Giving your meal away !
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Aren't you supposed to report on the food . . . ? Taste, fresh, hot, prepared as ordered?
As long as you aren't supposed to report on the food itself, just the service- or you take a bite or two. I live close to NYC and whenever we go out to dinner I take my leftovers and give them away to someone homeless. Very sad, but I've never had a partially eaten excellent meal turned down. I even ask for plasticware and go to a bodega and buy a drink.
So as long as you are doing what you are being paid to, that is very thoughtful.
So as long as you are doing what you are being paid to, that is very thoughtful.
You're not required to eat it all, just taste it, Mert.
I don't eat that kind of food, but I did a few bonused McD's. Gave away the rest of the food. Now I find their reports so tiresome that I won't even do them for a bonus.
I don't eat that kind of food, but I did a few bonused McD's. Gave away the rest of the food. Now I find their reports so tiresome that I won't even do them for a bonus.
I have shopped so many ff that I can't stand the food from any of them anymore. Before I gave them up completely I took them to my friend who could not leave for lunch. She was glad to wait the 12 min while I looked like I was eating. I sometimes ate the fries. The order at the drive in and leave she would get also. I would a cut a bite, with a knife, for me and report on the food and then take it to her. It worked for me and the company got a true report.
I, too, have looked, tasted, and given the meal away to others. I like some FF, personally, but sometimes I was not hungry when I did the shop, sometimes I don't want to eat junk, and sometimes take the job because my hubby and son like the particular food, like Coldstone, more than I. I do not see anything wrong with looking, photographing, tasting - whatever is required by the shop...and giving the rest away. I have never had a shop that told me I had to consume the entire item. :-)
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~Gilbert K. Chesterton
I generally just avoid the ff shops. There is only one of them that almost reaches casual instead of ff that I enjoy doing. The places here discourage people loitering who are not customers so would be upset if you handed them a meal. I have taken uneaten food off site and have offered the bulk of my fries to another customer when I was doing a low-carb diet with the explanation that I really only wanted a handful. Most shops, however, require that you spend a certain amount of time, eat the meal on site and look like a regular customer. A regular customer would not purchase a meal, cut off a taste, spend 15 minutes sitting around and then rewrap their meal and leave with it.
Yes, true. Many of them require you look like a regular customer. Half the time is spent in line, and then I fuss at the drink area, sit down, pull out the book, the phone or the laptop, and set myself up, then open up the food and toy with it. Then cut off a bite. My time in store... :-)
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
Flash Wrote:
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> I generally just avoid the ff shops. There is
> only one of them that almost reaches casual
> instead of ff that I enjoy doing. The places here
> discourage people loitering who are not customers
> so would be upset if you handed them a meal. I
> have taken uneaten food off site and have offered
> the bulk of my fries to another customer when I
> was doing a low-carb diet with the explanation
> that I really only wanted a handful. Most shops,
> however, require that you spend a certain amount
> of time, eat the meal on site and look like a
> regular customer. A regular customer would not
> purchase a meal, cut off a taste, spend 15 minutes
> sitting around and then rewrap their meal and
> leave with it.
My cutting was only if I was in the car and could leave after I tasted the food and did the report. My friend did not mind of it was on the cool side when I got there. If I had to eat inside I ate the whole meal and stayed the required time. In the drive-thru portion , which I did second, I cut my bite and she got the rest of it. She was only two blocks from where I shopped.
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> I generally just avoid the ff shops. There is
> only one of them that almost reaches casual
> instead of ff that I enjoy doing. The places here
> discourage people loitering who are not customers
> so would be upset if you handed them a meal. I
> have taken uneaten food off site and have offered
> the bulk of my fries to another customer when I
> was doing a low-carb diet with the explanation
> that I really only wanted a handful. Most shops,
> however, require that you spend a certain amount
> of time, eat the meal on site and look like a
> regular customer. A regular customer would not
> purchase a meal, cut off a taste, spend 15 minutes
> sitting around and then rewrap their meal and
> leave with it.
My cutting was only if I was in the car and could leave after I tasted the food and did the report. My friend did not mind of it was on the cool side when I got there. If I had to eat inside I ate the whole meal and stayed the required time. In the drive-thru portion , which I did second, I cut my bite and she got the rest of it. She was only two blocks from where I shopped.
