FIVE GUYS: New, revised dinner guidelines and $21.00 fee???
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I'm still seeing $11 reimbursement.
Just picked up a dinner for the 29th and there is no difference.
$9.00 shopper fee, plus $11.00 reimbursement for late night shops vs. $6.00 shopper fee during daytime hours in So. Cal. The reimbursement is the same.
If you're seeing a $21 fee, it may be one that someone else cancelled. I just did a lunch shop for $15. It's the only one I've seen in a LONG time that wasn't $6. For that one, I suspect someone else dropped it.
I'd love to have one with a $21 fee drop in my lap. Honestly, these are fun shops to do even at $6+R or $7+R.
Do that always reimburse only $11 for this shop? This does not cover most options.
I also fall below reimbursement. What are you ordering?
So have the guidelines changed? I did one this weekend and it was the same. I once picked up one for a $25 fee on the job board with the $11 reimbursement - but that was a while ago. These days, I usually will pick them up for a $14 fee knowing that my family loves it, it covers our cost, and I still come out a couple bucks ahead.
Sometimes the changes are local, if they are testing a new product. Before "little" fries were added to the menu of all locations, they were an ordering requirement in a few test markets.
I usually go a little over the reimbursement limit; I get bacon and cheese and a large drink. If you're willing to forgo either, it should be quite possible to get under $11.
Mine is $11 re plus a $10 shop fee. What could be different about the food? It's not like they have a big menu. Well, their hot dogs are actually better than the burgers in my opinion.
I'm signed up for one for dinner tonight. $7 fee plus $11 reimbursement.
If you order the little cheeseburger (one patty), little fry (which is still substantial in size) and a regular drink you will fall below the reimbursement. If you order bacon, an extra patty or large fry you'll go over.
I don't see that the guidelines have changed.
If you order the little cheeseburger (one patty), little fry (which is still substantial in size) and a regular drink you will fall below the reimbursement. If you order bacon, an extra patty or large fry you'll go over.
I don't see that the guidelines have changed.
You are right, but I like their fries, so I always take big fries which is slightly above the reimbursement $11 limit.
Phoebe70 Wrote:
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> I'm signed up for one for dinner tonight. $7 fee
> plus $11 reimbursement.
>
> If you order the little cheeseburger (one patty),
> little fry (which is still substantial in size)
> and a regular drink you will fall below the
> reimbursement. If you order bacon, an extra patty
> or large fry you'll go over.
>
> I don't see that the guidelines have changed.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/14/2013 04:44PM by kevo.
Phoebe70 Wrote:
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> I'm signed up for one for dinner tonight. $7 fee
> plus $11 reimbursement.
>
> If you order the little cheeseburger (one patty),
> little fry (which is still substantial in size)
> and a regular drink you will fall below the
> reimbursement. If you order bacon, an extra patty
> or large fry you'll go over.
>
> I don't see that the guidelines have changed.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/14/2013 04:44PM by kevo.
Arch, this morning, I saw one location out of 30+ that had the notation of a change in ordering requirements, new items, or some such. I don't know what the posted fee was, though I think if it had been $21, I would have spotted it! I checked the screening, but it didn't reveal anything. Of course, I couldn't see the guidelines. After looking at the screening, I returned to the job board, and that location was gone. Either it had been self-assigned, or the MSC pulled it.
I have two scheduled this month, neither of which has any changes.
I was looking back a year or two at my receipts. I usually go out of pocket a bit, but order a regular burger with two patties, regular fries and drink. Now that they have little fries, I order them. Different Five Guys have slightly differing prices, but in 2011, I paid $11.12; 2012 $11.66, and this year $11.23 - thanks to little fries.
I have two scheduled this month, neither of which has any changes.
I was looking back a year or two at my receipts. I usually go out of pocket a bit, but order a regular burger with two patties, regular fries and drink. Now that they have little fries, I order them. Different Five Guys have slightly differing prices, but in 2011, I paid $11.12; 2012 $11.66, and this year $11.23 - thanks to little fries.
I just searched a different State, and saw only one shop out of the lineup stating "Changed Fee!!! NEW MENU CHOICES !! Five Guys Burgers". It was a nominal fee change, and same reimbursement.
Maybe a trial program.
Maybe a trial program.
I'm looking at the new instructions - you can order a burger with or without a bun or hot dog, grilled cheese, veggie sandwich or BLT. Also, the order in which you place your order is different.
