MS income is also subject to taxes.@myst4au wrote:
IMHO, this is not relevant. The minimum wage is always a before taxes number. Someone making minimum wage is subject to taxes. What rate they pay at varies, as does the rate that each of us pays at.@klovie wrote:
Depending on what state one is in, the pay after taxes is less than minimum wage.
I always waited for the bank shops to get to around $30 before taking them, but rarely see that price anymore.@ravensr4real wrote:
Yes $18 is ok when you factor in the meal that someone can enjoy. I bring it to my son most times. I quit doing those cheap a** bank shops years ago.
@weatherman2111 wrote:
@ravensr4real wrote:
I'd say over here on the East Coast the food is really good 90% or more of the time. I would still NEVER pay the prices they charge unless it was a shop and at least $15 minimum. And when are they going to add a chicken sandwich??? Ever?
Gonna go with "never". Where would they cook one? Can't do it in the fry cookers, and I don't think they wanna add on to their supply chain anymore.
I think you jinxed me. I got some undercooked fries for the first time on my Sunday shop. And I'd actually purchased a large size because I was able to get that with my veggie sandwich and regular drink and only go over by 8c. I wonder if they knew who I was based on the name on the online order, because they were cleaning when I got there. Of course, there weren't any other customers there, so maybe they were just doing it because customers had left. And if they knew who it was, they would have done a better job on the fries.@BirdyC wrote:
The fries had that taste of raw potato, not just slightly undercooked. I'll heat them up at home and eat them, but they weren't anywhere near up to standard. Everything else was really excellent--some of the best service I've gotten at any 5G location recently, and I was sure to comment highly on that.
@ravensr4real wrote:
I also just had a FG shop rejected for the first time out of about 100 for something miniscule. Things are changing I guess in 2022
@grrldude wrote:
Has anyone else noticed a change in the Five Guys shop fee increases since January 1? There are five locations I regularly shop, and it was always customary to see the shop fee go to $25 four to five days after the shop's first day (by Monday or Tuesday). But all of the FG shops since January 1 have maxed out at $18 on the board. Most of them have been sitting there for two to three weeks. I put in an MAO for my usual $25 on several of them, but my offers were refused. Best I was able to get was $20. While $18 is a decent fee compared to other MSCs, I don't know why they let these shops sit on the board unfilled for weeks, rather than raise the fee by a few bucks. Very few are taking them at that price here on the East Coast.
Something does seem different. My usual MAO was rejected last week, although I did get my $25 when they called me. But I noticed that the Samantha emails now have the FG name in the subject line. It does appear that they pushed the shops from this past week that did not get filled out to the 31st and left the price at $18 rater than increasing to $25. We'll see how well it works for them. In some areas where they have enough shoppers and there is competition in a given week when people go back in rotation, maybe having an extra shop available at a lower price will work for them. Not so much in my area, at least based on my experience.@grrldude wrote:
Has anyone else noticed a change in the Five Guys shop fee increases since January 1? There are five locations I regularly shop, and it was always customary to see the shop fee go to $25 four to five days after the shop's first day (by Monday or Tuesday). But all of the FG shops since January 1 have maxed out at $18 on the board. Most of them have been sitting there for two to three weeks. I put in an MAO for my usual $25 on several of them, but my offers were refused. Best I was able to get was $20. While $18 is a decent fee compared to other MSCs, I don't know why they let these shops sit on the board unfilled for weeks, rather than raise the fee by a few bucks. Very few are taking them at that price here on the East Coast.
@MisterBill wrote:
And since the shop takes 30 minutes or less to complete, even the base price of $9 is higher than minimum wage.
15 minutes after you get the food. In general, you should have your food 10 minutes after you order it, so 25 minutes total. 10-15 minutes to submit it online. Plus, you need to add the value of the food, even if you wouldn't normally buy it yourself.@wrosie wrote:
@MisterBill wrote:
And since the shop takes 30 minutes or less to complete, even the base price of $9 is higher than minimum wage.
I have to politely disagree. You have to spend, I think it's 15 or 20 minutes in store. When I consider drive times to and from the shop and then the reporting time, I get about an hour all in. $9 is below NY state minimum wage.
I have also noticed they seemed to have tightened up their acceptance of MAO in the last couple of weeks. That's okay, I can wait until they call me.
I can actually see a Five Guys out my back window, across the highway. But I won't do it for their base fee because of the above reasons, especially in winter conditions on the streets.
@Susan L. wrote:
Little cheeseburger, little fries, and a regular coke. $17.39 in New York City. Dios mio!
@KathyG wrote:
I just got off the phone with an overseas scheduler. He offered me SIX DOLLARS to complete a shop! I thought I had misunderstood and asked him to repeat the fee. It did not change.
When I talk to that company's schedulers I always put them on speakerphone so I can be looking at the note on my phone where I list the highest fee I have gotten for each shop and when I received it. So after his embarrassingly low offer I countered with my $25. He wanted to know when I had received that much and I gave him the month and year. He told me he would try to get his supervisor to sign off on that amount, and if so I would see the confirmation in my email. I'm not holding my breath.
I got a call today, and they offered $18, and I told them $25. She actually tried to get me to take $24, and I said no, so she put in for approval. It got approved. Hopefully you got yours as well.@KathyG wrote:
He told me he would try to get his supervisor to sign off on that amount, and if so I would see the confirmation in my email. I'm not holding my breath.
@MisterBill wrote:
I got a call today, and they offered $18, and I told them $25. She actually tried to get me to take $24, and I said no, so she put in for approval. It got approved. Hopefully you got yours as well.@KathyG wrote:
He told me he would try to get his supervisor to sign off on that amount, and if so I would see the confirmation in my email. I'm not holding my breath.
That's crazy. Was it posted for $18? They originally called to offer me $15 for a location I had taken for that price a couple of months ago and was currently listed at $18 (and I had only taken it because it was a curbside shop at a location that doesn't do curbside, so t took it to submit as closed).@KathyG wrote:
As I suspected, there was no shop confirmation email. It's just as well, as I'm still trying to get rid of the extra holiday weight.