App Profile: Hooked Deals

Chris at OSU

Rating: 5/5

All students need to have this app! It saves you so much money at your favorite restaurants, you’re actually losing money by not downloading this app and using it. Hooked really has the customers in mind with the great deals it has for everyone, from Panda Express to Chik-Fil-A to Pita Pit and so much more. It’s really helped me saved a lot of money being a college student and I’m so glad I have it now. The gold membership is 100% worth it because I instantly earn back my money when I go out to eat. Hooked even helps when I don’t know what I want to eat I can just look at the app to see who has the best deal. I wish I would have known about Hooked sooner!

TAOJeffery

Rating: 2/5

This is from a business point of view. “Sales manager” came into the restaurant to sell the owner on this “great deal”. Said it would push a lot of business in from the nearby college. Made promises for tracking usage, getting our menu items into the system, and keeping us up to date as to what’s happening. Was promised someone could only use the deal once per promotion. Then tried to write down credit card or ETF info for automatic withdrawal of fees once the “free promotion period ended”. On random printed forms he had in some folder. The only other time we saw him in the last 4 months was when he put table tents and posters up, and stuck a sticker in the smack dab center of our door. We did have a “welcome” email but after taking about getting pictures of our actual food as opposed to stock photos, we never heard another word from the company. The free promotion period ends with the end of this month. And we have never been given any data on usage, frequency of repeat customers, or anything else. And no one has even bothered to follow up with us on whether or not we would actually pay for this. Hint: we are not paying $100+ a month to break even on selling food to the few customers a week that actually came out.

JuelzStark

Rating: 5/5

If you're looking for an app that gives you great deals on awesome food places, hooked is it. If you're looking for an app that provides experiences, hooked is it. Getting deals is the second best part of the service. Hooked has gotten my friends and I to A. Get outside of the house B. Try new restaurants C. And most importantly, to sit at a restaurant and just have a good time. There are so many apps that make people lazier and antisocial by delivering food to them, Hooked takes the opposite approach and encourages new experiences and interaction. Some call it a food deal app, I call it an experiential app that we should all use.