Earn voucher or Virgin points on restaurant dining via SquareMeal

We wrote about IHG’s partnership with OpenTable which allows you to earn IHG points when making restaurant reservations. It turns out that OpenTable isn’t the oligarch in the industry and SquareMeal provides a very similar service.

SquareMeal has a wide range of business operations, but we’ll just focus on the dining part today. Basically:

  • You earn 100 points for each restaurant reservation
  • You also earn points when dining at select restaurants and paying with linked cards

For the second perk, you can search on their website and filter by Restaurants With Reward Offers:

You need to link a debit card or credit card (Visa / Mastercard / Amex) to your SquareMeal account. If you put enough spend through the designated card at participating restaurants you’ll earn a bonus. You don’t have to reserve via SquareMeal in this case, but there aren’t many participating venues.

You can opt to earn one of the two kinds of points:

  • SquareMeal Points: 100 points = £1, and the voucher can be redeemed at participating restaurants
  • Virgin Points

The first option sounds better value to me, providing that the vouchers are easy to exchange and redeem. Don’t forget to weight in the 150 IHG points from OpenTable in your equation.

The following are some ways to earn points:

  • Sign up with my referral link and reserve once to earn 300 points
  • Add your first debit / credit card to earn 100 points
  • Earn 100 points every time you reserve a restaurant
  • Earn 25 points every time you write a review

Of course, you must show up to your reservation to earn the points.

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