Perfect for St. Patrick's Day! Save 50%!

BunchBite is offering a deal to Paddy O'Splaines in Chicago. For $20 you will receive a coupon worth $40 worth of food and drinks to Paddy O'Splaines. Plus, 10% of your purchase benefits One Hope United.

Visit http://bit.ly/eL2QvH to take advantage of this great deal!

Cheers!

http://bunchbite.com

FYI...Paddy O'Splaines has not been open the last two days and there is no sign of life inside. There isn't a note on the door as to being temporarily closed, I have not been able to reach them via phone, they have no voicemail and their facebook page links to a website promoting viagra. I'm not really sure what's going on but wanted to post for people considering purchasing this BunchBite.

Perhaps the explanation is on the list of revoked liquor licenses at the State of Illinois Liquor Control Commission, which shows license revoked on January 7, 2011.

It looks like they were still serving through Saturday night: http://www.wellesparkbulldog.com/news/incident-on-sunday-am-two-men-lay-as-if-dead-the-police-tazed-another.

Frankly, I'm surprised Paddy O'Splaine's has been open as long as it has. After one memorably terrible experience, I wrote it off, as did the 8 other friends who were with me.

Hello everyone,

We are presently looking into the earlier comments about Paddy O'Splaine's status and will post our findings very soon. Due to the heavy snow, many businesses are closed today, so perhaps they are not open per one of the comments on this forum because of the blizzard. We will continue to look into this.

As of now we do not know of any problems with this restaurant offer. I did find that the website on the Facebook page is incorrect. The correct website is http://paddyosplaines.co/

Thank you for your concern.

Sincerely,

Samantha and the BunchBite team
http://bunchbite.com

Hello again,

I wanted to inform everyone of our findings and thank you all for tipping us off to various details about Paddy O'Splaine's. We have found that the liquor license was indeed revoked, but the restaurant is still open for business.

Thanks again for your concern and I am sorry for any inconvenience or misunderstanding.

Sincerely,

Samantha and the BunchBite Team
html://bunchbite.com

BunchBite wrote:For $20 you will receive a coupon worth $40 worth of food and drinks to Paddy O'Splaines.

A few hours ago, after a 5-day investigation, you posted that all Paddy O'Splaine coupon purchases would be refunded. Now, you have edited or deleted that post. I appreciate that you are flying by the seat of your pants here, but it seems that refunds are only fair since the original pitch was for "food and drinks."

Do the right thing, BunchBite.
--Rich

RAB wrote:

BunchBite wrote:For $20 you will receive a coupon worth $40 worth of food and drinks to Paddy O'Splaines.

A few hours ago, after a 5-day investigation, you posted that all Paddy O'Splaine coupon purchases would be refunded. Now, you have edited or deleted that post. I appreciate that you are flying by the seat of your pants here, but it seems that refunds are only fair since the original pitch was for "food and drinks."

Do the right thing, BunchBite.
--Rich

I noticed that too. My guess is that bunchbite never got the requisite 500 people to participate in the deal, so the poster realized that no one was ever actually charged and edited the post accordingly. I have just enough faith in humanity to believe that 500 people could not have been dumb enough to buy this.

Kennyz wrote:I noticed that too. My guess is that bunchbite never got the requisite 500 people to participate in the deal, so the poster realized that no one was ever actually charged and edited the post accordingly.

Good point. Makes sense. Hope it is true.

Kennyz wrote:I have just enough faith in humanity to believe that 500 people could not have been dumb enough to buy this.

Hah. You do not.
--Rich

Hello everyone,

The reason that post was put up and deleted is because I was misinformed. A person, not in charge, gave me the wrong information. Later that day I heard that the offer was still valid because the restaurant is still in business ("food and drinks" does not specifically mean alcohol. Drinks include any beverage you have to pay for (meaning soda, coffee, tea, any beverage a restaurant features is called a "drink"). I in no way want to misinform or rip people off.

Also, the "investigation" was concluded in as timely a fashion as allowed. The snow storm made it difficult to contact the people at Paddy O'Splaines to verify that the restaurant was indeed open. I posted as soon as I had information, but I was faulted in posting before talking to the official person in charge. That was a mistake I hope to never make again. I am young. Live and learn right?

Once again I apologize. Please remember that I am doing my best to keep everyone informed about everything. We are not trying to be sneaky or offer people deals to bad restaurants.

I appreciate everyone's input.

I'm sorry again for everything.

-Samantha
http://bunchbite.com

Also, sorry that this reply was so late. I (Samantha) am the one in the office that checks this forum most often, and it has been a busy week. LTHForum is the first forum I have ever participated in, and I will do my best to check more frequently.

*I will note that the term "drinks" is misleading and will discuss it with the others in the office for future deals.*

BunchBite wrote:*I will note that the term "drinks" is misleading and will discuss it with the others in the office for future deals.*

BunchBite wrote:We have found that the liquor license was indeed revoked, but the restaurant is still open for business.