For my area shop fee is $10 and reimbursement is $11.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/14/2013 09:15PM by gogogirl.
For my area shop fee is $10 and reimbursement is $11.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/14/2013 09:15PM by gogogirl.
Wow, that's a rather major bit of news! I've wondered what some of their other menu items tasted like. Having never gone there on my own dime, I could never try any other sandwiches.
Gogo - were the new menu choices available on all shops in your market, or just a few?
Gogo - were the new menu choices available on all shops in your market, or just a few?
I only saw it on the one in the town over. I was going to be there to visit my sister so I decided to take the shop. I'm going tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes.
Where I live, I have to order a burger.
Where I am located a new listing came up last night. Its there now with two others for same location. Fee starts at $6.00 and reimbursement is the same.
The only time I have seen a high fee on these was one that was on a military base. You had to have base access and it needed to be done.
The only time I have seen a high fee on these was one that was on a military base. You had to have base access and it needed to be done.
I haven't checked in weeks but once I get home I'll have to look into this. Not familiar with the new changes. I love these shops! Maybe I shouldn't advertise it and instead say they are as bad as IKEA (which I've never done) to distract people! Ha ha!
kevo Wrote:
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> You are right, but I like their fries, so I always
> take big fries which is slightly above the
> reimbursement $11 limit.
Wow! Your location is is expensive, then. Prices, I suppose, are a regional thing, too. I always order the "little" cheeseburger with the one patty, a regular fry (the size in the middle), and a large drink (so it comes in the plastic cup that's better to take in the car IMO). I always come in well under $11, I think at $9 something. And, that way, there's enough fries to share with my Dad, who always comes with me; so it's just his burger and pop that aren't reimbursed.
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> You are right, but I like their fries, so I always
> take big fries which is slightly above the
> reimbursement $11 limit.
Wow! Your location is is expensive, then. Prices, I suppose, are a regional thing, too. I always order the "little" cheeseburger with the one patty, a regular fry (the size in the middle), and a large drink (so it comes in the plastic cup that's better to take in the car IMO). I always come in well under $11, I think at $9 something. And, that way, there's enough fries to share with my Dad, who always comes with me; so it's just his burger and pop that aren't reimbursed.
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I do a regular burger [2 patties], little fries, and a regular drink and it will be either $11.09 or $11.13, depending on the location. Several localities here have their own taxes.
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Have PV-500 & willing to travel.
"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard." (The Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil, 1977)
"Somedays you're the pigeon, somedays you're the statue.” J. Andrew Taylor
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." Galileo Galilei
In Canada, these pay $7 fee and $13 reimbursement. A little cheese burger, little fries and a regular drink cost around $12.50. Funny though, whenever they come up, they are grabbed and gone in a blink of an eye. There's one near the mall by my house, so I might take it the odd time. But other than that, I think it's too much work for the fee. I can never get out of there in under an hour, and the report is another 15 minutes. I could do and report two $10 cell shops in that hour, and come out ahead.
Mine are just about always $10.43.
You never get out of a Five Guys in under an hour?! Really?! Holy crap ~ why?! Is it because it's in a mall, and there's lots of parking & walking & whatnot? 
And a 15 minute report is nothing IMO. Especially with so little narrative.
Wow ~ lots of you guys have expensive Five Guys! I just checked my spreadsheet, and mine was always $9.17 or $9.27, for the little cheeseburger/regular fries/large pop... and then they disappeared from my board for the two locations in town ~ when I mentioned this previously, someone on here said there's a "lifetime limit" of shops for each particular location.
However, when I was able to pick one up on a route lately in another town, I just realized that that same order cost $10.27! So mine is getting spendier, too.
And a 15 minute report is nothing IMO. Especially with so little narrative.
Wow ~ lots of you guys have expensive Five Guys! I just checked my spreadsheet, and mine was always $9.17 or $9.27, for the little cheeseburger/regular fries/large pop... and then they disappeared from my board for the two locations in town ~ when I mentioned this previously, someone on here said there's a "lifetime limit" of shops for each particular location.
However, when I was able to pick one up on a route lately in another town, I just realized that that same order cost $10.27! So mine is getting spendier, too.
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Stormcloud - do you have any idea of the Lifetime limit?
Those hot dogs and BLTs = good stuff. I hope the pilot gets put to use a bit more. I am okay with the burgers, but just like with those Hedgehog shops, I sometimes have to be starving to want to do one if it is just burgers.
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