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inKind has for Select Accounts via the inKind App (Android or iOS): Various Mystery Offers including a possible $50 Off $100 when you follow the steps below.
Thanks to Community Member wileysmiley for sharing this deal.
Note: Offer may vary by account. Based on member comments, other possibilities include but are not limited to $30 off $60, $20 off $60, and $30 off $100.
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Thanks to Community Member wileysmiley for sharing this deal.
Note: Offer may vary by account. Based on member comments, other possibilities include but are not limited to $30 off $60, $20 off $60, and $30 off $100.
Deal Instructions:
Editor's Notes
Written by Nate650 | Staff- The reward will be available during checkout when paying your bill, provided your total meets the requirement for eligible restaurants.
- Offers may not be combined with any other offer.
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the wiki and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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inKind has for Select Accounts via the inKind App (Android or iOS): Various Mystery Offers including a possible $50 Off $100 when you follow the steps below.
Thanks to Community Member wileysmiley for sharing this deal.
Note: Offer may vary by account. Based on member comments, other possibilities include but are not limited to $30 off $60, $20 off $60, and $30 off $100.
Deal Instructions:
Thanks to Community Member wileysmiley for sharing this deal.
Note: Offer may vary by account. Based on member comments, other possibilities include but are not limited to $30 off $60, $20 off $60, and $30 off $100.
Deal Instructions:
Editor's Notes
Written by Nate650 | Staff- The reward will be available during checkout when paying your bill, provided your total meets the requirement for eligible restaurants.
- Offers may not be combined with any other offer.
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the wiki and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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If you're a restauranteur, and you want to expand, or open a new location, you can finance it via a line of credit or loan from a bank at current high interest rates, or from private investors looking for an ownership stake, or now you can turn to InKind.
How it works:
You own a restaurant and need $200K in financing. InKind gives you $200K cash in exchange for $400K in dining credits. InKind then "sells" those food credits to it's app users. If somebody spends $100 worth of InKind dollars at a restaurant, InKind draws down $100 worth of food credits from that restaurant, and gives the user back 20% of what they spent, or an occasional coupon or gift card discount.
This works InKind because they spent only $50 on the food. They give back 20% in InKind dollars that expire, so after breakage maybe that's $15. That still leaves another $35 of margin for others discounts and promotions.
For the restaurant, it's a no-brainer. Food cost is typically 20-25%, so if they sell food in advance for 50% off, they get the cash flow and have still more than covered that cost. I'm also guessing that InKind-paid tabs run higher than average, so maybe they sell more high-margin alchohol and deserts.
This is why you can't use InKind dollars on tips. There is no margin on tips.
This is also why restaurants come and go from InKind. It's not that InKind is failing. It's that it's working, and their users are spending all the credits. The restaurant won't reappear until they need to expand again.
Community Reviews
InKind's mystery offer is a dining credit promo that can be especially strong when the account gets $50 off $100, with some accounts also seeing $75 off $225 or smaller tiers like $30 off $100. The app can be finicky, but the reward often appears under the Rewards tab after refreshing or reopening, and it can work for carryout in some cases. The main limits are that offers and gift card balances no longer stack, tips still need separate payment, and hitting the minimum spend can be awkward for a single meal. It is a useful way to trim a restaurant tab if the right restaurant and offer line up.
The offer can appear in the app under the Rewards tab even when the email link has issues.
The $50 off $100 offer can reduce a meal to about $70 after a 20% tip when spending near $100.
Cash back tracking can be straightforward because a $50 off $100 offer implies 20% cash back on the remaining spend.
Using InKind to pay can help avoid a restaurant's 3% credit card fee.
The $50 off $100 threshold can be hard to hit for a single meal without adding an extra entree or to-go item.
The email link may show as already used even when the offer was just sent.
InKind rewards and coupons cannot be stacked, which can make it harder to maximize savings across multiple balances.
Gift card balance cannot be combined with these offers, which can reduce the effective discount versus earlier periods.
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If you're a restauranteur, and you want to expand, or open a new location, you can finance it via a line of credit or loan from a bank at current high interest rates, or from private investors looking for an ownership stake, or now you can turn to InKind.
How it works:
You own a restaurant and need $200K in financing. InKind gives you $200K cash in exchange for $400K in dining credits. InKind then "sells" those food credits to it's app users. If somebody spends $100 worth of InKind dollars at a restaurant, InKind draws down $100 worth of food credits from that restaurant, and gives the user back 20% of what they spent, or an occasional coupon or gift card discount.
This works InKind because they spent only $50 on the food. They give back 20% in InKind dollars that expire, so after breakage maybe that's $15. That still leaves another $35 of margin for others discounts and promotions.
For the restaurant, it's a no-brainer. Food cost is typically 20-25%, so if they sell food in advance for 50% off, they get the cash flow and have still more than covered that cost. I'm also guessing that InKind-paid tabs run higher than average, so maybe they sell more high-margin alchohol and deserts.
This is why you can't use InKind dollars on tips. There is no margin on tips.
This is also why restaurants come and go from InKind. It's not that InKind is failing. It's that it's working, and their users are spending all the credits. The restaurant won't reappear until they need to expand again.
Also you can get a $100 InKind gift card for only $64.99 on the Costco website right now.
If you're a restauranteur, and you want to expand, or open a new location, you can finance it via a line of credit or loan from a bank at current high interest rates, or from private investors looking for an ownership stake, or now you can turn to InKind.
How it works:
You own a restaurant and need $200K in financing. InKind gives you $200K cash in exchange for $400K in dining credits. InKind then "sells" those food credits to it's app users. If somebody spends $100 worth of InKind dollars at a restaurant, InKind draws down $100 worth of food credits from that restaurant, and gives the user back 20% of what they spent, or an occasional coupon or gift card discount.
This works InKind because they spent only $50 on the food. They give back 20% in InKind dollars that expire, so after breakage maybe that's $15. That still leaves another $35 of margin for others discounts and promotions.
For the restaurant, it's a no-brainer. Food cost is typically 20-25%, so if they sell food in advance for 50% off, they get the cash flow and have still more than covered that cost. I'm also guessing that InKind-paid tabs run higher than average, so maybe they sell more high-margin alchohol and deserts.
This is why you can't use InKind dollars on tips. There is no margin on tips.
This is also why restaurants come and go from InKind. It's not that InKind is failing. It's that it's working, and their users are spending all the credits. The restaurant won't reappear until they need to expand again.
What do restaurants think if you use inkind to order takeout at the front counter?
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I have a 50 off $100 Inkind coupon. Instead of buying $100 of food and applying the $50 coupon, I was gonna buy a $100 gift card for a specific restaurant instead.
Has anyone tried?
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