Restaurant.com Promotion Code for 70% Off! ($25 dining certificate for $3) - Use Ebates for Extra 15% Savings

Restaurant.com has their latest promo code going, this time for a whopping 70% off the price of a certificate. From my time of following these, 70% is the highest discount they offer and this happens once or twice a year at best. So you may want to take advantage of it when you can.

The code is valid if you buy certificates for restaurants individually or also if you buy their dinner-of-the-month club where you get a number of certificates and they add in a bonus certificate so you get an even better deal in the end.

If you use Ebates to get to the site, there's also 15% extra cash back.

The promo code is at the end of this post, but here's an explanation of restaurant.com for those of you who haven't tried it.

You purchase certificates which entitle you to $25 off your dining check at a participating restaurant. The regular price for these certificates is $10, but now would drop to $3 with the promo code. The caveat is that the certificates generally have some restriction as to the minimum purchase (often you have to have a bill of $35 before you can apply a certificate), number of entrees etc.

Still, if you do the math, if you have a bill of $35 and use the certificate of $25, you pay just $10 at the restaurant. Add in the $3 cost of the certificate, and your $35 meal cost you $13. Tipping would be about $7 (you should tip on the pre-certificate price of the bill) and there may be taxes, but in the end, you are getting a nice dinner for less than half price.

The certificates are typically good for a year, and you are restricted to using no more than one at the same restaurant per month. (You can use several certificates a month at different restaurants but can't come back to the same place with a certificate till a month later). So if you spot a favorite restaurant on the list, you can use an opportunity like this to buy a few certificates.

It's a great way to try a new restaurant or go back to a favorite that you haven't visited as often.

They also have $10 value certificates at some restaurants, which are usually valid at lunch time. These usually go for $3.00 so right now they are just 90 cents. These typically have minimum purchase requirements of $15 or $20.

Restaurant.com also has some dining clubs where you get certificates you can redeem once a month at your choice of participating restaurants, and sometimes they throw in a bonus certificate for signing up. If you want to apply this promo code to one of those memberships and get an even better savings (because of the bonus certificate), the promo code is valid on those as well.

And finally, there's even one MORE way to save on these. If you use Ebates to link into restaurant.com and order, you get back 15% for your restaurant.com order! That means if you order 6 $25 certificates and use the promo code, you'd be charged just $18 total and then get $2.70 of that back into your Ebates account. For those of you who haven't signed up at Ebates, I have a link in the left column (and just signing up gets them to put $5 into your account).

The promo code this time is GOURMET and it's valid for certificates bought until April 30th.

Check out their list of restaurants and take advantage of the savings! Click here.