Grass Roots anyone have experience with this company?

Has anyone ever had any experience with Grass Roots? The called me with an assignment for a moderately priced restaurant but only offered me a gift certificate.
Anyone done this before?

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Was it a Restaurant.com gift certificate? If so, pass. You can get those for about $2 on Groupon, and they are more of a coupon than a gift certificate. Too many stipulations.

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> Has anyone ever had any experience with Grass
> Roots? The called me with an assignment for a
> moderately priced restaurant but only offered me a
> gift certificate.
> Anyone done this before?

If it is the one for the popular dessert restaurant, that one is real. The gift card is your payment and if it is a dinner, it won't cover your entire meal but it is a good start. You can use the gift card for the same restaurant on a future shop if you want.

A way to double dip on this one is the first time you shop it, go buy yourself a gift card from Kroger or some store that gives you rewards for buying gift cards. Then you just keep rolling the same gift card money over every time you do the shop.

Use the link for Mystery Guest (they changed their name to Grass Roots) from the official list on this page below to be sure you get the real link and not a fake one in a phishing email.

Shopping across Indiana but mostly around Indianapolis.

I have done a couple shops for them. I'm not crazy about getting paid via gift card to that restaurant, but the location we shop is one of my wife's favorites so no problem with not using the gift card. Basically I will only accept a shop from them if my wife really wants to go, and most times I prefer just to pay out of pocket anyway.

I've done two of these shops for the ocean creature restaurant and they have both worked out okay. Grassroots (or Mystery Guest. . .whichever you know them as) has recently increased their reimbursement for dinner from a $25 gift card to a $50 gift card. Yes, the reimbursement is only through gift card although when they called me to offer me a shop for one of these times, the scheduler mentioned that they were offering a Visa gift card because they were desperate to get some of the shops filled. So, that was pretty cool. But, both times I've done shops for this company I have opted for the reimbursement via the restaurant branded gift card. For me, it's a free dinner out with my little family that we wouldn't otherwise be willing to spend out of pocket for.

I like these shops and used to do them regularly. They are relatively easy compared to the ones I do for other companies. Somehow I got out of the habit. I think it is because there have been several incidences at this particular restaurant shop that were negative...none of them related to the food or service and one related to my parking. Once my parking sticker was expired and I had to pay $60 to the city, another time one of the servers gave themselves a huge tip and used up my gift card (I had used up what was left on one card and a small amt from a second card. One of the staff helped themselves to the rest of my $40 giftcard at 2 AM). I did not discover this until my next shop months later but the company investigated and made it good. I only did the one with the calorific desserts as they have several locations near me and I did not want to end up with a gift card from a restaurant I have to drive far to.

Love them. The GC is never enough for us but OK for what we are willing to shell out over and beyond. I will not do their recent client. Don't like the fact that it doesn't cover tax or tip. Not worth it to me.

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