@SteveSoCal wrote:
I'm not so optimistic for a fast recovery from Coyle. The restaurant and hotel industries are some of the hardest hit, and it's going to be some time before those clients are able to focus on the specifics that Coyle evaluates.
I think it will be a different Coyle that we see in the near future. The lodging shops they have right now, while cool, are not anywhere near the same level as previous Coyle clients in terms of luxury. They have an appeal to a very specific client base.
Other than that, of the 28 posted assignments, there's 1 hotel, some virtual senior centers and a gas station. Coming from the 5,000+ evaluations that were present going into the pandemic, I think it's safe to say that's a drastic reduction in clients.
With so much narrative focus on smiles from them in the past, I'm curious to see what the requirements may be for future assignments, with face coverings and social distance being the new norm.
@SteveSoCal wrote:
I'm not so optimistic for a fast recovery from Coyle. The restaurant and hotel industries are some of the hardest hit, and it's going to be some time before those clients are able to focus on the specifics that Coyle evaluates.
I think it will be a different Coyle that we see in the near future. The lodging shops they have right now, while cool, are not anywhere near the same level as previous Coyle clients in terms of luxury. They have an appeal to a very specific client base.
Other than that, of the 28 posted assignments, there's 1 hotel, some virtual senior centers and a gas station. Coming from the 5,000+ evaluations that were present going into the pandemic, I think it's safe to say that's a drastic reduction in clients.
With so much narrative focus on smiles from them in the past, I'm curious to see what the requirements may be for future assignments, with face coverings and social distance being the new norm.
Yes, with more spread out seating it will be close to impossible to report on the neighboring table's interactions that they require.@SteveSoCal wrote:
I'm not so optimistic for a fast recovery from Coyle. The restaurant and hotel industries are some of the hardest hit, and it's going to be some time before those clients are able to focus on the specifics that Coyle evaluates.
Do you think the Explore America Tax Credit has a chance of coming to pass? And, if so, do you think we would be able to get credit when shopping a Coyle hotel/restaurant? (Have my receipts just in case ;-))@SteveSoCal wrote:
I'm not so optimistic for a fast recovery from Coyle. The restaurant and hotel industries are some of the hardest hit, and it's going to be some time before those clients are able to focus on the specifics that Coyle evaluates.
@iShop123 wrote:
Do you think the Explore America Tax Credit has a chance of coming to pass? And, if so, do you think we would be able to get credit when shopping a Coyle hotel/restaurant?
@1forum1 wrote:
Wow! Then the credit would be retroactive back to the first of the year? Nice. How was Yosemite? Do you camp? Stay in a cabin? Lodge?
@carlsbadguy wrote:
Have the first restaurant shop tonight. It is outdoor seating on the patio and no bar. Expect it to be pretty empty.
@Misanthrope wrote:
Part of me thinks they're desperate and can't afford to pay $15 plus reimbursement anymore. Part of me feels that they know that they need to offer more payment to get shoppers into restaurants, but for some reason don't want to up their pay to $20. Why do you think this change happened?
They should have upped it to $50 to keep me interested.@SteveSoCal wrote:
@Misanthrope wrote:
Part of me thinks they're desperate and can't afford to pay $15 plus reimbursement anymore. Part of me feels that they know that they need to offer more payment to get shoppers into restaurants, but for some reason don't want to up their pay to $20. Why do you think this change happened?
Because if you offer $20-30 to get shops done, then somehow manage to build your business back up to where it once was after a few years, how do you go about walking that payment back to $15 without pissing shoppers off?
If you look at the dollar value over time, fixing the payment at $15 since I started working for them back around 2000 has actually effectively been slowly reducing payment. They should have upped it to $20 around 2015 to keep it equitable.
There are obviously going to be a lot of changes in the hospitality industry, and therefore the MS industry, in the coming years. For me, I'm happy to sit back, take the observer approach, and see where it goes....