Originally Posted by
JDiver
Gift cards, takeout, tee shirts - it all works unless specifically excluded. I've even purchased beer to take home from a brewpub.
As long as the purchase is rung up on the restaurant's credit card machine (whether because you're there in person or because you call them up on the phone for delivery and they take you creidt card info on that phone call), yes, most any purchase should count usually.
Which is why I warn about the one exception of
online take-out ordering, because some of those are handled through third party sites, and might be billed through third parties (if you do the
payment online, that is).