Coastal diners score big cashback as scheme launches across South Australia

Thousands of South Australians are set to pocket up to $50 off their next meal, thanks to a new dining cashback scheme targeting coastal hospitality venues hit hard by this summer’s algal bloom.

The $15 million Coast is Calling – Dining Cashback program will see 300,000 locals benefit, with the first public ballot opening on November 3.

Sixty thousand winners will be drawn a week later, scoring a half-price dining discount valid until December 7 up to the value of $50 per voucher.

Since March, when surfers first began falling sick after riding the waves at Goolwa on the Fleurieu Peninsula, the toxic karenia mikimotoi algae has spread along the coastline to Adelaide and around the other side of the Yorke Peninsula, like Port Broughton — about 250km north of where it was first detec