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10% off Restaurant Choice and Uber / Uber Eats Gift Cards (In-Store Only) @ Coles

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Hiphopopotamus on 30/12/2025 - 17:19 coles.com.au (1002 clicks)
Last edited 30/12/2025 - 17:34 by 1 other user
  • Runs from Wed 7 Jan to Tue 13 Jan 2026
  • Only available in-store at Coles
  • Limit of five gift cards per customer

How to use Uber gift cards to pay for past Uber and Uber Eats purchases

Gift Card Where is this gift card accepted?
Restaurant Choice Merchants around Australia categorised as Caterers (MCC 5811), Eating Places and Restaurants (MCC 5812), Drinking Places (MCC 5813), Fast Food Restaurants (MCC 5814), Hotels, Motels & Resorts, Central Merchant (MCC 7011) and Amusement Parks, Circuses, Carnivals, and Fortune Tellers (MCC 7996). Gift card subject to individual merchant acceptance. (Please refer to this table for more information.)
Uber / Uber Eats The Uber website/app for Uber rides, or the Uber Eats website/app for Uber Eats orders. Gift cards issued in Australia can only be redeemed in Australia.

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  • Stevendkl on 30/12/2025 - 17:48
    +5

    GCDB: This offer includes the coveted $50-500 variable load Restaurant Choice gift card, meaning you don’t need to manage multiple smaller value gift cards.

    • wildstone on 30/12/2025 - 17:52
      +1

      Still, what is the best way to use off the remaining small value? Does not seem to have a good way to do that.

      • Stevendkl on 30/12/2025 - 17:54
        +1

        Mcdonald 50c soft serve

        • cuteduck on 30/12/2025 - 18:36

          Can u split payment at McD?

          • Craze on 30/12/2025 - 21:37
            +2

            @cuteduck: Yes: although it's a card + cash only combo which is inconvenient as you'll have to plan for the cash change. Use it at other places like KFC, Grill'd, RR which allows split payment across two different cards.

      • MiscOzB on 30/12/2025 - 18:11

        Split payments at stores that accept them, e.g. Zarraffas. Been a few other stores mentioned in previous posts.

        • wildstone on 30/12/2025 - 18:38
          +6

          Can you list them again? May be we need a wiki page for it ….

          • Soulja Sam on 30/12/2025 - 20:38
            +1

            @wildstone: I know first-hand that Grill'd does split payment.

            • wildstone on 31/12/2025 - 00:41

              @Soulja Sam: They are okay with splitting multiple cards with each of them $1-$5?

              • Soulja Sam on 31/12/2025 - 00:53

                @wildstone: Yes, I have done multiple small denominations without any issues.

                • wildstone on 31/12/2025 - 11:54

                  @Soulja Sam: Good to know, next time I'll visit Grill to use up all remaining cards.

        • cynix on 30/12/2025 - 23:30

          I tried asking for split payment at KFC once, but they said they can only do that if paying by cash… doesn't make sense but I didn't want to hold up the queue :(

          • test8888 on 31/12/2025 - 00:48
            +3

            @cynix: I did 2 times split pay at KFC a few days ago, it could rely on the staff if well trained / has exp or willing to do so.

            • test8888 on 01/01/2026 - 15:10
              +1

              @test8888: for anyone interesting, I bought meal "2 for $5 2-5pm" (picked 4wings) plus free 600ml drink from quick survey (they don't check the code).
              split pay 2 times with 3 cards, so far eliminated 5x small amount cards in 2days.

      • ltzJack on 30/12/2025 - 22:35
        +1

        Sushi Hub does split payment for multiple cards. If you are in Sydney, I know Nichi Getsu Do (Japanese Ramen) also accepts split payment.

  • Poor Ass on 30/12/2025 - 18:09

    wow this is a new one

    usually they have it once a year around June or July for the variable Restaurant Choice gift card

    time to stock up

    • FatTofu on 30/12/2025 - 18:56

      $500 * 5 = $2,500 worth of card in one transaction?

