Mystery shopping provides you with a fun way to make money doing what you love – whether that’s watching movies, shopping, or the great American past-time of eating out! While many shoppers are more than thrilled to make money shopping at retail stores, others may be delighted to know they can earn extra cash while they eat at their favorite restaurants. But before you set off to do a restaurant shop, there are some things you need to know.
Limited Choices. You can find a restaurant mystery shop for all types of eateries. You can enjoy everything from a coffee shop or snack shop in the mall, to fast food or fine dining at a posh restaurant. However, just as with shopping in a store, there are specific requirements you have to meet. With a restaurant shop, more often than not you will be required to order certain menu items. Unfortunately, you rarely have the option to order anything you want. The requirement may range from the simple guideline of “Order an appetizer, an entrĂ©e, and a dessert” to requiring you to choose only between the two options of the Sea Bass and the Filet. Some fast food restaurants require that you shop alone, but order two entrees. Since all of your costs may not reimbursed, you may be required to order food you cannot possibly fully eat and may end up throwing away if you can’t find a doggy-bag to take it home in. So know what you are getting into before you jump into a restaurant shop.
The reason behind this is simple – those restaurants want to ensure that certain members of their kitchen staff are doing satisfactory work, or that items being served to you are the proper temperature and are received in a timely manner.
Bring A Dinner Guest? Many restaurant shops have very specific requirements in terms of who you can bring with you on your shop. Some may require that you come alone while others require that you must bring at least one or two other people with you. If the requirement is to bring a friend or two along, be sure that they are available on the date and time you need to do the shop and that they understand the importance of not cancelling on you at the last minute. If they can’t show up for some reason and you can’t find someone to fill their chair at the restaurant, you won’t be able to meet all of the shop requirements.
On the other hand, if you must dine alone, be sure you are comfortable eating in a restaurant solo. While some people are more than happy to go to a fast food or sit-down restaurant and spend thirty minutes to an hour people-watching and eating their meal, this makes other people very uncomfortable.
Fatten Your Wallet, Not Your Waistline. There is increasing coverage in the media lately about how even seemingly healthy menu items at restaurants, such as salads or wraps, can be surprisingly heavy on calories, carbs, and fat. While everyone enjoys dining out from time to time, dining out regularly is a surefire way to pack on the pounds. So be sureto space out your restaurant shops. Or if you must do several restaurant shops in a short period of time, try your hardest to make healthy choices. Skip the fatty dressings and sauces, fried foods, and sugary desserts, and try to find the healthy items on the menu.
Restaurant shops can be a lot of fun, and a great way to break up the same old routine of grocery store shops and clothing store shops. So enjoy a delicious meal on your provider, but keep these tips in mind as you shop and eat.
i would be intrested in the restaurant shops could you please contact me when there is on avaiable
I love to mystery shop. I live in Milwaukee,WI.
thanks wendy peterson
Hey, please sign me up for restaurant shops in my area.
Thanks.
I REALY DONT KNOW IF YOU CAN GIVE ME JOB I LIVE IN GUADALAJARA JALISCO MEXICO BUT IF YOU HAVE SOMENTHING OF COURSE I WANTED TO MAKE MORE MONEY, THANKS FOR YOUR ATNTION TO THIS MATTER.
SANDRA
What do i have to do to start working?How long will it take for me to get started and getting paid?
How Do I get an assignment to do a “Mystery Shopper” survey??
Start me now with all the shops I can get, restaurants included.
How can I get started as a mystery shopper for restaurants and cruises? Tell me now to get started.
please e-mail on how i can get started as a mystery shopper for restaurants i live in crown point in. 46307 thank-you
Can someone tell me what company you are all getting these restaurants from. I would love to do them, I have only done retail and grocery stores. Need something different. Thanks
I have nerver did restaurants before I would love to try them.Thanks
have jobs on my email, don,t know how to getin to do them,need help.send help to my email address.
thanks
who are these restaurants needing shoppers?
So, looking for restaurant shops, but all connections are dead ends and don’t seem real! Please Help!
Thanks
Wow. I gotta say when I started mystery shopping, I did my homework. I spent a considerable amout of time online, looking for ideas, forums, whatever I could find. I did not simply ask people to make it easy for me and tell me what to do.
Where is the initiative, people? You figure we will just give you the info and make it easy on you?
Pay your dues. Do your own work and then have something to offer back.
I agree with Kat in the hat. More and more of the posts to these articles are requests for shops or companies. I guess these people have never heard of Google. Also, some of the spelling and grammar in these posts are so bad that you wonder how they will be able to fill out a report. The companies are really particular about these things.
Would someone please send me the information to register to be a mystery shopper. I paid for it over a year ago and have yet to get the information.
Jennie L. Parrott
1193 Enota Avenue
Gainesville, GA 30501
Thank You Kindly,
Jennie
Jackie is right. Mystery shopping requires a solid command of grammar and spelling and writing skills.
Most mystery shopping companies grade the shops from 1-10 or 1-5. Spelling and grammar counts. So does following directions. Mystery shopping is a business, and serious shoppers treat it as such.
Sometimes I think people new to mystery shopping think it is all fun and games – that we do not work hard to make our money. Thinking that would be a mistake.
Please don’t think you will make big money mystery shopping, or that you will not have to put hard work into your shops.
Having said that, I enjoy it, and I am not trying to discourage people.
I have just started mystery shopping and love it already, Hope to continue doing and make money at it too. Penny
I would love to do more than I do for restaurants. I enjoy being able to give honest and valuable feedback.