Seated App Will Pay You to Eat at Your City’s Best Restaurants

What if you could treat yourself to a great meal and earn money while you dine? That's the idea behind Seated, an app that rewards you for keeping reservations at highly-rated restaurants near you, Esquire reports.

Seated delivers exactly what it promises: Just download the free app onto your Android or iOS device and use it to search available reservation times at restaurants in your city. Picking a place to eat shouldn't be too difficult: Seated only features quality restaurants that have been vetted by their team of foodies.

After making the reservation, showing up to the restaurant, and paying for your meal, you can claim your reward. Upload a photo of your receipt to the app and Seated will send you a reward code within 24 hours that's worth up to 30 percent of the cost of your bill. You can redeem it to receive cash credits at places like Amazon, Lyft, and Starbucks.

The deal may sound too good to be true for users, but the restaurants benefit as well: Diners can only claim their reward by eating at the restaurant and spending a minimum amount, so Seated encourages customers to keep any reservations they make. Plus, for every reservation made through the app, Seated donates one meal to a hungry child through the United Nations World Food Programme's #ShareTheMeal initiative—something all parties involved can feel good about.

If you like to dine out in New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, or Atlanta, you can find Seated in the App Store or Google Play store and download it today. And if you're looking for more apps that earn you money, this one rewards you just for getting up off the couch and going somewhere—anywhere.

[h/t Esquire]