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- <text id=90TT2321>
- <title>
- Sep. 03, 1990: Business Notes:Advertising
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 03, 1990 Are We Ready For This?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 59
- Business Notes
- ADVERTISING
- Only Kidding, Lunch Ladies!
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Anyone who ever slid a tray down a school cafeteria line
- remembers them well: the lunch ladies. They may be warmhearted,
- but their food is not always so hot. The Roy Rogers hamburger
- chain thought it would be a good idea to conjure up that memory
- with commercials featuring lunch ladies who dish up dismal
- casseroles to the tune of See You in September. The ads remind
- students to take advantage of their free time to snack on the
- company's fast food.
- </p>
- <p> The campaign was highly effective, but the chain dropped the
- commercials last week because it offended a particular group:
- lunch ladies. The American School Food Service Association
- complained that the ads were unkind to cafeteria workers. Roy
- Rogers first ran the ads in 1988 but encountered the same
- reaction and shelved them. The campaign was revived this year
- under the company's new owner, Hardee's, but lunch ladies have
- grown no more willing to be taken lightly.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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