For an undisclosed amount.
A group of demonstrators says LivingSocial’s recreational packages featuring guns followed by alcohol are turning it into “DyingSocial.”
The District is protected from the job cuts at LivingSocial that began quietly last night and are expected to continue today, a spokesman for Mayor Vince Gray told DCist.
Two employees of the now-shuttered Back Alley Waffles say that they haven’t been paid over $1,500 worth of wages they earned, and they’re pissed about it.
No Waffling Here: Back Alley Waffles Lacked Permits to Serve Food, Was Given Cease-and-Desist Notice
Shaw’s Back Alley Waffles made national news this week when it accused online coupon giant Groupon of driving it out of business. But the restaurant’s problems ran deeper than that—it lacked the necessary permits to serve food.
A waffle shop in Shaw closed this weekend, and it’s blaming Groupon for driving it out of business. Are online coupon services killing the businesses they claim they’re supposed to help?
After the D.C. Council gave its unanimous consent to advance a bill that will give daily deal giant LivingSocial a $32.5 million tax abatement, the company’s spokesman said it has every intention of living up to its end of the bargain.
After failing to buy Groupon and lagging behind in the oddly burgeoning market for online deals, Google launched its own online coupon service, Offers, in the District and four other cities yesterday.
In the age of Groupons and Meetups, new venture Grubwithus provides a combination of the two. Started in Chicago by two friends, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano, the venture has expanded to San Francisco and New York, with a D.C. site to launch soon. The concept is simple. View a list of menus and sign up for a prix-fixe family-style meal. Your dining companions will be a random mix of those who sign up. (But they do display who has already signed up for the meal, so you can avoid that nasty confrontation with an ex, or masochistically create an awkward family-style meal for everyone involved)
It seems like nowadays, everyone is starting a discount coupon website. We’d seen variations from Washington City Paper and other outlets before, and this week we caught word of two new ones: The Capitol Dish and CornerDish.
