Terms of Service

Last updated October 15, 2026

These are the same terms shown in the app. They cover diners and restaurants; the restaurant rules every listing agrees to are at the end.

What Dine Dibs is

Dine Dibs shows you limited-time deals from local restaurants and lets you claim one, walk in, and show a QR code. The restaurant honors the deal at the counter. You never pay Dine Dibs anything.

Restaurants pay Dine Dibs a small fee only when a diner gets one of their deals. Views and claims are free for everyone.

Your account

You can browse deals without an account. To claim a deal you sign in with Apple, Google or your email. Keep your sign-in method secure; you are responsible for activity on your account.

You must be 13 or older to use Dine Dibs. If you are under 18, use it with a parent or guardian.

Claims and QR codes

A claim gives you a single-use QR code. Show it to staff at the restaurant named on the code (during the deal’s hours, if it has set hours). Each code works once and is good for 7 days, even if the deal ends sooner. You can hold up to 3 unused codes at a time.

Deals come from the restaurant, not from Dine Dibs. The restaurant sets the terms, availability, and rules, and may pause or end a deal at any time. If a restaurant does not honor a claimed deal, tell us and we will follow up with them.

Do not share, sell, copy, or attempt to reuse QR codes. Doing so may lead to your account being closed.

Punch cards and free meals

Restaurants that offer a punch card give you one punch each time staff scan your code there: a claimed deal, or a stamp code you get in the app after a purchase without a deal (one stamp per restaurant per day). Filling a restaurant’s punch card unlocks a free meal at that restaurant: one item up to the amount the restaurant sets. Each restaurant sets how many punches fill its card and how much the free meal can cost, and shows both on the card. The free meal is used as its own visit and not combined with a deal. Punches and free meals stay with the restaurant where you earned them, have no cash value, cannot be transferred, and may change or end with notice in the app. A restaurant may set unfinished cards to reset after 3, 6 or 12 months without a visit; the card shows this, and we remind you a week before. A free meal you already earned keeps the amount it had when you earned it, and stays good at that restaurant even if it stops offering a punch card.

Acceptable use

Use Dine Dibs the way a good neighbor would. Do not abuse claims, create fake accounts, scrape the service, interfere with restaurants, or use the app to break the law.

Restaurant accounts

If you list a restaurant, you confirm you are authorized to act for it, that your deals are accurate, and that you will honor claimed deals during the posted window. You are billed monthly, at the rate shown in the app, each time a diner gets one of your deals and staff scan it. Views, claims, free meals, and visits where the diner did not get the deal are never billed.

Restaurants must follow the Restaurant rules in this app, including the rules on photos and the ban on alcohol deals. We may pause deals or listings that break them.

Photos and copyright

Restaurants may only upload photos they took, own, or have permission to use. By uploading, a restaurant gives Dine Dibs a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to show those photos in the app and in marketing for that restaurant, for as long as they stay listed.

If you believe a photo in Dine Dibs is yours and was used without permission, email help@dinedibs.app with the restaurant name, the photo and proof that it is yours. We review copyright notices promptly and remove photos that infringe. Repeat infringers lose their listing.

Disclaimers and liability

Dine Dibs is provided as is. We do not guarantee that a deal will be available, that a restaurant will be open, or that the app will be error free. To the extent the law allows, Dine Dibs is not liable for indirect or consequential damages, and our total liability to you is limited to $100.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms. We will show the new date in the app when we do. Questions: help@dinedibs.app.