Heck, on drive-thru I usually just take it home or off site. I've never had anybody mention eating a drive-thru on site, though I understand the recent ff by one company requires it. I stick my hand in the bag to make sure everything was hot and ask the home 'garbage disposal' how he enjoyed it. 
Now our secret is out. I may never get another offer for ff but I will not miss it.
Flash Wrote:
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Most shops, however, require that you spend a certain
> amount f time, eat the meal on site and look like a
> regular customer. A regular customer would not
> purchase a meal, cut off a taste, spend 15
> minutes sitting around and then rewrap their meal and
> leave with it.
>
These places are so jammed with customers here that no one would ever see what you do with your food. Twice I've spent a pleasant time chatting with another customer at my table.
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Most shops, however, require that you spend a certain
> amount f time, eat the meal on site and look like a
> regular customer. A regular customer would not
> purchase a meal, cut off a taste, spend 15
> minutes sitting around and then rewrap their meal and
> leave with it.
>
These places are so jammed with customers here that no one would ever see what you do with your food. Twice I've spent a pleasant time chatting with another customer at my table.
Haven't lived in the city for more than 25 years. At that time, I saw homeless people. It never occurred to me then, nor now, to give partially eaten food to a stranger. Sad. Little did I know . . .
Sneakers' comment about people not noticing. . . .
It never ceases to amaze me when I am mystery shopping or merchandising how few people actually notice what I am doing. I think people must shut out visual information if it is too much information to process at that moment. Once, to prove a point, Groucho Marx got out of his seat at a restaurant and played the role of a waiter. None of the other diners realized their waiter was someone famous whose face they knew!
It never ceases to amaze me when I am mystery shopping or merchandising how few people actually notice what I am doing. I think people must shut out visual information if it is too much information to process at that moment. Once, to prove a point, Groucho Marx got out of his seat at a restaurant and played the role of a waiter. None of the other diners realized their waiter was someone famous whose face they knew!
Sandra Sue Wrote:
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> It never ceases to amaze me when I am mystery
> shopping or merchandising how few people actually
> notice what I am doing. I think people must shut
> out visual information if it is too much
> information to process at that moment. Once, to
> prove a point, Groucho Marx got out of his seat at
> a restaurant and played the role of a waiter.
> None of the other diners realized their waiter was
> someone famous whose face they knew!
To further illustrate this point, watch this video and take the quiz at the end.
This is a must for those who want to be mystery shoppers.
How observant are you?
[www.dothetest.co.uk]
And this one is good too:
[www.dothetest.co.uk]
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/2009 03:50AM by JayTee.
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> It never ceases to amaze me when I am mystery
> shopping or merchandising how few people actually
> notice what I am doing. I think people must shut
> out visual information if it is too much
> information to process at that moment. Once, to
> prove a point, Groucho Marx got out of his seat at
> a restaurant and played the role of a waiter.
> None of the other diners realized their waiter was
> someone famous whose face they knew!
To further illustrate this point, watch this video and take the quiz at the end.
This is a must for those who want to be mystery shoppers.
How observant are you?
[www.dothetest.co.uk]
And this one is good too:
[www.dothetest.co.uk]
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/2009 03:50AM by JayTee.
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The company that does McDonald's needs to realize that it is no fun to go to McDonalds drive in, alone, taste the food, go inside, buy more food , taste it, inspect the bathroom and leave. all for less than 10.00
I take my wife, she does in, I go to the drive thru, I meet her inside, we enjoy a nice meal. All is good
I take my wife, she does in, I go to the drive thru, I meet her inside, we enjoy a nice meal. All is good
So how do you answer the question "Did you go alone?"
Yes, he went through the drive-thru alone. She went in alone also. Then he went in alone. Maybe they left separately too, but met later at the car. Question was answered "Yes."
But unless they had permission to have two different people order, that is really not in line with the fact that ONE person puts their name on the report.
Whether they "went in alone" or not.
Whether they "went in alone" or not.
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
Furthermore, the questionaire clearly asks if you did the shop "alone, no one was in the car with you and no one joined you inside the restaurant"
At least it does on my questionaires.
At least it does on my questionaires.
I have multiple personality disorder. How do we do this shop ?
With a change of clothes in the car! :-)
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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