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Punch Cards

Most cities have hundreds of great restaurants.

Most people eat at the same five.

There is a simple product that fixes this for everyone:

A local restaurant punch card.

Customers discover new places.
Restaurants get new customers.
You sell a small piece of cardboard.

That’s the entire business.

And it already works.

For example, the KC Daily Dine Card sells a physical card that gives a one-time 20% discount at 10–12 restaurants for $25.

Customers show the card, the restaurant punches it, and the discount is applied.

Simple.

And according to the creator, the card generates about $2,500/month in revenue.

So the question becomes:

Could you copy this idea in your city?

Yes. Very easily.

The MVP

1. Find 10–12 restaurants in your city.

Look for:

• mid-tier places
• not huge chains
• places that want exposure

2. Pitch them this:

“I'm launching a local dining passport featuring 12 restaurants. Each restaurant offers a one-time 20% discount. I’ll promote it to locals and bring new customers.”

3. Design a simple card.

You can use:

• Canva
• VistaPrint
• Moo

Include:

• restaurant logos
• punch boxes
• expiration date

4. Print 100 cards.

Cost: roughly $30

5. Sell them.

Price: $25

Sell through:

• Instagram
• newsletter
• local Facebook groups
• farmers markets

That’s it.

How this scales to $10k/mo

Once the punch card works, getting to $10k/month is mostly about selling more cards and adding more products. The simplest path is volume. At $25 per card, selling 400 cards per month = $10,000 in revenue. That becomes realistic once restaurants promote it in store, local newsletters mention it, and customers start sharing it as a great local deal.

You can also stack additional revenue streams so you do not rely only on card sales.

• Sell more cards: 400 cards × $25 = $10,000/month
• Charge restaurants to join: 12 restaurants × $250 placement fee = $3,000
• Launch niche cards: coffee passport, dessert card, date night card
• Bundle for gifts: “3 cards for $60” during holidays
• Sponsored placements: restaurants pay to be featured or listed first

Example path:
• Dining card: 200 sold = $5,000
• Coffee passport: 120 sold = $3,000
• Dessert card: 80 sold = $2,000

Total = $10,000/month from the same simple system.

Viability:

1 [building spaceships] 🚀 to 5 [easy peasy] 😊 

I’m currently working on this right now and will let you know how it goes!

It’s a great day to be great!

Love, Mike 👋 

p.s If you found this insight into the newsletter industry valuable, imagine how helpful it could be to someone else dreaming of starting their own hustle!

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