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The Loft – Cinema Meal Deal – £19.95 per person for 2 courses on our Set Menu, including a complimentary half bottle of wine. – Valid between 17:00 and 17:30 or between 21:15 and 22:00

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

The latest online voucher code or local voucher added to BView is The Loft – Cinema Meal Deal – £19.95 per person for 2 courses on our Set Menu, including a complimentary half bottle of wine. – Valid between 17:00 and 17:30 or between 21:15 and 22:00

Terms and conditions and full details of the voucher are as follows:

Cinema Meal Deal – £19.95 per person for 2 courses on our Set Menu, including a complimentary half bottle of wine. – Valid between 17:00 and 17:30 or between 21:15 and 22:00

To read more about this voucher code or special offer head here

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Discount night out

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Luxuries, in all forms, have been the first casualties of the recession. People are tightening their belts, new car sales have dropped through the floor and property sales joined them. Non essentials seem to be all so yesterday dahling! We’ve almost begun a revival of ‘make do and mend’, the popular quote of wartime Britain. However, the beacons which remain strong, if not stronger, are restaurants and cinemas.

Zagat Survey tells us that here in the UK, eating out is still de riguer even though the cost of eating out has risen by 3.7% in the last year. The financial climate has not yet stolen our gastronomic freedom. This might be helped in part by the proliferation of discount vouchers available. BView has been part of the rise and rise of the discount voucher, with the Pizza Express voucher having over 1600 downloads alone. Many retailers, restaurants amongst others, have their own coupons, codes or downloadable vouchers available via links on the BView site. You can find 2 for 1 offers at ASK , Strada , Cafe rouge ,  Zizzi and many more .
Those vouchers can be the decider and assist in putting diners behinds on restaurant seats at quieter times, introducing new clientele and encouraging greater spend, after all, we are more likely to spend on desserts and drinks if our main course is free or half price.

I indulged in the same way at Old Orleans this week. The neighbouring cinema were in cahoots, printing ticket stubs with a 2 for 1 offer at the restaurant. I was meeting a friend for a midweek girly night out and we decided, based on the ticket stub to eat out first. We each ate a delicious main meal and a dessert with happy hour cocktails (all in the name of research of course ) and considered ourselves well fed at low cost, the total bill was £27.00.
Technically we each saved £5.50, splitting the reduced cost in half. Not an enormous saving but enough to encourage us to eat dessert and indulge with the fancy drinks, increasing what would otherwise have been a £17.00 bill by £10.00. Genius marketing indeed.
In comparison to Zagats figures of an average meal out in London running a bill of £40.55 per person, £13.50 each was quite the money saving deal.

Content in our meal we did not indulge further in snacks at Cineworld,  though I doubt they missed our custom as they have also seen a rise in profit across the country.
I asked them about their business in relation to recession and found that; “From a local perspective, since the start of 2009 we have seen a 9.11% increase in admissions over last years figures, a real ‘bums on seats’ increase of 37,942 people and a total amount of admissions so far this year of 386,951, which is staggering!

Those figures are in part attributed to the releases of Bolt 3D and My Bloody Valentine 3D and the Unlimited card, allowing the cinema goer unlimited viewing for a fixed monthly price, again convincing the customer of value for money. This falls in line with the national figures for Cineworld showing revenue up 4.8% to £298.9m and box office up 6.4% at £197.5m. A very strong position for 2008’s figures in relation to 2007 which saw the continued rise of house prices and the national boom.

As an Unlimited card holder, paying £11.50 per month and using it at least twice per month, then using the discount voucher at Old Orleans, my girly night of a meal with dessert and drinks and a showing of Marley & Me totalled less than £20. I feel I’ve had a lovely night out and without great or unjustified cost.

A two act night of fun reprised across the country for everyone to enjoy, bring your own friends for maximum appreciation.

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