There’s Nothing Like a Free Lunch

25. January 2008, 11:29 ambirthday, freelightening

Yesterday we spent the day at a nearby (well 200km away) regional town doing some shopping for back to school and both Singstar Princess and Leighton’s upcoming birthday parties. Unfortunately I wasn’t so successful on finding back to school items (even though I only needed plain navy shorts for each of the kids) but we came home with a TRUCK LOAD of lollies.

Most of the lollies are for Singstar Princess’s birthday party. She’s having a “making” party and I’ve managed to come up with a number of crafts using lollies. The kids will decorate their own take home party bags and then fill them with their lolly creations. That’s the plan anyway. I’ll go into more detail on that in a week or so.

I haven’t been game to actually count how many packets of lollies I bought (nor how much in total I’ve spent so far) but *if* we use all of them, the kids will be going home with more than a packet of lollies each. Hopefully we’ll have some leftover though and I’ll use them for Leighton’s party which is the following weekend.

The highlight of our day though was a visit to Hungry Jacks. Some time ago I registered our kids online for the Hungry Jacks Kids Club. It didn’t cost anything to join and when their birthdays drew near they received a letter in the mail with a coupon for a FREE kids club meal. It was one time when I found it quite useful that they all have birthdays close together. Smile

Thanks Hungry Jacks. It isn’t often these days that businesses offer something for free. The service we received was lovely and the kids thought it was GREAT to be allowed to refill their drink cup for free. They also allowed DH and I to use the “free chips with burger purchase” coupon that was sent for the kids for January without making us jump through hoops (ie have to order separately in order for the coupon to be accepted).

As a marketing strategy, I thought this was a good one and while we only indulge in fast food as a treat, I am much more inclined to lean toward HJ’s than their competitors right at this moment. So it’s a marketing strategy that may well pay off for them. Now, if they would only improve the toys they give with their kids meals……. Wink

If you’d like to register your own children for the Hungry Jacks Kids Club, you can do so via their website. For those not in Australia, Hungry Jacks is pretty much the same as Burger King. I’m not sure if they offer a similar thing but it might be worth checking out their website to find out.

If you know any other companies that offer a similar type thing, please let us all know in the comments section.

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6 comments:

  1. Jayne, 25. January 2008, 12:14

    Thanks for that, I didn’t know about HJ kids club!

     
  2. kate, 25. January 2008, 12:33

    I got a half price main meal coupon for my birthday at Taco Bill’s the other night - though our local Taco Bills (well local as in 20 minutes up the highway) sends out heaps of ‘coupon’ offers all the time… I love Mexican Food so it only takes one ‘buy one main meal get the other one free’ postcard to suck me in!
    Can’t wait to hear what you are making for the birthday party, sounds ace!

     
  3. river, 25. January 2008, 19:35

    My mail box always gets KFC coupons. Sheets of them. Buy one, get one free, Two for one, Buy this family meal and get a dessert. The list is endless. I chuck them all in the bin because I can’t be bothered getting on the bus to get there, then getting back on another bus to get home and hoping that the food stays hot in the insulated bag. We COULD eat there, but neither hubby or myself is comfortable eating out. (we both have poorly fitting partial dentures, at home we take them out to eat.)

     
  4. Marita, 25. January 2008, 20:48

    Hungry Jacks is awesome. I always preferred their burgers and when we have our childrens parties with them they give us much more freebies and extra’s than their competition.

     
  5. Kez, 25. January 2008, 21:15

    I much prefer Hungry Jacks - the burgers really DO taste better lol. That was the one thing I craved when I was pregnant with Billy and unfortunately I haven’t quite gotten over it :)

    I love the drink refills too :)

    I have to agree though - we went a couple of weeks ago and the toy was something from a new movie - The Golden Compass or something. I’m still trying to figure out what the toy is supposed to do or be though!!

     
  6. Babyamore (Trish), 26. January 2008, 0:05

    thanks for sharing this I told lots of friends … sweet !

     

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