Originally Posted by
Happy
This offer is NOT merchant specific, it is a generic Restaurant offer. I would think it is Chase who bears the expenses because there is no way Chase can know WHICH restaurant (merchant) the cardholder would use, as long as the transaction is classified as Restaurant, nor a particular restaurant even knows there is such an offer available. I am fairly certain the merchants DO NOT BEAR the promotion cost in the generic offers.
Yes, I understand that the restaurants are (presumably) not absorbing any extra monetary expense. My point was that some of them are potentially absorbing some extra aggravation, given the small dollar amount needed to trigger the bonus and people splitting purchases among multiple eligible cards. I don't fault cardholders for taking advantage of the terms as they are offered; they are entitled to do that. I was simply pointing out that this particular offer has some perhaps less than desirable consequences for the merchants involved.
But in seems in any event that there has been no grand rollback of the offer, so we can all return to eating happily and cheaply.
