Originally Posted by
MrEntrepreneur
Most restaurants which accept coupons in MY opinion are rubbish.
Coupons are like gimmicks, good restaurants let their food speak for itself they don't to provide incentives.
If you like eating at chain restaurants, sure use coupons.
As others have pointed out: not only chain restaurants provide coupons.
New restaurants often use coupons as a way to build clientele. One of my favorite locals, a Belgian restaurant, used coupons and similar marketing techniques to build clientele when they opened. They were in a good location geographically, but a difficult location structurally. Three restaurants had failed in the same location before this one opened.
Now that they are established, you are right, they no longer have coupons, because they don't need them. But they still do Monday night specials, because business is slow that night.
In essence, I think your complaint is with chain restaurants (which I share) rather than coupons, which can be used even by good restaurants to build business.