Harvester garners iFans with first UK Passbook e-voucher Harvester, the Mitchells & Butlers-owned Berni Inn de nos jours, is offering iPhone fans a fiver off a £30 bill if they turn up at one of the branded restaurants with a handset running iOS 6 and at least one other person, and do so before 20 October. Just don't use iOS 6's Maps app to find your nearest hostelry... The offer …
Harvester ain't that bad to be fair! Free salad n'all with a well done average meal. Caters for most who want a decent meal without paying loads, dont want to cook and dont want fish n chips. This is the same as being part of their e-mail list for student spongers who want a cheap meal. Won't hurt if you're in or out.
Most average towns in the UK don't have fine cuisine places unless you live close to a village that has a half decent bistro pub or have to trek into a city.
Anyway, Friday beer around for everyone because it's Friday! Cheers grumpy people.
Well, the few times I've used them, they were over-priced and served very poor quality food, cooked adequately but to a formula. So I only ever go there if there is no other option, or I'm with a group that have already booked a table.
Generally I can find much better food for the same price in any one of a number of independent restaurants within a few hundred yards, I find.
GJC
Fair enough, but I guess it depends on solely on the chefs working at the harvesters. But over-priced? Hardly. Never had a problem with the quality of food unless your top standard is Michelin star grade stuff. Then you're getting into apples and oranges comparisons.
Mixed grill is always good.
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I have just been to my local Harvester in Bristol with some mates, and at the end of the meal costing £39 presented the waiter with the voucher on my phone, to get my £5 off.
The waiter didn't know anything about the voucher and where it had come from, so got the Manager. I showed the Manager this story and took him through creating the voucher on screen. The Manager said he honestly didn't know anything about the promotion, and any discounts that customers could get by presenting the voucher at the end of the meal.
The Manager was a good man and took the voucher code shown on screen, then quickly made a phone call to try and get to some more information on the promotion. He came back a few minutes later, saying he had spoken to several other Harvester units in the Bristol area. He said that none of the units had been made aware of a voucher promotion and if he were to take the voucher, he would really need it printing, not just a visual sight of it on the screen.
As a gesture of good will and not to look really stupid, he took the cost of our drinks off the bill, which equated to £4.70. He apologized for the problem with the voucher, and said he would contact his Managers to find out why he didn't know in advance about the promotion.
Note to Harvester HQ: If you are going to launch a nationally available promotion, allowing your customers to present an E-Voucher on their handheld device, in hopes to bring more people in to eat at your restaurants, for goodness sake please tell your staff about it and how to efficiently process them. So when they are trying to turn the tables in a crowded dining room, they have not got a table waiting 15 minutes for phone calls to be made trying to find out how to process them!
EPIC FAIL!!!!!!
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