Following it’s ironic effort to make it hip to eat at Applebee’s, the brand is out with a less ironic but questionably practical approach to encouraging more people to lunch at their restaurants. Believing that every cube-caged worker in America deserves to get out of the office for lunch, the brand has launched a line of Lunch Decoy inflatable dolls workers can place in their cube to trick their bosses into thinking they are working through lunch.
The dolls are available for $6.99 and come in both genders and a variety of ethnicities. The effort aims to call attention to the chain’s Pick ‘N Pair lunch menu. We’re not sure the Crispin Porter + Bogusky-created tactic will be as foolproof as the brand would like it to be but it’s sure to get a few laughs from the bosses who still possess a sense of humor.
