How Does Groupon Work?

Groupon does have a sliding scale. When i was heavy into offline one of
my clients was a popular BBQ and his split with Groupon was 80/20. When i asked him how he got such a great split he stated that they called him and he
just hold out.

Most businesses are doing Groupon wrong. The allow customers to come in redeem the promotion without getting a lick of information and hope that the like the place to come back.

Well good luck with that.

I noticed the "fine print"... the "promotional value" can be set to end at a certain date but the monetary value persists till used. That's some help I suppose. (I.e. if you pay $20 you still get that value towards normally priced food instead of the initial promotion.)

I think if I were running a restaurant, I'd only want the promotions to be good during times things would be slack anyway.