Some restaurants offer these perks only if you order through their in-house apps and loyalty programs. This saves them the commission they would pay if you order through a delivery system.

Be on the lookout for promo codes. Menu prices in the app are the same as in-restaurant prices. The delivery page on their website offers promo codes that will get you discounts on either purchase or delivery costs.

Their app will also offer coupons and promos, like Free Fries Fridays. However, the menu prices may be higher, and the delivery will only be free if you have a premium membership though most services offer a free trial.

Taco Bell recommends ordering through its partner Grubhub. Their website often offers Grubhub, Uber Eats, and Postmates promo codes. Their app will let you order ahead and skip the line for in-store pickup, among other features.

KFC allows ordering directly from their website or app , and regular promotions offer free or discounted food items, drinks, or delivery. You can also order through your favorite food delivery app. Subway offers delivery service through its website or app.

Watch for occasional free delivery promos, typically active for a month. You may also see promo codes or coupons for cut-price items or delivery. You may find delivery promos on the website or app offering discounts on delivery or specific items.

Delivery may not be available in all locations. DashPass also offers a day free trial. Dominos allows online ordering for delivery and pickup through its website and app. Check the site and the app for discounts and coupons.

Chick-Fil-A offers delivery through nationwide partners DoorDash, Uber Eats, GrubHub and Postmates. You can also order directly from the website or app. Menu prices on delivered items are higher. Delivery through the app is not free, but you can get free delivery if you have a DashPass membership.

Starbucks delivers through partner Uber Eats for free, though you may be charged other fees. Premium members will get free delivery. Watch for special offers and discounts! 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. Though, you have to buy a meal. This isn't a Little Free Library full of pies. When: Ongoing, every Wednesday. Baskin-Robbins The deal: When you download the Baskin-Robbins app for the first time, you get a free regular-sized scoop as an in-app offer.

Bruegger's Bagels The deal: You get how this goes now. Sign up for their Inner Circle club , and new members get a coupon for a free bagel with cream cheese.

Einstein Bros. Bagels The deal: Find a similar deal here. Sign up for the Shmear Society and grab a free bagel. Baja Fresh The deal: Join the restaurant's Club Baja membership program, and you'll get an offer for a totally free taco, valid for one chicken, carnitas Baja, or Americano taco.

Quiznos The deal: Sign up for the Toasty Points loyalty app and get rewarded with a free 4-inch sub with any purchase. Del Taco The deal: Sign up for Del Taco's Raving Fan eClub and get two free grilled chicken tacos or Del Tacos for signing up.

If you download the Del App, you can also land another pair of free Del Tacos. Wingstop The deal: Get a free order of fries when you sign up for "The Club.

Bojangles The deal: Sign up for the E-Club, and you'll get a coupon for a half-gallon of Legendary Iced Tea with any purchase. 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.