If you go to the websites of some of your favorite restaurants to peruse their menus, you may be missing out on some ways to get freebies from them. Many restaurants have little clubs that you can sign up for and a lot of them will give you a free appetizer or dessert for joining. The ones that have you enter your birthday will usually send you a coupon for money off or a free meal or dessert.
One of the best ones out there is Max and Erma’s Good Neighbor card and you’ll get certain free items typically over the summer. A lot of times it coaxes us over there when we wouldn’t have normally gone. We’ve signed up for a ton of them like Dairy Queen’s Blizzard Club, On the Border, O’Charleys, Champps, Potbelly Sandwiches, TGIFridays and others. In this day and age where it seems that everything is shooting through the roof, why not put up with a stray email here and there to save some dough when you do go out? You could even set up a free mail account specifically for those kinds of sign ups if you don’t want to receive them in your own mail though I’ve never had a problem with a particular restaurant overdoing it on the frequency of emails.
As we speak, the other half is getting our free Wild West Shrimp appetizer from Longhorn! (It’s also a great way to try appetizers you may not normally have spent your own money on!) You should note that some places will give you a time limit for your “welcome” coupon, usually 2 weeks, so plan to sign up when you’re ready to make a trip to that restaurant.
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