Best Restaurant Deals in SLO
Join 18k+ & get free food & drinks through exclusive deals at 55+ restaurants in San Luis Obispo, ONLY with the SLOeats app!
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What is SLOeats?
NOT a delivery app.
NOT a single-use coupon app.
SLOeats is the first restaurant membership app. Use the app to redeem restaurant deals that are exclusive only to SLOeats members. You can redeem EACH deal, EVERY SINGLE DAY! (For dine in or takeout only)
Example: Go to Old SLO BBQ with the SLOeats app and redeem a "Buy 1 Burger, Get 1 Free" deal. You just saved ~$13 in free restaurant food! Plus, you can redeem this deal the next day, and the next, and so on!
How It Works
Get free food through the best restaurant deals in San Luis Obispo with the SLOeats app. Redeem each deal, every day!
Partner Restaurants
These restaurants in SLO offer the best deals exclusively through the SLOeats app (BOGO burritos, burgers, thai, salads, noodles, pizza, sandwiches, sushi, coffee, & much more!)
How Much Is It?
Join 18k+ with the SLOeats app! Download for free & check out the app. To redeem "Buy 1, Get 1 Free" deals with every meal, purchase the Pro Pass membership for only $9/month.
If you eat out at least 1x per month it's worth it! It only takes one deal to redeem the value of your membership! Plus, take a look at your potential savings with the SLOeats app:
🐟 Rare (Dine out 1x per week): +$64 monthly savings
🍣 Medium (Dine out 3x per week): +$192 monthly savings
🍱 Well Done (Dine Out 5x per week): +$320 monthly savings
*calculations are based on $16 in savings/deal
Meet The Founders
Jonathan Allen
Alex Kavanaugh
Why we're building SLOeats
We're Cal Poly grads in Architecture and Software Engineering and fortunate enough to be SLO residents for more than a decade! After graduation we've spent our time building separate software companies, but in the same office complex.
This lead to many lunches together, starting with the question, "Where should we eat?". Which was shortly followed by, "Well, who has a deal going on?". The problem was we didn't have a way of knowing the best restaurant deals in San Luis Obispo, or for that matter, who even offered a deal.
After digging into the restaurant business a little further, we discovered how expensive marketing was for restaurants and the high (30%) commission prices the restaurants had to pay to food delivery apps. This meant SLOeats would benefit the restaurants' dine-in business with more customers and more money kept in the restaurants' pocket, while allowing the customer to simultaneously save money through exclusive deals.
We love San Luis Obispo and our mission is to only make this community better by bringing more awareness, foot traffic, and ROI to restaurants and more savings and discovery to customers.
A little about us...
If you're a tourist, you'll know us by how we over excitedly share about all the great things you HAVE to do while you're here. And if you're our colleague, then you'll know how passionate we are about building a business for the customer and the goal of making SLO an even better place.
And if you don't know us at all, then it's great to meet you! You can find us working out at The Pad or the Rec (best alumni perk), pickleball at French Park, throwing dinner parties, snagging kettle corn from Farmer's Market, continuing to find new places to explore, and eating at many of the best restaurants in San Luis Obispo! If you see us, please stop and say hi!
FAQs
Summary
The restaurant gets more dine-in and takeout customers and you save an average of $159 per month in restaurant food (for savings details see FAQ, "Is the Pro Pass worth it?"). The only one "losing out" in this membership are big food delivery companies. #supportlocal
The Restaurant's Problem
Currently, restaurants are paying A LOT (~30% commission) for delivery services, which, for most, is the majority of their food delivery profit. They want a solution where they can keep 100% of profit by acquiring more dine-in and takeout customers. In addition to delivery apps, their cost for a marketing person, marketing creation, and ad spend makes it nearly impossible to create an attractive deal for their customers and still make a profit.
The SLOeats Solution
What we (the SLOeats team) roughly say to the restaurant:
"Our goal is to bring you new customers and increase the frequency of existing ones. In addition, our business model is different because we will NOT charge you any commission or fees. The only cost to your restaurant is the food cost of the dish given out in a "Buy 1, Get 1 Free" deal. We will work with you to create the deal in such a way to be optimized to your business as well as attractive to customers. On top of the marketing from the app, we will also market your restaurant for free, as part of being a partner restaurant."
The Restaurant's Benefit
They agree because there's nearly 0 risk to them and because of the marketing cost efficiency of the SLOeats platform. We don't charge them, they keep 100% of profit, they receive a huge amount of marketing for free (not just to SLOeats customers), and they only "pay" for the food cost in the deal *when* SLOeats succeeds in bringing them a customer. That distinction is important because it is very rare in marketing to only pay if the marketing succeeds. For example, they can pay for a marketer to create a marketing strategy, create the ads, then pay for the ads, and then it's still unknown if that marketing campaign will succeed.
Wouldn't they lose money on the deal?
No. We curate every deal with the restaurant to make sure they are making money on each transaction. The deal must be high margin, quick to make, attractive to the customer, etc.
Absolutely!
These are not one-time coupons like you might see on refrigerator magnets, coupon books, in the newspaper, etc. SLOeats is the first restaurant membership app. With the SLOeats app, you’re an exclusive member to each partnered restaurant and in return you can redeem an exclusive deals at each partner restaurant, every single day!
Example
Currently it costs about ~$38 plus tip to order two burritos from Breakfast Buzz through DoorDash. However, if you dine at the restaurant or get takeout using the SLOeats app, it only costs ~$14! That's a $24 savings by going to the restaurant with the SLOeats app versus using delivery.
Savings
Rare (dine out 1x per week)
+$64 monthly savings
Medium (dine out 3x per week)
(average user)
+$192 monthly savings
Well Done (dine out 5x per week)
+$320 monthly savings
*calculations are based on $16 savings/deal
Ready To Save?
Download today & redeem an exclusive SLOeats deal for your next meal!
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