The Mystery Dining Company

[Miss Wetwipe]

Have stumbled upon this site - seems quite good, they don't pay you but reimburse your meals. Would have given it a go but they don't have anything in my area - might be useful to someone else though?

https://www.mysterydining.co.uk

[andylaine]

great spot, sadly none in my area either :(

[Trolley Dash]

These are the areas they list - they are not in any particular order have just copied and pasted.


Barnstaple Bridgwater Bristol Cardiff Cheltenham Exmouth Falmouth Moreton-In-Marsh
Taunton Torrington, North Devon Truro Weymouth Yeovil Primrose Hill Waterloo West Hampstead Bromley Camden Croydon Kingston upon Thames Lewisham Romford Beckenham Banbury Basingstoke Basingstoke * Bexleyheath Brighton * Broadstairs Buckingham Camberley Camberley * Chatham Crawley Dartford * Fareham * Fleet * Hastings * Haywards Heath Leatherhead Lewes Maidenhead Maidenhead * Maidstone Portsmouth Portsmouth * Reading * Slough * Southampton * Thame Tunbridge Wells Tunbridge Wells * Whitstable Woking Basildon Biggleswade Bishops Stortford Clacton On Sea Hatfield * Hemel Hempstead * Ipswich Ipswich * Lakeside, Thurrock Lakeside, Thurrock * Saffron Walden Southend-On-Sea Southend-On-Sea * Sudbury (Suffolk) Watford Watford * Leeds Leeds * Scarborough Wetherby Boston, Lincs Bromsgrove
Coventry * Dudley *Gainsborough Grantham Great Malvern Hereford Nottingham Nottingham * Oswestry Rugby Shrewsbury Telford
Telford * Birmingham International Airside Heathrow Airside (past passport control) Heathrow, Landside Stansted, Landside Concourse Sydney Int'l Airport (after passport control) Cardiff * Inverness Jersey St Andrews, Fife Antwerp Auckland Boston, USA Brisbane Cyprus: Nicosia Denmark Dubai Egypt: Cairo Groningen Istanbul Melbourne Perth
Switzerland Sydney Wellington

[WELSH-DRAGON]

thanks just applied, I think I applied awhile ago but never heard anything, oh well, 2nd time lucky hopefully

welshy x

[dingaling]

Well they have a good weeding out system, as they want 250 words on a recent dining experience, and frankly right now I am too tired! So maybe its not right for me!

[SUSIEQ]

Well they have a good weeding out system, as they want 250 words on a recent dining experience, and frankly right now I am too tired! So maybe its not right for me!



lol - here too! I got down to that part of the form, and gave up! Thanks for the post anyway!

[joedog]

Filled in the form until i saw the 250 words and then didnt bother

[jen]

Good spot, tried to rep you but have to spread it around! I did the report so fingers crossed, rushed it a bit, but know if I put it off it would never get done!

[WELSH-DRAGON]

I got REJECTED ! I filled in the form, wrote a 250 word essay and the man from the mystery dining company well he said NO !

oh well, theres other fish to fry elsewhere or whatever the saying is

welshy x

[Miss Wetwipe]

I got REJECTED ! I filled in the form, wrote a 250 word essay and the man from the mystery dining company well he said NO !

oh well, theres other fish to fry elsewhere or whatever the saying is

welshy x

lol - what on earth did you write ?? :lol:

[WELSH-DRAGON]

lol - what on earth did you write ?? :lol:

I wrote a report on a recent visit to Nandos, noting the time of entry, the waitresses name, the menu choice, the timings from taking the order to delivering the food, whether our drinks came with ice and lemon, the decor of the restuarant, the music levels, whether other tables were cleared, how long it took for our plates to be removed, how long desserts took from time of ordering and whether our payment was handled correctly, oh and whether we received a parting comment ........................

OK, OK I think I bored them LOL

welshy x

[jen]

I got REJECTED ! I filled in the form, wrote a 250 word essay and the man from the mystery dining company well he said NO !

oh well, theres other fish to fry elsewhere or whatever the saying is

welshy x

When did you do yours, I did mine last night and haven't heard anything yet, how did they let you know?
I did mine on a local indian restaurant we frequent regularly - we can walk to it so can have a drink! - and wonder whether it was too glowing. I went over 250 words so hope it's not too long.

