You know those receipts they hand you with a thousand miles of thermal paper? Look at the bottom. There’s usually a tiny, sad little code and a URL like dunkinsurvey.com.
Take that receipt, find five minutes of your life you weren’t planning to use, and complete the survey. The survey is boring. It asks how your coffee was and if the bathroom was clean. Just click “Yes, everything was fine” and skip the essay questions.
At the end, they give you a code for a free medium coffee. It’s almost too easy. You basically just said “I liked my donut” and got paid in caffeine. This is the equivalent of your grandmother slipping you a five-dollar bill and saying, “Don’t tell your mother.”