Below is a guest post from Evan Mullen.
With all the restaurants that offer free food on your birthday, I took it upon myself to aggregate a master list that I would always be able to keep up-to-date. Since I live in Austin, Texas, I limited my search to valid places for this city (though most are national chains). Additionally, I limited my search to offers that don’t require a purchase, because my goal here is to avoid increasing my spending.
The only work you have to do in order to eat several free meals during your birthday month for the rest of your life is sign up for each restaurant’s rewards program, newsletter, etc. To stay better organized, I created a new email for this. I recommend this because you will constantly be receiving offers and updates from each restaurant throughout the year, so it’s going to clutter your inbox. In my spreadsheet, I have provided links for each rewards program, newsletter, etc. Some are in-app only.
Link to Full List of Free Birthday Foods Offers (Google Sheets)
Several of these offers allow you to redeem within the entire month of your birthday. To make things more exciting, I attempted to spend my entire birthday amassing as much free food as I could. In the future, I will be spreading the food out over the entirety of the month to better benefit from all the free food.
For anyone else in Austin, Texas, I have made two maps. The first map shows all restaurants in Austin and surrounding areas. The second map shows each specific location I visited on my birthday. In my spreadsheet, the ‘order’ corresponds to the order that I followed.
Feel free to comment and help me maintain accuracy with this list, as well as add to it, regardless of whether the restaurant is in Austin!
Thanks to Evan for the guest post. You can view his previous guest posts at this link. Please chime in below with any free food opportunities which aren’t mentioned in the spreadsheet and hopefully Evan will be able to keep it updated with the additional information.
If you’re sharing this list with friends, kindly share the post instead of the spreadsheet to give credit to Evan for the list. Thanks.
Jersey Mike’s is no longer allowing new signups to get free bday sub according to their FAQ.
Your Pie gives a brownie sundae, good for 30 days
World of Beer gives you a free shareable item
Can confirm Panera is Birthday month. I can confirm Portillo’s for you soon.
As expected, some of these places aren’t NPN anymore. I’ll be updating my spreadsheet to reflect these changes
What does NPN stand for?
No purchase necessary
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/free-food-on-your-birthday-restaurants
Looks like I need to do some spreadsheet updating
CAVA (NY/NJ) gave me $9 credit on my birthday. Was valid for a week if I remember right.
Togo’s gives a free 6″ sandwich on your birthday, if you sign up for their rewards program. It’s redeemable within 14 days of your birthday and I think you have to order online.
Added thanks!
Cold Stone Creamery for BOGO, any size (IIRC).
BurgerFi, free shake
Boston Market, free dessert
Sprinkles, free cupcake
Jamba Juice, free (medium I think) smoothie
Will add thanks!
Thanks Evan for the Incredible Job!