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Restaurants rely on people coming in and consuming items NOT covered by the coupon, plus the repeat biz. The cheap people that use the coupons are champs at milking it for what they want. They don't even tip the wait staff. A very good friend of mine runs a fantastic 4 star restaurant and they HATE the Groupon thing. They tried it and it attracted an unsavory, lower class of people to their restaurant. As a restaurant you need to be careful to not decrease the image and draw your establishment works so hard to develop. For some, Groupon can work, but I'm sure there are more that experience exactly what my friends restaurant saw. You get what you pay for, or in their case, what they didn't get paid for.
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