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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!

Get an annual tastecard membership for £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.

Get an annual tastecard membership for £1

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.

Get an annual tastecard membership for £1

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.

Get an annual tastecard membership for £1

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.

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Comments (124)

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  • planeconcorde says:
    17 Sep17 September 07:30

    Several years ago I had one of these cards free through my employer. As a single person it was difficult to use as most 2 for 1 offers had no alternative. Some were % off but only mid-week. With effort I managed to use it about twice over three years.

  • Tiberius says:
    17 Sep17 September 07:49

    Thanks, signed up. The 25 percent Cafe Nero discount will help subsidise my spiralling coffee costs following the ending of my beloved Pret subscription

    • 1967stuart says:
      17 Sep17 September 08:03

      If you have a Leon near you then they do a coffee subscription which is £25 a month and you get 5 free coffees a day + 20% off of food + a reward (free food item) when spending £30 a month which includes the £25 amount paid for the subscription.

    • vlcnc says:
      17 Sep17 September 11:24

      If you’re on 3 you get any barista made coffee for £1 every week which is actually cheaper.

  • Erico1875 says:
    17 Sep17 September 08:02

    JDB
    Where does £80 membership come from. After 1 year trial it renews at £39.95
    Even at that price you only need to save 80p per week to break even

    • JDB says:
      17 Sep17 September 08:12

      @Erico1875 – I didn’t! I copied and pasted another post. Following your post, I see that it does indeed renew at £39.95. The premise of the “usual price” being £79.99 seems rather odd given this and the number of free routes to obtain the card.

    • Ken says:
      17 Sep17 September 10:21

      On there website it’s say

      “was £79.99”

  • KenC says:
    17 Sep17 September 08:03

    I had one of these once before. I remember turning up at a restaurant without booking. They refused to accept the card and said I must telephone beforehand. So I went outside into the street and rang them and made a booking and they accepted it so I walked back in and got my table. Utter madness.

  • Andrew Halket says:
    17 Sep17 September 08:06

    The danger with Tastecard is the autorenewal. Their annual membership cost is double what it was just a few years ago.

    • Travel Strong says:
      17 Sep17 September 08:46

      Danger indeed. I can only see the collection of £1 as a clamber for swagging an unintended autorenewal on your credit card. I cannot believe they need to charge £1 (compared to providing a free trial).

      • Lumma says:
        17 Sep17 September 09:58

        A free trial would likely involve you giving details for an auto renewal too as subscription fees are Tastecard’s only income. There’s no cost to a restaurant to be listed and the restaurants fund any discounts given themselves.

  • John G says:
    17 Sep17 September 08:15

    Got a free card with Community Fibre but it doesn’t get any use. Most restaurants do everything possible to stop you using a Tastecard, making you book a day in advance by phone (who reserves a Beefeater!) or some other made up restriction once you get there.

  • paul says:
    17 Sep17 September 08:16

    It is very easy to get TasteCard on a lower priced deal – though £1 is excellent.

    As usual, those of us with fewer chain restaurants in the vicinity won’t benefit.

    We did have the card and travelled by bus (to allow a few drinks) to Prezzo where it was 50% off food even at weekends – but even that bill was £110 for 2, some £30 more than a great independent Italian restaurant within walking distance of our house.

    Experience of TasteCard has shown it’s not accurate enough and hardly ever seems to be updated – on a weekend in Birmingham we found 3 restaurants which had closed down.

    For £1 give it a go, but don’t expect much especially if you’re outside a major City.

    And be VERY careful as they will recharge for the following year several days early so you have the hassle of getting the refund.

  • Peter K says:
    17 Sep17 September 08:19

    Like many others here, had one years ago. Ringing up to book was a faff and I always felt like we were looked down upon at the restaurants for using it.

    The quality of the food is not great at these places, but, even if just used once, it’s a saving I guess.

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