ExpatOilWorker Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 What are your experience and lessons learned from using the restaurant discount app Eatigo? Any specific restaurants with good deals? A lot of restaurants are just offering 10-20% discount, which although still nice, is just the same discounts most Thais get through different credit card promotions. Some restaurants offer 50% discounts from 2-3 pm, but even that can be hit and miss as some restaurants appear to be on their last leg and just want customers at any price. Still, if late lunch is your thing, you can get a good size steak at half price at both Mejico and Tales of Gold Mine at Central World. The large numbers of hotels offering their buffet at 50% after 9 pm are basically just asking you to go through the leftovers and close to an insult to any food lover. Some restaurants calculate the discounts from the net food price but still add the full pre-discount service charge. Other restaurants are more fair and add the 10% service charge after the discount, but oddly some even calculate the discount with VAT included. The app is still in in its infancy and in theory as more and more restaurants sign up, it will be like Agoda for restaurants, where walk-in customers are paying an inflated overprice and everybody else rely on online discounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 My most amazing experience with Eatigo was here: http://eatigo.com/home/th/en/restaurant/name/rasa-khas/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkpanther99 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 My only tip is to make sure you use Eatigo - I wouldn't be without it. I haven't paid full price for a meal in Bangkok in over a year and in that time I've eaten at some of the best restaurants. I use it every time I go to Bangkok now. I just pick a restaurant off the list just to give it a try. I've tried all the buffets, most of which at 50% discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 It's good but it would be too limiting to stick with only eatigo places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomm Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 I read about the app befoere I downloaded , that app collect too much information about the user. I don't like it and not going to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Your loss. Literally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExpatOilWorker Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) My only tip is to make sure you use Eatigo - I wouldn't be without it. I haven't paid full price for a meal in Bangkok in over a year and in that time I've eaten at some of the best restaurants. I use it every time I go to Bangkok now. I just pick a restaurant off the list just to give it a try. I've tried all the buffets, most of which at 50% discount. There are no free lunch in this world, not even at eatigo. The best and most popular restaurants in Bangkok are of course not on eatigo. The best eatigo deals I have found so far is the 50% 2 pm lunch offers and ordering a la carte. Foodpanda also regularly offer 50% discount and deliver right to your door. Edited December 7, 2015 by ExpatOilWorker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiWai Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 I read about the app befoere I downloaded , that app collect too much information about the user. I don't like it and not going to use it. In that case you may not want to use Google either or any smart phone of any kind or a smart TV or the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricklev Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 Many of the restaurant calculate both tax and service charge on the price before the discount. Charging tax on something they didn't sell tells me a lot about the management of those restaurants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomm Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 (edited) I read about the app befoere I downloaded , that app collect too much information about the user. I don't like it and not going to use it. In that case you may not want to use Google either or any smart phone of any kind or a smart TV or the internet. I know to manage well and I know for whom to give my details and which details. Edited December 7, 2015 by lomm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 https://duckduckgo.com/ is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 I did not know about these apps. Learn something every day, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Many of the best places are not on the app in Bangkok. We did get 30% off at Masala Art yesterday by arriving at 1130 for lunch. Had enough left over for breakfast today so a good deal at 950 Baht for two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenKong Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I use eatigo quite often, but only in Pattaya as I hardly ever leave town. It generally needs to be a 50% discount to get me to book as most of the places in eatigo are quite overpriced anyway, so 50% off just brings it down to something reasonable. There are a couple of exceptions for places that I would go to even at full price, like the Hilton. Eating at unpopular times like 11am or 3pm or 5pm makes no difference to me, but I would not go anywhere much after 8pm as it's just too late for me. If I went to Bangkok more than once in a blue moon I think I would have tried many places as some of the discounts are well worth having there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 (edited) Yeah, I wish more places were on eatigo in Pattaya. Some places don't offer the full 50 percent for any time slot. That's annoying! Edited December 10, 2015 by Jingthing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExpatOilWorker Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 I agree, pretty much only the 50% deals make most eatigo restaurants worth a visit, Below is my to-do list: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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