      • Poor Ass on 30/12/2025 - 19:36

        ya I've done before but you need to watch who you get

        you need the manager to approve it because regular staff have to call them over for approval

        try like ciggy counter

        pretty sure i got more than 10k last time in July

  • ginger-gin on 30/12/2025 - 18:28

    Can we convert the restaurant choice to the e-card to add to apple wallet?

    • JordanM on 30/12/2025 - 19:04
      +6

      Yes, but it's not converted just added.

      The Physical Card remains valid.

  • UnnecessarySpendings on 30/12/2025 - 18:30
    -7

    Immediately convert all physical gift cards to digital if possible, otherwise there is a significant chance another party has modified your physical gift cards.

    • FatTofu on 30/12/2025 - 18:58

      Does digital card make the physical one no longer usable?

      • WookieMonster on 30/12/2025 - 20:14
        +3

        For Restaurant Choice gift cards, no. The physical gift card remains active, and you have a digital copy of it stored on a mobile wallet. (You also can only store a gift card on one device's mobile wallet.)

        The comment you replied to is completely non-sensical for Restaurant Choice gift cards (and Uber / Uber Eats gift cards). I suspect that commenter had TCN experience gift cards in mind (e.g. TCN Good Food gift card, TCN Restaurant gift card).

        • OnlyHans on 30/12/2025 - 21:03
          +3

          It was indeed TCN Good Food.

        • UnnecessarySpendings on 01/01/2026 - 10:33
          +1

          Correct it was TCN GoodFood. I had incorrectly assumed going digital would cancel the physical for Restaurant Choice gift cards. Since that is the case, I would say these physical gift cards carry too high a risk to be worth 10% discount.

  • magster on 30/12/2025 - 18:34
    +4

    My mum bought 5x $500 last time and they were all used up by scammers within the following month. Still waiting for a refund from Blackhawk, it’s been a big headache.

    • bcYield on 30/12/2025 - 19:02
      +3

      Scammers had to eat out a lot unless they can resell or redirect the food

    • cloudy on 30/12/2025 - 20:19
      +2

      I haven’t heard of restaurant cards been used by scammers.

      Anyone explain how it works and best way to protect against it?

      • OnlyHans on 30/12/2025 - 21:10
        +2

        There was some discussion back in July.

      • cynix on 30/12/2025 - 23:16
        +1

        FWIW, I raised a dispute on cardbalance.com.au back then, and it took them just over a month to resolve it in my favour. I received a replacement card.

        I can't think of a good way to protect against this. Blackhawk says the fraudulent transactions were made using a mobile wallet (not my device, obviously). Given that the scammer appears to be located in a different state, and there was no sign of tampering on the physical card's packaging when I bought it, I can only assume the scammer simply guessed/bruteforced the card number, expiry date, and CVV. Perhaps these physical cards have roughly sequential card numbers or something that makes it easy.

        It seems Blackhawk has at least made a half-arsed attempt to thwart bruteforcing: they introduced a restriction some time around September where you have to wait something like 24 hours after adding a card to your mobile wallet before you can add another one. Not sure if this restriction applies per card type (i.e. Restaurant Choice, Activ Visa, or whatever), or across all Blackhawk prepaid cards.

        • WookieMonster on 30/12/2025 - 23:19
          +3

          Another restriction (probably) introduced around the same time is that you can only have a particular gift card added to one mobile wallet.

          For example, if you add a Restaurant Choice gift card to an Apple Pay wallet on one device, you cannot add the same Restaurant Choice gift card to an Apple Pay wallet on another Apple device, Samsung Wallet on another device, etc.

          • cynix on 30/12/2025 - 23:26
            +1

            @WookieMonster: Yeah I saw that on their website, but haven't verified it myself.

