Restaurant.com

I am surprised to read previous ratings. My experience at least at 10 different restaurants have been different and excellent!

I have enjoyed every single one of them, no hassle, no differentiation in product or service as they do not know you will be using the discounted certificate until much after food is digested! I love restaurant.com!

What a great way to try out different places, different cuisines, different entertainment...

So you see all these bad reviews of Restaurant.com. I took advantage of a great deal.
100 - $50 cards for $500 from Citi Easy Deals. That $4500 of free food
Just avoid these assumptions:
1) It's not off any restaurant. Get a Visa Gift Card if you want that. Enjoy your fees.
2) It's not a free meal. It's up to half off the total bill. You can use the remainder elsewhere.
3) It's one use per restaurant per month. Not getting 1/2 price sushi every weekend. Goto a different restaurant tomorrow.
4) You have to log into the app to find the card to redeem. Yes it shows your name. Got to log in anyway. That bugs me! Lose one Star.
5) Let the server tap the screen to redeem.
You will hit one of these the first time through. After that it's discount city.
Got my food budget in line through some hard times.

I have always had excellent experience with Restaurant.com! I use the certificates for special occasions with family and friends to help take a couple bucks off of the bill because they are well... considerable! Especially with the cost of fuel going up, which means food will too, I am certainly going to continue being a Restaurant.com customer! Like a few others have said, they always have deals available, personally I just used the promo code "dinner" which seems to be the best one that I can find right now in early April. I can get a $25 certificate for only $5, which I like! If anyone has problems with any coupon or coupon code, I have had no problem getting in touch with Restaurant.com customer service, when I am not calling during peak times; otherwise, just like with any other company, there is a short wait.

When you're paying a fraction of the savings offered, -- people need to keep it real on that it's not a Visa Gift Card. If you go to the website, put in your zip code, there are "Plenty" of restaurant options to select. Pull up code on your phone or print paper certificate. Follow instructions and 99% of the time, the restaurant will accept coupons as they get several a month as they're partners with this company. If a restaurant stopped accepting, which happens but is rare, then Restaurant Dot Com will give you new code to go elsewhere. Period, end of story. Follow the rules and the experience is ideal.

It is extremely difficult to use their website and App. Nothing seems to work consistently. I can only access them via iPhone, although I would prefer to use my laptop if I could. But am unable to create an account or sign-onto it if I use common laptop browsers like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. And they have been unable to fix the problem. Another major gripe: They list 12-15 participating restaurants in my city. Upon researching that list, I've found (so far) that two are permanently closed, and one closed but reopened under a different name which I don't see on their "list". Found one I liked. Their website showed they are alive and well. But they only open at 4 p.m. 7-days a week. No problem, but if you buy one of the certificates for this restaurant, it is only valid before 3:30 p.m. And you'd play heck getting a replacement certificate! Do your research if you use Restaurant.com.

My family doesn't fly often, so the cheapest way to keep our frequent flyer miles from expiring is buying restaurant.com cards using miles every 18 months or so. Other than serving that purpose, the certificates are a joke. It takes so much work and planning to use one I've tried it only once in five years. And even then the restaurant did not honor the certificate saying they do not participate in the program any more. Guess what? That same restaurant is still listed on the website 2 years later. At least my cards served a purpose even if I never use them, but I do feel sorry for those who got duped into paying hard-earned cash for theirs.

"... Please try again later." I've been trying to exchange my certificates (out-of-business restaurants) since October 14 (5 weeks), and this is the response I've received every time. No response to my emails. I'm glad all I lost were the almost-useless airline miles I swapped for these completely useless certificates. Don't waste real money on this scam... And here's an update: As of 4/12/16, they still "could not exchange at this time..." You're all shocked, right?

I'll never fall for any of their deals again. Got a $50 restaurant.com gift card for signing up with an electric company. Sounded like nice deal. Not! Turns out had to redeem for 2 $25 vouchers that could only be used one per month and after reading all fine print turned out you had to spend $50 to use one voucher. Restaurant was ok, but not somewhere we have been in the 25 years we have lived here and we won't go back due to the stupid voucher!