Discounts and Freebies

Many Davis businesses offer some great deals, often based on day and time, quantity purchased, birth date, and student or senior citizen status. Businesses also participate in coupon deals, including those found online and in print. See also Living Cheaply.

Sundays

• Explorit Science Center - The fourth Friday of every month is free admission day.

• Mountain Mike's Pizza - 1/2 off pizza.

Mondays

• Sam's Mediterranean - Free Drink with a Falafel Day!

Tuesdays

• Baskin-Robbins - Dollar Ice Cream Night: 6pm-11pm (Anderson Plaza) 6pm-10pm (E Street Plaza). Get a single scoop cone, any flavor for $1.00 (tax included).
  

• $5 Movie Tuesday - Regal Stadium 5 and Holiday Cinema 6
  

• Del Taco Taco Nite (3pm-11pm) - 3 tacos for $1.09 (59¢ regularly).
  

• Starbucks - "buy one, get one free" of lattes and mochas for couples night.
  

-Can this be verified by anyone? Doesn't work on F-Street.

Wednesdays

• Sudwerk - Dollar pint night.

Thursdays

• Sudwerk - Dollar bottle night.
  

• Life Training Center - Free Unique Personality Profile. Learn why you do what you do and how to create the life you want.

Fridays

Saturdays

Annual

• Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's
  

• 7-Eleven Free 7.11 oz. Slurpees in specially marked cups every 7/11 (July, 11)

See Living Cheaply -under "Discount programs".

• A Better Place to Bead - has a discount card. After your purchases total $50, you will receive $5 in free merchandise on your next visit.
  

• The Avid Reader - "Reward Card" gives you $7.50 in credit after accumulating $150 in purchases.
  

• Ciocolat - Buy 10 coffee or tea beverages and get one free.
  

• Davis Noodle City has a meal card.
  

• Guadalajara also has a buy 10 get one free card for burritos. A Super Giant Burrito gets you two signatures.
  

• Kosmos Kreations Salon - Buy 10 haircuts, Get 1 Free card
  

• Mishka's Cafe has a card for their coffee and tea drinks, only
  

• Nugget used to have a sandwich card. Told they got rid of because of price reduction. Also told will honor old sandwich cards if you have them. (Spring 2010)
  

• Old Teahouse has a buy 10 drinks, get 1 free card.
  

• Papa Murphy's - buy 12 pizzas, get half off any size.
  

• Pita Pit - buy 10 pitas get 1 free (you need to tell the cashier you want to sign up for the frequent diner plan before you pay
  

• Pluto's - Offer good with salads and full meals. No longer a book, they now have cards. Be warned they don't like to stamp for more than one purchase even if you are getting two meals (i.e. buying a friend's salad with yours, they will give you a hard time for asking for two stamps), at least in my experience. If they stop hassling, please delete this.
  

• Safeway "Purchase any 7 Signature Sandwiches or wraps ($4.99 or more) using your club card, get the 8th one free."
  

• Supercuts Has a card: Get 12 haircuts and your 13th haircut is free.
  

• Swirl Frozen Yogurt has a buy 10 yogurts, get 1 medium with three toppings free.
  

• Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt has a "Buy Nine and Get 8 oz. Free" (8 oz. min.) card (value $3.12).
  

• UC Davis Coffeehouse (CoHo) - has a coffee card. Buy 9 coffees, and the 10th one is free.
  

• Yogurt Shack has a card — buy 10, get one free 8oz. yogurt including toppings ($3.20 value).
  

• Yolo Berry Yogurt offers a "buy 8 get one free" stamp card.

• Bounty and Savings - Good resource for printable and newspaper coupon/sales match-up for Davis
  

• The California Aggie - "Frugal Fridays" coupon page in the back, every Friday.
  

• Dimple Records - "Dimple Rewards Card" gives half-off on items based on accumulated points (purchases).
  

• Farmer's Kitchen Cafe - Discounted "subscription" lunches and dinners.
  

• The Marketplace - Publishes a 13-page coupon booklet. I got mine at the Memorial Union information booth.
  

• Redrum Burger - "Buy One Get One Free 11am-5pm" and "Buy One Get One Free 5pm-close" coupons in California Aggie.
  

• Davis Coupons Online - ChiangWebb produces printable online coupons for numerous restaurants, stores, and services exclusively in Davis.
  

• Bounty and Savings - Davis and Sacramento coupon and saving blog with coupon match-ups on grocery and drug store sales.
  

• Wok of Flame - Mention DavisWiki.org for a 10% discount!
  

• Nina's Studio - monthly specials on products and services
  

• Jiffy Lube $7 OFF Coupon - Jiffy Lube has free printable online coupons for several services at the Davis store.
  

• Eye Max (formerly Optical Phases) -Mention DavisWiki for $20 off frame and lens purchase or 10% off sunglasses (stock on hand only)

• 49er Video - Often offers student discounts with your UCD ID on file. The current (year of 2010) offer is all new release DVDs at $1.52+tax/night. Such discounts will continue as long as the store is rated #1 by students of Davis.
  

• Absolute Cellular - Some nebulous "UCD student discount."
  

• APEX Cycles - 5-10% discount on all bicycle parts and accessories along with $5 off any Tune-Up, $13 flat fixes (Tube, Tax & Labor... 2nd cheapest in town)
  

• Apple Computer - 10%-20% discount off retail for students, faculty and staff
  

• Davis Auto Care & Fleet Service Center - 20% discount for all students and faculty
  

• Free Software - You don't have to buy Microsoft Word to write your term paper. There are open source, free office suites from OpenOffice and NeoOffice, as well as open source alternatives to most commercial software.
  

• Get a free campus mug when you move into the dorms.
  

• Lamppost Pizza - Ten percent discount on pizzas with Reg Card.
  

• Help Computer Services - Ten Percent off of labor.
  

• Next G Wireless - $200 or $250 dollars off of 'online pricing'(?), free accessory value package and additional rebates to make purchasing a cell phone inexpensive.
  

• OfficeMax - UCD Students receive discounts on printing, copying and binding services in OfficeMax's ImPress copy center. Letter-size color copies or prints are $0.31 and letter-size black and white copies or prints are $0.032. There are also dicounts on custom stamps, business cards, binding, etc.
  

• Screaming Squeegee - Free preprinted t-shirts, pens, and useful gadgets with their logo usually available to students.
  

• Yolo Hospice Thrift Store - 40% discount on everything with student ID ($1.80 for this shirt that was already only $3.00! SCORE!)
  

• Yolobus - Everyone knows that UCD undergrads can ride Unitrans for free (well, they technically pay for this privilege with their ASUCD fees), but what is less well known is that undergrads can ride Yolobus for free also just flash your student ID. Note that grad/professional students don't pay ASUCD fees, so they have to pay full fare for Yolobus and Unitrans.
  

• Wok of Flame - 10% off of bill with UCD ID.
  

• Job Fair - Need a pen? pencil? frisbee? buttons? You can get all this for free when UCD offer its Job Fair every year.

• Unitrans - Grad/professional students don't pay ASUCD fees, so they have to pay full fare.
  

• Grad/professional students can get a discount on Unitrans passes from TAPS if they do not have a parking permit, e.g. a 10-ride pass that normally costs $5 will cost only $3. Purchase at TAPS or Freeborn Box Office.
  

• Grad students could ride the bus without having the pay a fee each time by electing to pay ASUCD fees per quarter.

• Free Compost Bin for Davis residents who live in a house. Not available to apartment dwellers.

Note: "Buy One Get One Free" (BOGOF) deals are the same as "2-for-1" deals.