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If your restaurant has drive thru locations, your goal is to ensure consumers return to your drive thru – and not to your competitor’s instead. Before you can improve, you need to know how drive thru associates perform. 

The half-year mark is upon us, which means it’s time to reevaluate on-going business decisions.  Here's a checklist to ensure mystery shoppers are reporting on the way you will operate your business in 2019.

Spending time on hold is aggravating, and a recent study revealed just how customers feel.  From a survey done by Acena, over half of the callers reported that being placed on hold for even 1 minute was too long,  and 1/3 of people believe that calls to customer service representatives should be 

Are the correct and current promotional signs in place at your stores or restaurants?  Possibly, you are not sure, and you don’t have time to visit or call your units to find out!  

Competitive Reasons

1. Measure your competition’s phone skills.  You may know how well your employees handle incoming phone requests for information on your company, but do you know how effective the competition’s employees are during phone experiences? Gathering intelligence with competitive mystery shops allows you to measure how well your employees stack up against the competition.

2. Assess competitors’ in-person customer service.  It’s equally important to know how your employees rank against the competition in terms of in person customer service experiences. Are there areas where the competition is “wowing” the customers?  If so, is it enough to make customers want to buy from the competitor company rather than your company?

3. Learn about competitive product/service offerings.  Many times, it isn’t easy to gather information on competitor offers. With competitive mystery shops, mystery shoppers pose as regular customers and therefore can gather objective information on the latest competitor products and services.