Van and I used our first gift certificate on Friday. Some things to be aware of.
1) Check the fine print. Some restaurants will require you to spend a certain amount in order to USE your gift certificate. The steakhouse we went to required us to order $35 worth of food in order to use our $25 gc. That was fine. We calculated it and kept the order straight to $35 so our dinner was $10 plus tip. $10 is MUCH cheaper than it would have cost us! (I guess $12, technically, if you're counting what we paid for the gc)
2) Gratuity. Some restaurants will charge you a "service charge" on your coupon. THIS is gratuity. We got our bill and it was $7 more than we planned (so $17, not $10) Van looked at it and there was a service charge. When we asked the server she hemmed and hawwed and finally said that yes, that was gratutity. More than 20%! We didn't pay any more on our "tip" line and left as is.
Other than those two things you should be good to go. We're really excited to try out different restaurants in Atlanta. Let me know how your experience goes with your coupons!
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