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Oh hun, I know it's not a great thing but please don't scream at us about it!

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Sorry did not mean to scream

The posting is for a mid priced restaurant. It would probably be 60.00 for 2 people. You do the shop, pay for the meal and instead of being reimbursed they givw you a gift card for a future visit.

The restaurant is a mid range restaurant. You do rhe shop, pay for your meal, and instead of being reimbursed they send you a gift card for a future purchase.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/27/2016 01:00AM by adamaimeemom.

Yup I saw it and thought about posting about it but adamaimeemom beat me to it. I won't do it either but the restaurant is an appealing one. They are going to have to offer reimbursement AND a fee, and no payment may come in the form of a gift card, sheesh. That's how I roll!

Forgive me, but I can't imagine anyone taking this shop....wait a minute...yep, I've got it -- somebody who LOVES the restaurant, lives next door to it, and will donate the gift card to a charity raffle!!!!!!!

When I see shops like this (shops that pay with a gift card, require a purchase well beyond reimbursement or with no reimbursement, etc) it makes me think the client is down on revenue and is trying to use mystery shopping to pump income into their locations. Not saying this is true, just that this is the first idea that crosses my mind.

That is EXACTLY the case....many restaurants have been doing this for years.....

Cheesecake factory used to pay that way and it never was a problem, to me since I would have gone there anyway. But usually I want to be paid for the meal and also like a small reimbursement.
There is a Pizza chain that pays with only a reimbursement and I don't like the pizza so I just don't do the shop. But that company has several high end shops that only have a reimbursement that I do since I really like the restaurants.

We had two locations and one just went out of business last week. Consider that in your quest to hold a gift card.....

I dont really like to eat out. I dont digest processed foods well. Occasionally I will take a restaurant shop to treat my husband. I dont want to have to go TWICE though

I'm all about my dollars

My belly can handle another night of my mediocre cooked pork loins or meat loaf, and mashed potatoes.

MegglesKat

I get bogo all the time with some of my favs so I might consider doing this if the report was yes/no and zero narrative. Especially if it's Cheesecake factory.

It's not Cheesecake Factory. It's an okay restaurant but nothing special.

Oh and definitely plenty of narrative with this MSC and probably a phone call and photos. I didn't bother to check that info for this shop once I saw the payment terms.

.......And photos? Yikes. Don't you just adore the ones where you have to take a close up of all the pizza, in a Mall food court, without them seeing you take the pic!? Yea, I'd rather wash the walls with bleach water!

I will try something like this at least once if it is restaurant I know I will return to. I cannot "judge" the worth of the shop if I have never completed one, since we all have different thresholds for what is acceptable. After completion, I then can respond to the MSC if I do not think it is fair or reasonable. :-)

And yet another of the restaurants went out of business here overnight, ZERO notice to anyone.... gift card complaints are already aplenty on their web site.

They apparently are having trouble filling these. They were blowing up my email every couple minutes yesterday. So annoying to get over 10 emails in less than an hour. Definitely not interested now.

If you're talking about O'Charley's, I did one last week and it was really easy. Make a quick phone call prior to ask a question, take a photo of each food item and anything that appears amiss (torn menu, overflowing trash can in restroom, etc). Yes, there is no fee, but the location is 4 miles from my house and it was a nice lunch for me. Oh, and kids eat free, so it was a good deal for me.

There were some of those types of shops awhile ago. Great restaurants but no to the gift card thing.

Me too. I have food at home. I work for cash, not food, gas, or widgets.

@clinen11 wrote:

I'm all about my dollars My belly can handle another night of my mediocre cooked pork loins or meat loaf, and mashed potatoes.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

So there's no pay at all? You pay out of your pocket for the meal, do the report and then wait for them to mail you a gift card? I'll have to say "heck no" to that.

That is correct. AND if they close up overnight you are the proud owner of a dead gift card.

@msmsmshopper wrote:

So there's no pay at all? You pay out of your pocket for the meal, do the report and then wait for them to mail you a gift card? I'll have to say "heck no" to that.

I personal would not do a shop for a gift card instead of getting my money I spend on the meal back because I might need the money for something else at the time it would have got back to me.

I accepted this shop because the restaurant is literally half a mile from me, my spouse and I can take the kid, and we will eat out instead of me cooking dinner. I'll let y'all know how it goes!

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It does seem to make sense to do this if you want to eat there anyway and you would be paying for a meal. It works for some people not for others. Makes sense to me.

I LOVE these shops!

I miss them terribly. I earned over $400 in gift cards. I loved to save them up and used them for special occasions. I WISH they would have those again. I am talking about the "Irish sounding-name restaurant.

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