The deal: Order through Uber Eats for free delivery. GOOD The deal: The restaurant has expanded its usual kid meal deal. Kids can eat free every day of the week with the purchase of one adult entrée.

In fact, you can get two free kid meals for every adult meal purchase. Penn Station East Coast Subs The deal: Order a sub online, and you can get a free small sub with the code "PSBOGO. Rubio's Coastal Grill The deal: Place an order directly through the Rubio's app or Rubios. Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen The deal: The restaurant now offers Family Bundles to-go.

Entrée options include House-Smoke Baby Back Ribs, Chicken Tenders, and Grilled Salmon. Jamba The deal: Toss in one of Jamba's Functional Boosts for free with every smoothie order made through the app. You have to order food to get alcohol, and the deal is only available where local laws permit.

Grimaldi's Pizzeria The deal: Grab a free appetizer or salad when you join Grimaldi's Pizzeria Rewards. Taco Cabana The deal: There are a few deals you can snag at Taco Cabana right now. The family meal comes with four 8-inch subs, four bags of chips, and four cookies. Use the very memorable code " When : Through December Though, that's not valid when ordering through third-party delivery services.

Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers The deal: Download the new mobile app to get a free Original Double Steakburger or Regular Concrete if it's your first time downloading the app. Peet's The deal: Buy a one-pound bag of coffee beans and you'll get a free small drip coffee.

White Castle The deal: Starting January 1, members of White Castle's reward program Craver Nation can get the following deals:. When: Until January 1. Popeyes The deal: You get BOGO chicken sandwich combos, just by placing orders through the Popeyes app or the Popeyes website.

When: Through January 4. Limited to one per customer. When: Through February 1. When: Through January 1. Burger King The deal: Royal Perks members can get free any-size fries with any digital purchase—in app or online—once a week. The deal refreshes every Sunday.

When: Through June When: Through February 7. Buffalo Wild Wings The deal: You can get BOGO boneless wings on any size B-Dubs order every Thursday. The deal is available for takeout at select locations. When: Every Thursday. When : Every Thursday.

When: Every Friday through December Tijuana Flats The deal: To celebrate its 25th anniversary, there's a new set of happy hour deals available weekly. When: Every week, Friday-Sunday, pm. This one is available for pickup and delivery.

When: Every Friday. Pluckers Wing Bar The deal: Teachers can grab a free appetizer every Friday. When : Every Friday. Shake Shack The deal: Get free delivery on your orders when you place your order through the Shake Shack app by using the promo code GETSHACK.

When: Now until December When: December Wendy's The deal: On New Year's Eve you can get a free Breakfast Baconator with any mobile order. You can get any two, either doubling up on one option or mix and matching them. When: Through December When: January 1 through February 1.

This deal is limited to one pizza per order. When: January 1. When: Through January When : Every Sunday.

Dickey's Barbecue Pit The deal : Kids can get free Texas-style barbecue on Sundays with all delivery and carryout orders when you use the code "KEFOLO. If your kids like Texas-style barbecue, Sunday is a big day. When: Every Sunday. Kona Grill The deal: Kids eat free with the purchase of any adult entrée.

When : Every Sunday from 2 pm to close. Modern Market Eatery The deal: Kids eat free in-restaurant with the purchase of an adult entrée. When : Sundays and Mondays after 5 pm.

Chuck E. It comes drizzled with chocolate syrup and sprinkled with crushed peppermint. It's a dash of maple syrup away from being fit for Buddy the Elf. When : Through January 8. Boston Market The deal: The rotisserie chain is offering free kid meals.

No purchase is required at all. Kids 12 and under can just grab a free one. When: For just a little while. Steak 'n Shake The deal: Every weekday, S'nS emphasizes the latter half of its name with a happy hour where you can snag half-price drinks and shakes. When : Monday through Friday, pm.

Use the code "MAGIC MONDAY" in the app or mention it at checkout in-store. When : Every Monday. When : Monday through Friday until 3 pm. Each meal comes with your choice of two sides. This deal is available for pickup and delivery.

When: Every Tuesday. Bertucci's The deal: You can grab a free Brick Oven Pizza with the purchase of another one. Buffalo Wild Wings The deal: Every Tuesday, it's BOGO traditional wings for the creatively-named Wings Tuesday, which B-Dubs recently resurrected from the dead.

Though, you'll only find that deal at select locations. Give a call ahead. When : Every Tuesday. Tijuana Flats The deal: Get a free small queso with the purchase of any entrée. Bakers Square The deal: Get a free slice of pie with the purchase of any entrée and beverage.

