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Mystery Check Examples:
Compliance with business objectives
The best business objectives...
... are worthless if not complied with. Whether there is a lack of
instruction or rather training of the staff members, or the implementation
of the business objectives are impeded by certain factors, the negative
effects are directly realized by the customer – whereas the management
realizes these effects only indirectly, by loss of sales or image.
Mystery Check 1: Restaurant
Business objective of a restaurant: As soon as a customer has paid
the bill and leaves the table, this table is to be cleared and cleaned
immediately. Every customer entering the restaurant is to be greeted
instantly and escorted to a vacant table.
Scenario:
A customer has paid the bill and is leaving the crowded restaurant
when at the same time a new customer enters the premises and sees
the just vacated table, the only free table in the restaurant.
Before:
The service staff is talking on the phone and is scanning the scene,
but stays on the phone for a few more minutes. The service person
then approaches the customer, who by now has taken a seat at the only
vacant table. Without greeting the customer, the service person grumpily
clears the table.
Optimized service process:
With a smile, the service person walks over to the new customer,
greets him in a friendly manner, and escorts him to the vacant table.
The service person apologizes to the customer that due to the bustle
the table has not yet been cleared. The service person immediately
clears and cleans the table.
Mystery Check 2: Travel Agency
A travel agency A’s business objective is answering all e-mail inquiries
within 24 hours. Answering the customers’ questions has top priority,
outranking all other tasks.
Scenario:
A customer sends an e-mail inquiry to the travel agency.
Before:
The responsible staff member is busy checking incoming payments and
answers the customer’s e-mail, together with all other e-mails received,
only after three days. The customer has also sent the inquiry to travel
agency B and received a prompt answer. She therefore decides to make
the booking with the latter agency.
Optimized service process:
The responsible staff member is busy checking incoming payments.
He interrupts this job every time a new e-mail comes in, in order
to answer immediately. (If necessary, he informs his superior about
a delay in his actually assigned tasks). The customer has sent her
inquiry also to a competitor, travel agency B. The resulting offer
however was less attractive. She therefore decides to accept travel
agency A’s offer.