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Restaurant owner Kenny Tessel, who runs a Reading, Ohio barbecue restaurant, KT’s Barbeque, speaks during a board meeting in Reading, Ohio, today. The life-size mannequin stands as a busty beacon outside the restaurant. He told zoning officials at a hearing Wednesday night that the advertising gimmick has boosted business 40 percent. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Michael E. Keating) Question: Are you so shallow that a gimmick like a busty mannequin would entice you into a restaurant?
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Don Sausser on May 14 at 1:47 p.m.
Yes :o)
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Sisyphus on May 14 at 1:51 p.m.
Hey if you can get 50% to believe you're selling compassionate conservatism, its not to tough a nut to crack.
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Dennis on May 14 at 2:00 p.m.
I think this best describes the business philosophy!!!!
:-)
(R) Rated!!!!!!
http://search.msn.com/video/search?q=…
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Don Sausser on May 14 at 2:01 p.m.
Leave it to Sys to polarize this trivial subject !
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Dennis on May 14 at 2:06 p.m.
think this best describes the business philosophy!!!!
:-)
(R) Rated!!!!!!
This one should work!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ylRpl…
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Liz on May 14 at 2:15 p.m.
honestly, it's a DUMMY people…it's not like its a real person.
its not even like “sex sells”. I bet if it had more clothes on people would STILL stop and do a double take and while they were at it, perhaps notice a restaurant that they had walked blindly past many times before.
If the food sucks, they won't be back.
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spokelooneh on May 14 at 2:27 p.m.
Put a bikini on it. Sales will go up another 20%.
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Sisyphus on May 14 at 2:48 p.m.
Sorry Don, its just when I think of fake, plastic and inflated gimmicks certain things just jump out at me and they ain't always her boobs. Its just the farcically superficial things that appeal to the folks who still only use the reptilian parts of their brain. Seems to work like a charm.
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Sisyphus on May 14 at 2:48 p.m.
And thanks Dennis. That's a classic.
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JamesBond on May 14 at 2:55 p.m.
No. Hot waitresses do.
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Cabbage Boy on May 14 at 3:04 p.m.
Whatever Sis. Leave it to the left bank to insinuate such things. But heaven forbid anyone of conservative persuasion make a comment about the sexual inclinations of anyone in, say, SF, and the left bank would call it hate speech.
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Stickman on May 14 at 7:01 p.m.
I would at least take a look.
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Escapee on May 14 at 7:17 p.m.
Yeah, I might just be that shallow.
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BayviewBob on May 14 at 8:13 p.m.
Well, Tit for Tat, it looks more interesting than some giant balloon gorilla or tethered blimps or … . . ..
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Herb Huseland on May 15 at 3:25 p.m.
Yup!
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