@MisterBill wrote:
Here's a new one. There is a delivery shop with shake available near a friend's house who we may be visiting on Tuesday. When looking at their menu both on the FG site and Doordash, shakes are not listed. What do you do in a situation like that?
I called and they do not offer shakes. I took the delivery shop and the CPI says "For this shop, you will place an order online and have it delivered. A milkshake purchase is required for this shop if the location sells them."@sstsau wrote:
@MisterBill wrote:
Here's a new one. There is a delivery shop with shake available near a friend's house who we may be visiting on Tuesday. When looking at their menu both on the FG site and Doordash, shakes are not listed. What do you do in a situation like that?
If I remember correctly, I think the guidelines say that a shake is required if the location offers shakes. In your case, it seems like the restaurant may not serve shakes, so I'd put that in the report and maybe take some screenshots showing that no shakes are offered on the online menus.
Could you call the location and ask them if they sell shakes before accepting the shop?
@MisterBill wrote:
I called and they do not offer shakes. I took the delivery shop and the CPI says "For this shop, you will place an order online and have it delivered. A milkshake purchase is required for this shop if the location sells them."@sstsau wrote:
@MisterBill wrote:
Here's a new one. There is a delivery shop with shake available near a friend's house who we may be visiting on Tuesday. When looking at their menu both on the FG site and Doordash, shakes are not listed. What do you do in a situation like that?
If I remember correctly, I think the guidelines say that a shake is required if the location offers shakes. In your case, it seems like the restaurant may not serve shakes, so I'd put that in the report and maybe take some screenshots showing that no shakes are offered on the online menus.
Could you call the location and ask them if they sell shakes before accepting the shop?
Now the question is how to order. They have not increased the reimbursement on delivery shops, and I'm running into the stupid $15 minimum ordering with their own delivery and guidelines saying to just order more, ignoring the fact that you end up having to cover the tax in that case because the minimum doesn't include it while the reimbursement does. Can't get veggie sandwich, little fries and water under $15 when using DoorDash or Grubhub, although it's close.
I'm just order on DoorDash when I don't have to meet the $15 minimum before tax and will only be 35 cents over. Ordering on the FG website will end up costing me more than a dollar out of pocket with sales tax.@myst4au wrote:
My advice is to look for the least expensive item that puts you over $15. Is soda more expensive than water? Look around. In the worst-case since you are committed, change the veggie sandwich to something else more expensive. Since you will be at your friend's house anyway, you can't subtract mileage as a business expense, so effectively that increases your effective net fee.
@MisterBill wrote:
New strangeness in rotation and delivery shops. I now no longer see in-person shops for the location I did today, but I do see a second delivery shop (the one I did today was left over from July). Not that it matters since I'm not going back to do an in-person shop, but this makes me wonder if I'm not going to see in-person shops for my local FG for a while, since I did a delivery shop there. Really wish they would fix this obvious bug. And when I ask the about it, they say, "We don't see any reason why you can't see the shops".
Sorry to hear that you're seeing it as well. What you described is how it SHOULD work. Even worse in my case, the last time this happened the in-restaurant shops disappeared for longer than the normal rotation. It's not good for me or for the MS company, because they often have trouble filling these shops.@sstsau wrote:
I do remember it used to be that if you took a delivery shop, you could still see/take the dine-in/carry-out shops for that rotation.
@MisterBill wrote:
My local restaurant showed up again for in-store shopping after it had disappeared after doing hte delivery shop. This week they have a curbside dinner. However, this location has not done curbside for probably a year. I do not understand why they cannot get this right.
Yes, they seem to be doing a whole batch of them again, even though most aren't doing it. In fact, even the store where I regularly did curbside last year is no longer offering it. Really stupid, and made even worse by them not letting you just do an in-store pickup if the store doesn't do curbside. And it will piss off a bunch of shoppers who get stiffed on their meal and most of the fee.@sstsau wrote:
But there's one week in September where 3-4 stores have curbside shops... I don't understand it either, seems like those are just missed opportunities since they'll have to just be reported as closed.
The problem is that it likely takes you out of rotation for a few weeks, so you can't get a dine-in shop for $24 or whatever you usually get.@MsJudi wrote:
Same...$24 for a curbside, but no curbside. I wondered why the phone call scheduler was so quick to say yes to my $24 request. Ha...$3.00 coming my way, but at least I didn't have to make the trip.
@MisterBill wrote:
The problem is that it likely takes you out of rotation for a few weeks, so you can't get a dine-in shop for $24 or whatever you usually get.@MsJudi wrote:
Same...$24 for a curbside, but no curbside. I wondered why the phone call scheduler was so quick to say yes to my $24 request. Ha...$3.00 coming my way, but at least I didn't have to make the trip.
Well, that's good to hear. So the system is smarter than I gave them credit for.@MsJudi wrote:
Nope..I was called to do a dine-in the next week for the bonus pay.
Seems to vary. I think it's been as early as Thursday of late. Surprised it isn't already on this week, given that it's a holiday weekend.@HonnyBrown wrote:
When is MAO typically posted?
@sstsau wrote:
Just got the prompt to complete Five Guys Recertification when I logged into the job board. It was pretty straightforward, no real surprises.
@big_sky_thunder wrote:
I logged in this morning, sept. 3, Friday, and there was nothing about the certification.