For restaurants & bistros
The restaurant loyalty program your lunch regulars will actually use
Weekday lunch is won on repeat guests, not walk-ins. Stampit puts a stamp card in the phone wallet they already carry — one stamp per visit, a free main after ten, and no paper slowing down your lunch line.
- No app for guests
- Set up in 15 minutes
- Free trial
Three problems every weekday restaurant knows
Your best guests are invisible
The accountant who eats your lunch menu every Tuesday and Thursday looks exactly like a walk-in at the till. You can't thank the people who quietly carry your weekday revenue — because you can't see them.
Paper cards die in the lunch rush
Between 12:00 and 13:30 nobody has time to dig a card out of a wallet, find the rubber stamp, and hold up the queue. So the card stays in the drawer and the program stays theoretical.
No way to fill the quiet evenings
Tuesday night is half empty and your only channels are a social post nobody sees and an email list you never built. Your lunch regulars would come — if you had any way to reach them.
How it works during service
Built for the lunch rush — joining and stamping are faster than paying.
Set up your card once
Pick your logo, colors, stamp icon and reward in the Stampit dashboard. Most restaurants stamp per visit with a minimum spend, or per lunch menu — a working card takes about 15 minutes.
Guests scan a QR code
A small stand by the till or a card on each table. One scan and your card lands in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet — no app download, no sign-up form, no email.
Staff stamp in one tap
Servers scan the guest's pass with the Stampit Partners app or tap phones via NFC while taking payment. Every team member has their own login, so every stamp is traceable.
What a restaurant card should look like
The setup that fits a bistro's economics: one stamp per visit on the lunch menu, tenth lunch free. At a 12 € lunch, a guest spends 108 € across nine visits to earn a 12 € reward — right at the healthy 10% mark, and you fund it at food cost, not menu price.
A regular who comes twice a week completes the card in about five weeks — inside the 4–8-visit-per-reward-cycle rule of thumb where the goal still feels reachable. Research on stamp cards (the goal-gradient studies by Kivetz, Urminsky and Zheng, 2006) shows guests speed up as the reward gets closer, so the second half of the card fills faster than the first.
Two settings worth switching on from day one: start every new card with one stamp already given — Nunes and Drèze (2006) showed cards with visible head-start progress get completed far more often — and set a minimum spend per stamp so a coffee at the bar doesn't count the same as a two-course lunch.
You can change the card length, reward and minimum spend any time in the dashboard — no reprinting, every card updates itself in the guest's wallet.
Built for how a restaurant actually runs
Lives in the wallet app
Apple Wallet and Google Wallet — the same place as boarding passes. Always in the phone your guest is already holding when the bill arrives.
No app, no sign-up
Guests join by scanning a QR code on the table or at the till. No download, no account, no form — joining takes less time than splitting the bill.
This week's menu, on the card
Push your weekly lunch menu straight onto the pass in your regulars' wallets every Monday morning — no email list, no print run, no social algorithm in the way.
A nudge at exactly 11:45
Location-aware passes can surface on the lock screen when a card holder is near your restaurant — a quiet reminder right when they're deciding where to eat lunch.
Numbers instead of guesses
Cards issued, active cards, stamps given, rewards redeemed — per location, in one dashboard. See how many of today's covers were repeat guests.
One card, all your locations
Two bistros or a restaurant and a takeaway counter? Stamps add up across all of them, and you can see how many regulars move between locations.
Questions restaurants ask us
Do my guests need to install an app?
No. The loyalty card is a pass in Apple Wallet or Google Wallet — the same place as boarding passes and event tickets. Guests add it by scanning a QR code, in a few taps. An optional Stampit app exists for guests who want all their cards in one place, but it is never required.
Should I stamp per visit or per amount spent?
For restaurants, one stamp per visit with a minimum spend is the setup that works best — it keeps stamping instant during service and stops a single espresso from counting like a full lunch. Many bistros simply tie the stamp to the lunch menu. You choose the rule when you set up the card and can change it any time.
How do servers give stamps during the lunch rush?
They scan the guest's pass with the Stampit Partners app or tap phones via NFC — it takes about as long as a contactless payment and fits naturally into the moment the bill is settled. Every team member has their own login, so stamps are traceable and cards can't be self-stamped.
Can I use the card to bring lunch guests in for dinner?
Yes. You can push news and offers straight onto the pass in your guests' wallets — a weekend menu, a quiet-Tuesday offer, a seasonal tasting. Your lunch regulars are the easiest dinner guests to win, and the card finally gives you a channel to reach them.
What should the reward be?
A free main course or a free dessert after 8–10 visits is the proven pattern. As a rule of thumb, keep the reward worth roughly 5–10% of what a guest spends to earn it, and expect a healthy program to see 20–40% of completed cards redeemed.
What does it cost?
Stampit starts with a free trial, and plans scale with your business — see the pricing page for current tiers. There is no long-term contract and no per-stamp fee.
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Your lunch regulars already chose you. Keep them.
Create your restaurant's digital stamp card today — free trial, no app for guests, live before tomorrow's lunch service.