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KFC Willing to Fill Potholes if Company can Brand its Work
Cleveland Plain-Dealer ^
| 3/30/09
| John Horton
Posted on 03/30/2009 2:32:28 PM PDT by Publius Valerius
Why did the fried-chicken maker cross the road? To fill the potholes, of course.
The folks at K[entucky] F[ried] C[hicken] recently cooked up an appetizing offer for cash-strapped cities: The restaurant chain will fix crater-ridden streets for free if they're allowed to brand repairs with a chalked-on message saying that the road has been "Re-Freshed by KFC."
Company president Roger Eaton put the deal on the table last week in an open letter to America's mayors. KFC intends to select four towns to receive "a smooth drive that is fit for a colonel."
KFC started the project in its hometown of Louisville, Ky., to market its "Fresh Tastes Best" campaign. A "professional road repair crew" performs all of the work, filling the holes with .¤.¤. well, we can only assume that it's some sort of secret recipe.
It's a tempting opportunity. Let's see if Cleveland or other Northeast Ohio towns bite on it.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: kfc; shovelready
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This is odd.
To: Publius Valerius
Well then Mac, I’ll take Shadoe Stevens for the block
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:33:00 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: Publius Valerius
Absolutely brilliant marketing...not to mention the fact that it's SHOVEL READY!
To: Publius Valerius
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:34:37 PM PDT
by
elpadre
(nation)
To: Publius Valerius
OK... Where's the related tax reduction, since these cities will no longer be paying for the stree repairs they should have been making?
A private company will do the work; the city will keep the tax money.
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:37:23 PM PDT
by
TChris
(There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
To: Publius Valerius
but...but...I thought we needed the govt for infrastructure!
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:37:56 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
To: Publius Valerius
Well the chicken still sucks. Since you changed the oil.
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:39:40 PM PDT
by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
To: Publius Valerius
What will Pizza Hut be fixing?
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:40:02 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
To: Dallas59
How about our bridges? I’d slap a Pizza Hut logo on a few bridges for that deal.
To: Dallas59
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:42:11 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: Dallas59
What will Pizza Hut be fixing?
Man-Hole covers.. They'll look like pizzas
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:43:35 PM PDT
by
CCCnative
(waiting for socialism to fail in Santa Cruz as it did in Soviet Russia)
To: Publius Valerius
This has been my pet peeve forever. These corporations will pay millios for idiotic tv advertisements like M. Jackson and madoona groping themslves, when they could buy highway trucks and plows- have children clinics, etc-— to serve the community and their bottom line.
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:45:21 PM PDT
by
VinL
(VinL---It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
To: Publius Valerius
Burger King should be enlisted to fix Obama's image.
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:47:14 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Impeach and Deport)
To: Publius Valerius
Brilliant! Only in America.
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:48:49 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: CCCnative; Dallas59
"Man-Hole covers.. They'll look like pizzas"That would solve two problems. All the potheads with munchies would be roadkill.
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:48:58 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Impeach and Deport)
To: TChris
Around here, no one is fixing the potholes and they just keep getting bigger.
When the city does make some effort, they just dump some loose asphalt in the holes and it’s gone in a couple days.
If KFC wants to fix the roads, more power to them. I’m tired of playing chicken with giant potholes.
To: Publius Valerius
Based on the last meal I had from there, this would be a good move; they can use the food to fill the potholes!
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posted on
03/30/2009 2:54:30 PM PDT
by
bonnieblue4me
(You can put lipstick on a donkey (or a dimrat), but it is still an ass!)
To: Publius Valerius
Not a bad idea but, McDonalds may want to stay away from this form of advertising since they already serve road-kill.
To: CCCnative
unfortunately, the pizzas will now taste like manhole covers...
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posted on
03/30/2009 3:01:24 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
To: Dallas59
What will Pizza Hut be fixing?
They'll be using those for the new manhole covers. I just heard that one from Mayor McCheese.
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posted on
03/30/2009 3:03:10 PM PDT
by
OCCASparky
(Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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