For Hyde Park restaurants
Turn UChicago students into regulars.
Pool is the verified-student app for UChicago. We set up your offer with you, students redeem it in front of your staff, and they pay you at your own register. Joining is free. There is no commission, no POS integration and no hardware.
We set up your first offer with you. Nothing to install.
Student deal
LiveYour restaurant
2 for 1 on mains
Redeemed in front of your staff by verified UChicago students.
Redemption code
7K2Q
Paid at your register
Your POS, your money, no Pool fee
How it works
Three steps. Nothing to install.
Students pay you at your own register. Pool handles discovery and eligibility, not your money.
Offers come from three formats we know students actually respond to. A 2-for-1 on mains, a free item with a qualifying purchase, or a percentage off during your slower hours. You pick the format and the limits, we write it up, and you approve the exact wording before it goes anywhere. The honest tradeoff is that you give up margin on every redemption, and some of those students would have walked in regardless. The point is the ones who would not have.
- 1
A student finds your offer
Verified UChicago students browse Pool and see your offer with the exact terms you approved. They tell your staff before they order.
- 2
Your staff watches them redeem
The student redeems in the app while your staff watches. The screen updates live, so a screenshot does not work. Nothing to install and nothing to plug in.
- 3
They pay you, at your register
Your staff applies the offer in your own POS and the student pays you directly, the way any other customer does. Pool never touches the money.
Pool puts your student deal in front of verified UChicago students across Hyde Park.
Why Pool
Built to be the easy yes.
Nothing to integrate
No POS integration, no hardware, no bank details, no Stripe account. Your staff reads a phone screen and rings up the order normally.
A free page and real numbers
You get a Pool-hosted page for your restaurant with your hours, menu and offer, plus a dashboard showing how many students actually redeemed.
Free to join, pause anytime
No monthly fee, no commission, no contract, no minimum. Pause the offer whenever you want, including mid-week if you get slammed.
Verified students only
Every redeemer is a verified UChicago student, and reuse is capped, so one student cannot run the same offer night after night.
Request access
Let's get your first deal live.
Tell us about your restaurant and we'll reach out. We build the listing and draft the offer for you, then you approve the exact terms before anything goes live. We also run one test redemption with your staff so nobody is guessing on the first real customer.
- Cost to join
- Free. We set it up with you.
- Hardware
- None. Staff reads a phone screen.
- Payment
- Direct to you, at your register