Reviews for Restaurants in Springfield, MO

Lucy's Chinese Food

4.0

By amack6299 at Citysearch

I have had every Chinese place in Springfield, which is an accomplishment in itself, and this place always delivers some pretty good food and it only costs around 5 bucks for a good portion. Not really much else to it. ...read more

Mexican Villa

1.0

By loulouoregon at Citysearch

I remember eating at this restaurant years ago and it was wonderful food...I couldn't wait to try it again. However I was so disappointed. It must be under new management. There was no shredded beef, and that is a bad sign at a Mexican restaurant. The chips were awful, salsa awful, and everything else was tasteless. We had enchiladas and tacos and I lost my appetite after the first few bites. I remember creamy refried beans with melted cheese but our beans were dry and cheese was very sparse...what happened to this great restaurant? ...read more

Lucy's Chinese Food

1.0

By loulouoregon at Citysearch

We have been trying various Chinese restaurants in the city for a few months, and this one was by far our worst experience. The pork wontons smelled and tasted of old or very cheap oil and did not have much pork in them at all. I didn't know whether to eat the rest of the food or not, but we were hungry so we did...bad mistake. We should have taken it back. The rest of the food was also fried in this bad oil. It tasted rancid and left a bad taste in our mouths. The sauce was almost non-existent, especially on the sweet and sour chicken, and there were no vegetables in that like carrots and peppers. The eggroll also had that bad oil taste and the inside of the roll looked gray--totally gray and I could not distinguish any sign of vegetables--just mush. Oh my...what a horrible dinner. We grabbed some mint chocolate ice cream to get the taste out of our mouths. Never eating here again! ...read more

Springfield Brewing Company

3.0

By bigwalt03 at Citysearch

This place has an excellent feel right when you walk in. I loved the mugs hanging over the bar, the cigar room, and the window showing off their brewing equipment. The only down side was their food was above average, but the service was average at best. It wasn't very busy, and I may be jaded as I am a former server in a busy restaurant, but if I have to routinely wait on refills, I'm not happy haha. It's still a great place to go, with delicious micro-brews, but I won't be a regular, definitely give it a look, I may have had their weakest link as far as servers go. ...read more

Houlihan's

4.0

By cardsfan314 at Citysearch

Amazing happy hour specials is what keeps me coming back. 3 dollar long island pitchers can be dangerous, as well as their amazing appetizers. Definitely a great spot to unwind, definitely give them a shot. ...read more

Big Easy Grill

4.0

By Melinda M. at Judy'sBook

Good cajun food, reasonable prices and good menu selection. Usually call our order in for carry out. Reason for 4 star rating is that last few times I called in our order, I was told it'd be ready in 20 minutes and when I got there to pick ... ...read more

Moneysaver

5.0

By One Hair Place

I started with Money Saver when they first begin, may years ago. Each time I used them, they made me look great. I do count...and they always make me money. ...read more

Coyote's Adobe Cafe & Bar Restaurant

2.0

By Anonymous

Myself, my husband and a friend of ours ate here and we ordered three pitchers of beer, a soda, and 24 wings. Our wings took over 30 minutes to get to us. Everything was extremely over priced. Our ticket came to $56.64. This place supposedly recently underwent some renovations concerning their staff. I don't think the problem was fixed. Our server was nice enough, but pretty slow. If Coyote's want to get and keep customers they need to seriously reconsider their prices and the speed of their staff. ...read more

Cedars Restaurant

5.0

By cynthia cullum

this place has the best cooking in the state of missouri, the waiter there are great. always happy, and the service is fast. the place is always clean. i would eat there all the time if i lived in springfield. but i will be back for more of that wonderful food and service, thanks. ...read more

Moneysaver

Moneysaver is by far the best way to save money with their valuable coupons. Thanks, Lee www.heckervideo.com ...read more

Coyote's Adobe Cafe & Bar Restaurant

1.0

By Spfd Native

Bad management will keep me from ever visiting this business again. The food is good and service is decent, however the management is rude and unwelcoming. Some nights they will just close the bar early (with a crowd) and ask all the patrons to leave. This has happen on two occasions and sends a clear signal they do not appreciate or want the business. ...read more

Foster & Associates Foodservice Consulting

The best in the business! Thanks for all your help and advice! ...read more

Moneysaver

5.0

By One Hair Place

I have used Money Saver and track the results. I have experienced a good ROI. I regularly suggest to other business owners to try them as an effective way to increase their business. Chris is a person, you will be in wise hands. ...read more

