Chase Freedom Q3 Categories will Be Restaurants and Movie Theaters

The Chase Freedom Q3 category will be restaurants and movie theaters. It’s not yet showing on the main site, but you can see it when you login to your Chase Freedom account. It’ll be live for signup tomorrow.

The Discover Q3 category will be restaurants as well, as we reported a while back. The Citi Dividend Q3 quarterly category will be airlines and Hilton. The US Bank Cash+ will be the same as previous quarters.

Restaurants isn’t bad, but bummer that no one is doing gas for the summer, and that Discover and Freedom overlap on the restaurant category. For those with CSR, it’s really just 2x extra on top of the ordinary 3x CSR earn.

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Mix
Mix (@guest_443452)
July 20, 2017 19:38

Use my referal link

https://www.referyourchasecard.com/2/YZMQTZJVGY

I get $100 and you get $150 after $500 spend in first three months.

Much appreciated.

Mix
Mix (@guest_443466)
July 20, 2017 20:00

Also

0% interest for 15 months on purchases and balance transfers, and an extra $25 if you add an authorized user in the first 3 months.

COLIN W STUART
COLIN W STUART (@guest_420785)
June 14, 2017 19:42

does Discover or Chase include Fast Food and/or Bars when they say ‘Restaurants’?

Travis
Travis (@guest_420882)
June 14, 2017 22:50

Don’t have a Discover, but every bar and Fast Food place that I’ve been to lately has coded as ‘Restaurants’ on my Sapphire Reserve, so imagine it will be the same for the Freedom.

ihg newbie
ihg newbie (@guest_420884)
June 14, 2017 22:51

regarding fast foods, freedom along with other chase cards sure do. not sure about bars. and i don’t know about discover because i don’t have one.

calwatch
calwatch (@guest_420898)
June 14, 2017 23:09

In the past yes. Also the high limit is great for catering. If you have a reunion or wedding, blow the amount on that. For a wedding you might want to check the MCC of the venue and maybe pay more on a deposit in order to maximize the category, if it happens to fall under restaurants. Every bit helps.

NinjaX
NinjaX (@guest_420768)
June 14, 2017 18:12

anyone in food/bev, dont say it too loud please…

William Charles
Admin
June 15, 2017 00:02

??

John
John (@guest_420757)
June 14, 2017 17:27

Boo that’s it’s not gas. I’m going to stock up on gas cards at Smart & Final this quarter. I do spend a lot on restaurants, so I hopefully will max out this next quarter.

MarcoPolo
MarcoPolo (@guest_420731)
June 14, 2017 16:45

Well, my Freedom Card goes back to sock drawer till next quarter.

Peter
Peter (@guest_420692)
June 14, 2017 15:43

Very disappointing quarter.

Ralph
Ralph (@guest_420694)
June 14, 2017 15:52

I have the opposite view. Living in NOLA we eat out a lot so we’ll likely max out the $1500 spend over three quarters.

Ralph
Ralph (@guest_420695)
June 14, 2017 15:52

*quarters should be months.

Peter
Peter (@guest_420701)
June 14, 2017 16:06

I eat out a lot too and I have CSR so 3x UR on restaurants all the time. Would rather the 5x be on a category that I don’t already have a high earn rate on.

As mentioned movie theaters is a poor category due to giving up higher discounts (gift cards).

Frank
Frank (@guest_421169)
June 15, 2017 12:27

It’s amazing how many people fail to comprehend this.

William Charles
Admin
June 15, 2017 00:02

Depends on your spending patterns I guess, 5% on restaurants when you get reimbursed for work meetings is great for some.

DD
DD (@guest_420690)
June 14, 2017 15:41

I had thought Freedom was 5% for everything. That’s the last letter I got from them. Hmm How do you really keep up with their rewards?

Mark
Mark (@guest_420741)
June 14, 2017 17:07
  DD

FU is 1.5x for everything. F is 5x in quarterly categories.

Evan
Evan (@guest_420675)
June 14, 2017 15:10

Lame but expected. What’s surprising is that they added movies but Discover hasn’t, though they did in the past. We can still hope for a late Wholesale Club addition.

T
T (@guest_420758)
June 14, 2017 17:27

Has that happen before? I’m late to the game so don’t have much history with this. Do they add new category mid-quarter?

Lrdx
Lrdx (@guest_420760)
June 14, 2017 17:37
  T

Last year when Costco switched to Visa from AmEx Chase tried to steal the show and added 5x at wholesales. This happened in the middle of the quarter. (And they added this for Q3 and Q4 as well)

Mark O
Mark O (@guest_420669)
June 14, 2017 15:01

This is always the worst quarter imo

Stvr
Stvr (@guest_420666)
June 14, 2017 14:56

The problem with movie theaters is that there are always better deals on Raise or Costco for movie tickets and gift cards. So that’s a chump category.

Lantean
Lantean (@guest_420682)
June 14, 2017 15:28

but once you’re inside and you want some popcorn…

AB
AB (@guest_420736)
June 14, 2017 16:50

Use your giftcard that you previously purchased at 15-20% off.

That is a useless category.

T
T (@guest_420754)
June 14, 2017 17:26
  AB

AB is absolutely correct. It’s a loss if you’re trying to gain an extra 5x when you’re spending 20% more on a ticket or concession stand

Jack
Jack (@guest_420764)
June 14, 2017 17:54

Not everyone goes to chain movie theaters