NEW YEARS EVE AT NYC OLIVE GARDEN: $400

Dinner at the Olive Garden in Times Square on New Year’s Eve will set you back $400. Tourists can shell out hundreds of dollars to party in comfort indoors, even if the food is limited and the views obstructed. The Olive Garden fest includes a DJ, open bar and buffet meal — but no breadsticks. And watching the ball drop? “It’s a limited view,” said Michael Garver, a manager of the eatery at 47th Street and Broadway.
– Bubba Gump Shrimp on Broadway charges among the highest fees on New Year’s Eve — $799 a person.
– Revelers at Ruby Tuesday — where tickets range from $349 a head to $1,699 for the “Couple’s VIP Table” — won’t see the ball drop at all from inside the restaurant.
* You may not see the ball drop, but for $1600 a meal you’re gonna see a couple of jaws drop.
* It’s probably worth it just to have a place to go to the bathroom.
* 400 bucks for Olive Garden? What’s Italian for “Get over yourself”?
* I know what you’re thinking: It’s Olive Garden…that’s not really Italian.
* Wait…did you say Open Bar? That changes everything.
* I like how they call the people who buy these deals, “revelers.” It’s so much classier than “suckers.”