Eat out for less.
Fill the quiet hours.

A code that will not scan, a deal that seems to be over, a pickup that went wrong: the usual reasons a FIG deal does not apply at the counter, what to try first, and how to ask politely.

2-for-1, 20% off, $3 off or a free drink: which one saves you the most? A plain method for comparing restaurant deals, with worked examples, so you pick the one that fits what you were going to eat anyway.

Everything that happens between seeing a deal and paying the bill: claiming, your Deals page, the code at the counter, takeout, what happens when a deal ends, and rating the visit.

How to get a group from 'where should we eat?' to a table: deciding fast, checking there's room, making deals work for everyone, and splitting the bill fairly, with the arithmetic.

Reviews on FIG come only from diners whose visit was scanned. Here's how ratings, likes and replies work, and how to read a restaurant's page to decide in a minute.

Flash deals are short, real-time restaurant deals posted during unexpected quiet spells. Here's how they work for diners and restaurants, how to catch them, and what happens to a claim when the timer ends.

A deal only works if the person at the counter knows what to do with it. A ten-minute training plan for restaurant staff: the two ways to scan, what to check, what to say when something looks off, and a one-page cheat sheet.

A slow-hour deal makes money when it fills seats that would otherwise be empty and covers its food cost. Here's the arithmetic: contribution per plate, the worst case, the cap, and how to tell new diners from regulars who'd have come anyway.

The four kinds of restaurant deal, side by side: what each costs you, what it feels like to a diner, and when to use it. With worked examples on a $14 dish.

A step-by-step guide for restaurant owners: your page, your menu, your first deal, and in-app takeout with your HST number and Stripe payouts, explained simply.

Practical, low-cost ways for independent restaurants to bring in diners on quiet afternoons and weeknights, with the arithmetic to make sure a deal adds money instead of giving it away.

On FIG, takeout paid in the app costs 5% of the food plus Stripe's card fee. The $0.30 part of that fee is fixed, so small orders cost a bigger share. Here are the numbers on four order sizes, and what to do about them.

When a small Ontario restaurant has to register for HST, what changes when it does, and how HST works on deals and takeout. Plain-language, with the Canada Revenue Agency's own rules linked.

Restaurants pay FIG one flat monthly plan, with no commission on dine-in and no fee per diner. On takeout orders diners pay for in the app, FIG also keeps 5% of the food.

Delivery apps charge restaurants a percentage of every order. FIG charges one flat monthly plan, nothing per dine-in diner, and 5% of the food on in-app takeout. Here are the published Canadian rates and what a restaurant keeps from the same order.

Some FIG deals let you order takeout from a Markham restaurant's menu and pick it up yourself, with no delivery or service fees. Here's how it works, what it costs, and what happens if you're late.

Halal, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free or an allergy: how to use diet filters as a starting point, and what to ask a restaurant before you go and when you order.

A practical guide to eating out for less in Markham, Ontario: when restaurants post deals, where to look across the city, and how to use FIG to find and use them.

How high school and university students in Markham can eat out for less: when deals show up, how to set a real budget, how to decide as a group, and how FIG keeps it free.

Markham is full of great independent restaurants, and most of them run on thin margins. FIG is a deals app built around that: free for diners, one flat plan for restaurants, and no cut of a dine-in bill.