@aprilredbird wrote:
Anybody else surprised about the low payment RBG ( Reality Based Group) is offering on their restaurant shops. I have just done two shops for them and will admit they are super easy as far as the forms to fill out go, but the reimbursement is ridiculous. Both restuaraunts I ate in cost me twice what my reimbursement was and I didn't eat anything expensive. In fact I ate some of the cheapest things listed on their menu. The last one I did was a Taco place and I took my daughter ,our bill was 2 1/2 times the reimbursement and we both drank water, although I had a beer as it was required you sit at the bar so it seems weird to demand that you sit at the bar for the shop if you aren't ordering a drink, particularly in our case when the bar was full and the restaurant was not full so we had to wait.
While I would love to see a higher reimbursement, no, I am not surprised by the reimbursement. Not sure which taco place you are doing, but I do one with $5 pay and $10 reimbursement. I go by myself when I want a quick meal. I never order a drink, even when I sit at the bar. I usually order one of their specialty tacos and chips and queso and am usually within the $10. I walk away with $5 pay and a short, easy report.
I like the shop MUCH more now than with the previous MSC. When A Closer Look had the same client, the pay was $0 and with a $25 reimbursement, BUT there were a lot of ordering requirements: two drinks, 4 tacos, appetizer and dessert. I was unable to stay within the reimbursement amount just ordering the requirements and then I had a long narrative-heavy report to do. It cost me about $32 to buy required items. Big surprise that ACL could not fill the shops and lost the client. Now there are no required items and the report is a breeze.
I'm sympathetic that it cost you much more to eat than the reimbursement. If I take a shop at a place I'm not familiar with, I always google the menu to see how much it will cost to eat. Most menu prices are online now. Even when a company does not post its menu with prices, I can usually get a good idea of prices by reading online reviews.