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Chili's is having a Cyber Monday deal, 2 X $10 bonus cards with $50 gift card purchase. Any other deals on chain restaurants?

rickandcindy23

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Thanks for posting this. We get carryout from Chili's now and then. We may take advantage of this. Most of the chains offer something like $5 when you buy $25 or $10 when you buy $50. The best we have found was buy $20 and get an extra $10 at Ginther's Swirls ice cream on International Drive in Orlando. We bought $200 and got $100 free. They were very pleased and the owner came out to thank us.
 
Outback has the same deal. We eat there once in a while. The $10 X 2 helps!
 
dioxide45 said:
Thanks for posting this. We get carryout from Chili's now and then. We may take advantage of this. Most of the chains offer something like $5 when you buy $25 or $10 when you buy $50. The best we have found was buy $20 and get an extra $10 at Ginther's Swirls ice cream on International Drive in Orlando. We bought $200 and got $100 free. They were very pleased and the owner came out to thank us.
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Wow, this is a great deal. We love Twistee Treat, and it's the same company. I wonder if they are doing that via email. We go again in January, and the kids all love it.
 
rickandcindy23 said:
Wow, this is a great deal. We love Twistee Treat, and it's the same company. I wonder if they are doing that via email. We go again in January, and the kids all love it.
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Their special was on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the Friday after. I have never tried using the gift cards we buy at Ginterhs at the Twistee Treat in Lake Buena Vista or Ocoee. I need to ask them about that when we are back in Orlando next week. We only tried going to their Lake Buena Vista location once but it doesn't seem to carry many of the products like other Twistee Treat franchises do. It seems to be the same menu as Ginther's on I-Drive and since we are over that way more, we go to the one on I-Drive.
 
Boston Market is doing a $50 gift card for $39.99. I got an email about it--I don't see it on the website.
 
Red Lobster is giving 10 percent off on a $100 card plus a $10 bonus card to be used in January-February.
 
wackymother said:
Red Lobster is giving 10 percent off on a $100 card plus a $10 bonus card to be used in January-February.
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I love Red Lobster's Monday endless shrimp deal. I need to get one of those gift cards!
 
wackymother said:
Red Lobster is giving 10 percent off on a $100 card plus a $10 bonus card to be used in January-February.
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Just saw this one come through. We used to go to Red Lobster every once and a while for the Monday Endless shrimp (before that it was for their annual Endless Shrimp deal). Once they got rid of the coconut popcorn shrimp (never usually officially on the menu) we don't go as often. DW also got tired of the shrim as it made her sick one time.
 
I think that Firebirds has a buy $100 and get a $20 giftcard promotion. Their food is quite good and decent quality. Their BLT salad is fantastic. Reminds me of a poor man's Houstons.

While I do very occasionally eat at Chili's (maybe once every two years) - their food is pretty poor quality. I will never forget when we ordered pretzels as an app and they came out greasy. When I questioned it, they said they fry the pretzels. The whole idea of a pretzel is that is baked vs fried.
 
Pub 99 has buy $25, get two $5 bonus cards.
 
joestein said:
I think that Firebirds has a buy $100 and get a $20 giftcard promotion. Their food is quite good and decent quality. Their BLT salad is fantastic. Reminds me of a poor man's Houstons.

While I do very occasionally eat at Chili's (maybe once every two years) - their food is pretty poor quality. I will never forget when we ordered pretzels as an app and they came out greasy. When I questioned it, they said they fry the pretzels. The whole idea of a pretzel is that is baked vs fried.
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Our local Chili's is really good. We like the burgers, I eat it without the bun, and it's tasty. We also like the chips and queso, but I have to limit that for me. I can overeat chips pretty quickly.

This restaurant is begging for employees. I have never seen anything like it. Every restaurant is hiring near us, and so are stores.

I just checked and no Firebirds near us, but I am going to be checking for that while on vacations. We go to Orlando in January.
 
rickandcindy23 said:
Our local Chili's is really good. We like the burgers, I eat it without the bun, and it's tasty. We also like the chips and queso, but I have to limit that for me. I can overeat chips pretty quickly.

This restaurant is begging for employees. I have never seen anything like it. Every restaurant is hiring near us, and so are stores.

I just checked and no Firebirds near us, but I am going to be checking for that while on vacations. We go to Orlando in January.
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I guess each location can be different. The one by use has no shortgage of customers - mostly young families or groups of teens/college students. I am a cheapo at heart, so I think I went when they had a 2 eat for $20/promo or something a couple of years back. However, we don't eat out often, so I generally am more interested in good quality food vs saving some money.
 
When we order out or dine in at Chili's we often get their 3 for $10 (now $10.99 in many places) promo. We are also part of their club and if you order at least one entree (not valid with their 3 for $10), you get chips and salsa as an app. We often have free app offers in our account. Most cases, it is enough food that we have leftovers for another meal later.
 
Sam's Club usually has one or more restaurants at 25% off. In ours currently it's O'Charleys, $37.50 for $50 in cards. If you go on Free Pie Wednesday it seems incredibly cheap.

Red Lobster has $100 worth of gift cards for 10% off plus 10% bonus. The bonus coupon has restrictions and is good in January and February only.

In my view, the best perpetual deal is to buy ANYTHING at Hardees/Carl's Jr and do the survey on the receipt. This gets you a code for buy-one-get-one-free on any sandwich in the next THREE WEEKS! DW and I get two double Western Bacon Cheeseburgers for about $6 and get two meals each out of them. Rinse and repeat!
 
wackymother said:
Boston Market is doing a $50 gift card for $39.99. I got an email about it--I don't see it on the website.
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Boston Market has a Cyber Monday promotion buy a $50 Gift Card for $39.99. Purchase online or via their App.

Richard
 
am1 said:
I am surprised people still go to Red Lobster. Must be for those living far from the coasts.
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It is about 1,000 miles from land-locked Colorado to the nearest ocean. I eat fresh seafood like a whale when I vacation on the Oregon coast. In the meantime, the $39.95 live lobster dinner at Red Lobster is a decent deal.
 
Looks like some great deals. Read the fine print on those bonus cards. Some have very short expirations.
 
CO skier said:
The offer must have been too popular. I bought a $100 RL gift card for $90, yesterday, and received two bonus $10 gift cards.
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I got two $10 bonus cards too! Better than the offer said.
 
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