Isn't it frustrating when mouth-watering fast food advertisements come on TV but your ass is too wedged into the sofa to get up and do something about it? Well, now you'll be able to watch those ads from within the fast food restaurant, which means it will only require a few short steps to satisfy that commercial-induced craving. Indoor Direct, a digital media company headquartered in Dallas, announced that its TV-for-fast-food network will be showing its programming in 125 San Francisco Carl's Jr. and Denny's restaurants this July.
It will be the first time that San Francisco fast foodies will get to cram a few more hours of television into their day -- and unlike the dive bars nearby, these televisions will show a hand-picked slew of "short quick segments that are light-hearted and informative in positive ways," according to Indoor Direct's Web site. The company adds that its programming avoids "unappetizing" segments such
as those that might appear on network television.
In other words, no one wants to hear about the latest mad cow disease scandal or the obesity epidemic while biting into their 960-calorie double western bacon cheeseburger.
We've written in the last week about two different convoluted lotto scams going down on the San Francisco streets. Well, they also come by phone, in a variation on the Nigerian scam.
A victim in Visitacion Valley was contacted on her landline and told she'd just won the lottery. The only thing between here and that prize were a few processing fees, actually $6,250 worth of them, payable by check to various addresses.
Police says they don't suspect the phone scams are related to the street ones, conducted by the modern-day counterparts of Boris and Natasha.
