Step right up for your cheap eats! Restaurant.com is offering 80 percent off restaurant gift certificates. Through April 30, the site is selling $25 gift certificates for $2 and $10 gift certficates for .80 cents. Normally $25 and $10 certificates are $10 and $2 respectively.
To get the deal, go to Restaurant.com and type coupon code MEAL at check out. But hurry, the offer expires on April 30.
Some of the restaurants participating in Fort Lauderdale are Bistro17, 3030 Ocean, America's Backyard and Trina; in Palm Beach there's Jake's Stonecrab and Tempted Thai and Sushi in Boca Raton and Quaterdeck in Boynton Beach. In all, the site has 15,000 participating restaurants.
(To see how a restaurant rates, click here for the Sun Sentinel's gallery of restaurant reviews.)
At Restaurant.com, if there are restrictions they are clearly listed. Most require that 18 percent be added to the check for tipping and that is applied to the total bill before the gift certificate is applied. Some also require a minimum purchase.
-- Doreen Christensen