Yes Lisa. For example, just on the server's initial visit to the table, they want to know if the visit occurred within two minutes of being seated, if the server's greeting was friendly, if the server asked if this was our first time dining there, if the server explained x, y, and z, if the server offered a wine menu, if the server suggested specific drinks and if so which ones, if the server filled the water, if the server held a napkin a certain way when filling the water to serve as a splash guard, and so on. And of course the server's name, what they looked like, approximate age, etc.
That's something like a dozen for just that one aspect of the meal. So you can see how it can get into the hundreds.
Because I was so diligent about studying it all in advance, I caught most of those details with high confidence, but for some I--in being honest--had to say, "I believe he did such-and-such" or "It was definitely less than three minutes and probably less than two" or "He filled the water glasses in the manner described, and it was probably on that initial visit but there's a small chance he did it on his second visit to the table a minute or so later," and so on. In retrospect I suppose I could have not been so meticulous about conveying my degree of confidence and just said flat out "He did this, this, and this, and said this, this, and this." I mean, maybe that's the custom with mystery shoppers and mystery shopping companies. You don't ever acknowledge uncertainty.
But I was wary of doing that, especially when it comes to negative things. If I'm 95% sure that the server didn't mention that they have a loyalty club, say, and I simply write that he failed to mention it, then there's a 5% chance I just made a false accusation against this gentleman. So I'd rather give some sense of the degree of probability of my observations, since, again, I contend that no human being is going to be 100% certain of 150 out of 150.
That's the only objection the company had to my report, that I expressed some entries as probabilities rather than certainties. Thus I'm undeserving of the pay and undeserving of reimbursement for the three figures I shelled out in expenses.