Restaurants.com help needed

[wendy522]

I have seen many people mention this sight, and have wonderful things to say. Well I am very interested, but I really don't understand how it works. When I go to the sight I really am not getting it. I know this will seem very silly to all of you that use it on a regular basis, but it is you that I need help from. Can some one explain it better to me. Is restaurant.com and Groupon the same thing? When I was at rest. it took me to something that said Groupon. And are all ther GC at a % off or is it just one a day? Please help me with this. We are a family of 7 and eating out gets very costly, this would be a great help for me.

 

[Shanna-like-Banana]

I use them all the time.

After I made my first purchase, now they send you links to their sales.

The current sale is 80% off with the code SUN.

I did google resturant. com and it come up with something else, that I've never seen before. I just always use their links from my e-mail.

You have to read each returants stipulations for their deal.

Some offer deals as low as $10 up too $100.

Very common stipulations are $10 off a $ 20 dining, $ 25 off a dining of $35-$50 or min 2 entrees. & $50 off $100. Some of them excluse holidays, are for dinner only, etc. Many of them require 18% gratiuty before the discount.

You just have to read through em and see which ones you like.

You can use 1 certificate per resturant, per month. And you can only 1 use per table/group, even if you have split checks or are a 2 family party.

http://www.restaurant.com/index.asp?pgn=home

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

No Groupons and Restaruant.com are not the same thing.


Restaruant.com simply put is if the cert for say $25 is priced at $10 and you use the 80% code which currently is "sun", you will pay $2. you can eat $25 worth of food for only $2. unless the cert has a restriction. Some cert have the restriction and a lot of them don't.
Some cert say the cert is worth $25 but you have to order $35 worth of food. Then you will need to pay the difference of ie $10. So your total cost would be $10+$2. = $12. for $35 worth of food plus tip which is not bad for a dinner out.
Its a great deal. Last month we used the House of Blues one at Disney and only paid $12 for dinner for two people plus tip.
We use them A LOT! never had an issue.
Let us know if you have more questions or need help.

++++Hey I just noticed Wendy that you are in Elyria. I am in Lorain County too!!!


Try this link http://www.restaurant.com/rdc_site2.net/listings.aspx?StateID=&zip=44035&

 

[OllieDannyandMe]

I use them all the time.

After I made my first purchase, now they send you links to their sales.

The current sale is 80% off with the code SUN.

I did google resturant. com and it come up with something else, that I've never seen before. I just always use their links from my e-mail.

You have to read each returants stipulations for their deal.

Some offer deals as low as $10 up too $100.

Very common stipulations are $10 off a $ 20 dining, $ 25 off a dining of $35-$50 or min 2 entrees. & $50 off $100. Some of them excluse holidays, are for dinner only, etc. Many of them require 18% gratiuty before the discount.

You just have to read through em and see which ones you like.

You can use 1 certificate per resturant, per month. And you can only 1 use per table/group, even if you have split checks or are a 2 family party.

http://www.restaurant.com/index.asp?pgn=home

I will be traveling with my 7 year old daughter in August. When certain restaurants stipulate two entrees, can one of the entrees be off the child's menu? Has anyone ever asked at Garden Grove, New York Trattoria, or bluezoo?

I wish they would require a certain dollar amount instead. House of Blues says a minimum of $35, and that equals about what I would pay for our two meals. So it's perfect! The certificates for the other restaurants do not stipulate "adult" entrees, and I am surprised. I would think that they would, if that was required.

 

[Shanna-like-Banana]

YMMV on 2 adult entrees vs. 1 A+1 Child entree.

I usually only see that stipulation at adult oriented resturants, ones that you most likely wouldn't be taking kids anyways.

I'd just clarify with the server before ordering, which the stipulation really is, or call.

Also with the 80% off, you are only spending $2, so it's not really a financial loss, more like a wasting your time loss.

Twice a year they go to 90% off, so I stock up big time when that happens.

 

[OllieDannyandMe]

I actually paid $1 each for the certificates, so I definitely won't lose money. It was a great deal that I heard about on MouseSavers almost a year ago.

At the Garden Grove, it is a dinner buffet. So it would be a shame if I needed to pay the adult price for my daughter to enjoy the buffet. In fact, I believe it would make it more expensive to use the voucher than to just purchase our buffets without the voucher.

The nice thing about the vouchers is that they do not expire. So I guess I could wait to use them until a future trip when another adult might be with me.

 

[IDoDis]

I do not get a different link when I go to restaurants.com. It takes me right to the website.

http://www.restaurant.com/consumer-promotion/search_dlp.asp?prti=4252&raid=1150&s_kwcid=TC|7304|restaurant.com||S|e|6774901487&mkwid=srjop1nj8&pcrid=6774901487

From there you enter your zip code or city and the available restaurants will come up. Just make sure to check the minimum purchase requirement. A $50 certificate might have a minimum spending amount of $100.00 and a $25 certificate has a minimum spending amount of $35.00.

Also, the 18% gratuity will be added to your total before the discount and including tax, so you'll be paying gratuity on the tax, as well. This doesn't work so well if you go to a counter-service place where you don't have a waiter. It happened to us at a BBQ place where we ordered at the counter, got our own drinks and condiments, and picked up our food and threw out our own trash afterward. We were charged $9.00 for gratuity!! So in that case, I didn't really save very much money at all considering I would not have normally left a tip, plus the tip was calculated AFTER the tax was added and I had to buy the certificate. So be careful.

Most of the time, it has been a pretty good deal. We usually spend about $55 eating out for the 4 of us, but with a restaurant.com coupon, we can get the same food for under $40.00.

 

[Princesca]

The thing that seems to trip most people up, with restaurant.com, is that you have to eat at the restaurants listed on the website. Many times (though not always) these are Mom and Pop type places. You won't often see, for example, a TGIFridays, or an IHOP. So if you're someone who really likes to eat at chain restaurants, restaurant.com probably isn't the best choice for you. In my area, they're also a lot of ethnic restaurants.

This has been my mother's problem. It works for DH and I because we don't have kids and love exotic food, so we're up for anything. In fact, we actively avoid the Olive Gardens and Applebees of the world. But my mom and her friends much prefer to dine at those sorts of places, so she never gets around to using her restaurant.com certs.

 

[Princesca]

Also, you can often buy restaurant.com certs through ebates.com and still use the promo code. So you go to ebates.com, which I think got me back 15 percent in rebate, then go to restaurant.com THROUGH ebates, and use that promo code. Around Christmas, I got a $100 gift cert for $20, then got 15% of that $20 back, too from ebates. So now I can go on restaurant.com and if I see a buy $25, get $50, I use my gift cert, which is then reduced to $75, and I basically get $50 of food at a restaurant for something around $6.

I don't know that DH and I will ever eat at enough restaurant.com participants to use up all of the ones I bought!

 

[Twende]

Do any of the places in or near Disney take a $100 E-gift certificate? I can get one from Coke Points but I just checked and the most I can use at Shula's is one for $25.

Bummer! Any help on where to use a larger one?

 

[ShanPooh]

++++Hey I just noticed Wendy that you are in Elyria. I am in Lorain County too!!!

Howdy from the East Side, ladies!
DH grew up in Amherst.
Cue It's a Small World

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

Hi Shanpooh