Restaurants Blast K-Fed TV Ad (Working in Fast Food is FUN!)

[Zynx]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070124/us_nm/federline_dc

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A leading restaurant association has called for the cancellation of a TV commercial featuring Britney Spears' estranged husband, Kevin Federline, as a failed rap star working in a fast-food eatery.

In a 30-second ad for Nationwide Insurance, Federline is shown dreaming he is a rap star but then snaps out of it to face reality -- he's working at a burger restaurant.

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But the National Restaurant Association's Chief Executive Steven Anderson has written to Nationwide saying the ad leaves the impression that working in a restaurant is demeaning and unpleasant and asking the commercial to be dumped.

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[saigon68]

1. K-Fed is a Bottom Feeder

[sinkingfeeling]

2. And working in restaurants is fun? My son has been in the business for almost 20 years.

He hates it! Has a bleeding ulcer and works about 70 to 80 hours a week as an assistant manager who is allocated a whole 16% for labor. That means that as the 'manager' he works about 3 jobs to save the bottom line. He's salaried and earns about $7 an hour when the number of hours worked is divided into the salary.

[VolcanoJen]

10. Not *all* restaurant jobs suck.

Fast-food ones do, for sure, from management down to fry cook. They pay slave wages, especially to their hard-working managers. It makes me sad.

On the other hand, I've been in the restaurant biz for over a decade now, and I love it. I work for a swanky fine-dining independent restaurant, I'm paid well, treated well, and we're closed on Sundays and holidays. :-)

[sinkingfeeling]

13. My son is in 'casual' dining management. He's worked for some of the

largest chains in the business,: Chili's, Tony Roma's, Cracker Barrel, etc. Now he's at Applebee's.
They're all really, really hard on their managers.

[maxsolomon]

20. then he should find other work

fed ex
usps
ups
politician

anything.

[conscious evolution]

22. If he is doing non managerial work

he is elligible for overtime.Tell him to call the Labor departments Wages and Standards department.

[bigluckyfeet]

3. Yeah Right

Working in a burger joint is a glamor job.lol

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Who are they trying to kid?

And why?

[angstlessk]

5. Have him day dreaming he is working in a fast food restaurant and awakens

to realize he has dreary job as a rock star, yeah, that's the ticket!

[Trillo]

17. Poverty-to-wealth stories are well-accepted.

Can't have any reality in the dream.

[AndyA]

6. Working in a burger joint isn't demeaning or unpleasant?

Could've fooled me.

Great first job for students, but hardly something to make a career of. Although, I guess some people might like it. :shrug:

[Zensea]

7. Methinks they protest too much

I was a cook for 20 years.
Wonder how anyone would get the idea that working in a restaurant can be demeaning and unpleasant?:evilgrin:

[corporatemedia]

8. Burger Restaurants are creating great "manufacturing" jobs for America!

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/7/3893

[TexasLawyer]

19. wow-- I didn't know that they were

doing this with the "manufacturing" statistics. Thanks for digging that article out.

[tridim]

9. The "fun" factor of working in a restaurant is relative

I had an absolute blast delivering pizza and cooking at Applebees, but I was also a teenager with no dependents or responsibilities. Oh, and I made more than today's minimum wage 15 years ago.

Working at McDonald's for $5.50/hr to support a family would certainly not be fun.

[KansDem]

11. See "McLibel" if you want to see "demeaning and unpleasant "

McLibel

[AnneD]

12. When my daughter told me she wanted to work

I was afraid our choices were limited to round or square.

She managed to find a job at an upscale fabric shop cutting fabric. Not too many places will hire a 16 yo. She get a 50 cent raise every 6 months, the owners love her and work around her schedule,and she and all the other workers are treated decently. In fact some of those elderly women have been there for years. I recommend it to everyone. This small business is well know to everyone that sews or designs in Houston. A Vietnamese family owns it and they are great small businessmen, a real credit to independent businessmen everywhere.

I hate to burst my daughter's bubble, but she got lucky on her first job.

[CBGLuthier]

14. My oldest daughter works in a restaurant

She made $170.00 in tips last Wednesday night and she is 20 years old.

Of course she isn't working at Mcdonalds.

But no asswipe who made his fortune screwing a pop star has any business making fun of hard working people.

Of course I am in danger of once again having the humor patrol tell me to "lighten up".

But this type of dismissal of the working class is just plain wrong.


There is nothing wrong or demeaning about working for a living. And even shitty McD's pays pretty well for what is reasonably unskilled labor.

[Psephos]

15. Good post, says it the way it should be said. n/t

[mitchum]

16. Wow! What an original idea!

Who would have ever come up with the notion of flipping burgers as symbolic of failure. No one but advertising geniuses. Geniuses, I tell ya!

Bill Hicks was absolutely right about what scumbags in advertising should do

[bmbmd]

18. Tom Arnold already locked up

the "Best Damn Sports Show" gig. What else can a talent of this magnitude do to earn an honest buck?

[lpbk2713]

21. One of the few remaining jobs BushCo can't send offshore.

And it probably pisses them off no end.