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ITN: Busty Beacon Boosts Sales

ORG XMIT: OHCIN101 Restaurant owner Kenny Tessel, who runs a Reading, Ohio barbecue restaurant, KT's Barbeque, speaks during a board meeting in Reading, Ohio, Thursday, May 14, 2009. 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) (Michael Keating / The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: OHCIN101 Restaurant owner Kenny Tessel, who runs a Reading, Ohio barbecue restaurant, KT's Barbeque, speaks during a board meeting in Reading, Ohio, Thursday, May 14, 2009. 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) (Michael Keating / The Spokesman-Review)

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?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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