I agree. Frankly, I don't go out of my way to dine at an Idine restaurant even now. If the one I'm eating at happens to be a participating restaurant, great. More miles for me. If not, oh well. My experience is that participation is pretty lame now, and restaurants are jumping ship all the time (my favorite coffee shop just quit the program). So if the pool of participating restaurants were expanded significantly, I would probably earn as many miles, or even more, than now. There would be that much more of a chance that whatever eatery I end up at would be participating.