There are many activities that should not be performed on an empty stomach, including swimming, surgery, and swimming 30 minutes after having your appendix removed. Acquire activity fuel with today's Groupon to Jantzen Beach Bar & Grill, located inside the Red Lion Hotel on the River. Choose between the following options:

• For $7, you get $15 worth of lunch fare.
• For $12, you get $25 worth of dinner fare.

From its perch along the Columbia River, Jantzen Beach Bar & Grill sates guests' appetites with a contemporary take on homestyle American fare. Noontime noshers feast on grub culled from a menu of soups, salads, and sandwiches, quelling rumbling stomachs with the roasted turkey BLT ($9). Discover new uses for lettuce with one of the four salad selections, with the grilled steak salad with Oregon blue cheese revealing that greens can be used for something other than currency or the stuffing of health-conscious scarecrows ($14). Dinner diners kick off evening proceedings with an order of the fried calamari ($8) or buttery manila clams ($12) before delving into an entree of include a spinach-and-ricotta ravioli ($16) or wine-braised short ribs ($15). Complete the transition from an innie to an outie with a belly-button-bursting dessert such as the double-chocolate cake ($6) or pear-and-apple crisp ($8).