FAQs

Taste of the Arts is a monthly drawing which audience members enter for a chance to win free tickets and dinner for two.

To enter the drawing, simply vote for the restaurants you most like to visit when seeing a show. Your vote helps identify the most popular restaurants, ensuring that Patron Rewards creates the greatest support possible for the arts.

Patron Rewards is a free program which supports the arts by rewarding families with tickets to performing arts events when they dine out at participating local restaurants.

By dining out, you can save on tickets, subscriptions, memberships or arts classes. In addition, we'll not only underwrite your tickets, but also donate funds to the arts organization of your choice.

Patron Rewards is effective because everybody wins:

• Audience members benefit from earning free or discounted tickets and subscriptions;
• Businesses now have a stronger economic incentive to support the arts because we make it profitable, not just philanthropic, to provide funding;
• And arts organizations gain a new source of support to underwrite audience participation and contributions.

Patron Rewards is simple. Sign up online by choosing your favorite restaurants and arts organizations.

Dine out to earn “Patron Points,” which you can quickly redeem for cash back on tickets, subscriptions, classes and memberships, or use to make a donation.

Whenever you dine, we also make a contribution to your favorite arts organizations.

Yes! Patron Rewards is completely free for audience members, and costs nothing to join or participate.

The program is funded by participating restaurants and retailers.

When members dine out, a percentage of each sale goes to underwrite the cost of attending your favorite arts organizations and events, as well as making a direct contribution to the arts organization of your choice.

Audience members earn Patron Points as a reward for dining out, and can use them to receive cash back on performing arts tickets, subscriptions, classes, memberships and donations.

Earn 10% of whatever you spend when you purchase a meal at participating restaurants. You can earn Patron Points even faster through bonus offers based on dining frequency and spending milestones.

To earn Patron Points, simply dine out at any participating restaurant. You can earn points even faster through bonus offers based on dining frequency and spending milestones.

The more you spend dining out, the more Patron Points you’ll earn.

In addition, as a cause marketing program, Patron Rewards makes a separate contribution to the arts anytime members dine out. These contributions do not affect your Patron Points balance.

You can redeem Patron Points to get cash back on tickets, subscriptions, classes and memberships at any enrolled arts organization. You can also donate points anytme to your favorite arts organizations.

In addition to underwriting your tickets, Patron Rewards makes a direct contribution to the arts when members dine out. These contributions do not affect your Patron Points balance.

Members can earn rewards very quickly. Dining out 2-4 times is usually enough to earn enough savings for a free ticket.

The exact number of dining occasions needed depends on the ticket price, and on how much you spend when dining out. If you don’t have enough Patron Points to match the full ticket cost, you can simply use them as a discount instead!

You may use your Patron Points for cash back savings at any participating arts organization.

Patron Rewards is coming soon to communities throughout the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area.

To be notified when the program becomes available, please enter our monthly "Taste of the Arts" drawing for a chance to win free theatre tickets and dinner for two.

Patron Rewards is a socially responsible private company driven by a unique public service mission – ensuring that families enjoy greater access to arts and cultural opportunities.

Simply put, our goal is to increase support of the arts by making it more affordable for everyone.

For arts organizations, Patron Rewards brings together the power of cause-marketing with the proven benefits of a consumer rewards program to create a new source of long term, sustainable funding.

The program works by underwriting the cost of tickets and contributing funds to your organization when audience members dine at participating local restaurants.

Patron Rewards is effective because everybody wins:

• Audience members benefit from earning free or discounted tickets and subscriptions;
• Businesses now have a stronger economic incentive to support the arts because we make it profitable, not just philanthropic, to provide funding;
• And arts organizations gain a new source of support to underwrite audience participation and contributions.

The program is simple: by dining out at their favorite local restaurants, audience members quickly earn Patron Points they can redeem for cash back on tickets, memberships, donations and education classes.

What’s more, when members eat out, Patron Rewards also makes a direct contribution to your organization. It’s like holding a fund raiser every time your audience eats out!

Patron Rewards is completely free for both arts organizations and their audiences. Your organization keeps 100% of the funds raised.

No! Patron Rewards is completely free for audience members. There is no charge to join or participate.

We're able to make Patron Rewards free because participating restaurants fund the program whenever audience members dine out.

No! 100% of the funds we create go toward underwriting and funding arts organizations. Restaurants do pay a small fee on each dining transactions to offset the cost of running our program.

For every 1,000 audience members who participate, Patron Rewards can generate as much as $20,000 in funding when they dine just 4 times a year.

We make a commitment to provide you with complete transparency. Participating arts organizations can go online anytime to check how much funding we created and how it was used.

No! In fact, we've taken great care to make it simple for arts organizations to participate.

Patron Rewards uses a secure hosted web application to deliver its service.
Arts and cultural organizations don’t have to use any new systems or software in order to benefit. It couldn’t be easier to participate!

Audience members earn tickets very quickly. Most members can earn a free ticket by eating out just 2-4 times, while dining out once or twice is enough to earn a substantial discount.

The exact number of dining occasions needed depends on your ticket prices, and on how much members spend at participating restaurants.

A nationwide consumer survey we conducted found that almost half of respondents would be interested in joining a free program that supports the arts and rewards them with tickets just for dining out.

Patron Rewards helps restaurants increase dining frequency, spending and word-of-mouth recommendations. Please check back soon for more restaurant information.

Patron Rewards is effective because everybody wins:

• Audience members benefit from earning free or discounted tickets and subscriptions;
• Businesses now have a stronger economic incentive to support the arts because we make it profitable, not just philanthropic, to provide funding;
• And arts organizations gain a new source of support to underwrite audience participation and contributions.