Yelp can be hit or miss, but it comes in handy when you want to answer the age-old question: where should we eat? They’ve recently added an incentive: Yelp Cash Back. It’s your standard rewards program that lets you save up to ten percent at restaurants.


Once you sign up for the service, you link your credit and debit cards, and anytime you use that card at a participating business, you’ll automatically get cash back on your purchases. When you search Yelp, you can now see which restaurants and retailers offer this incentive, as pictured in the screenshot above.


In a blog post, Yelp reported:

Today, Yelp Cash Back is available at a variety of restaurants and bars across the US through our partnership with Empyr. There are tons of great options in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, and more. Just search for “Cash Back” on Yelp to find those nearby. We’ll be adding more types of businesses soon so that Yelpers can get cash rewards on even more kinds of local purchases.

The program isn’t available for online orders or food delivery. Of course, in order to use the program, you have to link your credit cards, and that means your credit card issuer will share transaction details with Yelp. As for security, Yelp says it follows “generally accepted industry standards” but doesn’t detail what those standards are. However, you can read their full terms here and their privacy policy here.

To check it out for yourself, head to the links below.

Earn Rewards and Save at Local Businesses With Yelp Cash Back | Yelp