus-Seat Olive Garden Is Headed to Oct. 6 Review
Plans identify a freestanding Olive Garden on a lease area of about 1.81 acres, with the chain’s current stone-and-wood exterior treatment and multiple building signs. The former UNO closed on New Year’s Eve 2024; at the time, it was reported as the chain’s last remaining restaurant in upstate New York.
For Buffet Authority, Olive Garden occupies an unusual but legitimate edge of the abundance universe. It is not a buffet restaurant, but the chain has spent decades building part of its identity around refills: dine-in adult entrées include never-ending soup or salad and breadsticks, and its seasonal Never-Ending Pasta Bowl turns the main course itself into the unlimited portion of the meal.
Why Olive Garden Sits Inside the Abundance-Dining Beat
The 2026 Never-Ending Pasta Bowl currently starts at $14.99. Olive Garden’s Pasta Pass terms place this year’s promotion from Aug. 24 through Nov. 22, with the usual ability to return for additional combinations of pasta, sauce and topping during the same dine-in meal.
That promotion should not be confused with the Webster development timeline. Even if the project wins approval, the proposed restaurant will not materialize in time to join this year’s pasta season. The relevant news here is the planned fourth Olive Garden in the greater Rochester area and the reuse of a site that already spent years feeding large groups.
The next checkpoint is Oct. 6. Until the Planning Board acts, “proposed” is the operative word — unlimited breadsticks can wait for the permits.
