The most rewarding card for groceries & dining | Coffee Break Ep20 | 7-30-24
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Everybody eats! So everyone can make use of earning opportunities at restaurants or grocery stores. In this episode, we'll talk about our 4 favorite credit cards for exactly this.
(01:31) - Amex Gold Card earns 4 points per dollar for US grocery stores (up to $25K in spend) and 4x for restaurant dining
Read more about the Amex Gold Card here.
(03:22) - Citi Strata Premier earns 3 points per dollar for grocery and 3 points per dollar for dining
Read more about the Citi Strata Premier Card here.
(05:11) - Capital One SavorOne gives 3% cash back for dining, grocery stores
Read more about the Capital One SavorOne card here.
(07:14) - Altitude Reserve card earns 3 points per dollar on travel and mobile wallet payments, which could apply to grocery and dining
Read more about the Altitude Reserve card here.
(12:26) - Which card is the best for earning points on grocery and dining spend?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.4 | This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling Coffee Break. |
| 0:23.6 | Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:29.6 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. Enjoy. |
| 0:34.6 | Today's coffee break, the most rewarding card for groceries and dining. |
| 0:42.5 | Nearly everybody I know eats at some point in their lives. |
| 0:47.1 | Everybody eats. |
| 0:48.3 | Everybody eats. |
| 0:49.8 | And in this modern world, eating means you're probably buying food either at restaurants or at grocery stores. |
| 0:57.1 | And so we're going to get into what is the best card so that you can get rewarded when you're paying for all that food. |
| 1:03.7 | Right, right. |
| 1:04.2 | That everybody eats was a reference to like an old Mimi sort of a video. |
| 1:08.7 | So I didn't expect Greg would get it. But maybe somebody out there got the, you know, eat your grapes, Rebecca. It's a guy that was feeding the animals. Everybody eats. Anyway, so we all got to spend money on it. And so we'll talk today about your best options because there's a bunch of different cards that bonus this type of activity. So don't forget wherever you're watching or listening, please give us a thumbs up, leave us a good review, leave a comment. We appreciate all those things and go to frequentmiler.com slash subscribe to join our email list and all of that fun stuff. All right, let's hop into it. So what's the first card up that we have to talk about? All right. All together, we're going to |
| 1:44.3 | talk about four cards that we picked out. So there are others that are rewarding, but we picked out |
| 1:50.0 | our four favorites for nailing these two categories of spend. And number one on the list, that doesn't |
| 1:57.9 | necessarily mean it's number one overall, is the Amex Gold Card, |
| 2:01.5 | which earns four points per dollar in both grocery stores and for restaurants. Now, |
| 2:07.4 | grocery stores limited to $25,000 spend per year, and it's only for U.S. grocery stores, |
| 2:12.8 | whereas dining is worldwide. And so, you know, it has some pros and cons. So some pros are, first of all, |
| 2:23.2 | four points per dollar is a great return. I mean, that's a great category bonus. And we love |
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