You can eat it or slam it in the face of the next person who says "happy hump day. When: Every Wednesday. Family-friendly restaurant chains, too, are cutting back on coupons and specials. Just remember that many are offered for only a limited time. The golden arches logo of the largest chain in the country is just as iconic as its Big Mac and Happy Meals.

Though fans of Taco Bell are upset about recent menu reductions, you can still grab some cheap meal deals , even late at night. The home of the Whopper always has meal deals available, and they change often; navigate to the " Offers " section of the BK app to see what's good.

For more great restaurant guides and deals, please sign up for our free newsletters. Square burger patties? You bet. But Wendy's is better known for its spicy chicken sandwiches and nuggets now, not to mention a cult following for chili and Frostys. Though the 11 herbs and spices in the seasoning are still a mystery , it's no secret that KFC is one of the go-to fast-food restaurants for fried chicken.

Related: Fast-Food Deals to Feed the Whole Family. Related: Best Cheap Pizza: Deals and Price Comparison. The things that make Papa Johns' pizza so good are the extras you get in the box: creamy garlic sauce for dipping the crust, and tangy pepperoncini peppers.

Popeyes created a phenomenon when it released its chicken sandwich, but the restaurant's classic fried chicken pieces are still the star of the show see how we like to pair them with Popeyes sauces. Related: From Cajun Fries to Buttermilk Biscuits: 6 Popeyes Side Dishes, Ranked.

Detroit's Little Caesars is well known nationwide for selling inexpensive pizza that's always hot and ready to be picked up.

Panera has made a name for itself with fresh breads and bakery items, sandwiches, coffee shop beverages, and great soups. Related: Secret Menu Items at Your Favorite Family Restaurants.

Probably America's favorite Italian chain , Olive Garden has been dishing up pastas, salads, and those famous breadsticks for decades. Tex-Mex is king at this casual sit-down chain with a chili pepper in its logo.

Chips and salsa, queso dip, and barbecue ribs are favorite menu items. Dairy Queen isn't just for soft serve and Blizzards, especially in rural areas where there's a DQ in practically every town.

Found mostly in the western United States, Del Taco is another reliable bet for cheap, fast Mexican eats. Almost everyone has celebrated a special event at Red Lobster, a seafood chain that's as good for families as it is for date night.

Which one of these two names you'll see on the sign depends on which part of the country you're in, but whether it's known as Hardee's or Carl's Jr. BJ's gets its Brewhouse moniker from the microbreweries at some locations, but every location of this casual sit-down chain has a menu of pizza and homestyle favorites.

Found mainly in the Southwest, El Pollo Loco is the place to indulge in Mexican favorites based around savory grilled chicken, including grilled chicken breasts. Dating all the way back to , Bob Evans serves up hearty comfort food in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in a country living-themed atmosphere.

Cooking up sliders since , White Castle is often credited as the first fast-food burger chain. Now it can be found in 13 states, mostly in the Midwest. Named after the football huddle, Huddle House is a hour family restaurant that was founded in the s and is concentrated in the Southeast.

Spaghetti, lasagna, and garlic breadsticks are crowd-pleasers, so it's no surprise this Italian restaurant chain is a hit with families. Best known for its outlandish slogans, commercials, and having "all the meat," Arby's satisfies its customers with roast beef, curly fries, and fresh deli sandwiches.

Biscuit and fried chicken lovers adore this Southern fast-food chain that serves breakfast all day. You can add a swipe of creamy pimento cheese to any biscuit — and you should.

Looking for a healthier breakfast option? Check out these healthy fast-food breakfast items. With about locations, mostly in the Southern states, Zaxby's has carved a niche out of the fried chicken market, selling only tenders sometimes in sandwiches and wings.

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For many New Yorkers, rising prices mean that dining on a budget is more important than ever. Despite the pandemic and inflation, we have seen small, inexpensive, often immigrant-run restaurants continue to flourish. New to this edition: Patok by Rach, Pugsley Pizza, Mid-Atlantic Fish Store, El Catrin, Tamam, Hello!

This nifty Filipino restaurant located in Inwood on the way to the Bronx mounts a limited menu in the fast-casual style, with plenty of comfy seating and a view of Broadway.

The menu offers classic breakfasts of green plantains, eggs, and longaniza, plus lumberjack pancakes and three-egg omelets, then moves on to lunches and dinners of well-seasoned rotisserie chicken, pork chops, kingfish or salmon, mofongo in several variations, meal-size soups like sancocho and mondongo, and pernil so good it might make you weep.

The chicken roll is fabled here. A spacious multilevel palace of Korean food in downtown Fort Lee, New Jersey, Myung Dong specializes in two types of noodles.

