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@aprilredbird wrote:

...causing me to submit the whole damned thing completely 11 times before it finally worked. ...and the 11 hours it took me to fill in the blank form with narratives. The funny thing is before I was even paid for that shop which was approx 7 weeks later, they were contacting me to do it again.

Sounds like you have so much experience with that shop report that you can fill out the report in less than an hour.

They probably consider you an expert at that shop now.

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I'm new at this. How can I tell if a shop is going to require a lot of narrative if they don't show you details until you sign up? Experience? I was doing $3 phone inquiries at car dealerships but they got old quick since they require some narrative. Not a lot but enough that it is not worth $3. My $45 church shop was quite in depth, but I felt worth it. I did an "operational survey" the other day for $40. LONG list of questions. Had I not had experience as an auditor it probably would have taken me 2 hours and they said it should take 30-45 minutes. I made sure I was out of there in 45. My survey was approved.

A lot of times the posting will say how much narrative is required, but not always. I think it's a live and learn type of thing. I don't mind narrative because I'm a fast writer. Most of the shops I do have narrative, if only the summary at the end. There are only a handful that I've done that have not had narrative. I do think video shops probably have less, but I'm not a video shopper.

I have noticed for many msc the blank report that they show up front does not show the narrative boxes that open up once you are reporting the real time shop. That is frustrating and misleading as I may have taken the job due to the balance between the fee and what it looked like the shop entailed based on the narrative box at the bottom only to find out each section had its own narrative box.
As to the original question...I have noticed that the "fine dining" reports have gotten shorter with ACL but so has the definition of fine. In my area the "better" restaurant shops are not what I would consider fine dining at all, just a chance to spend a lot of money for mediocre food. I think I see most if not all the local assignments.

I'm intrigued at the idea of a church shop, Was it an actual church or is that code like hedgehog or arches? I'd love to shop an actual church, if I could find the msc that does it.

They are talking about an actual church. There may be more than 1 company doing them? The only one that I know of is on the official list, that's all they do, and if you read the names it will scream out at you when you see it.

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