For restaurants
Most independent restaurants run at 30–40% capacity on weeknights and slow lunch shifts. Discounting is the obvious solution — and the obvious mistake. Public coupons train regulars to wait. Reservation discounts force restaurants onto a marketplace they don't control. Delivery apps take 30% and don't fill chairs.
Mealmate is a card-linked discount platform that lets independent restaurants fill their slow hours. Pick the daypart, set the discount, drive incremental covers exactly when you need them.
Cover rate · weekday %
What you get
Daypart, discount %, days of week, and a cap on redemptions. End or edit it anytime.
No gimmicky coupons, no codes at the table, no public discount marketplace. The discount is quiet, automatic, and lives at the moment of payment.
A live dashboard of incremental covers, average ticket, repeat-visit rate, and net revenue by daypart. Every dollar of discount is tied to a measurable cover — no impressions, no guesswork.
No subscription, no take-rate, no fee charged to you — you fund only the discounts you set. The diner absorbs a small platform fee taken out of the discount.
Why now
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Cost pressure has eliminated tolerance for generic awareness spend. Restaurants want spend that ties to incremental covers, not impressions.
02
The infrastructure for card-linked offers exists today in a way it didn't five years ago. Toast, Resy, and others have made the underlying plumbing real.
03
OpenTable serves 60,000+ restaurants and ingests 400,000+ reviews per month. Discovery is digital. Rewards aren't.
Get in touch
Restaurant operator, prospective diner, or just curious — send a note and we'll get back to you.