            I think it might be a double-edged sword though. If a card can only be added to one device at a time, you'll certainly want to add all your cards to your phone as soon as you buy them. But the 24-hour delay means it might take several days before you can finish adding all your cards, which might give scammers additional time to steal them if they somehow get hold of the card details…

          • YesPleaseThankYou on 11/01/2026 - 13:20

            @WookieMonster: This 1-device restriction is very annoying — prevents me from adding to iPhone and Apple Watch.

  • yoyo6 on 30/12/2025 - 19:14
    +1

    the difficulty with these is that all the restaurants add a surcharge. Usually when you ask them how much it is, they don't even know. I recently had a number of $100 gift cards and had to keep asking them to try different amounts until it worked. Still, love it for the savings even though I am often wasting $1 per card.

    • wildstone on 30/12/2025 - 19:18
      +1

      Isn't that the same if you are using normal CC? The key is to able to find restaurant to split payment.

      • t25 on 30/12/2025 - 21:03

        I would rather they split payment and add the surcharge at the end. Otherwise I have to work backwards and some restaurants find that too hard.

      • WookieMonster on 30/12/2025 - 21:11
        +2

        The key is being able to find an eatery that can do split payments based on the dollar/cents amounts.

        The last few restaurants I have been to have only been able to split payments based on items on the bill.

        Then there is the pizza restaurant I once went to that would apply a 5% surcharge if I requested split bills…

  • Robin2012 on 30/12/2025 - 20:36

    great

  • BargainTim on 30/12/2025 - 21:42
    +1

    Trying to find it mentioned elsewhere in wiki or other recent gift card deals but I cannot seem to find it. I have seen talks about limits on Cat Choice Groceries cards at what I believe were all self service terminals (Some suggest $280 limit, some suggest $270 limit) but is it any different buying from a checkout staff? Has anyone tried more than $280 at a manned register and did it work?

    • MiscOzB on 30/12/2025 - 22:08
      +2

      Happens at manned registers too, I tried front counter the other day and had rejected payment due to the limit.

    • Savingsonsavings on 07/01/2026 - 16:40
      +2

      Tried today at self checkout with cat choice - $243 didnt work -declined. When i put through $180 ($200 face value) it worked

  • Craze on 30/12/2025 - 21:47
    +3

    The biggest gripe with this card (vs TCN Restaurant card) is that it doesn't work with some online payment system (KFC is an example) so won't work trying to order and pay via app (but will work for payment in store via POS).

    • WookieMonster on 30/12/2025 - 21:59
      +1

      Another example I ran into recently is a restaurant using an online ordering system provided by Foodhub (including when trying to pay via Apple Pay).

      • Craze on 30/12/2025 - 22:01

        Would it be a security feature? Why the difference when paying via app vs POS?

        If it wasn't for this hurdle/restriction I'd say Restaurant Choice is definitely far superior to TCN Restaurant, but I'm forced to have both to enable in app payments.

        • WookieMonster on 30/12/2025 - 22:07
          +4

          It is likely a security "feature".

          The Foodhub online payment portal does not reject TCN Good Food gift cards nor TCN Restaurant gift cards (either direct or via Apple Pay), so I suspect it is something to do with Foodhub not liking prepaid Visa gift cards (or Restaurant/Café Choice gift cards, more specifically) when you are making a payment online.1

          I have also used an in-store Foodhub kiosk at the same restaurant and Restaurant Choice gift cards work fine there via contactless, so it further illustrates it is most likely some weird security "feature" related to the fact that Restaurant Choice gift cards are functionally prepaid Visa gift cards. (I have also noticed whenever I pay using a mobile wallet at this kiosk, the card number printed on the receipt is of the actual card number, not the virtual card number assigned to the mobile wallet. Unusual.)

          1. I know it is Foodhub rejecting them, as there are no declined transactions on Apple Pay, plus Blackhawk Network customer service previously told me they cannot see any declined transactions from Foodhub on multiple Restaurant Choice gift cards. ↩

          • MiscOzB on 30/12/2025 - 22:15
            +2

            @WookieMonster: @Craze To add to this, Wookie also posted about this in a previous deal here

            • Craze on 30/12/2025 - 22:17
              +1

              @MiscOzB: Do you guys just save/bookmark specific comments to make quick references in future?

