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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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  • HampshireHog says:
    17 Sep17 September 08:24

    It’s the auto renewal that’s the annoyance, same as these 3 month Apple TV subscriptions and so on. All a no from me, enough hassle with customer service elsewhere nowadays thank you

    • Dirtyneedlebluesky says:
      17 Sep17 September 08:44

      Sign-up with PayPal then cancel payment from withn PayPal

    • David says:
      17 Sep17 September 08:47

      Pay with a Revolut virtual card. Then delete the card. They won’t have a way to get a payment next time.

      • kevinchoi says:
        17 Sep17 September 09:00

        Doesn’t work – i’ve just tried. On the Revolut app it says “Disposable card doesn’t work with this merchant”

        • David says:
          17 Sep17 September 09:12

          You are right, apologies. Just done it with a Starling virtual card. That worked.

      • Rich says:
        18 Sep18 September 15:41

        I’d be interested to know the contract law situation here.

        Just because they can’t process payment, doesn’t mean you don’t owe them money.

        Could a really nasty merchant chase you for the payment?

    • Nick says:
      17 Sep17 September 11:48

      Apple subscriptions are fine because you can always cancel immediately (and easily in your account settings) and still get the benefit for the originally-agreed period. It’s the ‘hope they forget’ model that’s a PITA and the reason I won’t be signing up.

  • RV says:
    17 Sep17 September 08:37

    Think it’s worth for the occasional Nero when travelling or the Burger King for emergencies. For £1 of course! I’m sure cancelling it 2 months before it renews 🤣

    • AndyGWP says:
      17 Sep17 September 09:11

      For Cafe Nero, you can just sign up to My Waitrose. You get a free coffee, followed by 25% off selected food and drink (it’s automatically done by scanning your Cafe Nero card, and you earn ‘stamps’ too)

      https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/my-waitrose/benefits/caffe-nero

      • Rob says:
        17 Sep17 September 09:23

        Offer ended 31st August and was only valid on their very dodgy ‘seasonal drinks’ list!

        • AndyGWP says:
          17 Sep17 September 10:30

          Oh yeah – so it seems

          …. you’ve got me wondering what’s giving me discount at the moment – had assumed it was the MyWaitrose thing 😂 🤔

        • @mkcol says:
          17 Sep17 September 15:44

          Just bought a cinnamon roll at Nero today & got the MyWaitrose 25% discount.

          • vlcnc says:
            18 Sep18 September 10:18

            Same, just bought a cinnamon roll (excellent btw if you like Swedish Kanelbullar) and got 25% discount so definitely still works.

          • Tracy says:
            18 Sep18 September 10:29

            Me too, still getting Waitrose 25% discount on seasonal pastries. I use meerkat for 25% discount on coffee….very disappointing that you no longer earn a coffee stamp if using any discount including meerkat…

      • RV says:
        17 Sep17 September 10:05

        Thanks! I also get the free coffee from Octopus which is a very nice perk.

  • VinZ says:
    17 Sep17 September 08:43

    Done. Planning to take my nephews to one of those parks next year so that will be a big saving.

    • SammyJ says:
      17 Sep17 September 11:05

      Check it against other offers – there are usually better offers available online

  • louie says:
    17 Sep17 September 08:49

    Makes me wonder if signing up to Tastecard is fatal to a business…. in my town, we used to have a Prezzo, now gone. Used to have a Zizzi, now gone. Used to have an ASK, now gone. Used to have a Carluccio’s, now gone. Not looking good for Bella Italia….

    • Ken says:
      17 Sep17 September 09:11

      I think any restaurant that relies on 241 offers etc is in a circle of doom.
      However, high rents, loads of debt, lack of good staff post Brexit and general economic climate all play a part.

      However Domino’s have had similar offers for decades and still seem to open yet more franchises.

      • Rhys says:
        17 Sep17 September 09:21

        It’s a marketing strategy.

        • JDB says:
          17 Sep17 September 09:31

          A ‘strategy’ born of weakness as suggested by @Ken

        • Ken says:
          17 Sep17 September 12:40

          You don’t say.

          A restaurants best customers are ones that return month after month.
          If you ‘educate’ them with 241 offers, don’t be surprised if that’s what they expect every time.
          The chain becomes known as ‘yes it’s a rip off , but we can get 241’.

          It smacks of private equity growing revenue before off loading to the next sucker.
          A CVA inevitably follows down the line.

      • Lumma says:
        17 Sep17 September 09:25

        Anyone who thinks Dominos full price is worth it isn’t financially savvy

    • Dave1986 says:
      17 Sep17 September 13:02

      There’s also the fact that those chains are generally rubbish

  • Slonik says:
    17 Sep17 September 09:05

    If you get your insurance through Compare the Market / Compare the Meercats, they do similar offers through their app, including 25% off Nero coffee and pastries. No need to cancel – the offer automatically stops one year after your insurance purchase (unless you go through them again).

  • L Allen says:
    17 Sep17 September 09:09

    Regarding the cinema discounts, always best to check the cinema price rather than assume there is a genuine saving.

    I have membership of two so-called discount schemes (but not this one) and they both connect to the same organisation which provides the cinema tickets. Their price for Picturehouse, after discount, is higher than I can get the ticket direct from the cinema.

    I contacted them and they claimed they do a “very time consuming, manua”l check of all cinema prices every month and claim the price must have recently changed. The price for my local Picturehouse hasn’t changed since the beginning of the year and, if the ticket issuing company do do regular checks, it doesn’t mean they will update their prices.

    • paul says:
      17 Sep17 September 09:28

      THANKFULLY – while we miss out (?) on all the big chain restaurants, we have an amazing 4-screen independent cinema that only charges £4/seat on any day at any time – they’ve even opened 2 new cinemas during the past 5 years or so and all at £4. Even the snacks are cheaper than the big chains.

    • john says:
      17 Sep17 September 10:34

      Tastecard is charging £6.50 for my local Odeon which only charges £5 online for all tickets and has done for years. They do say they add 54p admin charge but £1.50 != 54p!

  • David says:
    17 Sep17 September 09:11

    Signed up with a Starling virtual card in case I forget to cancel. There’s also a free 90 day trial on Lidl app btw for those who want to test it for free.

  • David says:
    17 Sep17 September 09:15

    Rob, I hope this deal is not the big card news we’ve been patiently waiting for! 😁

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