Foodie Network

Your own punch-card brings people back. The Foodie Network brings people in. Diners fill a passport page by visiting ten different restaurants in one category, and a full page earns them two rewards they can spend at any partner in that category. Filling it is literally a tour of places they have not tried — so every partner sends diners looking for their next stamp, and one of those doors is yours.

It is free to join, and there is no separate bill: you fund one perk, and nine other restaurants send people to you.

How it works

1. Join under Specials → Foodie Network. Only an owner or manager can do this — it commits the restaurant to honouring a perk.
2. Pick your category. One per restaurant: Coffee & Quick Bites, Casual Dining, Drinks & Nightlife, or Fine Dining & Premium.
3. Say what you will honour — a short perk in your own words, plus optional details for any conditions.
4. Diners earn a stamp when they visit, the same way they earn a punch: your staff check them in with their 4-digit code, or they tap your loyalty tag. Each restaurant counts once per page, so a regular fills one slot no matter how often they come.
5. A full page earns two rewards, live for 60 days, spendable one at a time at any partner in that category.

Choosing a perk

The perk is plain text and you edit it in place — no versions, no approval to change it. Write the conditions in your own words ("Any dessert from the menu, one per table"); there is no minimum-spend field.

Diners never see your perk before they arrive. The partner list shows them who is in the network, never what each place gives, so your offer stays something they discover at your door. That is also why you can change it whenever you like — nobody was shown an old promise.

Fine Dining & Premium

This one category is reviewed by hand. Until it is approved you are not in the network: no diner earns a stamp at your restaurant and no reward is honoured. If we cannot approve it, pick another category and you go live immediately.

The other three categories go live the moment you save.

Honouring a reward

The diner spends it themselves — there is nothing for staff to burn or redeem. They have to be checked in here (any check-in in the last 3 hours), and they tap Use this now on their own phone. It appears on your Dashboard as a banner naming the diner and the perk, then in the "Rewards used today" list. Any staff member can hand it over — honouring a reward does not need a manager.

Whatever you had written as your perk at that moment is recorded with it, so the record shows what was actually promised.

A diner can only spend one network reward per visit here, and you can Decline one if something is wrong — declining returns the reward to the diner rather than burning it. You have until the end of your restaurant's day (at least 3 hours) to do that.

Pausing

Pause hides you from the hunt: you earn no stamps and honour nothing while paused. Your category and any approval are kept, so Rejoin puts you straight back. Nothing is deleted, and stamps diners already collected at your restaurant stay on their pages.

Good to know

• Changing category is free. Stamps already collected stay on the old category's page; new visits count toward the new one.
• Rewards are category-locked. A Casual Dining reward is not valid at a Drinks & Nightlife partner.
• No money moves between restaurants. Each partner covers its own perk — there is no clearing, no invoice, and nothing passes through AskFoodie.
• This is separate from your own punch-card. A visit can fill a slot on a diner's passport and add a punch to your card. Running one does not require the other, and one check-in fires both.
• Diners see their side at /me/passport — the stamps, the partners left to find, and the rewards they've earned. See The Foodie passport.