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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.

Comments (124)

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  • EC says:

    For those wondering, you can sign up and cancel straight away whilst retaining your membership for the full year. Even though they do their utmost to make it look like you don’t!

    • Ladyshopper says:

      Yep, I’ve just done exactly the same. Don’t have to worry about remembering to cancel, and benefits retained for the year.

    • vlcnc says:

      I just did this so can confirm, thank you! I think trading standards would have something to say about those very misleading statements until you cancel – and from past experience they’re very aggressive in enforcing renewals that have been forgotten unlike Amazon, in fact I bet they rely on it!

      • Charlie says:

        How do you cancel straight away?

        • Jess says:

          Tap on ‘more’ in the bottom right corner of the app and then halfway down is ‘manage my subscription.’

        • vlcnc says:

          So to login you have to get the app and register with the code you are sent in your confirmation. Once logged in you click “More” at the bottom of the app, go to “Manage subscription” and cancel from there. It will say you will lose your benefits immediately but that is not true.

  • NorthernLass says:

    Tried to sign up, payment appeared to go through but I got an email saying there was an issue and payment hasn’t been taken. Just getting “something’s gone wrong” when I try again.

  • stevenhp1987 says:

    Waste of a quid imo.

    Used to have one eons ago (same with Gourmet Society Card). I recall only using it once, at a local restaurant where they were not too happy to see the reservation was made using the card.

    You have to in advance to use it and if I’m planning in advance anyways I’d rather eat in a nice local restaurant than a generic Prezzo or Zizzi! There are a handful of local restaurants on the offer but not many.

    A search of my local area gives me 50% off Pizza Hut & PapaJohns or 25% off Burger King.

    The former two regularly offer half price or BOGOF anyways and BK in-app offers are generally better than 25% off anyways.

  • Richie says:

    I’m getting Ibérica as included, no call to book a table, 25% off.

  • Stuart says:

    I’m having issues logging in after setting up an account! My login details don’t work and I receive no email from them after I attempt to reset the password. Anyone else having this issue?

    • j22262 says:

      Click on the ‘Don’t have a password’ option and register with the membership number that you got in the email.

  • Tracey says:

    It’s now on the main tastecard page, without needing to use a link from here.

  • dst87 says:

    Seems like a “no brainer” for £1. Used a unique / disposable email address so I can stop junk, and I’ve already cancelled to prevent the renewal in a year.

    I reckon I’ll save £1 many times over in a year at Black Sheep and Nero, even avoiding the mediocre chain food places.

    • PlaneSpeaking says:

      We received one out of the blue via email because we bought a dishwasher from Marks Electrical. We had no idea it was part of the deal but it was nice to get and there’s no auto-renewal thank goodness. That said, I don’t think we’ll ever use it – we don’t have kids so most establishments aren’t really us (yes, I know I should have written we’re too snobby instead before someone says something) or the restrictions on when they’ll accept the card just don’t suit it it’s Mon-Thu for example.

      • dst87 says:

        That’s fair. The dining out options aren’t up my street either so I doubt I’ll ever use those. And, perhaps adding to the snobby attitude, I don’t really want the faff of going out of my way to book a specific way just to save a few quid, especially hearing some of the experiences of people here who have tried.

        While Black Sheep and Caffè Nero aren’t my first choice (I’d take a good indie coffee shop if there is one) some times I end up there anyway and I’ll easily save more than £1 in a year.

  • Mathew says:

    Had such a bad experience with Tastecard repeatedly taking money even though I had cancelled that I wouldn’t join again even for £1.

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