The temptation is hard to resist -- sign up with Restaurant.com, and every week the site e-mails you codes that take 60 percent and 80 percent off the price of gift certificates for thousands of restaurants across the country.

Restaurant.com has created a new "Dinner & Movie" promotional package, a business-to-business effort to get businesses to buy promo packages that can be passed on to consumers.

Restaurant.com, which has more than 11,000 partners, mostly independents, recently expanded its online-coupon service to include chain restaurants, supplying systemwide custom reports so brands can track offers for specific locations or all their units. Casual-dining chain Ted’s Montana Grill has been the site’s test multiunit partner since June 2008, and Phillips Seafood and Sagebrush Steakhouse recently signed on.

#19.  Eat out for less. If you’re craving a nice dinner out, stop at Restaurant.com first.

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For starters, check whether your favorite restaurants offer any deals. At Restaurant.com, you can get steeply discounted gift certificates to thousands of eateries.

Website Restaurant.com bills itself as a matchmaker between local restaurants and customers. Participating restaurants sell deeply discounted meal vouchers on the site in exchange for getting more people through the door.

With diners pinching pennies and spending fewer dollars eating out, one national company has joined forces with close to 10,000 restaurants — including more than 200 local — to create a program that has both customers and restaurant owners enjoying the results.

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This holiday season, Arlington Heights-based Restaurant.com is helping nearly 10,000 eateries nationwide give away millions of meals in the form of $10 gift certificates. Through Dec. 25, visitors to restaurant.com can transfer this gift of gorging to their friends and loved ones at no financial cost via the company's "Feed It Forward" campaign. More than 450 area restaurants are participating.