A pulled pork pizza from Papa Johns. That doesn't sound good, not good at all. *shudder*

My thoughts exactly, but hey, all I had to do was take a picture of the top of the pizza, and one of the receipt, then email it to the scheduler and receive a good bonus for my trouble. I would take this assignment any time!

Ed

edwood Wrote:
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> My thoughts exactly, but hey, all I had to do was
> take a picture of the top of the pizza, and one of
> the receipt, then email it to the scheduler and
> receive a good bonus for my trouble. I would take
> this assignment any time!
>
> Ed

Ed, are you talking about Papa John's Pizza? If you are, it's NEVER that simple to just "send a picture of the top of the pizza and the receipt,"

If you are talking about Papa John's, they are particular about lighting, angle, freshness, position, blur, natural lighting, the peppers staying in the box, the garlic sauce staying in the box, the handwritten receipt/information that much show in every picture.

Papa John's, right?

Or different type of assignment?

Ed,

I wouldn't blame the scheduler. More than likely there was a foul-up somewhere in corporate that caused the location to no have the ingredients.

Having been in corporate retail management for 19 years, the best laid plans can get messed up in a heartbeat.

Yes, I AM talking about PJ's pizza. The email from the scheduler stated that it was a simple shop, not requiring the extensive requirements of a regular PJ's shop (2 pics each of the top, side, cut, receipt close-up, and receipt). No questionnaire to fill out, just take the pics and email them back to the scheduler. Who wouldn't do this shop for a good bonus.

I forgot to mention that this was a special invitation shop. Only a limited number of Mystery Shoppers were invited to do the shop! I was one of the "chosen few."

After I emailed the Scheduler and the Quality Control person that I was doing them a favor when I was identified as a Secret Shopper, they relented from banning me from doing Papa John shops, and only removed the shop from the particular location that identified me.

As to the regular requirements for a PJ shop, I have done several and only had one of them rejected. It was my fault that it was rejected because I forgot to put the shop/store id card in the picture of the pizza pictures. I have an iPhone 5 that I use to make the pics. I don't have to worry about lighting, etc. because the resolution of the iPhone 5 is good quality. I have never had any complaints about the pics. On one shop I used a Nikon Sure Shot, and also an iPad 2, but the pics from the iPhone 5 were better quality than either of the other sources.

edwood Wrote:
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> Yes, I AM talking about PJ's pizza. The email from
> the scheduler stated that it was a simple shop,
> not requiring the extensive requirements of a
> regular PJ's shop (2 pics each of the top, side,
> cut, receipt close-up, and receipt). No
> questionnaire to fill out, just take the pics and
> email them back to the scheduler. Who wouldn't do
> this shop for a good bonus.
>
> I forgot to mention that this was a special
> invitation shop. Only a limited number of Mystery
> Shoppers were invited to do the shop! I was one of
> the "chosen few."
>
> After I emailed the Scheduler and the Quality
> Control person that I was doing them a favor when
> I was identified as a Secret Shopper, they
> relented from banning me from doing Papa John
> shops, and only removed the shop from the
> particular location that identified me.
>
> As to the regular requirements for a PJ shop, I
> have done several and only had one of them
> rejected. It was my fault that it was rejected
> because I forgot to put the shop/store id card in
> the picture of the pizza pictures. I have an
> iPhone 5 that I use to make the pics. I don't have
> to worry about lighting, etc. because the
> resolution of the iPhone 5 is good quality. I have
> never had any complaints about the pics. On one
> shop I used a Nikon Sure Shot, and also an iPad 2,
> but the pics from the iPhone 5 were better quality
> than either of the other sources.

How many of these "simple shops" for PJ's have you performed?

None!

This was the first one that I was scheduled to do. Since the particular location where I was to shop had not started to sell this pizza, I was identified as a Mystery Shopper.

I live on the East Coast (Southeast Tennessee). My shop location was in the Chattanooga, TN area. PJ's schedulers live on the West Coast. I think that they have been making the Pulled Pork pizza on the West Coast for a while. I just saw a PJ's advertisement on our local TV station yesterday for the Pulled Pork pizza, so I think the scheduler was "ahead of his time" in setting up a shop on the East Coast. Had he scheduled me to do the shop 2-3 weeks later, I would not have been identified as a Secret Shopper.

Have a great one!
Ed

Ed,

Begging your pardon, but as someone who lives within two miles of the Atlantic Ocean, Tennessee has never been considered "East Coast." Southeast US, yes, but coast, no. We don't even consider our state capital, which is within 120 of the coast to be coast.

To: James Bond 007.5:

Sorry, James, that you took my reference to East Coast literally. I meant it as a geographic reference -- you know, East Coast as opposed to West Coast. I did not mean to infer that I was living right next to the beach! Under your logic, I suppose that someone who lives in the Central part of the U.S. must live EXACTLY dead center of the country. I am fully aware that Cleveland, TN (where I live) is approximately 150 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. But I am in the region of the country known as the East Coast region, certainly not the West Coast region nor the Central U.S.

Have a great weekend!

Ed Wood

I'd kick a bit higher......

TO stop them from getting my phone I say that I can't have anyone else touch it because I am OCD about germs. Works well.