Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: San Jose, California, USA
Programs: AS Plat, UA MM, AA MM, IC Plat, Marriott Gold, Hilton Gold, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 3,162
The extra EQM won't make a difference for me, so the restaurant.com certificates have been the least-useless choice.
For the choice "$50 in restaurant.com certs" you get to choose from a selection of discount certificates for restaurants near you. You can either get 2 $25 discounts certs or 5 $10 discount certs. Minimum purchase varies but it's usually about $20 for the $10 certs or $35 for the $25 certs.
To avoid disappointment, you might want to go to the site and figure out whether there are participating restaurants nearby you. All the terms & conditions (some of which can be quite restrictive, such as day-of-week limitations) are there.