I will note that the term "open for business" is misleading...I live across from Paddy O'Splaines and it has not been open since 1/30/11. It is dark again tonight and there is nothing posted on the door, website(link provided is a blank page), no answer on the phone, and no voicemail. While BunchBite states that they have verified with an "official person in charge" that Paddy O'Splaines is open, they may want to physically visit them during business hours to see for themselves. While I understand it may not be financially conducive to their business model to physically verify every restaurant detail, it may restore some confidence in purchasing from their website if concerns have been raised. BunchBite's handling of this "deal" has left me skeptical of purchasing any future "deals" from their site, even with the charitable aspect.

mkess wrote: they may want to physically visit them during business hours to see for themselves.

Once again, thank you for your concern. We did indeed send a BunchBite representative to Paddy O'Splaine's yesterday. The restaurant was closed for a few days, but is currently open and welcoming customers.

If anyone has any problems please feel free to contact us directly at BunchBite@gmail.com

Thank you.

BunchBite wrote:

mkess wrote: they may want to physically visit them during business hours to see for themselves.

Once again, thank you for your concern. We did indeed send a BunchBite representative to Paddy O'Splaine's yesterday. The restaurant was closed for a few days, but is currently open and welcoming customers.

If anyone has any problems please feel free to contact us directly at BunchBite@gmail.com

Thank you.

Are you saying that you actually did sell 500+ of these?

BunchBite wrote:...the offer was still valid because the restaurant is still in business ("food and drinks" does not specifically mean alcohol. Drinks include any beverage you have to pay for (meaning soda, coffee, tea, any beverage a restaurant features is called a "drink"). I in no way want to misinform or rip people off.

Samantha,
The notion that "food and drinks" in the context of an Irish-style pub was not meant to include alcoholic drinks is silly, at best. Your explanation that "any beverage a restaurant features is called a 'drink'" seems the equivalent of Clinton's famous line "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Although technically true, are you sure that this is the way that you want to do business?

I repeat, do the right thing, BunchBite.
--Rich

RAB wrote:

BunchBite wrote:...the offer was still valid because the restaurant is still in business ("food and drinks" does not specifically mean alcohol. Drinks include any beverage you have to pay for (meaning soda, coffee, tea, any beverage a restaurant features is called a "drink"). I in no way want to misinform or rip people off.

Samantha,
The notion that "food and drinks" in the context of an Irish-style pub was not meant to include alcoholic drinks is silly, at best. Your explanation that "any beverage a restaurant features is called a 'drink'" seems the equivalent of Clinton's famous line "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Although technically true, are you sure that this is the way that you want to do business?

I repeat, do the right thing, BunchBite.
--Rich

In fairness to Samantha, she did say that she basically agrees with you here, but it sounds like there may be others at her company whom she hasn't been able to convince.

in other interesting news, I have now called POS three times this morning, and each time someone picked up the phone and then hung up immediately.

Kennyz wrote:in other interesting news, I have now called POS three times this morning, and each time someone picked up the phone and then hung up immediately.

Maybe they have Caller ID?

Kman wrote:

Kennyz wrote:in other interesting news, I have now called POS three times this morning, and each time someone picked up the phone and then hung up immediately.

Maybe they have Caller ID?

good point

BunchBite wrote:

mkess wrote: they may want to physically visit them during business hours to see for themselves.

Once again, thank you for your concern. We did indeed send a BunchBite representative to Paddy O'Splaine's yesterday. The restaurant was closed for a few days, but is currently open and welcoming customers.

They weren't open last night.

Ronna

REB wrote:

BunchBite wrote:

mkess wrote: they may want to physically visit them during business hours to see for themselves.

Once again, thank you for your concern. We did indeed send a BunchBite representative to Paddy O'Splaine's yesterday. The restaurant was closed for a few days, but is currently open and welcoming customers.

They weren't open last night.

Ronna

I have confirmed with a representative of Paddy O'Splaines that even though they lost their liquor license and the doors are locked, there is a small hood vent out back that opens to the outside. Since air still moves freely through the hood vent, technically Paddy O Splaines is open. I acknowledge that this definition of "open" may mislead some people, and I'll mention that to the committee.

Do they have a hose out back where "drinks" are still available?

Yes, and for "food" - the abandoned house across the street has dozens of delivery menues rubberbanded to the fence.

Hilarious. Thanks to you both.

Ronna

Trust me, after eating at this place, paying $20 and not having to go is a serious value.

This sounds incredble. I am so excited for St. Patty's Day this year...Irish Coffee included! Thanks for posting this deal! I just recently learned of a great new Chicago groupon-like company...simply sign up for the emails and check your inbox for daily bargains. Woo hoo. I love trying new places out in the city. Check out www.ImIn.com - and thanks for sharing this deal!

Chitowngurl wrote:This sounds incredble. I am so excited for St. Patty's Day this year...Irish Coffee included! Thanks for posting this deal! I just recently learned of a great new Chicago groupon-like company...simply sign up for the emails and check your inbox for daily bargains. Woo hoo. I love trying new places out in the city. Check out http://www.ImIn.com - and thanks for sharing this deal!

Oh, come on. You can try harder than that.