Industry: Restaurant/Fast Food

Krispy Kreme showed the retail hood what could really be done with  mobile marketing when it rolled out a mobile doughnut store last spring. The program began with a challenge: Was it possible to create an authentic, working “hot doughnut experience” in a mobile environment? Winston-Salem, NC-based Spevco said it was, and got to work […]

After 15 consecutive quarters of same-store sales growth, Darden’s management was challenged to find new ways to drive its business. Red Lobster didn’t have a brand awareness challenge, just a menu awareness one—as consumers thought of the chain as more about popcorn shrimp and fried clams than fresh mahi mahi and grilled tuna. Red Lobster […]

McDonald’s needed a super-sized idea for reconnecting with young adults. (You know, those highly coveted yet squirrelly 18-to-24-year-olds with a finely tuned B.S.-meter that goes off at the first sign of old school-style marketing and advertising? Yeah, them.) So to show them that Mickey-D’s gets who they are and what they’re about, the brand tapped […]

To refresh and contemporize its iconic Colonel Sanders figurehead, KFC cooked up a global consumer event that created the world’s first brand to be visible from space, then used it to introduce the new look and future of the company. The change in the Colonel’s image was the first in a decade and only the […]

McDonald’s hit the road with two equally difficult objectives at the top of its list: connect with marketing-averse young adults during the busy summer season and differentiate Mickey D’s from the rest of the crowded QSR landscape. Mission—make that missions—accomplished. When the 100-day tour was complete, 81 percent of attendees surveyed said they believed McDonald’s […]