Moneysaver

Nothing like saving money! Keep up the good work! ...read more

Trolleys Bar & Grill

2.0

By Vonda

This place is right off Park Central Square so you'd think it would be really good but it's just okay. We had burgers that were totally overcooked and soggy fries and the drinks are really expensive even thou were there during happy hour! The decor is really wierd to with lots of doors painted on the walls, not sure what that's about. Next time I'll go across the street to the diner or the ethnic place instead of this place. ...read more

New Photos 125 photos

View all 125

Blogs View more

Saviello's Sweet and Savory Catering LLC

Come to Saviello's and dine in our cafe or order catering for your next special event. Whether you're looking to host a business meeting or cater your wedding, we'll provide you with delicious food and desserts. Treat yourself to a delightful breakfast or lunch in our cafe. Save room for one of our desserts or sweet treats including pastries and candies. Complete the occasion by ordering beautiful flowers for your event. You can enjoy a delightful meal in our lovely cafe at Saviello's. Whether you're looking for a delicious breakfast or need to host a business luncheon, come dine with us. At Saviello's we treat you with class! Whether it's a breakfast, lunch, or your special day, you're the most important person to us. You'll always get top-notch service from us. We have degrees in both hospitality and culinary to make sure we always give you the tastiest food with amazing service. Celebrate your next special event with a cake or other sweet treats from Saviello's. We have degrees in hospitality and culinary to provide you with the best experience. Make your event special with a custom 3-D cake. Let us know what you want and our certified pastry chef will create a tasty cake that looks amazing.We've been in business since 2010 and are a member of the ACF. Let us make sure you're the most important person on your special day with a delicious dessert from Saviello's. Enjoy a tea party with your friends and family at Elfindale Mansion or any location of your choosing. We also provide personal chef services, creating amazing, mouthwatering dishes especially for your next big party. Call our team today to place your order for catering. Pick out your favorites or speak to our friendly staff who will help you choose the perfect arrangement.Whether you're just sending a get well bouquet, you're planning a funeral, or celebrating a graduation, you can depend on the team at Saviello's. ...read more

By Saviello's Sweet and Savory Catering LLC December 19, 2014

Half Off Business Cards Announced

MoneySaver Marketplace and it's affiliate site www.moneysaverprinting.com announced today a half-off business card promotion. The full color printing site has a 110% price guarantee, but the owners are offering for a limited time 50 percent off business card printing. You must claim your 15% off coupon code by going to www.moneysaverprinting.com and entering your email in the coupon code box on the home page. Once you've done that, you'll receive a bonus coupon code for 50% off business cards. Don't miss this full color cheap printing deal! ...read more

