Super Cheap Restaurant Gift Certificates

[travOtaku]

I'm not really sure who this will interest, but Restaurant.com released a promo code worth 80% off of anything they sell. Seriously.

First, here's how restaurant.com gift certificates work:

You buy a certificate from their website worth X amount of dollars, but the actual cost is usually much less (a 25 dollar cert will usually cost between 10 and 15 bucks). The gift certificate acts as cash in the restaurant, but there is usually a stipulation or a minimum purchase required. A 25 dollar cert usually requires a minimum purchase of 2 entrees or 35 dollars. A 50/75/100 cert usually requires a minimum purchase of 100/150/200 respectively.
This may not seem all that great, but when you factor in the 80% promotion code, it gets to be really freaking awesome.

These make great gifts, and are great for double/triple dating. Going to a restaurant, spending 100+ bucks, using a 50 dollar certificate, then splitting the remainder 4 ways turns a ~30 dollar per person meal into something that only costs 15.

Ok, so here's how you get it:

When you go to restaurant.com, find and add the certificate for the restaurant you want into your cart (there are limitations on what restaurants offer the certs) and then enter the promo code "ENJOY" into the promo code box. This will take 80% off of *everything* in your cart.

Tonight I bought a 25 off 35 certificate, a 50 off of 100 certificate, two 100 dollar restaurant.com certificates (usable for buying specific restaurant certs, same as "cash"), and two 25 dollar restaurant.com gift certificates for a grand total of 28 dollars.

That's almost $600 worth of restaurant food for less than a day's work.

[happydude]

they had 90% off before

[EckoGecko]

They have this type of thing just about every other week. Nothing special.

[travOtaku]

Oh, I didn't realize this was a normal thing :/ I follow several money saving blogs, and this is the first time in a long long time that I had ever seen a post about this on any of them.

Well, chalk this up as a big oops, and carry on. XD

[Seanr]

still nice to know

[Airenn]

Just to add to this, some nifty websites for "good deals"

slickdeals.net
woot.com
groupon.com
livingsocial.com


groupon and livingsocial do food a lot, but also activities. Very interesting for the New York area.