During Restaurant Week, get Amex Credit for Dining Out in New York

Next Monday, January 16, New York is kicking-off its 4-week-long Restaurant Week. As mentioned in my previous post, from Monday through Friday, January 16 to February 10, several restaurants in the city will be offering 3-course fixed-price meals for $24.07 during lunchtime and $35 during dinner. Just like last year, American Express will be one [...]

January Restaurant Weeks: Eat Well and Save Money

As your stomach recovers from holiday overstuffing, you might not be too inclined to eat out. But restaurant associations in several major cities are doing their best to change your mind this January with a Restaurant Week. These “weeks,” which nowadays tend to last much longer (see New York’s eight-week “restaurant week” last summer), may [...]

New York + Restaurant Week + AMEX + foursquare = $5 off

If you’re in New York this summer, make sure to check out its Restaurant Week event. What originally started as a week in which higher-end restaurants offer affordable fixed-price deals has been extended in several cities, such as Boston and Philly, into two-week events. But New York has taken it to a new extreme – [...]

Take-Out May Help You Save Money

“Take-out or eat in?” “Sliced or not?” At a café, we usually answer these questions with an eye to convenience: Do I want to go home and eat on my couch in front of my TV or should I just eat here since I’m already here anyway? And should I have them slice the bagel [...]

Discover More and Chase Freedom: 5% cash back is great and two ways to get it is even better

I am a huge fan of Discover’s credit card, and I am certainly not alone. Discover has ranked very well in several customer satisfaction surveys in recent years, receiving an award for best call center in the Credit Card Industry in 2010, and coming out on top in various areas directly related to consumers, including [...]

Protect Your Money by Checking Your Statements, my experience

To follow up on yesterday’s post, I thought I would add two recent experiences I had that confirm the importance of checking your credit card statements: Restaurant Bills:  There is a restaurant I’ve been to twice – the latest one quite recently – and that after both times I went, I noticed that my credit [...]

Tip of the Week: Do You Check Your Statements?

How often should you check your bank, credit card, and other account statements?  The answer is ‘at least once a month, before you pay the balance.’  It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while a charge might appear for a product or service that you never authorized.  Here are a few common errors: Bank [...]

Start Lining Up Your Date Nights

For the last quarter of the year (October 1 to December 31, 2009), Discover is offering a 5% cashback bonus on up to $400 in purchases made at grocery stores, restaurants, movie theatres and video rental services.  If you make the maximum amount of $400 in eligibile purchases, you will get $20 in cashback, which [...]

August Is Restaurant Month

I hope you have worked up an appetite this summer, because Restaurant Week has finally arrived this summer.  This semi-annual affair first started in the 1980s and has hence become one of the most highly-anticipated events of the season.  Prices this year (depending on the city) are set at $20.09-24.07 for the prix-fixe lunch and [...]

A Note of Encouragement

I am a firm believer in loyalty programs, but I know that with some of them it almost feels pointless to give your number/card since it looks like it could take years to reach a reward level.  But these past two weeks were great for me on that front, and I want to offer you [...]