I know one hamburger restaurant chain here in Seattle, the Counter, that is now on the second round of Groupon, and this round they offered two coupons per customer -- so my thought is the first round couldn't have went too poorly.
I went in with a Groupon and the experience was first class. Great service. They actually had one guy whose main job was to scan the Groupons. I asked him how things were businesswise with Groupon and he said really busy, but he said now that they can just scan them in, pretty easy (last round they had to look up each coupon by hand).
I of course tipped on the full amount, plus some, because the service was excellent. I liked my meal, and the wife and kids did too. We'll be back. And this is a place I may not have gone to w/o Groupon, although I had heard positive things from neighbors. But Groupon definitely got us the last mile through the door.
My feeling is that now, as a business owner that can use Google, if you don't know what you're getting into, you probably won't be business long with or w/o Groupon.
I went in with a Groupon and the experience was first class. Great service. They actually had one guy whose main job was to scan the Groupons. I asked him how things were businesswise with Groupon and he said really busy, but he said now that they can just scan them in, pretty easy (last round they had to look up each coupon by hand).
I of course tipped on the full amount, plus some, because the service was excellent. I liked my meal, and the wife and kids did too. We'll be back. And this is a place I may not have gone to w/o Groupon, although I had heard positive things from neighbors. But Groupon definitely got us the last mile through the door.
My feeling is that now, as a business owner that can use Google, if you don't know what you're getting into, you probably won't be business long with or w/o Groupon.