I love this time of year– many restaurants offer FREE gift cards when you buy gift cards for friends and family! It’s like buying yourself a gift too.  Benihana still has their special FREE birthday dinner (go to their website and sign up for that one if you haven’t yet) but they now are offering [...]

If you haven’t tried one of Steak ‘n Shake’s awesome specialty milkshakes yet, you definitely should take advantage of this offer and get over there, pick up one of their peppermint chocolate chip shakes and some gift cards for those on your holiday list. Signs up in the store for the Holiday Gift Card promo [...]

This new book, 27 Secret Restaurant Copycat Recipes, gives you great recipes for lots of your favorite meals from the most popular restaurants.  There are recipes to imitate your favorites from Cracker Barrel, McDonald’s, TGI Fridays, Applebee’s and the Cheesecake Factory, among others.  Whip up one of these dishes, stay home and crack open a [...]

Buca di Beppo has awesome Calamari, great wines, baseball-sized meatballs, and is an all-around fun place to eat with a group of any size. Meals are served family-style, which means the serving sizes are big and meant to be shared with everyone at your table.  Also buy gift cards for everyone on your Christmas list [...]

Papa John’s is giving away FREE pizzas as part of its new Facebook promotion.  The coupon they’ll send you is for a FREE medium cheese pizza with a $10 online purchase.  You can simply go to the Papa John’s Facebook page and become a fan to get your FREE promo code, or click the link [...]

The Outback Steakhouse is currently running a really good Facebook promotion.  Become a fan of Outback on their Facebook page and if you are one of the first 500,000 people who signs up, you will receive a coupon for a FREE Bloomin’ Onion.  Outback has a new, more economical menu with 15 meals under $15, [...]

Chipotle is having FREE Boorito Day tomorrow, Halloween, October 31st.  If you stop in to Chipotle’s dressed as your favorite burrito, bowl, salad, or tacos, you will get a Chipotle Burrito absolutely FREE! The offer is good from 6 pm to closing at all Chipotle locations.  Participants from last year say that it was fun, [...]

Denny’s is running a ‘Better Burger’ campaign.  In order to promote their new, better burgers, they are offering a FREE burger and fries with the purchase of a burger and fries and two drinks. They say that their chefs researched their way through all the best burger joints to find out exactly how to make [...]

Country Kitchen has locations in 25 states and Canada, selling hearty food that is like Mom would make if she only had time.  They currently have several good promotions running.  One of them is for a FREE Birthday Dinner- no coupon or membership card required, just show them your ID and your meal is completely [...]

For those of you who witnessed the fiasco that was KFC’s last attempt at giving everyone a FREE piece of their new grilled chicken, this time should be different.  They are not requiring any coupons- just show up and get your FREE chicken.  Freehound has had the new grilled KFC, and it is delicious, not [...]