{"id":6908,"date":"2020-08-26T13:59:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mouthymoney.co.uk\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:42:08","slug":"one-mans-glorious-five-restaurants-in-a-day-odyssey-through-the-eat-out-to-help-out-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mouthymoney.co.uk\/budgeting\/one-mans-glorious-five-restaurants-in-a-day-odyssey-through-the-eat-out-to-help-out-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Five restaurants in a day: how one man took on Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme and won"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mouthy Money’s very own EOTHOnaut, Sam Littleworth, recounts his one-day food odyssey through five different restaurants courtesy of Chancellor Rishi Sunak<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For foodies and tight gits across the country, 8 July 2020 will go down as one of the greatest days in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? Because it is the day that Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, introduced the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, a gastronomic extravaganza to rival Woodstock in gastrocultural importance. His knighthood surely can\u2019t be far off, can it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a self-confessed food nut, I couldn\u2019t believe what I was hearing: 50% off meals in participating restaurants Monday to Wednesday for all of August. Hallelujah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing that this sort of offer would probably never come around again, I had to take advantage of it. I decided I was going to hit as many spots as possible in the 13 days available \u2013 here is how my biggest EOTHO day – where I visited five restaurants – went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eat like there’s no tomorrow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before I set off, I decided to familiarise myself with the rules. After all, I didn\u2019t want to be caught out by any small print. I\u2019m a hungry man on a mission to save money, after all. In a nutshell, here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n