Your last chance to eat out and save a fortune

For the same price as a copy of The Independent - 45p - we are offering you the chance to treat a friend to a meal, and then save 25 per cent every time you eat in selected restaurants.

The Independent is running this offer as an introduction to Transmedia, the restaurant card. All you need to do is collect four tokens from The Independent, and apply for a Transmedia card, as long as you hold a valid Visa, Mastercard, Delta or American Express card. This Transmedia card can be used in hundreds of restaurants in Britain as a payment card. You pay the full amount, and Transmedia will then refund 25 per cent of the bill directly to your Visa, Mastercard, Delta or American Express account, excluding VAT and service - for example, if the bill comes to pounds 100, you will be refunded pounds 25.

The card can be used as often as you like, for breakfast, lunch or dinner at any of the selected restaurants. Even better, when you use the card for the first time in conjunction with this Independent offer, the cost of one meal for a guest, up to the value of pounds 20, will be just 45 pence.

Transmedia are able to offer this excellent value as they pre-purchase food and beverage "credits" at a discounted price from selected restaurants, and then pass on the saving to the card-holder.

When you apply for this offer, you will receive a membership pack, which contains the Transmedia listings of hundreds of selected restaurants in Britain. Cardholders will receive an updated version every three months. Membership of Transmedia normally costs pounds 35 per annum, but with this offer you will receive six months' trial membership for free.

So if you would like to treat a friend to a meal for the price of a newspaper. Send your tokens in today.

HOW TO APPLY

Today we print the last dining token. Collect any four of the nine tokens and send them with the application form

attached, to the address below. In order to obtain your meal for 45p you must have a Transmedia card. You are only

eligible for a Transmedia card if you already hold a valid Visa, Mastercard, Delta or American Express card. The meal

must be taken before the end of April 1999. Independent/Transmedia UK Plc, 1 Hurlingham Business Park, Sulivan Road, London SW6 3DU. Tel: 0171 610 6226.

SOME OF THE RESTAURANTS WHERE

YOU CAN ENJOY YOUR MEAL

SCOTLAND

EDINBURGH

LE CHAMBERTIN

George, Inter-Continental Hotel,

19-21 George Street,

Edinburgh EH2 0131 225 1251

DANIEL'S BISTRO

88 Commercial Street,

Edinburgh EH6. 0131 553 5933

MERCHANTS RESTAURANT

17 Merchant Street, Edinburgh EH1. 0131 225 4009

SHAMIANA

14 Brougham Street, Edinburgh EH3.

0131 229 5578/228 2265

FIFE & TAYSIDE

FRANCO'S CANTINA

11 Bank Street, Dundee DD1. 01382 221179

GLASGOW

THE FIRE STATION

33 Ingram Street, Glasgow G1. 0141 552 2929

THE RED SNAPPER AT THE COACH HOUSE

14 Hyndland Road, Glasgow G12. 0141 357 2186

RUSSELL'S

219 Fenwick Road, Giffnock, Glasgow G46.

0141 620 1003

RUSSELL'S BAR CAFE

77 Byres Road, Glasgow G11. 0141 334 4973

JOHNSTONE

SHIMLA PINKS

4 William Street, Johnstone PA5. 01505 322588

STIRLING

THE EAST INDIA CLUB

7 Viewfield Place, Stirling FK8. 01786 471330

SAWNEY BEANES

7 Viewfield Place, Stirling FK8. 01786 447770

WALES

CARDIFF

BENEDICTOS

4 Windsor Place, Cardiff CF1. 01222 371130

PIERRE VICTOIRE

95 St Mary Street, Cardiff. 01222 258 188

SCOTT'S BRASSERIE

Stuart Street, Inner Harbour,

Cardiff Bay. 01222 491194

SERGIO'S

442c Cowbridge Road East, Victoria Park,

Cardiff. 01222 233 506

SWANSEA

CAFE MAMBO

46 The Kingsway, Swansea SA1. 01792 456620