More Free Food
Apr 29th, 2009 by alyoung
One silver lining in this economic recession is that many people are cutting back on dining out. As a result restaurants are offering very good deals on meals, even free meals. In the past few months I have scored free food at Jack In The Box(twice), Denny’s, Ben and Jerrys and El Pollo Loco today. At Ben and Jerry’s last week I saw several people I knew in a very long line that moved fairly fast. One family I knew was even able to go back into line for seconds. Thanks to Stan for pointing out these freebie deals.
Next up is almost free 31 cent scoop of ice cream at Baskin Robins. Its always a long line at my local Baskin Robins but I heard others are not so crowded. When I can’t find a coupon or a free meal I always try to use Restaurant.com to get a big discount on a meal. With Restaurant.com you get to buy a gift certificate at a participating restaurant so you get a deeply discounted meal. A drawback of Restaurant.com to some people is that you can only use your gift certificate if you order more than $35 in food. Also the restaurants are usually not well known chains so you are not quite sure what kind of food you will be getting. However its not too much of a drawback to me since with a family of four you will always spend at least $35 dollars no matter where you go. Plus it is discounted by a lot. I also like trying new restaurants and a quick check on Yelp will keep you from making a big mistake. We have found some good surprises thru Restaurant.com. Right now they have a 80% off gift certificate sale good thru April 30. Give it a try.
I was at BR31 at 7:15 in CV. About 50 people in line but only 20 minute wait. Did you go?
Nice tip. In Montreal downtown, there’s a restaurant were actually you can give how much you want for lunch - see how much restaurants are being hurt by recession.
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