@simplynoir wrote:
@wasCB14 wrote:The dining credits go by calendar month, right? How easy is it to check if you've already used it in a given month? Do you just glance through YTD spend and credits? Can I set something so Amex emails me when the credit is used for a month (faster to search)?
With multiple ways to redeem, it's not like the Uber credits on Platinum where the funds are loaded to the Uber account, and when it's gone it's gone.
Should be there on the website like the airline credit
Thank you for replying to their question!
@Aim_High wrote:
@Jordan23ww wrote:
@Aim_High wrote:Yes, that's a frustrating thing about AMEX and how they make their credits more difficult to reach. I guess the industry term is "breakage" or "spoilage" which is intentional to try to make full use of credits difficult. But they can still advertise them.
Here is a Ruth Chris dinner menu. Looks like everything is ala carte, so you'd pay around $30 to $60 per entree (and up) and then another $11 to $13 each for salads, soups, or sides. Add an appetizer or dessert, drinks, tax, and tip and you're looking at probably an easy $75 or even much more per person. Not that I'd never do that but I don't do that kind of dining every month and many people never do. DW and I could afford to do this but even though we dine out often, we have better places to put our money than on regular expensive meals.
Thank you so much for sending me the menu! I agree with everything you said! My wife loves steak but I don't. I couldn't see us going here every month. Maybe we'd maybe try it sometime just to experience it, but there's a lot of other restaurants we'd rather go to. Looks like I'll be using my Gold Card dining credit on Cheesecake Factory! :0)
All that said, I think there are ways to take advantage of the monthly credit. It's just annoying how it has to be monthly.
I imagine the lunch prices at Ruth Chris are more reasonable than the dinner menu I posted, or one could just stop for dessert-to-go or something like that. Just last night, I went onto Grub Hub and found a local pizza place that we go to anyway that I could order from on Grub Hub and then pick it up. It cost me a little more to do it that way but I'll get most of my $10 credit back. That might be the easiest way to take advantage of the credits. On another thread, @K-in-Boston was just talking about using the Gold card for monthly chicken run from KFC. We have Ruth Chris and Cheesecake Factory nearby but we don't normally go to either one. I looked into the "Boxed" food and household items delivery that also qualifies for the credit, but between the delivery charges for smaller orders, selection, and prices, I wasn't overly impressed.
Thank you for all this info! I will checkout the Ruth's Chris lunch time menu to see if those prices will be a better option. As far as stopping in to get dessert, the Cheesecake Factory we go to coincidentally is right across the street from our Ruth's Chris, so I'll probably always go there for dessert over Ruth's Chris. It takes us 30 minutes to get to this part of town.
I'm going to look into Grub Hub to see what is available to us. I may also go with KFC to use the credit sometimes. The closest KFC is just under 10 minutes away. It will be more convenient to go here over Cheesecake Factory or Ruth's Chris.