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Update Jan 2018: Yelp eliminated double-dipping with mileage dining programs Most of the big American airlines have a mileage dining program. It's pretty simple: enroll your credit card in their program and any time you eat at a participating restaurant you earn bonus miles. Here in New York there are a few good places on their program. Even if you never use their search engine to explicitly dine at one of them, it's good to sign up anyway because I've definitely dined at a few completely by accident (especially when traveling) and the miles were a nice surprise. A few notes: The mileage dining plans all seem to be run by the same company  The participating restaurants are the same for all the airlines' programs If you've never signed up for one, many have a 1000+ point signup bonus If possible, book a reservation at the restaurant so you also earn OpenTable points  Mileage Dining programs occasionally run seasonal bonuses, so staying on their email l...

Two of my favorite things in life are travel and food. Since I post a lot about earning points to do the former so you can do lots of the latter in new and exciting places, it's no surprise I've got my credit cards enrolled in mileage dining programs . Since I'm fairly savvy on the restaurant scene in my current (NYC) and former hometowns (San Francisco and Seattle), I can tell you that when I see a place show up on the mileage dining roster, it's a good sign the place is circling the drain . I feel bad saying that but with few exceptions, every time I visit one of these places it's a train wreck... like somehow "let's join a mileage dining program" is the restaurant equivalent of "lower the lifeboats!" ( FYI the same restaurants seem to be in all airlines' programs ) Last week I saw an email from Delta mileage dining that a very hip, upscale pizza restaurant we love was "new to the program". I was wary, but the 1000-po...