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Monday, April 13, 2009

Restaurant chains to offer ‘tax day’ deals

By Mark Fisher | Monday, April 13, 2009, 11:11 AM

A handful of national chain restaurants, including P.F. Chang’s and TGI Friday’s and McCormick & Schmick’s, are offering special tax-day specials on Wednesday, April 15, according to this story from Nation’s Restaurant News.

P.F. Chang’s offer promises a 15 percent discount, and according to an email from the company’s marketing folks, there doesn’t appear to be any hidden caveats: “The Tax Relief promotion includes all guests of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro and applies to every order. On April 15 only, the entire bill will be discounted 15 percent,” the email stated.

The TGI Friday’s offer involves its “Bonus Bites” cards, and McCormick & Schmick’s promotion touts $10.40 entrees and coupons for $10.40 for future purchases, according to the NRN story.

As always, these promotions are occurring at “participating restaurants only,” so it’s always a good idea to call ahead to avoid any nasty surprises.

If you know of any other tax-day specials, please post a comment and let us know about them.

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Diners gone wild: Sex in the bathroom, pole dancing in the dining room

By Mark Fisher | Monday, April 13, 2009, 08:05 AM

Um, okay, check out San Francisco Chronicle story headlined “Bay Area Diners’ behavior grabs attention” and see whether it grabs your attention, too.

Pole dancing “in the middle of the dining room?” The poor restaurant owner whose “bathroom sink gets ripped out of the wall by folks who couldn’t make it home or to a hotel?”

Are these kinds of restaurant activities unique to the San Francisco Bay area, or do restaurant owners here in the Heartland of America have to put up with similar shenanigans from Diners Gone Wild?

And an even more important question: Can I continue to consider myself a passionate person even if I’ve never broken a bathroom sink?

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