it seems like every single fast-food restaurant finally has an app but to be
honest most of the apps don't even work that well and so I'm gonna explain which
ones are actually good I mean if mobile ordering is important
to you then all of these apps are gonna work just fine but I'm talking about
deals and reward points because those are actually gonna save me money and
that's what's important to me so in this video I'm gonna cover the three best
fast food apps that are gonna save you money and you're not gonna want to
delete them off your phone because they don't actually suck and then I'll also
show you the key features of all these different apps on my phone so that you
can see for yourself if there's something that you'd actually want or
not now if you just found this channel I'm Jason with honest finance and I make
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more value so feel free to subscribe if you guys want to but now let's just
start talking about these fast food apps okay so the first app that made my list
is actually the best one in my opinion and this one goes to McDonald's because
the app is freaking amazing so unless you don't like McDonald's for some
reason then I'd for sure get this app over the other two that I'm going to
talk about because it really does do everything and it's not very glitchy
like some of the other apps can be they've got their own mobile ordering
parking spots just for using the app if they always have really good deals and
then on top of that their promotions are always really up to date whenever you're
using the app the McDonald's app gives you tons of really good promotions based
on your location and the deals are actually really good compared to a lot
of the other apps and then just remember that I'll show you guys all of the key
features of these different apps once I get through this list now the next app
that made my list is actually chick-fil-a because their app is based
on reward points and it's really easy to use so basically every time you buy
stuff from chick-fil-a they're gonna give you reward points which you can
later spend on different food items but they're also going to give you free
random stuff as well just for being signed up for the app however I will say
that the old app that chick-fil-a used to use was complete garbage and had they
not redesigned it about six months ago this app would have never made my list
but because of the redesign the app is so much better now and it's so much
easier to use all because of these changes and I would definitely recommend
trying it out now the last one on my list goes to 7-eleven and I know they're
not the normal kind of fast-food that you think of but just hear me out
the reason 7-eleven made my list is because even if you look at the huge
companies like Burger King or Subway they're always just too confusing and
that's where 7-eleven works the best because their app is really easy to use
and it's never confusing and trust me if you go out and download a bunch of
different fast-food apps you're gonna see what I'm talking about about being
confusing because a lot of them are just gonna pack in way too many features and
they want you to do everything at the same time and it just gets too confusing
and that's where 7-eleven shines because of the simplicity the easiest feature
that 7-eleven offers is that you're always going to get your seventh drink
cup free so if you drink coffee or soda then that's a really good feature to
have just for using the app they also have reward points too so everything
that you buy from 7-eleven is going to get you points that you can spend on
random stuff as well and then on top of that they'll always have tons of deals
they can get you bonus points and then they'll have coupons on the app as well
and I don't know if you've ever bought much food from them but they have a lot
of really good prices and they have a pretty good selection of hot food that
you can eat throughout the day now let's hop into my phone and I'm going to show
you guys the key features of these different apps and I'm going to start
with 7-eleven because that's the one that we were just talking about okay so
when you open up the 7-eleven app you're gonna see this giant circle up at the
top and that's got all of your points inside of it so it looks like I've got
eighty nine hundred points so far and I'm gonna show you guys how to redeem
some of those points so just click on choose Rewards that's the little button
right under the points I'm gonna click that right now inside of that it's gonna
start you out at the two thousand point category but I'm gonna back down until I
get to the eight hundred point tier so each of these just takes up 800 points
taquitos Donuts little drinks and stuff like that and then when you redeem those
they'll just take away that many points and then you get them for free so moving
on to the 1200 point category we've got candy bars sodas chips stuff like that
so it just keeps getting better and then let's move on to 1500 point we got fancy
waters drinks bigger candy bars stuff like that and then in the 2000 point
category that's as high as it goes but they've got big fresh deli breakfast
sandwiches giant 12 ounce Red Bulls and monsters salads pizzas and the biggest
stuff that they offer so that's how that works for the rewards you just spend
your points on the stuff that they have in the and these different categories so
let's go back to the main menu here and you're gonna see scrolling down a little
bit you're gonna see the 7th cup is free so I've got three marks on that
meaning that I'm almost halfway there and then they've got these little grade
ones out I haven't used any of these but pure 1 litre water barrier and cheez-its
looks like those are little promotional things you can do to get those for free
as well if you buy seven down here if you click on deals that's just going to
take you to the deals category and that is gonna have all of the different
bonuses that you can get for buying stuff so looking up at the top and these
little recommendations they've got 200 bonus points when I buy it looks like a
drink and chips 400 bonus points when I buy a hot dog and a drink so those are
just recommendations from me and then if you go down here to the categories we've
got fresh foods combos drinks energy just click on any of those I'll gonna
click on combos and that's going to have all of the different point bonuses that
you can get through here but if you scroll down all the way to the bottom
they're just gonna have the regular deals so looking up at the top here I've
got a four meal deal by any two Pepsi or Mountain Dew 20-ounce and two pizza
