Olive Garden Half Iced Tea + Half Lemonade

About This Dish

Olive Garden Half Iced Tea + Half Lemonade is a new non-alcoholic beverage priced at $3.69 with 80 calories, no fat and 15 milligrams of sodium. It is Olive Garden's take on the Arnold Palmer: fresh-brewed unsweetened iced tea poured half-and-half with the house Classic Lemonade, so you get the tannic bite of the tea and the sugar of the lemonade in one glass. It sits on the Non-Alcoholic Beverages menu next to the Classic Lemonade ($3.79), the Raspberry Lemonade ($4.29) and the flavored iced teas, and carries the new-item flag on the menu board.

Because the lemonade side is diluted with unsweetened tea, the drink lands at 80 calories against 170 for a full glass of Classic Lemonade, which makes it the lowest-calorie sweetened drink on the menu short of the diet sodas. Like all fountain drinks and teas it is refilled free for dine-in guests, and it is available to go with a sealed lid. For groups, Olive Garden sells a gallon version of the same half-and-half blend on the catering beverage list, and you can also just ask your server for it if you do not see it listed, since both components are always on hand.