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- Denny's #1144
- Los Angeles, California
- 10 June 2002
- 1:00pm PDT
- 5751 W Sunset Blvd
- (323) 464-8435
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- Attendees: P7A77 and a bunch of other people
- Wait-person(s): Does it matter?
- Okay, people. I'm writing this entry a full two years after the visit. Suffice to say, this site has dropped off significantly in importance to me. Sorry, that's just the way it goes.
- However, this was a unique visit. In the ripe summer of 2002, I was but one lost soul in the swarms of the unemployed. Since I was trying to figure out the source of my next rent check, when an advertising firm in LA called and said they wanted to hire me for a one-day consultation gig, I was all over that. They flew me down there one morning to talk to them about Denny's. Apparently they were trying to pitch a new campaign and they wanted to test it out on me or pick my brain or something. It was me and a score of various marketing people sitting around a conference room with my site projected on the big display. I kept insisting that their target market was a bunch of broke stoned high school students and that I'm sort of a meta-observer of the thing and my site isn't really about Denny's anyway, but they were paying for lunch, so I did the best I could to be the sad clown dancing.
- As it was two years ago and I can't read my chicken scratch hand-writing in my notebook, I don't remember a lot of what was said. After the tenth time of them asking, "well what about this?" and me saying, "uh, dudes, I dunno," they were starting to share my original viewpoint that I'd be of no use to them, so we broke for lunch. This marks the first time I've been paid to go to Denny's. I'm now a professional! Good thing they changed the rules for the Olympics.
- I'm not even sure if the Denny's listed above is the one we went to, but it's one of three I have written down here as potentials to visit. Is this one the Rock & Roll Denny's? Aren't they all the same? We ate a lot of mediocre food and took a picture with Golden Orphan Annie (waitress since 1976!). Quote of the day: "The most nondescript thing I've ever tried to describe."
- I don't think they got the account.
- WAY: undetermined
- Free Stuff: the entire trip
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