Seeing as that you’ve lost 60% of your retirement fund in the last two weeks, you’re probably looking to save a few bucks.  When times get tough we all like to do the things that make us feel comfortable and for a lot of people it’s enjoyable to go out to eat with the family.  Wouldn’t you like to be able to take your family out for dinner and pay a little less for it? 

Here are 5 great places to find restaurant coupons:

1. The restaurant’s website – Almost every restaurant has a website and that is the first place to go to find restaurant coupons.  The chain restaurants like Red Lobster, Mongolian Barbecue and Qdoba all have online “clubs” that you can join where you will receive coupons via email.

2. Online Deal Forums – A quick search of online deal forums is an excellent place to find virtually any type of restaurant coupon.  Two of the better ones are Slickdeals and Fat Wallet.

3. Wow Coupons – Always a great list of current restaurant coupons for the savy diner.

4. Valpak – Although I think that their weekly mailings tend to be a bit annoying, there can be some good deals on restaurants on Valpak’s website.

5. A Simple Online Search – There is this great website out there, its called Google. And you can search for whatever you’re looking for by just typing it into the search area.  As an example, you could type “subway restaurant coupons” or “local restaurant coupons” in the search area and you would get results asking for what you’ve put in.  Pretty sweet.

One place that a lot of people will tell you to go for restaurant coupons is restaurant.com, but I honestly think the place is a scam.  I’ve looked on there a number of times over the years and I’ve never found anything of value.  It’s all setup so the customer loses and to me that is just not right.

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