The first is the wheat noodle known as kalguksu, served in mildly flavored soups, of which the most engaging throws them into a broth with ground beef and dumplings. The second is naengmyeon, originating in North Korea and made from buckwheat or sweet potato and served cold with boiled egg and pickled vegetables: very refreshing.

While this may have once been a Korean seafood market, it now has Dominican flourishes. In addition to selling the freshest fish, it has a seafood prep counter and pleasant eating-in area.

The fried fish sandwiches — pick porgy or flounder — are great and cheap, but why not consider the shrimp pastelitos, stuffed clams, or crab cakes? Yes there are noodles galore, including laksa noodles and peanut satay noodles, but look to fritters, dumplings, and buns for smaller bites.

The roti john sandwich is a unique delight, a hero of ground beef omelet with spicy ketchup and caramelized onions. This branch of a Grand Concourse restaurant is a bit grander, with a dining room a few steps up from the steam table where a dozen or so Ghanaian dishes are displayed. Get sauces of fish, mutton, or chicken — or pick a mixed meat sauce that contains all of them — then choose a starch ball like white yam fufu to go with it.

Harlem has rarely seen a Jamaican steam-table restaurant with such a broad selection of island dishes. The restaurant is one of three locations. For a larger meal than the falafel sandwich, pick the falafel platter, which contains a dozen elements, including the spicy green relish zhoug.

Multiple forms of hummus and the eggplant-and-egg concoction sabich also available at this vegan spot that offers a cauliflower shawarma. There are still plenty of budget-friendly pasta mills around, a fad that peaked late in the last century and lingered thereafter.

These places encouraged you to pick a pasta and match it with a sauce. In a similar but simpler vein, Bigoi Venezia takes a single pasta — freshly made Venetian bigoi, tube-shaped spaghetti — and offers a choice of a dozen or so treatments, some particular to Venice, some not.

Turkey sauce or peas, ham, and cream are two top contenders. Step up the the gleaming steam table and load up your square ceramic plate with any combo of the two dozen dishes displayed. Pay special attention to the ones called chicken roast smothered in onions , beef kala bhuna a very dark curry , and the daily assortment of bhortas mustard-oil-laced vegetable purees.

Then sit in the sunny dining room and eat with your fingers. The one featuring smoked milkfish is a favorite, also including garlic rice, fried eggs, eggplant, and a fresh salsa of onions and tomatoes.

This modest spot just south of the Queens County Farm Museum concentrates on Mumbai-style street snacks and is strictly vegetarian. One favorite is bun chole, a small round roll stuffed with chickpeas, potatoes, and onions sweetened with tamarind sauce, very much like Trinidadian doubles.

The menu also offers samosa chaats, vegetable curries, milk-based sweets, and snacks combining fried lentils, nuts, chips, and crunchy noodles. Little Jakarta is a small neighborhood centered at Whitney Avenue and Broadway in Elmhurst, with groceries and small cafes a modest number of both to be sure radiating from that corner.

It specializes in full-plate combinations that may contain rice, a coconut-laced composed salad, shrimp chips, and a satay or two, all halal.

The fruition of a decade-long series of films, TV shows, podcasts, and professorships from hamburger scholar, George Motz, this new spot in Soho channels the lunch counters of the past. Specimen regional burgers — currently in a smash burger vein — are offered, along with things like egg creams, french fries, icebox pies, and lemonade.

For hamburger deniers, there are PBJs and especially good and inexpensive egg salad sandwiches. This tiny cafe just south of Tompkins Square specializes in the street food of Bangkok with a limited menu of full meals that will make deciding what to eat easier.

The best dish on the menu is basil chicken, with ground poultry cooked down to a rich mixture served with rice, a poached egg, and boiled sweet potato.

Relax is a great place to relax, tucked away on a side street in the northeastern part of Greenpoint, and made to look like a cottage in a fairy tale.

Wash everything down with Polish beers. Little Myanmar is quite simply the best Burmese restaurant the city has yet to see. The interior is bare bones and not particularly comfortable — though your ability to see into the kitchen is an advantage and a pleasure.

The item menu covers the vast sweep of the national cuisine, from the salads called athokes try the tea-leaf version to noodle soups, stir fries, and curries. This halal Turkish restaurant is successor to the long-closed Bereket, a late night favorite of clubgoers. Lots of salads, dips, and kebabs at bargain prices, but my preferred choice is a doner kebab in Turkish bread other breads include pitas and flatbread wraps.

Three rotating cylinders of meat are available: lamb, chicken, and veal, each with its own attractions. The Lower East Side is home to many Hong Kong-styles cafes serving the hybrid Chinese-English cuisine called cha chaan tengs. S Wan is a charming walk-down spot offering a full range of breakfasts designated by letters that might includes fried eggs, waffles smeared with peanut butter, Spam, toast with butter and honey, and pork chops, in addition to lots of noodle soups and stir fries.

