I'd say no on the first date...if you need it to be less expensive, you can do a couple things: Pick a cheaper, intimate place. Find a good ethnic cuisine place like Thai or Vietnamese that has decent decor and is in a cool area to walk around before/after dinner. Alternately try just getting dessert, walk around a cool area of town and stop at one place and split a baked good, then walk a little and stop into another place for a drink, etc. Plus this gives your date the chance to pay for the items at one of these stops. Change how you order the meal: Order a water for yourself instead of alcohol, go out later at night so you can just get drinks and split an appetizer, etc. I prefer this route, where you go out to a bar around 8 or 9pm, get a couple beers and an appetizer to split. I avoid long, 'romantic' dinners and instead choose places to eat that are a little louder, busier, and with more to see/do to avoid long stoppages in conversation. Plus this results in you leaving the place at say 11pm instead of 8pm, so you're already closer to 'bedtime'... I guess if you really want to use that coupon, you could always excuse yourself and on the way to the bathroom grab the waiter and say, "excuse me, before I forget, I have a coupon" and give it to the waiter then. By all means use them once you're more established, hell I like girls who are frugal so if they support coupon usage, all the better!
