IKEA - All the furniture you can eat!

achtunglady

Does anyone know if you have to buy your furniture in the same branch you bought your meal from? I went to Wembley because my local didn't have what I wanted and spent £29 in the restaurant, but want to go to my local Ikea (Edmonton) to make a purchase TIA

Catherine_Johnson_2

Deedee73 wrote: »

all... I am sure I read somewhere about someone paying for all their friends to have dinner there, then bought their kitchen!

Not sure how this would save them any money, if they paid the same amount for all their friends to eat there and got that much off their kitchen bill? I can see the advantage for the friends who all get a free meal, but not for the people paying for it.

Catherine_Johnson_2

Love_A_Bargain wrote: »

I never ate in their Restaurant before, so i'll give it a try. I usually just get their hotdogs and ice cream from the food court when exiting.

This is a false economy then - you only really save money if you were going to eat there anyway.

Anyone who goes along and has a meal just to get money off isn't actually saving anything.

Savvy people on this Board shouldn't get taken in by 'offers' such as this.

JimmyTheWig

Catherine_Johnson wrote: »

Not sure how this would save them any money, if they paid the same amount for all their friends to eat there and got that much off their kitchen bill? I can see the advantage for the friends who all get a free meal, but not for the people paying for it.

It wouldn't save them any money. But it would earn them brownie points with their friends.

JimmyTheWig

Shadow_Jam wrote: »

Any suggestions on how to convince the kids that Ikea is a fun place to eat?

Bottomless soft drinks that they can serve themselves.

(The food's good, too.)

RichyRich

Catherine_Johnson wrote: »

This is a false economy then - you only really save money if you were going to eat there anyway.

Anyone who goes along and has a meal just to get money off isn't actually saving anything.

Savvy people on this Board shouldn't get taken in by 'offers' such as this.

You are saving money provided you were going to buy some furniture there anyway. Even if you weren't planning on eating there, presumably you would be planning to eat!?!?

snookey

:DWhy not pick up other diners receipts and pass them off as your own. Just stand at the front of the que and beg:rotfl:

Debt_Free_Dreamer

snookey wrote: »

:DWhy not pick up other diners receipts and pass them off as your own. Just stand at the front of the que and beg:rotfl:

ooo Wombling.... Been there done that with Tesco receipts..

lawrie28

snookey wrote: »

:DWhy not pick up other diners receipts and pass them off as your own. Just stand at the front of the que and beg:rotfl:

Doesn't work like that. You get a voucher attached to your receipt, but can only redeem one voucher at a time. Fine if you spend £10 on food and buy an item for £11. But if you want a sofa for £200, then you would need to spend £200 in one go in the restaurant to get a voucher for £200.

And you would have to spend the £200 today and then wait a few weeks till you could redeem the voucher.

Love_A_Bargain

Catherine_Johnson wrote: »

This is a false economy then - you only really save money if you were going to eat there anyway.

Anyone who goes along and has a meal just to get money off isn't actually saving anything.

Savvy people on this Board shouldn't get taken in by 'offers' such as this.

I always get something to eat there after shopping, just not at the restaurant, so its good for me to try something new!:D