Reinstated Restaurants That Pulled Out in August
#1
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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Reinstated Restaurants That Pulled Out in August
My favorite RN restaurant in Boston, Davio's, was pulling out of the AA Dining rewards program in August. There was a notice posted, on the AAdvantage Dining website, LEAVING SOON, next to Davio's and its sister restaurant Avila (also in Boston). I emailed the manager of the establishment and asked politely, since I dine there so often, in part, because of the Rewards I accumulate, if they would reconsider about dropping out. Low and behold, when I went to Davio's late last week he came up to me and said that they decided to stay in the program. They are still there. So, if you like a restaurant (granted, very few in the program are any good), and you see that they may be LEAVING SOON, email or call the manager or owner and tell them that you value the rewards you get for dining at their restaurant and hope that they reconsider dropping out. It can work.
#3
Join Date: May 2010
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there's only one restaurant left in my city
2 closed down and one inexplicably left the program (of course, not before not having valid dines show up)
and now I have $10 in benefits that I might not be able to redeem unless I go to the one restaurant left and spend like $100 there.
2 closed down and one inexplicably left the program (of course, not before not having valid dines show up)
and now I have $10 in benefits that I might not be able to redeem unless I go to the one restaurant left and spend like $100 there.
#4
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The question is - did reinstatement have them begin with a tabula rasa ("clean slate")? Could you earn 500 bonus miles for dining there "the first time" in September, as if they were new again? Let us know!
Power to the people!
Power to the people!
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That's because based on my understanding of how the dining program works, it's primary identifier of a restaurant is the Merchant ID. That allows the restaurant to be considered the "same" even if the name changes, even if the address was originally wrong and gets corrected, etc.