Burgers and breasts top the list of many men’s favorite things. While most Americans may be familiar with restaurants like Hooters and Twin Peaks, one fast food chain is making these establishments look like family-friendly alternatives in comparison. Sex sells and Carl’s Jr. fast food restaurants has been cashing in on this fact for more than ten years. Carl’s Jr. employs some of the most racy advertising techniques in all of the food world. From scantily clad models to recognizable reality show stars, Carl’s Jr. has used attractive women from all over the entertainment industry spectrum to sell their burgers. While these women don’t always share a common background, the one thing that they do share is the memorable, messy, close-up bite of burger they all take at the end of their sixty-second time slot. This cringe worthy moment for some, is the selling factor for others. Although Carl’s Jr.’s advertisements may border on inappropriate and offensive, they are some of the most effective marketing strategies in food advertising. Some of the most memorable Carl’s Jr. advertisements have debuted during an advertising dream event, the Super Bowl. The most watched family broadcast of the year hardly seems like the appropriate time to promote a burger chain with a half naked woman, however. Unquestionably, the most notorious Carl’s Jr. commercial premiered during the 2015 Super Bowl game. Charlotte McKinney, the nearly nude model selected for this year’s commercial is known for
These commercials featuring flavorsome char-broiled burgers with a delectable hand crafted bun sold at a local fast food joint appeal to me, they make me crave the product. This being said they achieve their goal to convince me I need the product they are promoting. Soon I find myself in line ready to purchase one of these fine burgers, I order a meal and anxiously hand the cashier money. I sit down ready to calm this beast in my stomach. I open the packaging to find a burger sloped together, it looks like a 2nd graders arts and crafts project. Soon I begin chowing down on the burger attempting to satisfy the craving. Halfway through my endeavor of the not so flavorsome burger I begin to feel disgusted. This isn’t the first time and it will probably not be the last. But why? Why do I fall for this multiple times? Maybe megaphone guy has drowned me with his brain deadness. Then I realized I’m getting dumber.
In the Wendy’s advertisement, they use logos by saying that their burgers are made of 100% real beef. They also use ethos by showing a double-stack cheeseburger which makes people hungry and want to go get one. When they show good looking food on ads people want to get it more because it looks good so then they will try it other than
“They want us to believe, but rather suggest it through visual elements and their interplay with verbal elements.” (Fox 72). At no point in the ad do they say the burger will indefinitely make everyone like you, but it is implied through the buildup of different scene, as well as the verbal ques from Terrell. This can be further supported by Ad Images and the Stunting of Sexuality, “Yet advertisers, because they are in the business of making money, have long dangled the lure of enhanced sexuality to motivate consumers to buy.” (Moog 152).
Chick-fil-a is one of the fastest growing quick service restaurants in the United States. Specializing in chicken based entrees, Chick-fil-A boasts itself as being the home of the Original Chicken Sandwich. The Chick-fil-A culture is one of connecting with their clientele through clever media campaigns of cows supporting chicken as a staple of your diet. Obviously, the cows advertise how great the chicken based menu is in order to save themselves! A cute, subtle campaign, to undermine their closest competitors who are in the business of selling hamburger based meals. In addition to clever cow commercials, cows hanging off billboards along highways and the popular cow calendar, Chick-fil-a has managed to build a cult like following on social
“Have you ever seen a fast-food ad that shows the factories where French fries are made? Ever seen a fast-food ad that shows the slaughterhouses where cattle are turned into ground beef? Ever seen an ad that tells you what’s really in your fast-food milkshake and why some strange-sounding chemicals make it taste so good? Ever seen an ad that shows overweight, unhealthy kids stuffing their faces with greasy fries at a fast-food restaurant? You probably haven’t. But you’ve probably seen a lot of fast-food commercials that show thin, happy children having a lot of fun.” (Schlosser et al). The book Chew on This explains and reveals almost everything to know about fast food and the process of making it. Each chapter is different. First there is the background of fast food restaurants, and then they get into the juice about the food itself. This book is a huge example of modern day muckraking. Muckraking is when a writer or publisher reveals scandalous information about people
Ad one (left) shows Kate Upton posing for a Carl’s Jr ad. She is in a revealing dress with black lingerie visible underneath. The advertisers obviously wanted the focus to be on her breasts; breasts that are noticeably highlighted and enhanced. She is laying in a provocative pose while holding a sandwich. Her legs are kicked up, so we see more of them.
