Using restaurant.com coupons with friends? (wife, person, couples)
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My wife and I were asked to go out to dinner with friends. We said we didn't care where we went. Our friends requested we go to a certain restaurant because they had a $50 off $100 coupon from Restaurant.com. They said we would make sure the bill is $100, and they would give us the coupon and $10 towards tip.
Am I wrong in feeling this is a little tacky? They arguably "need" us to get the bill to $100 since the restaurant is not that expensive, and although we would have spent $50 for my wife's dinner and my dinner, it feels funny to me to then pay our bill in cash while they use a voucher on which we helped them meet the minimum.
Curious to know your thoughts- maybe I'm just being grumpy today
My wife and I were asked to go out to dinner with friends. We said we didn't care where we went. Our friends requested we go to a certain restaurant because they had a $50 off $100 coupon from Restaurant.com. They said we would make sure the bill is $100, and they would give us the coupon and $10 towards tip.
Am I wrong in feeling this is a little tacky? They arguably "need" us to get the bill to $100 since the restaurant is not that expensive, and although we would have spent $50 for my wife's dinner and my dinner, it feels funny to me to then pay our bill in cash while they use a voucher on which we helped them meet the minimum.
Curious to know your thoughts- maybe I'm just being grumpy today
it does sound tacky and super cheap, i think i would decline the offer.
As long as I would eat there anyway I'd be fine with it.
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Do I understand? They want you to spend $50 on dinner so they can get their own $50 dinner for free?
If you wouldn't normally spend $50 at that rstaurant, I would tell the friend that I couldn't do an order that big and to suggest that they look to see if they can find a different coupon to use.
I don't have any problem with using restaurant coupons, but not to buy what I can't use and especially not so someone else gets the savings.
If a friend said they had a coupon that was 10% off of the whole bill if 4 meals were ordered, that would be good, as far as I am concerned. Or $5 off a large pizza we would all share.
I totally agree with Oregonwoodsmoke. What your friends did was tacky. No problem using the coupon, but the savings should have been split between both couples. One couple paying full price while the other gets a free meal is just cheap.
My understanding was the friend was suggesting they split the coupon, so that they both benefit from it. I'm not sure why everyone assumed the opposite. I could be mistaken, though.
If I do have it correctly, I don't think it's tacky at all! Maybe if it was a first date or something, ok, pretty tacky. Also, even if you weren't going to eat $100 worth of food right then and there, you could certainly pack it up and have lunch for work tomorrow. $25 per person (4 people, right?) is fine and not extreme at all, even at, say a diner or an Applebee's type of place.
My understanding was the friend was suggesting they split the coupon, so that they both benefit from it. I'm not sure why everyone assumed the opposite. I could be mistaken, though.
If I do have it correctly, I don't think it's tacky at all! Maybe if it was a first date or something, ok, pretty tacky. Also, even if you weren't going to eat $100 worth of food right then and there, you could certainly pack it up and have lunch for work tomorrow. $25 per person (4 people, right?) is fine and not extreme at all, even at, say a diner or an Applebee's type of place.
Because the OP said the friends would give them the coupon plus $10.00 towards the tip. No mention was made of sharing the coupon.
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