ENDS WEDNESDAY: Get an annual tastecard membership for £1 – usual price £79.99!

This article is sponsored by tastecard

If you are a NatWest customer you will probably have heard of tastecard, as it comes with some of their accounts. It’s not exactly a well kept secret that tastecard offer excellent deals on eating out and other ‘family entertainment’ (they have over 2 million customers in the UK).

It is not, however, the type of news that HfP would normally bring you. However, we know that our readers enjoy a good a deal and for two days only tastecard is offering an annual membership for just £1!

You can apply for your annual tastecard membership, for just £1, here.

This offer is only valid on 17th and 18th September 2024.

What is tastecard?

Tastecard was founded in 2006 by Matt Turner, still the CEO today, who wanted to find a way to fill his restaurant on quieter mid-week days.

Eighteen years later the company is going strong. From it’s beginnings as tastelondon, it is now an app based scheme covering the whole of the UK.

The premise is simple. Restaurants need to fill their tables and people want a deal. Tastecard offers the solution.

With a tastecard membership you get discounts at a wide selection of chain restaurants as well as some interesting smaller establishments. The discounts are either 25% off the total bill, 50% off food or 2-for-1 offers.

It has stuck to it’s roots of helping establishments fill their off-peak times. Not all offers are available all the time, but a surprising number are. The app is very clear on when you will be able to use the offer.

Which restaurants participate in tastecard?

Well, there are a lot. For a mid-week meal out with the family you will definitely find something here, and tastecard will more than take the edge off the cost.

Here are some of the restaurant chains participating in the scheme:

• Prezzo
• Zizzi
• ASK Italian
• Carluccio’s
• Bella Italia
• Café Rouge
• Pizza Hut Restaurants
• Revolution/Revolucion de Cuba
• Beefeater
• Brewers Fayre
• Frankie & Benny’s
• Table Table
• Bar & Block
• Marston’s Pubs (461 locations)
• Burger King (272 locations) 

In addition to the chains above, there are 2,500 independent eateries partnering with tastecard.

Coffee partners

As well as restaurant deals, tastecard have deals with three major coffee chains:

• Black Sheep Coffee (81 locations)
• Caffe Nero (680 locations) 
• Krispy Kreme (144 locations)

The offers here are mainly 25% off barista-made drinks, with Black Sheep and Krispy Kreme also including food. No-one would accuse you of having a coffee addiction if you had three Neros a week. Make that a flat white, for example, at £4.20 a go, and your 25% discount would amount to a very significant £163.80 saving for the year.

The final element of the food offering from tastecard is pizza delivery. There is an advertised 50% off with the companies below, subject to a minimum spend of £30.

• Dominos 
• Papa Johns 
• Pizza Hut Delivery

Look out for the small print on this one, as there are some exclusions.

Discounts on cinema visits and days out

Tastecard has partnered with some independent cinemas, plus the following cinema chains, to offer an average of 25% off tickets at over 350 cinemas nationwide:

• Cineworld
• Odeon
• Picturehouse
• Vue

To get your discount, you need to check out which deals are available near you on the tastecard app.

When you have found the one you want, purchase the relevant e-code through the tastecard app and then use this code when you buy your tickets online with the cinema or at the box office.

Discounts on Days Out

Tastecard has partnered with Merlin Entertainments (Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Sea Life, Cadbury World. Madame Tussauds, Warwick Castle to name a few) to offer discounts on some classic British days out.

Conclusion

For me this is a no-brainer. For £1 you have the opportunity to get discounted coffee for a year and get money off cinema visits and days out, not to mention up to 50% off eating out. Okay, so you might not use all these restaurants, but use just one and you have made a profit on this.

This £1 deal is a genuine deal – you never see the company discounting this much. You have a full year to enjoy the benefits before you need to decide whether to roll over your membership (£39.99 renewal for those joining with this offer) or cancel.

You need to sign up today (Tuesday 17th) or tomorrow (Wednesday 18th) to get your £1 membership.

You can apply for tastecard membership for just £1 here.