How it works

A daily scrape. Most of the board arrives this way — offers published by restaurants and by platforms like Groupon, read once a day. Each one is matched against our restaurant registry so the deal can be attributed to a real place.

People telling us. Anyone can submit a deal — a restaurant owner or a regular who saw a sign in a window. No account needed. Scraping misses the offers that were never put online, which is most of the good ones.

A submitted deal is read by a person before it appears. Some checks run automatically first — whether the restaurant is in our registry, whether the contact email’s domain matches the restaurant’s own website, whether the phone number matches, whether the link points where it claims. Those decide most cases in seconds; the rest get a phone call.

We publish nothing we cannot attribute to a real restaurant — with one visible exception, below.

Some deals are plainly real offers at South Asian restaurants that we cannot match to any restaurant in our registry — the name on the offer matches nothing we hold. Those are labelled unverified on the card and shown anyway.

They are not checked more lightly. The label means something narrower and more useful: we cannot tell you whose restaurant this is. Loosening the matching to make them go away was tried and measured — every extra match it produced was wrong, attaching one restaurant’s name to another’s deal. A label is better than a guess.

Every deal links out to whoever is offering it. Some go to Groupon, and those may earn us a referral fee; most go to the restaurant’s own site and earn us nothing. Each card says which with a small mark, and Terms explains it.

A referral has never decided what we list or how we order it.

That a deal is still running. Restaurants change offers without telling anyone. Check with the restaurant before you travel for one.

If you find one that is wrong or gone, tell us — that is the single most useful thing anyone does for this site.