How a college student can save money when eating outside?

Sam Rao
BidShore
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2 min readAug 5, 2019

Being a college student, I can definitely understand how eating out can really weigh on your wallet. First you start to get tired of the food at the school’s cafeteria and then you casually start to eat out a couple times a week just to mix it up. Next thing you know, you’re eating out every day and your wallet feels much lighter than it used to! I definitely learned this the hard way and so did many of my friends at school. This dilemma had really gotten me thinking. Is it possible to enjoy eating out every now and then and still save money? The first method that came to mind was to try using coupons to try and save money. Initially it seemed easy enough, but once we actually tried searching for and organizing specific coupons for places, things got tough. The coupons we needed to eat at specific places in our area were extremely difficult to find and they would often only apply to certain dishes at those restaurants that we weren’t huge fans of. In addition to these issues, there was also the problem that many of the coupons we found would expire very quickly and we wouldn’t even get a chance to use them. We began to realize that coupons were extremely cumbersome and they were definitely wasting our time. For a while, we couldn’t figure out what to do to help us save money. Then we found out about BidShore and everything changed. Their motto of “CUSTOMER IS KING!” grabbed our attention. When I learned about BidShore’s innovative business model of restaurants offering on-demand discounts, I immediately had a lightbulb moment in my head about how this platform could be the solution to the problem that my friends and I were facing! All you have to do is choose your cuisine type, the number of people and the time of the visit. Then those restaurants will bid for your dollar by trying to offer you the highest discount! It’s an incredible and innovative way to dine out when you’re feeling strapped for cash! Ever since my friends and I have started using BidShore at school, it’s been so easy for us to eat at the restaurants we like for great prices. We also all have very busy schedules and BidShore’s instant discounts platform works fast with our hectic school hours to give us the discounts we want at the specific times we need them! I still can’t believe we attempted to use that old and outdated system of coupons before we found BidShore!

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