Want to save some money at restaurants in your area?

sounds neat have you tried it? do the cards actually come? Ive heard the site was a good one but haven't known anyone who actually bought from them

i stocked up:)
Thank you

thanks for sharing

Sounds like a great deal! We don't have any restaurants that participate, though.

Thanks, Faith. This is great. I hope this applies to us in Tennessee.

I've used it a lot, and I've never had a problem receiving or redeeming the rewards. If it's a chain restaurant, you'll get a gift card. If it's a local restaurant, you'll most likely get a hand-written gift certificate, but I've never had issues with anything I've gotten from the site.

Thanks for the code. That's a great deal!

Sounds like some great deals..Thanks Faith.

oh, awesome! I need to tell my bro about this too.

hmmmm, sounds like a good deal. Has anyone actually received anything from them?

very kind of you to share this info....only one restaurant within 20 miles of me participating and i did notice all say with min. X amount of purchase such as one said spend min. $50,but many are as low as spend min. $35.....

didn't see anything about the code you show,so assume you are sharing something you were sent?.....

now Seattle has many participating restaurants which is an incentive for me to buy as gifts for my son and others

btw, hope you rec'd long email about photo subject i sent Sunday.....let me know how it works out for you....

cheers,gayle

bummer i went and checked none in our area :(

I love you Faith! I am going to be dining out all over Chicago for a dime :)

My family has used this site for years, they are legit and all the restaurant GCs we have purchased, have come.

thank you

Thanks, Faith.

I am going check this one out now, thanks for sharing!

Thanks for passing along the savings code, for those who are regulars at Restaurant.com or regular restaurant eaters!

G-Photog makes a good point that the cards also require an additional purchase to get the deal. For example there's a $10 gift card for 60 cents, after discount, but you must purchase a minimum of $25 and pay 18 percent for the gratuity. That means a $25 meal at the minimum, so -- at that minimum -- you'll be paying 60 cents for the $10 off, plus $15 for the $25 meal, plus 18 percent of $25 at nearly $5... for a total of $20.60. You'll be getting a $25 meal, plus however much you would have decided to tip, for $20.60.

My verdict: If you plan to go somewhere anyhow, and if indeed this site is legitimate as those here say (and why would it not be, considering the restaurants are getting forced minimum orders), then go ahead and spring for these cards because most will save you at least 25 percent with tip. [The cards I checked out did offer as much as 50 percent off, but remember that it requires double the purchase and thus double the tip.]

But remember, this is not a free meal. So if you're not planning to head out, and are pinching your pennies, then these cards will really only end up costing you or your loved ones money.

Fair warning.... Now, sold to the woman with the spy glass.... ; )

I forgot to this add in my original comment:

These are a great hostess gift. Whenever I'm going to visit a friend out of town, I'll check around the city I'm visiting for places that my friends have mentioned that they like and get a gift certificate for 80% off so we can visit when I'm there.

I do tell them where I got the certificates in case they don't know about restaurant.com, but then they're hooked. :)

I've used many over the past few years from restaurant.com when we go on vacation.

It's a great idea. Unfortunately, there aren't any restaurants in this area that participate.

Unfortunately, Restaurant.com doesn't have a good selection on restaurants in my area- all of them are restaurants such as Melting Pot which I hear is a FORTUNE, so what's the point? lol....

Then again, I kept debating to get the gift card from Coke Rewards and if its worth it in the long run to use the site; Restaurant.com. Hmmmm...who knows? I might try it out.

Thanks, Faith. I've run into the same problem as Michelle C., though. But I bet it's a big help for people in more urban areas.

Thanks for the info. There's nothing near here - and only 5 within an hour from here that are participating.

We got a gift certificate for free last year, but we never ended up using it. We have lots of participating restaurants in our area, but most of them are upscale and not kid friendly places.

There are no partcipating restaurants in our area! :(

Nobody in my area, either. Bummer! :)

Thanks!

thanks

I got one in June, but have forgotten to use it. Thanks so much for reminding me!

thanks for posting!

Wow, I have to check this out~

Thanks for the comments, everyone!

I got one of these from my Uncle once for a restaurant in Eugene where he lives. I think he was hoping that we'd come down to visit him and then we could all go out to dinner with it, but then I never ended up using it! I felt so bad, but at least I knew he got a good deal on it. Ha. I ended up giving it to some friends who actually live in that city, they used it and ended up saving quite a bit with it.

I have used this one time before though and that was for a Mexican restaurant here in town. The food was really good and we didn't mind that we had to charge up a certain amount since there was 4 of us to feed. I'd love to go back to that restaurant again but that is the only one in our city that is out of stock! All the other ones are for smaller cafe style places that I've never been to before.

I got free Restaurant.com Gift Cards from My Coke Rewards....two $25 ones.......I found out that there are several restaurants in our area......especially Okoboji Grill!!!! Our family is going to try that one out very soon......we have about 5 of those in our city/suburbs!

Ugh, I'm not sure what to buy! Being in a new area - it is different~

that is great

thanks