stevez wrote:

eatchicago wrote:

David Hammond wrote:Taking this from a different and maybe more interesting angle, can you think of a single advertisement for a restaurant that has motivated you to want to eat at that place?

I've never been to the Erie Cafe, but they have a low-budget commercial that runs on daytime cable (I see it on CNBC that runs in my office). Something about the commercial works for me and makes me want to eat there.

But yet, you've never been, so I guess it's not that great of a commercial after all.

The question was "motivated you to want to eat at that place".

David Hammond wrote:...can you think of a single advertisement for a restaurant that has motivated you to want to eat at that place?

You mean other than Wilkinson's Family Restaurant?

Happy Halloween!

The more I think about this ad, the more I like it.

I'd also like to see a gorilla in a jock strap, so maybe it's just me.

Now I definitely want a Cadbury bar. That ape rocks.

David Hammond wrote:

Happy Halloween!

The more I think about this ad, the more I like it.

I'd also like to see a gorilla in a jock strap, so maybe it's just me.

I don't mind the aesthetic that a green goo face brings to a city block, and I'd be perfectly amused to see an ape in a jock strap or panties on a billboard near me too. But do any of these advertising methods really give you a desire to eat in the restaurants that use them? They have the exact opposite effect on me.

I love the Glass and a Half Full Cadbury YouTube ads. I can't figure out the embedding thing, but this is my favorite one.

Kennyz wrote:

David Hammond wrote:

Happy Halloween!

The more I think about this ad, the more I like it.

I'd also like to see a gorilla in a jock strap, so maybe it's just me.

I don't mind the aesthetic that a green goo face brings to a city block, and I'd be perfectly amused to see an ape in a jock strap or panties on a billboard near me too. But do any of these advertising methods really give you a desire to eat in the restaurants that use them? They have the exact opposite effect on me.

Like we were saying yesterday, most advertisements for restaurants do not have the opposite effect but rather no effect on me...at least I don't think so. What an arresting advertisement like this does achieve is buzz. People are talking about this ad, and just keeping the name of the place in the air is, by some definitions, effective marketing.

Waking up to an ape banging drums to "Smoke on the Water" was a fabulous way to begin the day. A client called, I saw the name come up on caller ID, but I couldn't stop watching to take it. That is some compelling advertising...wait, what were they selling again?

Mmmm, girl covered in green goo, that really makes me want a steak.

jesteinf wrote:Mmmm, girl covered in green goo, that really makes me want a steak.

actually, it's supposed to now make you want an urban small plate, whatever that is.

Kennyz wrote:

jesteinf wrote:Mmmm, girl covered in green goo, that really makes me want a steak.

actually, it's supposed to now make you want an urban small plate, whatever that is.

Only if these "urban small plates" are "Chino-Latino"*.




* "Chino-Latino" is apparently the type of food they're serving at Belly Shack according to yesterday's Dish. These types of things normally don't bother me, but for some reason this makes me want to bash my head against a wall.

I'd be perfectly amused to see an ape in a jock strap or panties on a billboard near me too.

Driving the Skyway/IN tollway, around Chesterton or Valparaiso, there's a billboard for a car dealership advertising that you can "shop in your underpants" at their website. Pictured: A money wearing underpants.

I always point it out, I always laugh, and I can't remember which dealership it was for. Ad failed. But: Monkeys in underpants.