Dream role alert: a new customer rewards brand is looking to recruit one lucky sod as a tester for their upcoming app and the job description is basically just eat a load of free food and drink around Manchester city centre.
This is one of those ‘I’d do and go to heaven’ opportunities that you simply have to throw your name in the hat for whenever they come up.
Brand new foodie rewards startup, Shuffle, is looking for a fittingly named ‘Taste and Tech Tester’ to put their new app through its paces.
The app is a pretty straightforward but super exciting concept: use it to score randomised rewards ranging anywhere from a minimum of 2% to a whopping 100% off their full bill at some of Manchester’s best dining spots and drinks venues – and you can be in from the ground floor.
Choosing Manchester as the flagship city to debut the new service, Shuffle quite rightly chose us because of our thriving hospitality scene, with the likes of Madre, Medlock Canteen, Trof, Bold Street Coffee and more already on board.
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The company is committed to investing an initial £2.5 million into the city’s thriving hospitality network during this testing phase ahead of their full launch later this year.
In support of phase one, Shuffle is advertising the dream job of being able to try out the app at all the current and future venues – meaning one very fortunate foodie will be able to eat and drink around Manchester for FREE in exchange for their invaluable feedback.
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To be in with a chance of winning, candidates must be over 18, live within commuting distance of central Manchester and complete a short application form explaining why they should be Shuffle’s first-ever official tester.
Applicants will be asked to provide examples of how often they eat and drink out, their favourite pub for a fun night with friends, the best bakery for a flaky croissant and a number of other key references. The full job description and application form can be found HERE.
Breakfast at MedlockCocktails at TrofSunday roasts at MadreJust a small sample of what you’ll get to eat. (Credit: The Manc Eats via The Manc Group)
Ollie Purdue, co-founder of Shuffle said: “Our mission is to revolutionise the hospitality game by providing much-needed up-front investment to operators while also rewarding customers for spending at their venues.
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“Our app offers the excitement of randomised rewards to customers and we can’t wait to launch in Manchester. That’s why we’re on the hunt for someone who loves the city as much as we do, and will provide us with the valuable insight to help Shuffle become the most-used app and go-to investor in the hospitality sector.”
You can apply now for your chance to score the dream job of eating wave after wave of free food and drink in Manchester and be sure to follow the Shuffle rewards app on Instagram for updates, as well download the rewards app for yourself – it’s just common sense at this point.
Best of luck to those going for it but, with all due respect, do know that we’ll resent you forever.
Featured Images — Shuffle (supplied)/The Manc Group
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Popular Manchester restaurant bar to give out FREE sausage rolls to people called ‘Greg’
Emily Sergeant
One of Manchester’s much-loved restaurant bars is doing a free sausage roll giveaway next week… but there’s a catch.
The catch being you have to have a certain name in particular.
It was only last week that popular high street chain Pret A Manger announced it would be slinging out free sandwiches to any Mancs with ‘Nic’ in their name over the late May bank holiday weekend, and now Tariff & Dale is getting it on the giveaway action, and it’s all to celebrate the iconic event that is National Sausage Roll Day.
In case you didn’t know – which is very likely, let’s be real – next Thursday (5 June) is the day dedicated to all things sausage roll.
So what better way to mark the occasion than with free portions of Tariff & Dale‘s legendary meaty treat?
The popular Northern Quarter restaurant bar is known for its creative comfort food, craft beers and cocktails, and laid-back industrial vibe, with one of the cult-classic dishes on its menu having always been the honey pork sausage roll – which just so happens to be a whopping 15-inches long, by the way.
Resembling something more of a pork wellington than a sausage roll, if you will, the dish is crispy, golden, and glazed with honey on top.
But to celebrate National Sausage Roll day, instead of parting with £9.50 for a portion or £48 for the full 15-inch thing, people with one specific name can actually get a slice for completely free of charge.
Tariff & Dale is giving away FREE sausage rolls to people with this name next week / Credit: Supplied
And that name is ‘Greg’, because if we’re honest, when it comes to sausage rolls, we all tend to think of Greggs.
So whether your surname is Gregory or Gregson, or you’re simply just called Greg, then all you need to do to claim your complimentary slice of sausage roll heaven is head on down to Tariff & Dale next Thursday 5 June from 12pm up until 9pm.
Make sure you show your valid ID proving your name when you order at the bar, and get ready to stuff your face.
Failing that, anyone not called Greg will just have to pop into actual Greggs instead.
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Plans to open a brand-new pub on the site of the Rovers Return
Daisy Jackson
A brand-new pub is set to open in Manchester city centre net month, with treats in store like complimentary bowls of crisps, an outdoor terrace, and a games parlour.
The Stables Tavern is taking shape in the St John’s district, poetically on the same site that was once home to Coronation Street’s iconic Rovers Return pub.
They’re promising this will be a ‘historic tavern reimagined for today’s lover of a proper pint’.
The pub will come from Shiko Group, which is also behind Courts Club, where you can play tennis or basketball followed by court-side pints, and Side Street, a bar-restaurant-events space with a mid-Century interior.
Neighbouring the Bonded Warehouse, The Stables Tavern will join this rapidly blossoming new creative district, just across the yard from Caravan, The Trading Route and Aviva Studios.
Inside, punters will find multiple beer taps with local beers, served with complimentary bowls of crisps as well as a menu of pub snacks like handmade sausage rolls and local pies.
The pub will be split into three sections – an outside terrace, a main bar, and a parlour area at the back of the pub for live entertainment, old school games, and rounds of whiskey.
This might be a new district but it’s a historic area for the city – the same building was a busy watering hole back in the early 19th century for workers, merchants and visitors who made use of the nearby canals and cobbled streets.
It was then the home of the Rovers Return, back when this area was the home of Granada Studios.
Hayley Sammé, Marketing Director, said: “We’re so excited to bring The Stables Tavern back to St John’s. The area’s extensive historical backdrop and burgeoning hospitality scene provides the perfect landscape for a traditional British pub.
“It’s the perfect addition to the existing scene, and we hope it’s going to become a popular spot in our new creative district.”
The Stables Tavern will open at St John’s on Friday 6 June.
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5th August 2024 