              • MiscOzB on 30/12/2025 - 22:19
                +1

                @Craze: Nah I just saw that again after reading about the hacker part linked above.

    • sam180580 on 30/12/2025 - 23:25
      -1

      I experienced that it does work with KFC online but for order value of less than $30

    • Poor Ass on 06/01/2026 - 18:25
      +1

      I can confirm this

      It is because KFC app uses a SMS verification and TCN rest card can but Rest Choice cannot as its not a digital card but physical card that can be added to GPay / Apple Pay no sms feature

      • Fobsessive on 07/01/2026 - 00:33

        We need a widely accepted shorter word for restaurant

  • epicttiimm on 31/12/2025 - 00:05

    hmmm anyone tried using the Restaurant Choice card on EatClub?

    • kokoikaka on 31/12/2025 - 00:20
      +1

      Yes, been using it for a while.

      • Aqualover on 06/01/2026 - 00:37

        Wait, you can do that?

        • aiyoyo on 09/01/2026 - 19:09

          Not anymore! I just tried!

    • brisdaz on 06/01/2026 - 09:46

      So there's one confirmation. Anyone else?

      • RTY on 06/01/2026 - 12:14

        I've been using it on eatclub for at least a year. TCN works as well.

        • Bettyboo on 08/01/2026 - 09:20

          Can you please explain how to put restaurant choice giftcard into eatclub? Do you use app or desktop to fo it etc.

          • RTY on 08/01/2026 - 09:26

            @Bettyboo: You put the card number in payment details like a regular card

            • Bettyboo on 08/01/2026 - 09:50

              @RTY: Thanks, it works now. I have to put as default the previous cc.

              • aiyoyo on 09/01/2026 - 19:10

                @Bettyboo: Not anymore! I just tried!

                • Craze on 10/01/2026 - 10:48

                  @aiyoyo: Is this with the updated EatClub payment card? I was checking it couple of nights ago and it prompted me to update payment card (which I did). Haven't used it though.

                  • aiyoyo on 10/01/2026 - 14:33

                    @Craze: Yes with the recently payment card update.

                    • Craze on 10/01/2026 - 19:55

                      @aiyoyo: That sucks! Wonder how long we can delay the card update if they patched the hack with the new one.

      • Poor Ass on 06/01/2026 - 18:26

        yes I do it all the time and same with Good Food Card and TCN rest

      • Fobsessive on 07/01/2026 - 00:32

        Yes. It covers the Eatclub fee plus a bit more

      • highwind on 07/01/2026 - 02:18

        I did so about 2 weeks ago for the first time. Stressed about it failing, but it linked and worked no issues

  • spiderbite88 on 31/12/2025 - 14:30

    Has any one tried using Restaurant Choice on macros.com.au?

  • vLox on 31/12/2025 - 15:12

    i buy restaurant choice from coles before, but i can't add on my apple wallet/pay. anyone have same problem? or it is normal?

    • 7bobas on 31/12/2025 - 16:52

      I find that there is a time limit on how many cards you can add in a certain amount of time (not sure what the amount of time is), I have since bought another phone that supports Google Pay and have never had an issue since.

      • vLox on 31/12/2025 - 17:00

        i just add 3 card on my apple pay. it's fine with my samsung but i change to apple now.

  • chrig on 03/01/2026 - 09:33
    +1

    Another way of dealing with the small balances is at local cafes. Both the ones near me are happy to split to get every part of the value off the card

    • Poor Ass on 06/01/2026 - 18:27
      +1

      my local cafe is cool with it but I work the out the surcharge for them so it's easier

      sometimes i just end up using their eftpos machine and punch the the correct amount if I am using multiple cards they are so cool with it

  • kokoikaka on 03/01/2026 - 19:55

    Anyone know if Restaurant Choice works with Kris+ app?

