Earn 20x Flybuys points per dollar spent on Restaurant Choice ($100), Luxury Escapes, Event Cinemas, Village Cinemas and RedBalloon gift cards at Coles.
Restaurant Choice gift cards can be spent at basically any restaurant, cafe or bakery. Every $100 you spend on these gift cards earns you 2,000 Flybuys points (equal to $10 or 1,000 Velocity points).
Here are the details:
- Runs from Wed 12 Aug to Tue 18 Aug 2026
- Only available in-store at Coles
- Excludes variable load Restaurant Choice, Event Cinemas and Village Cinemas gift cards
- Limit of five gift cards per day
- Limit of 50,000 points per Flybuys account
- This offer is open to everyone and does not require activation
- Points usually credit in 1-3 days
How it works
Purchase any of these gift cards in-store at Coles between 12 Aug and 18 Aug 2026 and you will earn 20x Flybuys points per dollar spent. The points usually arrive the following day at around 5pm but delays of a few days aren’t uncommon.
The included denominations are:
- Restaurant Choice: $100
- Luxury Escapes: $100-500 variable load
- Event Cinemas: $30, $50, $100
- Village Cinemas: $30, $50, $100
- RedBalloon: $100
Note that the variable load denominations of the Restaurant Choice, Event Cinemas and Village Cinemas gift cards are excluded so you will only receive 20x points on the fixed value cards listed above.
You can buy up to five gift cards per day and earn up to 50,000 points in total during the promotion, meaning you’re limited to a maximum spend of $2,500. Anything you spend over that won’t earn 20x points.
This offer will be advertised in the Coles catalogue and on in-store posters. You won’t see it in your Flybuys app but that’s normal as no activation is required.
Check the Merchant Database on GCDB for a list of places where the Restaurant Choice gift card has been tested and found to work. If you’ve used them somewhere that isn’t listed, let us know and we’ll add it to the list.
For the Luxury Escapes gift cards, you can only redeem up to $1,500 in gift cards per booking. There is apparently a workaround where you use them to book and then cancel refundable accomodation so that the gift card is returned as account credit but it’s unclear if this still works.
Luxury Escapes gift cards also can’t be used to book standalone airfares. The only airfares you can pay for with gift cards are those that are included as part of an accomodation package.
The Event Cinemas and Village Cinemas gift cards are best avoided as we often see more generous promotions on them as well as the more versatile TCN Cinema gift card.
Points calculator
More information
If you’re new to these offers, check out our step-by-step guide on how to earn points by buying gift cards.
If you want to know how frequently certain gift cards are included in these offers, see our Gift Card Offer History tool.
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10 Responses
Does the restaurant choice work at maccas and kfc
It does.
I am having more n more reject of these cards at cafe. Noticed those Ipad type terminal are most likely reject. Anyone has similar experience for restaurant cards?
Do you mean those eftpos terminal like Square and Lightspeed? Mine works fine with them but I guess it depends on what they register their company as? Though I find this problem persists on Good Food & TCN restaurant gift card as they have stricter rule for the merchant codes.
Yes. Is the Restaurant choice different from TCN restaurant gift card?
It’s produced by a different company to the TCN Restaurant gift card but it’s functionally very similar since both can be used at restaurants (5812), fast food restaurants (5814), bakeries (5462), drinking places (5813) and so on.
Friends don’t let friends buy high value giftcards at Coles.
Good luck chasing points with corporate when $1000 worth of LE or Apple cards don’t credit. Woolworths tells you upfront before purchase how many Everyday Rewards points you’re getting back.
I’ve bought several hundred gift cards at Coles and like 98% of of the time the bonus points credit within 1-3 days. Occasionally there are problems but that usually just means that you do nothing for a few weeks while they fix it and then the points arrive.
Can you add Restaurant choice to Apple Pay ?
Yes.