If your birthday is coming up, what better way to enjoy it than with free food?
Tons of restaurants offer free birthday meals. This article covers the places where you can get free food on your birthday all around the United States — hopefully you can find one of your favorites near you!
Where to eat for free on your birthday
Most of the restaurants listed below require you to preregister for their free birthday meal promotion. To avoid spam, you may opt to use an alternate email address when you sign up, rather than your primary one.
Also, make sure to verify with the restaurant in your area that they honor the birthday deal before you head out!
Here are some of the most popular national chains that offer free birthday meals, followed by a more exhaustive list of other national and regional chains that do the same:
Top national restaurants that offer free birthday meals with email sign-up |
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| Restaurant | Freebie/Deal |
| California Pizza Kitchen | Free CPKids meal all month if you are age 12 or under |
| Chili’s | Free dessert |
| Denny’s | Free Grand Slam breakfast |
| Firehouse Subs | Free medium sub |
| Fuddruckers | Buy one burger get one free |
| Hard Rock Cafe | Buy one entree get one free |
| IHOP | Free full stack of pancakes |
Alfy’s PIzza
Register first – Free personal one-topping pizza
Applebee’s
Register first – Free dessert
Bakers Square
Register first – Free pie
Baskin Robbins
Register first – Free ice cream scoop
Benihana’s Japanese Restaurant
Register first with The Chef’s Table to receive a complimentary $30 birthday certificate during your birth month
Bennigans
Register first – Free birthday brownie with ice cream
Bob’s Big Boy
Register first – Free hot fudge ice cream
Bruster’s
Register first – Free waffle cone on your birthday (age limits may apply)
California Pizza Kitchen
Register first – Free meal during birth month for kids 12 and under
Captain D’s Birthday Club
Register first – One free dessert or appetizer with sign-up, plus free birthday dinner
Charlie Brown’s Fresh Grill
Register first – get a $10 voucher on your birthday if your Handshake Club account has been activated at least 30 days
Chevy’s Fresh Mex
Register first – Free dessert on your birthday, plus get a free appetizer with two adult entrées just for signing up
Chili’s
Register first – Free dessert on your birthday, plus free chips and salsa or a non-alcoholic drink with sign up
Claim Jumper Restaurant & Saloon
Free slice of Motherlode Cake on your birthday with valid ID and purchase of adult entrée (no registration necessary)
Denny’s
Free Grand Slam with valid ID (no registration necessary!)
El Chicos
Register first – Free dessert
Firehouse Subs
Register first – Free medium sub (must sign up for birthday club)
Fuddruckers
Register first – One free burger with similar purchase
Hana Japanese Steakhouse
Birthday guests with three to five guests get 50% off their bill. With six or more guests, birthday guests eat free (no registration necessary)
Hard Rock Café
Register first – Annual birthday offer, including free dessert
Houlihan’s Restaurant
Register first – Free entrée on your birthday and $10 off coupon for joining
IHOP
Register first – Free pancakes for signing up, on your birthday and the anniversary of your sign-up
Macaroni Grill
Register first – Free dessert
Maggiano’s
Register first – Complimentary cookies and $10 off next purchase following email sign-up
Marie Callender’s
Register first – “Marie’s Magnificient Six” free pancakes (available all day) or a slice of pie
Max And Erma’s
Join the Good Neighbor program and get free dessert on your birthday
Old Spaghetti Warehouse
Register first – Free appetizer with sign up and Special Birthday Meal on your big day
Moe’s Southwest Grill
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Regiser first – When you do you’ll get free nachos with a purchase of a large drink or more. On your birthday, get a free burrito.
Outback Steakhouse
Register first – Free dessert and get 50% off every fourth visit with Dine Rewards (good for Carrabba’s, Bonefish and Fleming’s, too)
Panera
Register first — Get free pastry or other sweet for joining, plus a free reward on your birthday
Pappa’s Restaurants
Register first – Free dessert with purchase of a single entree
Perkins Restaurant & Bakery
Register first – 20% off when you sign up, plus you and family members you sign up can all get free birthday gifts
P.F. Chang’s
Register first – Birthday reward as well as a 1,000-point bonus to get you halfway to your first free entrée
Poncho’s Mexican Restaurant
Free sweet accompanied by staff serenading the Mexican traditional birthday song, “Las Mananitas” (no registration required)
Provino’s Italian Restaurant
Get any pasta specialty dinner for free, plus salad, garlic rolls and a birthday dessert with valid ID (no registration required)
Red Robin
Register first – Free gourmet burger, plus you get every tenth item free, and $20 toward purchase when you visit five times in the first five weeks
Rock Bottom
Register first – Free birthday entree for Rock Reward members
Ruby Tuesday
Register first – Free burger, appetizer or Garden Bar entree
Ryan’s
Register first – Free BOGO birthday buffet during your birth month if you join the Crave Connection
Shula’s
Register first – Free entrée during your birth month if you join the E-Team
Steak-N-Shake
Register first – Free Double ’n Cheese ’n Fries when you join and a free specialty milkshake on your birthday
TGI Fridays
Register first – Free appetizer or dessert
The Palm
Register first – One complimentary entrée – up to a three-pound lobster – on your birthday (if you’ve made a qualifying purchase within the last year)
Tony Roma’s
Register first – Complimentary dessert on your birthday as well as a free appetizer when you join the Roma Rib Expert Club
Zio’s
Register first – Free birthday entree and free appetizer upon sign-up
Enjoy your free birthday meal(s)!!!
