For All Our Veterans, On Their Day

For Veterans Day, for all our Veterans out there, a list of all the restaurants and businesses offering free or reduced items for you across the city and metropolitan area today.

• Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City: Complimentary lunch at Horizons Buffet from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10.
• Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar: A free dish from its “Thank You Meal” menu
• Back Yard Burgers: Free Back Yard Classic Burger
• Bar Louie: Free flatbread or burger
• Barley’s Kitchen + Tap: Free entree
• Blue Moose Bar & Grill: Free entree
• Bob Evans: $5.99 breakfast from a select menu
• Bonefish Grill: Free order of Bang Bang Shrimp
• Buffalo Wild Wings: Free order of wings with a side of fries
• Carrabba’s Italian Grill: Free appetizer with the purchase of an entree and Coca-Cola product
• Chili’s Grill & Bar: Free Old Timer cheeseburger, chicken bacon ranch quesadillas, chili or soup with salad, or Cajun chicken pasta
• Chipotle Mexican Grill: Buy one/get one free
• Chuck E. Cheese’s: Free personal pizza
• Coco Bolos Wood-Fired Grill & Cantina: Free entree
• Cost Plus World Market: 20 percent off entire purchase (alcohol not included).
• Cracker Barrel: Free slice of double chocolate fudge Coca-Cola cake.
• Decadent, A Coffee and Dessert Bar: Free slice of pie
• Denny’s: Free build-your-own Grand Slam
• Dickey’s Barbecue Pit: Free meal
• Dollar General: 11 percent off purchases
• Donutology: Free glazed doughnut from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
• Dunkin’ Donuts: Free doughnut
• Famous Dave’s Legendary Pit Bar-B-Q: Free lunch combo
• 54th Street Grill: Free meal (up to $12). Dine-in only
• Firebirds Wood Fired Grill: One complimentary military entrée with the purchase of an entree on Nov. 10.
• Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers: Free combo meal coupon good through Nov. 30
• Golden Corral: Free dinner from 5 to 9 p.m. Nov. 13
• Grimaldi’s Coal Brick-Oven Pizzeria: 15 percent off on Nov. 10 and 11.
• Great Clips: Free haircut on Nov. 11
• Hereford House: Free entrée (up to $20) with the purchase of a second entrée at lunch and dinner. Hours vary per location.
• Hooters: One free meal from a select menu
• Houlihan’s Restaurants: Free meal from a special menu
• Hy-Vee: Free breakfast
• HOP: Free red, white and blue pancakes
• Kansas City Zoo: Complimentary admission
• LaMar’s Donuts: Free doughnut and 12-ounce coffee.
• Little Caesars: Free lunch combo ($5 value) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• LongHorn Steakhouse: Free appetizer and 10 percent off the total bill from Nov. 10 to 12.
• Main Event Entertainment: Complimentary $10 FUNcard that can be used on all Main Event games, and one free entrée from the special Veterans Day menu.
• Minsky’s Pizza Cafe & Bar: Free 6-inch Philly cheesesteak, fries and a soft drink, dine-in only.
• Muscle Maker Grill: Free meal
• Museum at Prairiefire: All access for veterans and their guests
• O’Dowd’s Gastrobar: Free entree
• Olive Garden: One free entree (five to choose from) with unlimited soup or salad and breadsticks, dine-in only.
• On the Border Mexican Grill & Cantina: Free lunch combo
• Outback Steakhouse: Free Bloomin’ Onion and free Coca-Cola drink
• Pie Five Pizza Co.: Free pizza
• Pinstripes, Prairiefire: Free entree up to $20.
• Porto do Sul: Free Harvest Table, for lunch only Nov. 10 and 11.
• Price Chopper: 25 cents off per gallon (or 500 points toward food savings) on veterans’ next fill-up at QuikTrip (up to 20 gallons). Veterans need to bring their Chopper Shopper Rewards Card to one of the stores on Nov. 11 to receive the discounts.
• Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews: Free Red’s Tavern double burger with bottomless steak fries
• Red Lobster: Free appetizer or dessert.
• Rock & Brews Restaurants: Free pulled pork sandwiches Nov. 10.
• Ruby Tuesday: Free appetizer
• Scooters Coffee: Free cup of coffee
• Shoney’s: Free all-you-care-to-eat breakfast bar from 6 to 11 a.m.
• Spin Neapolitan Pizza: Free Mini Mia pizza and salad or soup combo
• Sport Clips: Free haircuts
• Starbucks: Free tall coffee
• Stroud’s, Fairway and Overland Park: Free entree
• Texas Roadhouse: Free lunch from a select menu
• Topgolf: Free basic lifetime memberships if veterans sign up on Nov. 11, as well as 10 percent off gameplay and 20 percent off other memberships.
• Twin Peaks: Free menu item from a select menu on Nov. 13.
• Yard House: Free appetizer, dine-in only.
• YaYa’s Eurobistro: 20 percent off purchase and a $10 bonus card.
• Zarda Hickory Pit Bar-B-Q: Free pulled pork sandwich, side and medium drink from 11 a.m to 2 p.m.

And for a national list:

All the Restaurants Where Veterans and U.S. Military Eat Free This Weekend

Then, additionally, there is this:

All US national parks are free on Veterans Day

Happy Veterans Day.