I am sorry that this happened to you. Thank you for sharing this because it's a lesson for all of us to remember that with CET you have to ask if what they are offering is going to be coming out of your reward credit balance.

The Cleveland casino when they were TR used to give out food comps that did not come off RCs. It was a separate piece of paper thing with various info on it (your name, restaurant name, $ value) that you'd take to the restaurant. If you went over the $ value you had to pay the difference. I used to get them quite often when I was heavy playing there and they never touched my RCs. I'm sure of this because I used to watch that balance like a hawk and keep track of my credits earned each day in my phone to make sure all the mulitipliers were correctly added later. I used to play specifically on multiplier days just to earn extra RCs to cash in for FP in Vegas.

I'm not sure if other locations can do these slips also because I've never asked. My CLE then-TR host was surprised that I didn't get or ask for one when I went to Baltimore and ate at the food court, which kind of gave me the impression they are done elsewhere. If anyone's looking for a food comp that does not come out of RCs these might be a possibility but again always ask if whatever they are giving you is coming out of your RCs.

In Vegas I charge everything to the room, but I also use up RCs on FP while I'm there so by the time my folio gets reviewed for comps I hardly have any RCs. What I have left gets taken but more than that gets discretionary comps. But no matter how much I've played vs. how much I've charged, whatever's in there ends up gone.

The whole RCs for cash thing that goldengreeke mentioned is totally new to me. I've turned them into cash but only from running FP through the machine once.