4 Easy Ways to Save Money at Restaurants (And Not by Ordering Less!)

I am going to give you 4 ways to save tons of money at restaurants. I hope that you will do all 4 because honestly, I save so much money each way, that I can't imagine not doing it.

1. Restaurant.com Gift Certificates

At Restaurant.com you can buy discounted gift certificates to great restaurants. Once a month these go on sale for $1-$2 each, and that's where the real savings are! You can save more than 50% with these gift certificates and they are really easy to use.

2. Sign Up for Upromise.

Upromise is a program meant for saving money for college; it's run by Sallie Mae. So, it's a government sponsored program and perfectly legit. However, you don't have to save the money for college. You can simply sign up and they will send you a check when you request it. The Upromise program does not cost anything. Upromise has partnered with hundreds of companies, retailers, travel sites and local restaurants, so that you can earn basically a "rebate" of a percentage of each qualifying purchase you make. This "rebate" is deposited in your Upromise account. There are other ways to save money in your Upromise account; you can save e-coupons to your grocery or drugstore cards and then when you buy select items, the money will be deposited in your account. Also, you can use Upromise to save money when you online shop; you will find a massive list of online retailers who give you cash back. What a great way to save for college if you have kids, plan on having kids, or for something like an unexpected medical expense!

3. Sign up for Swagbucks.

Swagbucks is also a must do. Swagbucks is a search engine, like Google. When you use the Swagbucks homepage to search, or the Swagbucks toolbar you earn "bucks" for your searches. You can redeem these bucks for Amazon gift cards, Restaurant.com gift cards, iTunes gift cards, and so much more. The Amazon gift cards are 450 swagbucks and by using the toolbar you'll probably earn between 30 and 50 swagbucks a day. This means that by using Swagbucks for search, you will earn $5 to Amazon or a $25 gift certificate to Restaurant.com every 9 days! Why wouldn't you want to earn gift cards just for searching the web!

4. Group buying sites:

There are tons of them now but the main group buying sites are Groupon and Living Social. If you sign up to receive daily emails from these sites you will be notified when there is a restaurant deal. Most of the times these deals are for 50% or more off!

Head over to Save Money with Me for instructions on how to sign up for all these deals, to calculate how much you can save or check out Eat2WinRaleigh for more easy ways to save money at restaurants.

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