Eat like a champ: 5 great Atlanta area restaurant deals
Get $15 in coupons from T.G.I. Friday’s
The Share Our Strength campaign, focused on eliminating childhood hunger, is in full gear right now. Want to help? From now through Sept. 28, if you donate $5 to the campaign when dining at participating T.G.I. Friday’s restaurants, you’ll get $15 in coupons to be used during future visits to the restaurant.
Save 80% on Restaurant.com gift certificate + Get free $10 gift certificate
Using promo code AUTUMN, Restaurant.com gift certificates are 80 percent off right now. That makes the $25 gift certificates only $2. There’s also a bonus gift. For a limited time, get a free $10 Restaurant.com gift certificate with every order.
50% off Googie Burger
How do you think they came up with the name, Googie Burger? I have no idea. I’m just glad they came up with this 50 percent off deal through MyDailyThread.com. Get half-off your burger when you buy a $10 voucher valued at $20. Also, as a bonus, everyone who buys this deal also gets a free ice cream. Googie Burger is located at Centennial Olympic Park.
Save $14 at Engine 11 Firehouse Tavern
UDailyDeal.com crafts daily deal specials for college students. They are on the right track with this one: $11 for food and drinks at Engine 11 Firehouse Tavern. The gift certificate has a $25 value, saving you 66 percent. It can be used starting Monday, Sept. 27, and cannot be used on days of Georgia Tech home games.
PlumDistrict.com discount
Today’s daily deal from PlumDistrict.com is a good one: $15 for food and drinks at Ippolito’s Italian Restaurant. Value: $25. The certificate is valued at the Sandy Springs, Alpharetta, Kennesaw and Roswell locations.
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12 comments Add your comment
Matt from MS
September 24th, 2010
10:44 am
Googie Burger is so named because of the angular, swooping “Googie” architecture. Just Wikipedia “googie” for a full explanation.
DMB
September 24th, 2010
10:46 am
Restaurant.com isn’t as easy to use as Groupon or Scout Mob. Always complications and loop-holes, fine print and tricks. Stopped using that a years or so ago.
JesusFreak
September 24th, 2010
10:51 am
LOL, I actually knew a lady whose nickname was Googie!
@DMB, I agree with you about the restaurant.com issues. I try hard to make sure it will be worth our while to go there and not have it cost more than it should in the end. I have found some great deals on it as a result, but you have to really watch out. Groupon is great, though Scout Mob is the easiest of all, you just print and use, no need to pay in advance so if you don’t use it, you don’t lose anything.
SP
September 24th, 2010
11:07 am
Restaurant.com “gift certificates” are nothing really but coupons – way too many restrictions. If it was a real gift certificate, I could use it anytime and no minimum purchase, etc..
I tried it once, and the restaurant stopped using them, and they won’t refund your money. I’ve tried emailing them but they never responded.
Mike
September 24th, 2010
11:30 am
Restaurants are losing money on these deals, because people won’t spend enough to cover the costs behind the deal. These deal sites were designed to drive traffic into the establishments that offered the deals. They were designed to increase awareness for the business and hopefully generate some added income and repeat business. Now people are just using them as a way to get a cheap meal, and go somewhere they wouldn’t normally go, or go again if there is not a deal to be had. That is why businesses put restrictions on them.
Friday
September 24th, 2010
11:30 am
I just bought the Googie certificate. I hope it’s good. Looks like I’ll have to wait until Sept 27 or after to use it. I bought a couple of certificates off Restaurant.com. The only one I used was for Shane’s. I let the others expire.
SWAT Native
September 24th, 2010
11:51 am
@ Matt from MS,
Great comment, you taught me something new. I always wondered about that building.
MSWAT
September 24th, 2010
12:00 pm
I used restaurant.com once and got a great deal, until the next month they took out $9.95 from my account because they said I signed up for something that I didn’t know I did. Check the fine print. They did not refund me my money either.
atlmom
September 24th, 2010
12:15 pm
if you pay by credit card, you can always dispute with them. You have 90 days from when you get the statement. FYI.
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Ole Guy
September 25th, 2010
7:55 am
One of the popular hotel chains (I won’t use this forum to pitch any brands; if interested, do your homework) offers restaurant cards, in $50 increments, for two stays. Restaurants include Chilies, Macaroni, and a few others. The key lies in managing your stays; one stay encompasses check-in to check-out, so it’s fruitless to stay more than one night at a time. In order to maximize points, when on the road, I’ll stay with my preferred hotels and slug-out a few one-nighters at brand X. In the span of a two-week road trip, I can acrue $50 to $150 in restaurant cards while forfeiting two-to-six nights worth of points at my favorite chains…not a bad tradeoff in my book!