Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Jun. 12th, 2012 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Awhile back I was doing a series of posts on Des Moines-area attractions, when I received news that the franchise Twin Peaks was opening a restaurant here.
Twin Peaks, if you don't recall, is one of the newer "Breast-aurants" who take the Hooters concept, but they don't act like people go there for the food.
It is also going into a location that has been sure suicide for many restaurants who figured that theirMexican Steakhouse BBQ restaurant was going to make it there.
A couple of years ago, CNN ran a list of Top 5 worst places in the US to open a restaurant, and Des Moines made it. It wasn't this particular location (although some places re-reported incorrectly it was), but it should be noted that this location is 1) just down the street 2) covered by the same un-advertsing friendly city zoning laws and 3) has nearly as bad as a track record for restaurants staying in business. as the one mentioned in CNN's list.
It does set up the great battle to see if sex really sells. If you take the worst location around and add cleavage, will the restaurant ultimately prevail.
The answer a month in is Advantage: Twin Peaks. I saw more cars there one night driving by than I probably had combined for two years as a smoky BBQ joint. They also have a hefty lunch crowd.
How are they pulling this off?
Well, radio ads, of course; but mostly, I would attribute some access t the daily 4:00 ritual of having the scantily-clad servers hula-hoop out by the road side.
Here's a helpful picture of what a young scantily-clad hula hooping female might look like:
From my observation (and those who have been agree) the restaurant's clientele is 99.99% male. It likely will stay that way as I am told, the servers like to have their pictures taken with the customers to give away as souvenirs.
I am also told by anyone who has been there or talked to someone who had- the food is terrible.
The ultimate question may be will the breasts be able to prevail over bad food? It is has a buzz for being a new place with a very unique concept, but how much business will make 3rd and 4th trips back?
This weekend, I was talking to a stripper (Hey, Henry Miller and Bukowski were always hanging out with strippers. It's like, a way literary thing to do) and she asked me if I had been.
She told me that she had gone over there to recruit some "help" to see if they would leave their Twin Peaks job for one with a little bit less memorization (Who ordered the Onion Rings?).
I didn't think to ask her if she had any success.
She did tell me that the food there was terrible.
Twin Peaks, if you don't recall, is one of the newer "Breast-aurants" who take the Hooters concept, but they don't act like people go there for the food.
It is also going into a location that has been sure suicide for many restaurants who figured that their
A couple of years ago, CNN ran a list of Top 5 worst places in the US to open a restaurant, and Des Moines made it. It wasn't this particular location (although some places re-reported incorrectly it was), but it should be noted that this location is 1) just down the street 2) covered by the same un-advertsing friendly city zoning laws and 3) has nearly as bad as a track record for restaurants staying in business. as the one mentioned in CNN's list.
It does set up the great battle to see if sex really sells. If you take the worst location around and add cleavage, will the restaurant ultimately prevail.
The answer a month in is Advantage: Twin Peaks. I saw more cars there one night driving by than I probably had combined for two years as a smoky BBQ joint. They also have a hefty lunch crowd.
How are they pulling this off?
Well, radio ads, of course; but mostly, I would attribute some access t the daily 4:00 ritual of having the scantily-clad servers hula-hoop out by the road side.
Here's a helpful picture of what a young scantily-clad hula hooping female might look like:
From my observation (and those who have been agree) the restaurant's clientele is 99.99% male. It likely will stay that way as I am told, the servers like to have their pictures taken with the customers to give away as souvenirs.
I am also told by anyone who has been there or talked to someone who had- the food is terrible.
The ultimate question may be will the breasts be able to prevail over bad food? It is has a buzz for being a new place with a very unique concept, but how much business will make 3rd and 4th trips back?
This weekend, I was talking to a stripper (Hey, Henry Miller and Bukowski were always hanging out with strippers. It's like, a way literary thing to do) and she asked me if I had been.
She told me that she had gone over there to recruit some "help" to see if they would leave their Twin Peaks job for one with a little bit less memorization (Who ordered the Onion Rings?).
I didn't think to ask her if she had any success.
She did tell me that the food there was terrible.
