Both my wife and I are Mystery Shoppers and have been doing so for the past 3 years. We especially like working restaurant shops as a team that requires two people. The up side, is we treat our restaurant shops as "date night" with a twist of course, in that we need to dot our "I's" and cross our "T's" and obtain required details. The down side is the Mystery Shop companies classify us as one account so our turnaround times for each shop are applied to both of us, meaning when my wife is assigned a particular restaurant and I accompany her, neither of us can apply for that shop location again until the the reassignment period has elapsed.
I come from a Law Enforcement & Security background and retired in Sep 2016, I like paying attention to detail and now have more time to spend on conducting shops and writing reports, I treat it like a hobby to keep me occupied. I use three primary APPS to assist me in conducting and documenting shops, I use "Shopit", "My Logs Pro" and "My Easy Tip Calculator" APPS, I also use various video cameras, including a coffee mug cam, glasses cam, button cam, cell phone cam and vehicle key fob cam to record my shops as well. Video is an excellent shop tool to ensure your timings are very accurate down to the second. I also use a free Windows program called "Media Player Classic Cinema", available for download at www.mpc-hc.org .. this program is awesome, it allows you to view your video in normal speed, three slow motion and three fast motion speeds so you can quickly navigate to the key points of the video. when my wife and I document beverage, appetizer, entree and dessert timings, we document our timings down to the second from the exact time the server leaves the table with our orders to the time that each item is delivered and announced or touches the table. Last but not least I use the Windows "Snipping Tool" (available in Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows Vista or can be downloaded) to capture photos from my video scenes when I pause the video at key scenes. My wife also audio records each shop as a backup method. So in summary, we audio record, video record and use APPS for all our shops.
As our American counterparts, who I refer to as "our cousins from the south", you folks are very fortunate, you have a huge selection of shops to choose from. We, in Canada, do not have anywhere near the same volume and variety of shops to choose from.
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I would appreciate any suggestions any of my Canadian counterparts or American cousins have for me as to which Mystery Shop Companies I should register with so that my wife and I can do more shops than we currently do.
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