By Moneysaver September 15, 2011

22 Ways Coupon Marketing Can Produce Droves of Customers

How to Make Coupons Generate Large Profits Whether You Love ‘em Or Hate ‘em.   For some companies, coupon advertising is the very life blood of their business. For others the thought of running coupons is about like the thought of handing away profits.    So what camp do you fall in? Are you a die-hard coupon advertiser? Are you a skeptic? Are you almost certain that coupon advertising won't work for you?   Regardless of your current opinion, this report will show you howmostbusinesses (probably yours included) can use coupons as a very effective part of their overall marketing mix.   Who Uses Coupons   It is first important to understand who uses coupons. Some business owners think coupons could never work for them because they erroneously reason that their customers are too upscale or too sophisticated to use coupons…However, study after study confirms that even the upper income earners use coupons -regularly.The following nationwide research was done by NCH Marketing Services an international coupon processor, and PMA – a not for profit marketing association.   ·        75% of all households (in all income brackets) use coupons regularly. ·        85.3 % of all Women use coupons ·        68.6% of all Men use coupons ·        80.1% of individuals with some college or graduate education use coupons ·        79.8% of individuals with post graduate degrees use coupons ·        82.9% of people in the $25,000 to $50,000 range use coupons   As you can see, it doesn't really matter if a person has an undergraduate degree, a doctorate, or if they make six figures a year… they arestilllikely to use coupons. So chances are good that if you were to round up 100 of your customers in a room together (no matter how affluent they are)– 80 of them would be coupon users.    If you could participate in a marketing campaign that 80% of your target marketing would be likely to respond to, would you? "Yes" would be a good answer here. Sending out an advertisement that appeals to 75 or 80% of your potential customers in marketing terms ishuge…   While most customers do use coupons, not ALL coupon campaigns are effective. Some coupons just aren't attractive or enticing enough to warrant a response.    Many advertisers who try coupon advertising with no success are simply using the medium improperly. Let's take a look at several of the ways you can use coupons to churn profits, then let's discuss some specific tips that you must keep in mind when creating your coupons.     How are coupons used effectively?   Here are just a handful of the most common strategies for coupon campaigns. But, keep in mind, this only scratches the surface. The possibilities are only limited by imagination.   ·        To attract first time buyers with the intent of converting them intoregularbuyers.Savvy business owners understand and have calculated the lifetime value of their customers. They know that on average a customer will buy from them X times a year for X years. With that in mind, it becomes a no-brainer to give up a little profit or even breakeven on the first sale in order to acquire a customer. Because each customer that you acquire will mean large amounts of ongoing revenue for your business. ·        To liquidate inventory to make room for new inventory. Inventory that doesn't move is costly. Coupons help create urgency that drives customers to buy now!(Children's Orchard filled up their store and parking lot with several hundred customers only 24 hours after MoneySaver mailed their "$5 Fill A Bag Sale") ·        To lessen the blow of price increases on your customers. If you need to raise prices, you can offer a coupon as a good will gesture that will lessen the pain of the price increase and keep customers happy. ·        To introduce new or improved products/or services. New stuff is exciting! People love it. If you are introducing a new product or service - offer a coupon. A good coupon mixed with the curiosity of a something new will make purchasing your product or service almost irresistible for some prospects and customers.  ·        To encourage repeat business from current customers. Just because a customer comes once, doesn't mean they will automatically come back over and over again. Even current customers need to be reminded to buy and evenenticedto buy.  Incentives for current customers will increase the frequency and amount of their purchases. ·        To help ensure that a customer triesyouinstead of a competitor. Often the first company a customer tries in a given industry is the one they stick with. A well-executed coupon campaign can help steer a customer to youbeforethey try any of your competitors.(We had two competitors run in the same issues on back to back months. They offered nearly identical services. One had a strong coupon offer, the other had a weak offer with an ad that had a dual focus..guess who booked more business?) ·        To increase market share bystealingcustomers fromyour competitor(s). If a customer is already buying from a competitor, a coupon may be just the thing that motivates them to at least give you a try. ·        To persuade "brand switchers" or those who aren't completely loyal to a particular brand (yet) to try your product. There are certain consumers who are very brand loyal. No amount of couponing (or anything else for that matter) is likely to woo them away from their brand of choice. But there is an ever growing group of consumers called "brand switchers" who aren't as fiercely loyal. They are open to trying new products and brands from time to time.  ·        To encourage customers to buy larger quantities (quantity discount). One of the fundamental ways to grow you business is to raise your average ticket. People will usually spend more with you if you give them some kind of incentive to do so.  ·        To encourage people to buy your higher margin goods. If you have a product with fat margins offer an attractive discount to get a customer to try it. Then when they make repeat purchases you can get them to pay full price (and full margin) or close to it. ·        To help a customer rationalize or justify a purchase. All purchases are made for emotional reasons and justified with logic. A coupon may be all a customer needs to rationalize a purchase that they have been wanting to make, but just couldn't logically justify.  ·        To announce a sale or event. Coupons are clipable and portable, making them great reminders about sales and special events.   What are the best coupon offers?   You need to make sure that your overall coupon strategy is sound, plus you need to make sure your offer is a strong one.                                                  