Grabbing dinner to go was a practice pioneered by pillaging Mongols, who wanted to avoid tipping off unsuspecting villagers with a flood of eyebrow-raising dinner reservations. Swiftly acquire tasty foodstuffs en route to your own home with today’s Groupon. For $8, you get two freshly made, restaurant-quality dinners to go (a $16.33 tax-included value) from Pranzo Jersey Italian Café, an Italian eatery that is sister companies with Vanishing Gourmet Catering. Parking is as free as your indomitable spirit.

Because cooking at home can prove cumbersome if you’re a busy bee or a freelance astronaut, Pranzo Jersey Italian Café offers time-strapped time travelers throughout Nashville a practical alternative. Patrons can place an order by 1 p.m. and swing by anytime between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday to pick it up. Pranzo's to-go menu changes weekly, and one type of dinner is offered each night. Recent tasty Italian fare has included turkey Marsala meatloaf with baby peas and quinoa; marinated grilled flank steak with roasted acorn squash; and shrimp and spinach risotto with Caprese salad. All meals include two side salads and bread or dinner rolls.

A hectic workday of email flash floods and wrestling matches at your boss's insistence can make time-consuming dinner preparation as feasible as a farmer with dysentery and a broken axle successfully traversing the Oregon Trail. With today's Groupon to Pranzo Jersey Italian Café, you can bring home some high-quality, freshly prepared meals without resorting to sparking up a portable grill in your cubicle and luring burger-seeking freeloaders from the Human Resources department.

Reviews

Three Yelpers give Pranzo Jersey Italian Café a near-perfect 4.5 stars, and a lone Urbanspooner fully recommends it:

• The food is fabulous, fresh, and fairly priced. Try them - they are totally worth it! – James R., Yelp