How to Save money while eating out in restaurants

Eating out need not break the bank. There are some tips that you can follow that will stretch value of the money you spend at a restaurant.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Coupons when you can find them.

1. Value menus are just that... a value.
   
   
   You can have a very cost efficient meal by shopping the value menus at local restaurants. If you don't mind smaller, a sandwich, drink and fries can avg. a little over 3 dollars. Compared to 4 or 5 dollars for the larger meals, you can save quite a bit of change each week.

2. Skip the soft drink.
   
   I used to work in fast food, and soft drinks are automatically taxed. Go for water. The restaurants typically won't charge you- though some may charge you for the cup.
   
   This only works if you go for the water available at the soft drink machine... not for bottled water.

3. Get a large sub, and you also have dinner...
   
   
   I do this all the time. I will go on and spend the money on the large sub, but I will have the other half for my dinner. Saves on cooking and spreads out the value of the money you spent.

4. COUPONS, COUPONS, COUPONS!!!
   
   I am always on the look out for coupons. Restaurants will sometimes put our a "buy one, get one" coupon or survey phone numbers that can be turned into coupons once you complete the survey. Use them whenever you can... the savings will add up.