slices for four bucks so those are just regular deals but towards the top of
here we've got the bonus point offerings so it looks like those are definitely
being used in the app and then anytime you ever redeem anything if you just
click down here on my rewards that's where everything's going to show up so
just go inside of there to check your purchase history and all of that kind of
stuff to see that you're actually getting your stuff for free when you
redeem the points and that is how 7-eleven app works it's really simple
every time you just go into 7-eleven just have them zap this QR code whenever
you open up the app and then that's it okay so when you open up the chick-fil-a
app you've got all of these different options here at the bottom you've got
menu rewards scan account and my order and honestly a lot of these features I
really don't care about I don't care about their menu I don't care about
finding a restaurant but if that's something that you're interested in then
at least the app offers it the main thing that I'm into here at the bottom
you're going to see rewards just click on that and it tells me right here that
I am a silver member and I've got eleven hundred and twenty seven points right
now and then it tells me that I've earned a total of twenty seven hundred
and if I earn another twenty two hundred and seventy four then I'm going to earn
read status and the way you can tell what those statuses are is you just go
down here it says right here I'm a silver member so I get one dollar equals
11 points the basic one you're gonna get one dollar equals ten points and then
the best member is the red member and that's one dollar equals twelve points
so you get more points for your dollar based on your tier but I'm a silver
right now and it says right here your chick-fil-a one silver status is valid
through eight nine of twenty so I've still got quite a while that I'm a
silver member and I'm not gonna lose that status so what you're gonna do now
inside of rewards is just click on redeem right here at the top so click on
that and then you're gonna see all of the different categories here so I've
got eleven hundred points and that's actually quite a lot to get stuff so a
lot of the time you can just base it off of what you feel like or based on the
value of what you're buying so as you scroll down the points are just going to
go higher but then as soon as you get to the highest point this is where you can
get the really fancy stuff so let's go all the way to the highest tier here
there we go we're getting up to 800 points for four
count chicken strips fancy sandwiches and looks like 1500 points I don't even
have that many so those are grayed out and that's as high as you can go if you
click up here up at the my rewards at the top right there just gonna throw
stuff in there randomly like on your birthday or just even when you don't
expect it and they're just gonna give you stuff in there or that's where your
redemptions are gonna go as well so you can see kind of what you're ready to buy
and get it for free whenever you go into the restaurant just make sure to click
the scan thing right down here at the bottom so just click this and then
they're gonna have little zappers at each of the different registers just
make sure to zap this QR code whenever you're ordering stuff and then your
points will be accumulated usually within 24 hours it seems to be pretty
quick and then that's all there is to chick-fil-a okay so when you open up the
McDonald's app they're gonna have all of their ads here up at the top so because
I'm shooting this in March they've got the shamrock shake and they've got a
little offering up there and then they've got the menu right here and if
you click into this this is just going to make it so that you can actually
order things from the app and just like all the other apps you can
order you can go pick it up but the different thing about McDonald's is that
they've actually got special spots outside in their parking lots just for
mobile ordering so you can either do that and they can bring the food to you
or you can go through the drive-thru and pick up your mobile order or you can go
inside and pick it up just depending on your preference so I don't really use
this feature but apparently a lot of people do but that's just not my thing
my thing with the McDonald's app is the deals so if you click down here on the
bottom center you're gonna see the little deals icon just click that and
then that's going to have all of their deals based on your location
so the McCafe if you drink that kind of stuff they got these little buy five get
one free kind of thing and that's always going on and then the big thing here is
that like you can get a dollar frie large fry you can get free any size soft
drink with the purchase of medium or large fries dollar off Big Macs the new
bacon ones buy hotcakes get one for a penny so a lot of the stuff you do have
to have another person with you to get the best value out of it but mainly the
kind of stuff that I do is like a dollar large fry or I get a free drink and I
use those kind of coupons all the time so whenever you want to use a coupon you
just click on it and then you click this little scan at restaurant thing and it's
gonna say are you sure you want to use this deal because you're limited to one
deal per visit so go ahead share I'll use it and it pulls up this QR code and
your phone goes really bright so that they can't miss it you just click that
have them scan it and then boom you've got yourself the deal that's all there
is for McDonald's it works extremely well and they have a lot of really good
deals so definitely take advantage of it every time you're at McDonald's and just
see what they have to offer sometimes they might not have a deal that's for
you but I would say 90% of the time you can find something that's gonna save you
some money now that you're a lot more familiar with these apps I want you to
download them for yourself and try them out because honestly they really do save
me a lot of money and I think they can do the same thing for you so just try
them and then make sure to comment down below and tell me which app you're gonna
try first because I really want to see which one is the most popular out of all
the three that I just talked about and then once again I'm Jason with honest
finance and I make a lot of video on different topics that will give your
life and your finances more value so definitely subscribe if you guys want to
or you can just check out one of my other videos over here like making money
by searching online which is a pretty good one but that's all for now