Originally Posted by sdsearch

Indeed, even with this bonus, I am continuing to use it only when I need to dine out "naturally". In my case, that's mostly because I stay in hotels at least 3 nights a week most weeks, and need to eat somewhere, and participating restaurants are all around, so might as well eat there.

This bonus will not make me increase either my number of dines or the cost of the dines over what it would be without this bonus. It will only make me change which card I pull out (to split my "natural" dines in the coming two months between airlines, so as to earn the bonus on 2 or 3 of them rather than just 1 of them).