Olive Garden pulls Letterman ads over Palin jokes

[afoigrokerkok]

Originally Posted by lamexican

Not sure about OG, but Red Lobster is nothing more than heat and serve.

Interesting....does Red Lobster make the food in some central location and send it off to the individual restaurants? Or does an entirely different company make it?

[lamexican]

Originally Posted by afoigrokerkok

Interesting....does Red Lobster make the food in some central location and send it off to the individual restaurants? Or does an entirely different company make it?

"most" of their food is made by a third party.

[RD5050]

Olive Garden's slogan is - "When you're here .... you're family".

So the restaurant that is into "family values" has no issues with Bristol Palin having unwed teenage sex and making babies, and is instead more concerned about a professional comedian who tells jokes about it?

[allydriver]

Originally Posted by RD5050

Olive Garden's slogan is - "When you're here .... you're family".

So the restaurant that is into "family values" has no issues with Bristol Palin having unwed teenage sex and making babies, and is instead more concerned about a professional comedian who tells jokes about it?

Relax, it's a corporate slogan, not a belief system.

[AnUnidentifiedMale]

The very latest in this drama:

Now they're claiming that their media relations manager had no authorization to speak to the media.

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[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by RD5050

Olive Garden's slogan is - "When you're here .... you're family".

So the restaurant that is into "family values" has no issues with Bristol Palin having unwed teenage sex and making babies, and is instead more concerned about a professional comedian who tells jokes about it?

Just a slogan, and a good one, because they can make a lot more money from families than from just a few individuals.

[RD5050]

Originally Posted by allydriver

Relax, it's a corporate slogan, not a belief system.

Use of the word "family" in their ads is intended to imply they believe in "family values".

They are trying to get people into their restaurants by invoking a word that most people hold dear to their hearts, everything the word represents.

And I'm pretty certain that the Palin Family is not a very good example of the typical set of "family values" that most families strive for.

[SouthCity09]

maybe they can use the money they will save from not doing the ads to make real food.