I think this may be an imrpovement perhaps, to get a "real" value of the booking.

I cashed in I think 3000 or 4000 points for a meal a Quagalinos. Of course it's a special TopTable set menu . It was fairly limited and luckily with my partner we were able to find something that suited us between the limited set menu and the normal one. We were back a few weeks later with friends who'd booked set menu "deal" that cost around £25 or £29 from memory and this was at the same level.

A lot of the redemption offers were for set menus and in some cases restricted times. If we can book when we want and choose whatever to eat, then that may be a small mercy!! I have yet to look at the changes in detail (or chase my amextoptreat points Panny!).