“The basic science behind the scent of your shaving cream is the same as that governing the flavor of your TV dinner,” (Schlosser 122). Eric Schlosser, the author of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal was a Princeton graduate with a degree in American History. He’s written for the Atlantic Monthly since 1996 where he was given a prompt about America and its fast food industry. His simple magazine article transformed into an international bestseller. His book was on the New York Times bestsellers list for nearly two years. Schlosser has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, FOX News, and many others. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone and The New Yorker (Drury University). In Schlosser’s book, Chapter 5: “Why the
Most people view Fast Food chains to be a perfect, convenient, healthy and inexpensive place to come and get a meal. This mirage of a perfect restaurant is used to shield society from the darker and more twisted elements of the actual franchise world. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser is a non-fictional window exploiting real world of fast food. Throughout the book, Schlosser discusses the fast food industry inside out. One of the biggest topics he covers is the actual quality of the food that is being served in restaurants such as McDonalds, Jack in a box, and Carl’s Jr. Despite the promise the franchises have made about safe and healthy food; the food served in Fast Food restaurants are prepared in an inhumane
Of course, the Super Bowl can be considered the most watched television recording in American history. As a result of withholding the attention of such a vast audience, many commercials are showcased during the Super Bowl games, creating a commodity in which those commercials are watched more than the Super Bowl games themselves. A mass amount of viewers can unquestionably be beneficial to advertisers seeking to sell their products and services. However, benefits are not the only things these ads invoke, detriment can occur as well, as seen throughout history among a variety of television commercials. The Coca Cola commercial, displayed during Super Bowl XLVII, is one of the most recent commercials that has been scrutinized. The Coca Cola
Although this ad is crude and misleading, the creator of it uses pathos, ethos and logos very well in order to reach a future consumer. The pathos, or emotion, that the advertiser sets through his ad is that of sex and pride. Both of these are not actually stated in the ad, but these are the emotions that take place when the ad is comprehended. The creator of this ad has a certain target, and that target is any man over the age of thirteen. He uses their greatest weakness, their sex drive, to lure them I to wanting one of those burgers. This use of sexual reference is a very good example of logos because the creator uses the tactic of testing men’s pride. A great amount of a man’s pride comes from his sexual endowments. Here in this article those endowments are being tested from the standpoint of almost saying, “Are you man enough to eat this burger?” The ethos of this ad though is low. Usually it is not right to take advantage of someone’s greatest
The intended audience for this Carl’s Jr. Ad is men and only men. This advertisement uses a lot of sexual elements to get men to go to any local Carl’s Jr. and buy themselves a burger. A way that this ad captures the audience is by using pathos. The main part of the pathos appeal is with the sex appeal of Paris Hilton in the photo. They are trying to connect to the emotional side of men. By using Paris Hilton as one of the main focuses, the advertisement can lead men to think that by eating at Carl’s Jr. they can get themselves a woman like Paris Hilton, but if you have ever gone to a Carl’s Jr. before, that is clearly not the case. Another way they are trying
Different strategies are used in all advertisements. Every aspect of the advertisement is strategically planned to appeal to the audience. For example, an advertisement that does a great job of using sex appeal to reach its audience is “Carl’s Jr all natural burger”. This ad appeared during the super bowl forty-nine, and it was a big hit. The ad features ,22-year-old model buxom, Charlotte McKinney. Throughout the video it shows her walking through the town and appearing as if she is nude. She gets all the attention from the guys in the town as she saunters past. in one scene there’s a man reaching for a tomato as she walks by, she turns around and gives him a flirty look and it emerges as if he is grasping her gluteus. At the end she appears in a bikini nearly nude “I love going all natural,” she purrs, opening wide to take a bite out of a big, juicy, “all natural” hamburger. Advertising appeals aim to influence the way consumers view themselves and how buying certain products can prove to be beneficial for them.
Celebrity endorsement and beauty appeal are both conventions for advertisements due to the way they attract viewers. Carl's Jr is notorious for hiring models and well known celebrities
Not only has the fast-food industry the taken health craze wants of the public and implemented them into their market approach, the companies appeal to psychological emotions by creating commercials relatable to all ages, like young children, teens, adults, grandmas and grandpas, and show them psychically enjoying the healthy alternatives.
Working in Human resources can make it very difficult to meet friends at work. Many Human resources professionals avoid being too friendly with employees outside of the department and there are employees who keep their distance from being too friendly with Human resources personnel.