Hearty working-class Chinese fare at favorable prices is the forte of this bare-bones shop conveniently located on Queens Boulevard in Forest Hills near the Kew Gardens subway station.

Noodles, dumplings, and soups make up most of the menu, with Sichuan dumplings and dan dan noodles available in memorably good renditions. This Jamaica Estates Afghan restaurant offers kebabs of chicken, beef, and lamb in various combinations — and little else.

The lamb chops, in particular, are superb, often cut to order from the rib cage you can hear the saw thrumming in the kitchen , smeared with a reddish spice rub, and grilled to complete succulence.

A few doors down from a mosque, this chandeliered restaurant occupies a lively corner location that was previously a diner. This place upholds diner principals, filling out its menu with Afghan kebab platters as well as Bangladeshi and Indian dishes, plus pizza and excellent hamburgers.

The platter shown here features yogurt-marinated chicken and beef kofta with pulao rice, Afghan bread, and salad, with several sauces. Sure, there are dozens of great, old-fashioned, mainly Pueblan taquerias within the borders of Bushwick, but this place opened early in with a zingier demeanor, including a brightly painted minibus on its exterior.

The lure is a humongous rotating trompo of pineapple-marinated pork al pastor, sliced and deposited on a rustic corn tortilla.

Cactus, chicken, and carne asada fillings are also available. This small storefront in the wilds of Glendale specializes in Balkan bar food, an apparent branch of a place in Subotica, Serbia.

It concentrates on grilled meats and pastries, the former including the skinless sausages cevapi and the burger-like pljeskavica, which comes on a round bun that may be dressed with kaymak thick sour cream and ajvar a red pepper paste — plus the usual onions, tomatoes, and lettuce.

This relative newcomer to the Fresh Pond scene offers a revival of the Cuban cuisine that was common in the city 50 years ago, but now less so. The list of roti is expansive, but I still prefer the bone-in goat, chicken, and conch. Mama Kitchen is a kosher Israeli restaurant that far exceeds expectations everything except the composed salads are cooked to order at a lower price than you might expect.

Entrees include a full plate of food plus another plate from a salad bar with over a dozen selections. The pizzas come out hot and fast and oozing cheese, and lines form to buy slices the line inside moves faster.

Often identified as the national dish, the cou cou and flying fish consists of a cornmeal porridge shot with okra and said fish.

Jerk specialties and pastries are also available. Sandwiches available in three sizes, which is an economic and probably health-wise boon.

Specializing in Chicago-style hot dogs, Dog Day Afternoon is named after an Al Pacino movie about a bank robbery that was partly shot on the same block of Windsor Terrace.

The hot dog boasts a couple of small innovations New York style pickles, for example, and sweet miniature plum tomatoes , but otherwise the genre remains intact. Located a short bus ride straight uphill from the Staten Island Ferry, New Asha, founded in , is a funky sort of place with excellent Sri Lankan food.

A glass case displays heavy tubular fritters that are good for snacks, but why not sit and chow down on halal meats like mutton or jackfruit curries, poured over rice and served with yellow dal and a chopped vegetable salad.

At lower prices and with more of a lunch counter atmosphere, Al Aqsa specializes in pita or laffa sandwiches, tucked or rolled, respectively, and filled with chicken shawarma, falafel, or lamb shish kebab, slathered with a strong toum, a garlicky white sauce.

Kufta, bread dips, lahmacun in several variations, and even schnitzels round out the menu. This hour West Midwood Pakistani cafe with a chile-pepper logo has it all, from snacks like samosas and stuffed breads that are great for rapid snacking to full meals that include meat and vegetarian dishes served with rice, bread, or both.

Please note: the Glens Falls location is temporarily closed. Queensbury and Warrensburg are open. They have a large selection of breads, wraps, cheeses, and meats from which to choose, and each comes with either coleslaw, cottage cheese, red potato salad, or Greek pasta salad.

If you're craving some warm soup, you can also choose a cup and a half a sandwich for the same price. Photo provided by Poopie's DiManno's.

A Glens Falls staple since , Poopie's DiManno's is best known for their burgers, which are made fresh and cooked to order. Stop by Main Moon, which has been serving up delicious Chinese food for three decades. Photo provided by Kelly's Roots.

For a fresh, locally-sourced lunch, stop by Kelly's Roots. Angelina's Pizza in Queensbury is a great spot for pizza, pasta, and calzones, but they're also a healthy lunch option.