subject: Grab Special Offers At Discounted Rates [print this page] Stressed out after a days work, most people like to spend with friends and have good food and drinks to calm their mind after work .Restaurants are the usual locations for these. To their misery, having food from restaurants have become very expensive which are not affordable for most of the people. Happy hours when menu is available for at discounted rates are the only option for them .However finding out happy hours and special offers at restaurants is not an easy task. Let us have a look at some of the options for people looking out for these special offers.
Budget is the only factor restricting people to go to restaurants and chill out. The desire to hang out with friends and have good food & drinks has been always there among all age groups. This is the reason for the popularity of happy hours. As these offers are not usually advertised by the restaurants, it's difficult to find the restaurants providing these special offers. Looking online for these offers is one way to do it. But looking online for these offers and taking its print is frustrating and time consuming. Many of the restaurants do not spend money for advertisements in papers and hence these offers cannot be found out that way also. Membership programs are one of the best choices now as it gives an opportunity for the members to save money and find the offers online .The members can avail discounts and special offers on drinks and food through these membership cards. Usually these membership programs have a mobile phone application which makes it furthermore easy to find out the best offers. This is a very convenient and efficient method adopted by the restaurants and bars and is widely accepted. Restaurants and bars are innovating new ways to advertise their offers and attract guests. The most cost effective way used for this is social media. Social media being the hub of youngsters, it has a great potential to attract prospective customers. Circulating the offers in Facebook, orkut, Google plus and various other blogs increases the footfall in a bar or restaurant. This also makes it easy for the customers to find out the offers provided by various restaurants by going through their pages in the social media rather that wasting time online .Feedbacks generated through them can also help the restaurants to modify their offers. A positive feedback from a customer passed on to his friends also help in garnering popularity of the restaurant. Thus social media plays an important role in popularizing the restaurants.