https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blogen-ca Restaurant deals in Markham, Ontario, and ideas for independent restaurants. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/deal-wont-scan-troubleshooting-dinershttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/deal-wont-scan-troubleshooting-diners Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For dinersA 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/eating-out-dietary-needs-allergies-markhamhttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/eating-out-dietary-needs-allergies-markham Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For dinersHalal, 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/train-staff-honour-fig-dealhttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/train-staff-honour-fig-deal Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For restaurantsA 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/compare-restaurant-deals-worth-ithttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/compare-restaurant-deals-worth-it Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For diners2-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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/takeout-order-math-what-you-keephttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/takeout-order-math-what-you-keep Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For restaurantsOn 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/how-restaurant-deals-workhttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/how-restaurant-deals-work Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For dinersEverything 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/slow-hour-deal-mathhttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/slow-hour-deal-math Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For restaurantsA 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/deal-types-percent-dollar-2-for-1https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/deal-types-percent-dollar-2-for-1 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For restaurantsThe 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/set-up-fig-menu-takeouthttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/set-up-fig-menu-takeout Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For restaurantsA 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/hst-registration-small-restaurants-ontariohttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/hst-registration-small-restaurants-ontario Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For restaurantsWhen 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/group-dining-dealshttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/group-dining-deals Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For dinersHow 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/how-to-read-restaurant-reviewshttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/how-to-read-restaurant-reviews Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For dinersReviews 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/how-fig-makes-moneyhttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/how-fig-makes-money Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For restaurantsRestaurants 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/restaurant-deals-markhamhttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/restaurant-deals-markham Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For dinersA 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/delivery-app-commissions-vs-fighttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/delivery-app-commissions-vs-fig Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For restaurantsDelivery 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/fill-slow-hours-restauranthttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/fill-slow-hours-restaurant Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For restaurantsPractical, 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/student-food-deals-markhamhttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/student-food-deals-markham Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For dinersHow 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/flash-deals-explainedhttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/flash-deals-explained Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For dinersFlash 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/takeout-without-delivery-feeshttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/takeout-without-delivery-fees Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400For dinersSome 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. https://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/why-we-built-fighttps://fig-promo.vercel.app/blog/why-we-built-fig Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0400NewsMarkham 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.