Last updated 23 September 2026 · Syft is operated from Dayton, Ohio
Syft lists deals. Restaurants honour them. The meal is between you and the restaurant — Syft does not cook it, serve it, or take your money for it.
Redeem a deal and you will be asked to rate the visit. That is one tap, and it is not optional, because those ratings are what restaurants get out of being here.
Syft is in beta. It is free for restaurants during the beta, and you will get a week's notice in writing before that ever changes.
Syft is a place where restaurants list deals and people find them. That is the whole of it.
Syft is not the restaurant. It does not prepare the food, employ the staff, set the prices, take the payment or issue refunds. When you redeem a deal, your agreement about that meal is with the restaurant, exactly as it would be if you had walked in off the street with a paper coupon.
Using Syft means accepting these terms and the Privacy Policy.
The restaurant sets the deal and the restaurant honours it. Terms, conditions, minimum spends and hours are theirs. Read what the deal says before you go.
Claiming a deal generates a QR code for you. It is personal to you, valid for fifteen minutes, and works once. Do not share it, sell it or photograph it for someone else — a code used twice is a code that stops working.
Deals can run out, and they can stop being available while you are on your way. Claiming one holds it for a short time; the hold releases itself if you do not use it, so somebody else can.
Some deals require a minimum spend and are confirmed by staff after the bill is settled. If the bill does not meet the minimum, the deal can be declined at that point and goes back to you unused.
If a restaurant refuses to honour a deal it has posted, tell us. Syft cannot force them to serve you, but a restaurant that does not honour its own listings does not stay listed.
After you redeem, Syft asks you to rate the visit. One star rating is required before you claim your next deal. Everything else — the individual scores and the comment box — is optional, and there is a "Later" button, so it defers rather than blocks.
This is not a dark pattern and it is worth saying why it exists: honest feedback that only the owner sees is most of what a restaurant gets out of Syft. Nobody can pay to be excused from it, at any price.
Your rating goes to that restaurant's owner and nowhere else. It is never published, never attached to your name, and never shown as a public score.
Write what you actually think. What you may not do is post abuse, threats, content about someone's race, religion, sex or similar, anything defamatory, or a review of a meal you did not have. Those can be removed, and an account that keeps doing it can be closed.
By leaving a rating you allow Syft to store it and show it to that restaurant.
Do not: use software to claim deals automatically, create accounts in bulk, scrape the listings, resell codes, try to get at other people's information, interfere with the service, or use Syft to break the law.
A customer arriving with a valid Syft code has claimed something you published. Treat it as you would any other honoured offer. Deals can be declined for the reasons built into the product — a minimum spend that was not met, a code that has expired or already been used — and not for others.
Ratings your customers leave are yours to read and are shown to nobody else. You may not demand a particular rating, offer anything in exchange for one, or refuse service over one. A restaurant that pressures customers over ratings will be removed.
You will see a random code rather than a customer's identity. Do not try to work out who somebody is from it, and do not use anything you learn through Syft to build a marketing list.
Syft is free for customers. It is always free for customers.
For restaurants, there are two charges once the beta ends, and both are set out in the dashboard before anything is owed:
Prices are shown in the dashboard and may change with notice. Syft takes no cut of your takings, no commission on a meal, and never touches a customer's payment.
Syft is in beta and is provided as it is. Things will change, some things will break, and features may be added or withdrawn.
During the beta, restaurants are not charged. Days a deal ran are still recorded, so you can see what it would have cost, but nothing is invoiced. You will get at least a week's notice before charging begins, and nothing stops working on the day it does — only the price changes.
You can stop using Syft whenever you want. Deleting your account is a row in the app under You, and section 9 of the Privacy Policy sets out exactly what goes and what stays.
Syft can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms — most obviously a restaurant that will not honour its own deals, or an account being used to abuse people. Where it is reasonable to do so, you will be told why and given a chance to put it right first.
A restaurant that leaves is charged for the days its deals actually ran up to that point, and nothing after.
Syft is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind. Listings, hours, prices and availability come from restaurants, and Syft does not guarantee that any of them are accurate or that a deal will be available when you arrive.
Syft is not responsible for what happens at the restaurant. Food, service, illness, injury, a refused deal, a bad meal — those are matters between you and the business, and that is true whether you found them through Syft or any other way.
To the extent the law allows, Syft's total liability to anyone for anything connected with the service is limited to what that person paid Syft in the twelve months before the claim — which, for a customer, is nothing.
Nothing here removes a right that cannot lawfully be removed.
These terms are governed by the law of the State of Ohio, and any dispute belongs in the courts of Montgomery County, Ohio.
Before that: write to the address below. Syft is small enough that a real person will read it and most things can be sorted out without anybody involving a court.
If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. A change that affects what you pay or what you are responsible for comes with notice in the app first.