How do I Become a Secret Shopper?
Mystery Guest, Inc. sent me an email which seemed legit. They asked me to call and set up a visit where I would essentially audit a restaurant. It seemed like a small office and a real company. I spoke to 2 representatives and they got me set up to make “visits” to restaurants as they come up. The pay scale depends on a lunch or dinner call. It may depend on the place, but for where I went they reimbursed $25 for lunch and $35 for dinner PLUS $5 on top of that as your official pay. You are required to bring a guest with you. The restaurants participating in this are doing so to test their own staff. Seems pretty expensive for an audit, but these are high volume restaurants or chains (one offering was at Cheesecake Factory) which have these big company rules for their waitstaff as to how much flair to wear and proper greetings and suggestions for appetizers. I suspect they will all be larger chains unfortunately. The work involved is not a 5 minute task. I would say it took 20-30 minute
