Monday, 14 January 2013

Dining Out At Economical Prices

Cooking at home is not always a pleasure; mom is not always ready to prepare the three times meal: breakfast, lunch and dinner and supper of course. Restaurants are the best options to go when mom is not cooking at home. Outing and eating is always fun for individuals, friends and families.

While eating out is fun and enjoyment but the expenses that rise are sometimes out of pocket. Restaurant coupons are one way out to solve this cost problem. These coupons are just like gift vouchers that give discount to the holder. All small and big restaurants of the city offer their restaurant coupons to their customers in order to boast up their sales.

In today’s difficult times, dining out is not economical for average families. With the increased use of restaurant coupons, even average families can now enjoy their special days by dining out. Coupons are the discount offers and provide cost savings on total bill made. There can be different discount limits on different coupons. Some can even offer up to 75%, 50% discounts and smaller ones offering 10 to 15% discounts. If you act wisely and use these discount offers you can enjoy eating at your favourite restaurant with friends or family.

In simple words the discount coupons allow the holder to save a specific amount of money, or gain a percentage off on their final bill prepared. This of course is a great significance. So now whenever you have some special event approaching such as birthday party, Christmas, wedding anniversary or something else; go to the internet and get yourself a restaurant coupon before time.  There are many different types of coupons available on the specific websites. Some would allow the diner to enjoy any free appetizer or a favourite dessert after normal meal. Other coupons would allow a single guest to claim full, 50% or 25% discount (dependent upon the limit of the coupon) on the total bill by showing the hardcopy of the restaurant coupon. Some restaurant coupons also act as gift vouchers.
 
Restaurants that give out their discount cards or discount coupons aim to boost up their sales by lowering their prices. These coupons are also very good toll of marketing that ultimately result in increased sales and popularity of the restaurant. One can get these discount cards from a verity of different places. The most common way of searching for the restaurant coupons is internet. There are specific websites on the internet that deal only in restaurant coupons, gift vouchers, discount certificates etc.

some auction websites like ebay.com also offer restaurant coupons o other certificates for sale by the members of the website. If you have some coupon you do not want to use you can get it for free and then sale out at some auction site.  The official website of the restaurants can also offer their discount certificates to their registered members. Subscribe to your favourite eating place and they will keep you updated with any upcoming discount offers or fresh coupons. The Facebook pages, twitter following etc of the restaurant would also help.

Monday, 7 January 2013

How To Avail Discount Deals

Discount deals in face of restaurant coupons and voucher gift certificate are the mere marketing tools used by the restaurants, brands and stores to attract more and more visitors and boost up sales by giving up a percentage of their revenue. These tools provide more than just a satisfaction to their regular customers and also help attract new customers. Most of the restaurant or brands that are new in some area issue their coupons.

Specific websites on the internet offer restaurant coupons and voucher gift certificate for popular or less known restaurants and stores respectively. Most of these coupons are sold out at discount meaning at a less amount than their face value. After purchasing the printed copy of these coupons and certificates can be used at the respective place at their full face value.

Different coupons can be of different prizes. For instance a standard rate of a restaurant coupon with face value 25 dollars can be bought at 10 dollars, thus a discount of 15 dollars would be acquired. This is not always the case, if you are lucky to log on at the right time you can find a 25 dollars coupon for as less as 2 dollars.

The amount you pay to buy a restaurant coupon or voucher gift certificate does not go to the parent company, these amounts are basically the profits of the seller or the intermediary who is distributing these coupons to different consumers. The face value of the coupon is the fee paid by the company for the marketing purposes. These are the tools that drag traffic to the new, lesser known or even popular places.

Most of the voucher gift certificates or restaurant coupons have restrictions such as a need to shop for set amount of dollar in order to redeem the certificate. Some restaurants would ask you to order a meal of at least 30 dollars or so to get discount from the restaurant coupon. Thus using a coupon may not provide you absolutely free dining out or shopping. 

Apart from these requirements, there may also be other limitations on the coupons. An expiration date is the first limitation; it means that the holder can avail the discount deals within a limited time that may be a day or so. Usage time may also be restricted by the issuer like specific hours in a day when the discount deals are acceptable or limited days in a week. most of the restaurant coupons cannot be used in the weekends or weekends’ nights.

No matter what restrictions are applicable on these vouchers, availing discount deals is always fun. Searching of these vouchers is also very easy. Use internet to surf for a specific restaurants or stores’ discount coupons and voucher gift certificates. There are numerous websites that offer these coupons for free or for few dollars. The official websites also do offer the discount certificates for their companies. So stay in touch to avail the next discount deal!