Groupon/wafb eats/225eats/living social question

Typically places that can get $50 for a $50 meal don't have to offer it to you for $25.

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Some restaurants use that marketing idea to get people in the restaurant who normally wouldn't spend the money

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Katies has popped up a few times on Groupon. Mr. John's too.
Neither are about to go under.

It's expensive arse marketing, and that's the bottom line. A restaurant that offers half off will only actually see 55% of the $$$ collected, which is already HALF off.

$5.50 on a $20 food purchase ain't buyin the owner a new lexus. New, old, established, a lot of different restaurants do it. If a restaurant in financial trouble does this, it's either a hail mary or a nail in the coffin.