Originally Posted by
zxrst
I have never used PP restaurants because I normally go to sky club or escape lounge at MSP. It seems the abuse is due to greedy people AND restaurants not checking boarding passes. If someone is legitimately flying out every week, s/he should be able to use the benefit every week.
The restaurants don't exactly have much incentive to police things, provided that they are still getting paid. Which probably plays a large part in how we ended up where we are.
Originally Posted by
zxrst
The sure way to prevent abuses/fraud would be to change the benefits to reimbursement. You pay it upfront with your qualifying card and get reimbursed after submitting your boarding pass and receipts.
It would be interesting to see some numbers on how many visits are repeat visits in the same location on the same day, average number of guests, and so on.
Even more interesting would be how many are the same person using multiple cards but that's probably not feasible to gather.