Check out alternative newspapers for great restaurant deals. Yeah, most of those types of freebie newspapers are leftwing rags but, ironically, they are also filled with lots of capitalist coupons for restaurants. You will find a lot of 2 for 1 deals that way.
Some of the schools around us sell these Entertainment books that have lots of coupons in them. They were really great before kids because hubby and I ate out a lot. (We worked for the same company, so we could eat out at lunch and/or dinner.) When we wanted to go out, we would pick a restaraunt based on the coupons we had. It even had coupons for hotels, and we used it when we went to Hawaii. Got a decent hotel for $50/night ten years ago.
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Those are actually the only kind of local news I can get - one is a leftwing Gannett rag and the other is an independent - interestingly enough it's the independant that is free and not left wing - the other I have to pay for - but you are right about the coupons for local places and not just restaurants.