Question 1

What is the Afterwork Network?

Accepted Answer

It is a local traffic network for the hours between work and dinner. Participating Renton-area bars and restaurants run the same simple deal from 2 PM to 7 PM: a $5 featured beer and 50% off participating appetizers. You check in with your phone, the app confirms you are actually there, and you get a code to hand the bartender.

Question 2

How does a check-in work?

Accepted Answer

Scan the QR code on the table tent, or type the venue code by hand. Your phone shares its location once, we confirm you are within 50 meters of the venue during the 2-7 PM window, and a unique six-character code appears with the offer it unlocks. Show it to staff before it expires in 20 minutes.

Question 3

Why do you need my location?

Accepted Answer

Because the deal is for people who actually walked in. GPS verification is what makes venues comfortable giving away a $5 draft and half-price food, and it keeps the leaderboard honest. We check the distance at the moment of the scan; we do not follow you around.

Question 4

How do points work?

Accepted Answer

Your first check-in of the day is 50 points. Move on to a second venue the same afternoon and that one is worth 100. A third is worth 200. One check-in per venue per day counts, so the way to climb is to keep moving down the circuit instead of parking in one seat.

Question 5

Why does moving to another bar pay more?

Accepted Answer

That is the whole point of the network. Every venue benefits when the room turns over and the crowd keeps circulating, so the scoring pays you to be the person who says "let's go somewhere else." Guests get more deals, bars get more first-timers through the door.

Question 6

What do I actually win?

Accepted Answer

Points feed the regional leaderboard and the monthly raffle. Every month the standings and raffle reset, prizes are announced on the raffle page, and winners are published on the site. Separately, the most-loved #myfavorite selfie of the month wins five dinners.

Question 7

What is the #myfavorite selfie wall?

Accepted Answer

Post a selfie from any participating venue with a caption, and anyone signed in can vote for it. Everything is date and time stamped and judged at the end of the month. Most views and votes takes the five dinners.

Question 8

Do I need an account?

Accepted Answer

Yes, but it is deliberately light: email and password, or Google. An account is what ties your codes, points, badges and raffle entries together, and it stops the same code being redeemed twice.

Question 9

Can I use the same code twice?

Accepted Answer

No. Each code is single-use, tied to your account and that venue, expires in 20 minutes, and is marked redeemed the moment staff validate it.

Question 10

Do I need to install an app?

Accepted Answer

No. It runs in your phone browser and can be added to your home screen like an app. Nothing to download, nothing to update.

Question 11

What does a venue get out of it?

Accepted Answer

Verified foot traffic in your slowest, highest-margin hours. Every scan is a real person standing in your room, stamped with a location and a timestamp, so you can see exactly which afternoons and which offers moved people.

Question 12

How is this different from a coupon site?

Accepted Answer

Coupon sites sell discounts to bargain hunters. This is a circuit: guests are rewarded for visiting several partners in one afternoon, so you are handed the crowd that is already out and moving, not people waiting for the next deal email.

Question 13

What are the partner tiers?

Accepted Answer

Traffic ($200/month) puts you on the network with your own QR check-in, venue page and offers. Traffic + AI ($449/month) adds the automated commute alerts and route recommendations that push guests toward you before they leave work. Premium ($599/month) adds featured placement across the network, the raffle and sponsor campaigns.

Question 14

Who sets the offers?

Accepted Answer

You do. The standard network deal is a $5 featured beer and half-price participating appetizers from 2 PM to 7 PM, but you choose which beer is featured and which appetizers participate, and it can be changed any time.

Question 15

How do we validate a guest code?

Accepted Answer

Staff open the redeem screen, type the six-character code, and it either validates or it does not. Expired, already-used, and wrong-venue codes are rejected on the spot.

Question 16

How do we get set up?

Accepted Answer

Your venue page and offers get built, then the QR code is activated on site: someone from the network scans the first code standing in your doorway, which locks your real GPS coordinates. After that, the table tents work forever.

How the after-work circuit works

For guests

For bars & restaurants

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