    • Craze on 06/01/2026 - 14:06
      +1

      I can't remember if I used Restaurant Choice or TCN Restaurant at the time which worked on Kris+ app.

  • unity1 on 07/01/2026 - 07:05

    If you are looking for the variable load card, Coles at Mountaingate Victoria have heaps

    • JHoliday on 07/01/2026 - 08:28

      So variable load is included in this 10% off deal? Can see it listed in the original description or subject

    • unity1 on 07/01/2026 - 08:28

      That’s for the Restaurant Choice gift card

  • unity1 on 07/01/2026 - 08:29

    Yes, I made the purchase first thing this morning. The variable is definitely included.

  • user1110 on 07/01/2026 - 09:43

    i went doncaster east and doncaster coles at 8am, already ran out variable one.

    • sicarz on 07/01/2026 - 11:00

      Depending on your Coles. There is the usual wall of gift cards and then some of the served checkout counters have a small mini wall of gift cards. Check both! At my local, the main wall had run out of variable cards, but in the served checkout line there were a bunch of variable loads hidden behind a few $100 load cards - looks like someone was hiding them maybe!! =D

  • BargainTim on 07/01/2026 - 10:37
    +1

    Has anyone been able to use the Category Choice Groceries card to buy the variable load restaurant card? I just tried to buy a $300 card for $270 (which is what I read to be the cat Choice limit) and I also put in $20 cash to bring down to $250 just to be sure and then it would not accept cat Choice card.

    Unsure if I came undone because someone used a Cat Choice card at the same terminal within the 10 minute cool down or if they have blocked using this card to buy other cards at Coles.

    • Fobsessive on 07/01/2026 - 13:16

      I just tried to buy a $500 RC for $450 at the terminal with Category Choice Groceries and it declined :(

    • test8888 on 07/01/2026 - 13:31
      +3

      definitely limited to $200 each transaction. tested the same as others met https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/17253568/redir

      • Fobsessive on 07/01/2026 - 15:20

        Tried $200 at Coles, approved.
        Wonder see if split payment works.
        Already paid for a $500 FV earlier without
        Choice Groceries benefits.
        Guess that's dollar-cost averaging…

  • denxhh on 07/01/2026 - 12:09
    +3

    What's the risk level of these cards being tampered and drained? Feel a bit scared to make the $500 purchase ….

    • kokoikaka on 07/01/2026 - 13:58
      +4

      Should be low if you are only buying one then add it to your mobile wallet asap. At least that should stop scammer add it to their phone since it’s restricted to only one mobile device.

      • delfredo on 08/01/2026 - 17:27

        Is it unique to restaurant choice card that it can only be added to one mobile device only?

        • WookieMonster on 08/01/2026 - 21:43

          It is a feature that Blackhawk Network currently uses for all their prepaid gift cards supporting mobile wallets (e.g. Restaurant Choice gift cards, Category Choice gift cards, Activ Visa gift cards).

          • unity1 on 09/01/2026 - 07:15

            @WookieMonster: Any restriction on the the number of their gift cards in someone’s digital wallet?

            • WookieMonster on 09/01/2026 - 11:37
              +3

              @unity1: In terms of BHN, I think they do not have a limit on the number of their gift cards you can have on a mobile wallet at any one time. My Apple Pay wallet at one point this week had 13 BHN gift cards on it at the same time. Having said that, you would not be able to add anywhere near 13 BHN gift cards to the same Apple Pay wallet in a short period of time: I added a Category Choice Groceries gift card to my Apple Pay wallet on Tuesday night, but when I tried to add a Restaurant Choice gift card to the same Apple Pay wallet on Wednesday morning, I got the card not supported error.

              In terms of the digital wallet itself, it depends on whether that has its own card limits. For example:

              1. Apparently you can still hit a hardware limit, but it looks like you need to have many cards added to your Apple Pay wallet for that to be an issue. ↩

              2. This is a link from an Australian banking website also stating there is a ten payment card limit. ↩

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