[WELSH-DRAGON]

@ jen it was within 24 hours

welshy x

[80934]

:(

I also applied for this a few weeks ago. I spent quite a while filling in the application and review, and was rejected too!

[jen]

@ jen it was within 24 hours

welshy x

Thanks welshy,
I still haven't heard so have to wait and see.

[zoot]

im waiting to hear too. The minimum was 250 words so anythng over is fine.

[zoot]

got my email tonight. ive been accepted!

[penfold]

got my email tonight. ive been accepted!

me too! ...quite suprised as sure I babbled on a bit on the essay thing :o

[addictedtosaving]

Well done Zoot and Penfold.:clap2::clap2:

[jen]

me too! ...quite suprised as sure I babbled on a bit on the essay thing :o

Just checked my email, I've been accepted too:)

[WELSH-DRAGON]

Just checked my email, I've been accepted too:)

well done to those accepted

I'm feeling left out now :o so I applied again, this time taking care and doubling checking everything I wrote down.

fingers crossed I am successful this time

welshy x

[jen]

Good luck this time:)

[WELSH-DRAGON]

Good luck this time:)

thanks Jen - nothing received yet

Welshy x

[jen]

That must be a good sign, they seemed to do the no's straightaway last time.

[penfold]

thanks Jen - nothing received yet

Welshy x

Good luck! Took them ages to send our 'yes' emails through though so don't go holding your breath!

[jen]

Zoot and Penfold, have you returned your form yet. I have filled it in and realize I have to fax it. My OH can do it from work on Tuesday, but I also see on the form it says the receipts have to be sent by a set time the next day. Now when I read the details I remember it said the receipts could be scanned and emailed to them, which I could do by going round my mums. However if now they are saying they have to be faxed this could be a problem because my OH can fax from work but he is not in his office everyday. My other option is a friend over the road who has a fax machine but she is a long haul air stewardess so is not always at home! Our local libraries don't have fax machines. Of course the other option would be to buy one, worth if I suppose because one meal would cover the cost.
Anyway I won't be able to get the form back till tuesday that may put them off. Have either of you got a fax machine, how will you get round this?

[zoot]

My FIL has a fax machine, he says I can use it anytime.
it did say about receipts and reports being faxed in next day I think on the joining info but like you say, it might be worth investing in a machine of your own. Not sure how much they are (goes off to check...)

[jen]

I think I will invest in one if I get an assignment! However I won't buy one yet, they will have to wait to tuesday to get my form back. Annoying I didn't do it last night OH was in the office today.

[markat]

ok form a queue - who wants to take me to dinner ?

ooops sounded bad - sorry !

[zoot]

They took weeks to let us know we were accepted, sure a couple of days wait for your form should be OK.

[Miss Wetwipe]

ok form a queue - who wants to take me to dinner ?

I've got a McDonalds assignment coming up with Gapbuster if ya fancy a happy meal?

[WELSH-DRAGON]

ok form a queue - who wants to take me to dinner ?

with a bod like that can I be first please ? I'd give you some tesco points but I ain't got any LOL

welshy x

[jen]

ok form a queue - who wants to take me to dinner ?

Consider it a date:D

[jen]

They took weeks to let us know we were accepted, sure a couple of days wait for your form should be OK.

I think it should be too, I wouldn't have checked my email for days unless I saw that you two had heard from them.

[WELSH-DRAGON]

heard nothing - which I reckon is a good sign as the first rejection was very quickly a NO !

still keeping fingers crossed

welshy x

[jen]

Sounds good to me, fingers crossed for you still:)

[penfold]

I've not sent mine back yet as well as discovered the scanner isn't working. :o OH will fax tomorrow from work.

[WELSH-DRAGON]

I've still heard nothing so have just sent them a nice email

Welshy x

[zoot]

i keep checking everyday but no visits available for the area i am in yet.

[WELSH-DRAGON]

oh no I hope I'm not considered now too pushy - had this email re my application (no refusal yet)

We have small back log with processing applicants at this time,
please be patient whilst we catch up on ourselves,

[WELSH-DRAGON]

I got a refusal in the end ........... just been deleting some old emails and found it

Welshy x

[Georgie]

I got a refusal in the end ........... just been deleting some old emails and found it

Welshy x

Oh ! That's a shame it sounded like a really nice assignment. They didn't want people in my area.:(

[zoot]

sorry to hear that Welshy.