The Current Birthday Rewards Guide
Live guide · Source-backed, broadly available records only
What the active catalog shows
10
Source-backed records
$200
Combined listed values
1
No-signup records shown
This guide uses the same review-date, official-source, and coverage gate as anonymous discovery. Its combined listed values describe the catalog; they are not a promise that one person can redeem every offer.
Featured source-backed rewards
Current records are ordered by stated catalog value, then brand name. Check each detail page before visiting because eligibility and local participation can vary.
- Zales$100 listed
$100 Off a $300+ Purchase
Join Zales Vault Rewards and add your birthday before the first day of your birthday month. A $300 minimum purchase applies.
- Benihana$50 listed
$50 Dine-In Birthday Reward
Join Friends With Benefits, add your birthday, and remain enrolled in email communications. U.S. and D.C. residents age 18+ only. Apply the one-time reward to an eligible dine-in check; one offer per table.
- Tecovas$50 listed
$50 Off $300 After a Qualifying Boot Purchase
Complete a qualifying full-price boot purchase under the Tecovas Birthday Program, then meet the $300 minimum on the birthday redemption purchase.
- AMC Theatres
Free Large Popcorn
Join AMC Stubs and keep your date of birth on the account for at least 30 days before the first day of your birthday month.
No-signup birthday rewards
These records explicitly mark loyalty signup as not required. Purchase, ID, timing, and location conditions may still apply.
- Olive Garden
Complimentary Dessert While Dining
Dine at a participating Olive Garden on your birthday. The eClub is optional and is not required for the restaurant birthday dessert.
More flexible redemption windows
These source-backed records use a structured week, month, or custom window instead of a single birthday-day window.
- Zales$100 listed
$100 Off a $300+ Purchase
Join Zales Vault Rewards and add your birthday before the first day of your birthday month. A $300 minimum purchase applies.
- AMC Theatres
Free Large Popcorn
Join AMC Stubs and keep your date of birth on the account for at least 30 days before the first day of your birthday month.
- Sephora
Beauty Insider Birthday Gift
Join Beauty Insider and add your birthday. No purchase is required in Sephora or Sephora at Kohl's stores or on Kohls.com; sephora.com and sephora.ca require a $25 merchandise purchase.
- Ulta Beauty
Birthday Gift + 2x Points on Qualifying Purchases
Join Ulta Beauty Rewards, add your birthday, and opt into email or app communications before your birthday month. No purchase is required in an Ulta store; online, app, and pickup redemption require more than $0 of qualifying non-UB Marketplace merchandise.
Browse active rewards by category
The examples below come from the same publication-filtered catalog as search and offer detail pages.
Food & meals
- Benihana$50 listed
$50 Dine-In Birthday Reward
Join Friends With Benefits, add your birthday, and remain enrolled in email communications. U.S. and D.C. residents age 18+ only. Apply the one-time reward to an eligible dine-in check; one offer per table.
- IHOP
5 Birthday PanCoins
Register for the International Bank of Pancakes at least seven days before your birthday and add your birthday to the account. Convert the PanCoins to an eligible coupon for a participating U.S. restaurant.
- Olive Garden
Complimentary Dessert While Dining
Dine at a participating Olive Garden on your birthday. The eClub is optional and is not required for the restaurant birthday dessert.
Drinks
- Dutch Bros
Free Any-Size Birthday Drink
Join Dutch Rewards and add your birthday. Use the Dutch Rewards app to redeem at a participating shop.
How to get more from your birthday rewards
- 1. Check signup timing early. Some programs require an account or birthday on file before the reward window opens.
- 2. Verify the location. Participation and redemption rules can differ by store, franchise, app, or region.
- 3. Build around the shortest window. Use birthday-day-only rewards first and save flexible week or month offers for later.
- 4. Keep purchase requirements separate. A discount with a required purchase is useful, but it is not the same as a no-purchase freebie.
Birthday freebie questions
- What places give birthday freebies?
- Birthday Bananas currently lists 10 source-backed birthday reward records with $200 in combined listed catalog values. This is not an achievable-haul estimate; eligibility, timing, purchase rules, and local participation vary.
- Do you have to sign up for birthday freebies?
- 9 of the 10 current records explicitly mark signup as required. Unknown fields are not counted as either yes or no; read the offer requirements and join early when a lead time is listed.
- How should I compare birthday rewards?
- The first current record when sorted by listed value is Zales: $100 Off a $300+ Purchase. Listed value is only one factor; requirements, redemption window, eligibility, and local participation also matter.
- How do I know a birthday reward is still active?
- Use the current offer detail page and its official-program link, then confirm the participating location or app before visiting. Draft, inactive, archived, stale, and insufficiently sourced records are excluded from this guide.
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