Anything FREE Makes a big splash – but that doesn't mean you have to give away your "bread and butter" products FREE – thatcoulddiminish their perceived value.    ·        Give away a free service of some kind with the purchase of a product. If the focus of your business is to sell products, then give away a FREE service with the purchase of a product.  This is an excellent strategy for new customers. By giving away a service with the purchase of a product you may win the customer to buy your product and maybe even your service again in the future. ·        Give away a FREE product with the purchase of a service.If your primary business is selling services, then give away a free product. This allows you to offer your customer a "discount" without lowering your prices on your core business. This help your customers grow accustomed to paying full price for your service.   Quantity discounts are also effective…   If you structure quantity discounts effectively your margins may dip slightly but your total profits go up (sometimes way up). I don't know about you, but most people take dollars to the bank, not percentages…so an increase in total profits is usually good even if it means that the margins go down a little.   ·        Purchase X amount and get a bonus FREE (or a percentage discount). By utilizing this extremely effective strategy you can encourage a customer who may have only spent $60 to spend $90 or $100 (or more) just to get the free bonus. That bonus could be a tangible product or it could be a percentage discount.  ·        One for $59 or Two for $99. Make the price slightly more attractive if a customer buys two rather than one. This is great if you sell something that people need multiples of, especially any consumable products.    ·        Buy one Get the second half price. This is a great strategy to bump each sale by 50%. This offer is appealing enough to cause those who normally would have only bought one to justify buying two. Since the second product is only half price it could constitute a 50% (or more) increase in you average transaction amount. In essence this is a 25% off deal, but it sounds much bigger and more exciting. Even though the margins are slimmer (maybe very slim) on the second product you still achieve an increase in overall revenue. ·        Buy one Get one FREE. This is only appropriate for high margin, low sales price goods. Restaurant meals are great for this, so are shoes, and apparel.      Sales Events are great coupon opportunities   Also any time you host a sales event of any kind, a coupon is a great way to get people to take advantage of the sale. Coupons are powerful because the can be clipped and kept as a reminder. Here are a few tips on how to make advertising your sale via coupons a profitable venture:   ·        Mention the retail and sales price. It's better to show than tell, so when you can show a customer that without the coupon the product they want is $89, but with the coupon it's only $69 you've raised the perceived value of that coupon to $20. This can help a customer justify and rationalize the purchase they want to make. ·        Make your Coupon an invitation or a ticket to a sale. If you make the sale only good if a person brings in the coupon it makes the event seem somewhat exclusive. Everyone likes to feel like they are a part of something exclusive and this can actuallyincreasethe number of people who attend. Some times making it harder to attend makes people want it more. ·        Stress the time urgency. Always, always, always make the dates of the sale very visible. You want to stress that customers hurry so they don't miss out on the sale. If a person doesn't feel a sense of urgency its very unlikely that they will take advantage of the sale. It will soon be forgotten.   Be consistent: Those who effectively use coupons make money with them all the time…   In our files at our office we have literally dozens of glowing testimonials from area business owners who have used our direct mail coupon magazine with tremendous success. Here is a sampling:   Being a new business I have had to do a lot of advertising, and I was advised by the franchise that they have always found good success with shared mail. I followed they're advice and tried several different options. By far I have received the best response from the MoneySaver Magazine….Jeni Huelskamp, Owner, Edible Arrangements   In addition to the advertising we do for this show on our 5 radio stations, we decided this year, to put an ad and coupon in Money Saver Magazine. The ability to get printed information about our show, into thousands of homes in the area was a great opportunity that we didn't want to miss.We ended up with over 4,300 people attending the show, and many of them brought the Money Saver coupon with them…Paul Windisch, GM, Clear Channel Radio   When I first started advertising in the MoneySaver I wasn't sure that I was going to be able to reach the people that I needed, but I am very impressed. I have received business from rental property ownersand getting business from my target market…high income homes...Wendy Dukewits, Owner, Molly Maid Franchise   View Video Testimonials atwww.youtube.com/moneysavermktplace   Again it doesn't matter how sophisticated or unsophisticated your prospect is, 75% or more of them are coupon users. That means that a well-done, well-executed coupon campaign can be gold for you. It could help you bump your average ticket, increase your gross profits, increase your market share, steal business from competitors, and help you reach you overall business goals.    We are so convinced that couponing will work for you that we offer you a no-risk guarantee for everyone who tests our coupon magazine – MoneySaver Marketplace.    Best Regards, President MoneySaver Publishing, Inc 417-861-5099 chris@fastcoupons.com ...read more

By Moneysaver December 03, 2010

Related Articles View more

Making a Restaurant Menu

A restaurant’s menu presents to the customers the dishes that are served.  It is very important for the menu to represent the resta... read more

How to Serve Wine in a Restaurant

If you own or work at a fancy restaurant, you may serve wine to your guests. Although the act of serving wine may seem fairly simple, they are certain rules of etiquette that apply and should be followed. Serving wine the proper way will impress you customers. ...read more

How Do Restaurants Make Enchiladas?

Many people think that an enchilada in a restaurant is much better than anything they can ever find at home, unless they know a lot of Hispanic people. This is because a restaurant has a special way of making enchiladas that is not only delicious, but doesn't fall apart like some people find when they... ...read more

Where do you need Restaurants ?