{"id":12427,"date":"2022-05-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=12427"},"modified":"2022-05-22T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T20:00:10","slug":"earn-voucher-or-virgin-points-on-restaurant-dining-via-squaremeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/05\/23\/earn-voucher-or-virgin-points-on-restaurant-dining-via-squaremeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Earn voucher or Virgin points on restaurant dining via SquareMeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/08\/17\/reserve-a-restaurant-via-opentable-and-earn-ihg-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Reserve a restaurant via OpenTable and earn IHG points\">IHG&#8217;s partnership with OpenTable<\/a> which allows you to earn IHG points when making restaurant reservations. It turns out that OpenTable isn&#8217;t the oligarch in the industry and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/squaremeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SquareMeal<\/a> provides a very similar service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/squaremeal-logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/squaremeal-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12426\" width=\"400\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/squaremeal-logo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/squaremeal-logo-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/squaremeal-logo-768x245.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/squaremeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SquareMeal<\/a> has a wide range of business operations, but we&#8217;ll just focus on the dining part today. Basically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You earn 100 points for each restaurant reservation<\/li><li>You also earn points when dining at select restaurants and paying with linked cards<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For the second perk, you can search on their website and filter by <em>Restaurants With Reward Offers<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/squaremeal-bonus-points-example.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"532\" height=\"417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/squaremeal-bonus-points-example.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/squaremeal-bonus-points-example.jpg 532w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/squaremeal-bonus-points-example-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;ll earn a bonus. <strong>You don&#8217;t have to reserve via SquareMeal in this case<\/strong>, but there aren&#8217;t many participating venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can opt to earn one of the two kinds of points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>SquareMeal Points: 100 points = \u00a31, and the voucher can be redeemed at participating restaurants<\/li><li>Virgin Points<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The first option sounds better value to me, providing that the vouchers are easy to exchange and redeem. Don&#8217;t forget to weight in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2020\/08\/17\/reserve-a-restaurant-via-opentable-and-earn-ihg-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Reserve a restaurant via OpenTable and earn IHG points\">the 150 IHG points from OpenTable<\/a> in your equation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following are some ways to earn points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/squaremeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sign up with my referral link<\/a> and reserve once to earn 300 points<\/li><li>Add your first debit \/ credit card to earn 100 points<\/li><li>Earn 100 points every time you reserve a restaurant<\/li><li>Earn 25 points every time you write a review<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, you must show up to your reservation to earn the points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote about IHG&#8217;s partnership with OpenTable which allows you to earn IHG points when making restaurant reservations. It turns out that OpenTable isn&#8217;t the oligarch&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12430,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12427\/revisions\/12430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}