The most inappropriate "kids menu" ads ever

These ads are such obvious awards bait, I had to make Google Cape Town Fish Market to assure myself that the restaurant exists.

It does, but it's unlikely that any restaurant would pay for this many executions of such an unsettling concept. So it's either another "ghost ad" (to use Adland's terminology) or else the agency secured the account by putting up  a lot of extra work as compensation for the client allowing the creatives to do whatever they felt like.

There's a third alternative, that a family-oriented restaurant actually did think a campaign of teen sex, drugs,  baby burning and the occult was a great way to sell fish fingers. Hmmm...

All images via Ads of The World

Boston restaurant wages all-out Facebook war on unhappy customer

From the Facebook page of Boston's Pigalle restaurant:

According to Eater, this was the initial response on Facebook (now deleted)

Interesting social media approach. But it continues:

This exchange, at least, is hidden in the "post by others" view of Pigalle's Facebook page. But then "Marc , the dishwasher" goes and posts about it, to ensure that it goes out to the followers:

 And my favourite response:

Unbelievable. As I mentioned to my wife when I heard of an even worse case of restaurant revenge here in Ottawa, if they have this much contempt for their customers, imagine what goes on in that kitchen?

According to their page, Pigalle is owned by Executive Chef Marc Orfaly and General Manager Kerri Foley, and it was voted "Best Romantic Restaurant".

UPDATE: All relevant FB posts have since been removed by Pigalle.

UPDATE 2: The Apology

F'd Ad Fridays: DiscoWHAT?!?

This modest Indian take away menu from the UK has been making the rounds online this week as "the greatest typo ever". I found one reference to it that was over 2 years old (with tasteless ads). I'll have to assume they've fixed it by now. Unless, of course, it resulted in a huge increase in soon-to-be-disappointed customers.