Market force hospital cafeteria shops

Has anyone done this shop. It shows two reimbursements at a dollar rate that is pretty high for a hospital cafe. I wish you could see the guidelines before accepting a shop.

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I did, well attempted to do it. The location I tried to shop was a children's hospital. Security wouldn't let me in because I didn't have a kid with me.

One is the shopper fee and one is the meal purchase. It may include your parking fee
I attempted one... the location was closed during posted hours.
They paid a closed location fee but refused to reimburse parking. Parking downtown Chicago isn't cheap and you incur a fee from minute #1..... was not pleased about that
It sounds like the one I used to do for Custom Risk Solutions for a $30 fee plus food reimbursement. Now I know why I haven’t seen them for awhile.
This thread got me energized to look at the MF site to see if these hospital shops were around here. What I found was a "mystery" mystery shop with a make an offer button. I offered $10 over the already increased pay and was awarded the shop immediately...I was so thrilled never having gotten a bonus like that from MF. I wrote it down in ink in my shop planner and then read the shop instructions. It was a purchase and return shop requiring me to drive back to the location the very next day (2 more hours of my time) to return the $400+ item I purchased. Nope. So I had to cancel the job. Why can't they put some info in the very short shop description which basically said it is retail and nothing more? Are they hoping shoppers will feel too guilty to cancel? I have rarely cancelled a shop in my life. It makes me feel bad to have to.
And for these hospital shops they really need to have a special warning if there are restrictions like kids and hours at certain places and encourage a call. I know they say to always call ahead but it is optional so I usually do not do it.
They give hardly any information in the shop description. Not enough to have an idea of what the shop is like.
I did one of these last week. The questions were very simple with literally no narrative. The hospital I went to did not have a parking fee, so I did not need to be reimbursed for that. The hardest part was finding the right café. It's basically the hospital cafeteria, not one of the kiosks at the hospital. Probably one of the easiest shops I've ever done.
I would estimate that the MSC would be able to recruit better if there was a description.
I had the same experience as CTChamp. I'd happily do another one but it hasn't shown up again -- perhaps there's a fairly long rotation (I did the last one two months ago).
I thought about doing this shop with MF as there is a valet shop for another MSC at the same hospital.
By the way, because the cafeteria I was at was so cheap I got a few other goodies beyond what the guidelines required and everything was reimbursed.
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