ZILK

For restaurants

You already know a Tuesday afternoon is quiet.

Zilk is a way to do something about it, and then find out whether it worked. Free to list, free to run deals, and no contract.

What you get

Run your own deals

Write the offer, choose whether it is a once-ever hook, an anytime repeat, or a specific window, and it is live. Edit or pause it whenever you want.

Fill a slow afternoon

Send a limited-time offer to phones nearby — an hour of half-price wings, say — and it disappears on its own when the window closes. One per area every three days, so it stays something people notice.

Numbers that mean something

How many people saw a deal, how many opened it, how many redeemed. Drag across the chart and it tells you which deal did what on which day.

Why a redemption did not happen

The most useful number we have. If two hundred people opened your happy-hour deal outside its window, that is not a failure — it is a reason to widen the window.

Test two offers against each other

Run a free side against an equivalent discount, split between customers at random, and see which actually gets redeemed. Most guesses about this are wrong.

A verified badge

Once you claim your restaurant, every deal under it is marked as coming from you rather than from a list someone compiled.

Claiming takes a couple of minutes

  1. Tell us who you are. Your name, your role, and how to reach you at the restaurant.
  2. We check by hand. Usually a quick call to the number listed publicly for your restaurant. A person reads every request — it is not automatic, so give us a day or two.
  3. You get a code. Enter it in the Zilk Admin app and your restaurant, with all its deals, is yours to run.

Common questions

What does it cost?

Nothing. There is no listing fee, no commission on redemptions, and nothing to cancel.

My restaurant is already in the app. Who put it there?

We add restaurants as we build out a town, from public information. Claiming yours is how you take control of it — and how the deals under it become yours to edit.

Do I have to discount heavily?

No. A once-ever deal is usually the generous one because you only pay it per customer once; anytime offers are typically small. What works is up to you, and the numbers will tell you.

What do my staff have to do?

Look at a phone. The customer slides to redeem and shows the screen with your logo and the offer on it. There is nothing to scan or type.