He didn’t give me any recipes and I didn’t pitch him on how we could totally improve his Yelp reviews… I showed restraint and so did he. I rescinded the offer before she rescinded the bed and made me sleep on the couch.
#ABACUS DALLAS FOOD PICTURES PROFESSIONAL#
I immediately offered the photographer a job and then remembered that my wife is a professional photographer who sometimes works for me. Then he asked us to TAG OURSELVES right there. Then, we saw the picture on the Samsung Tablet attached to his camera monopod.
While I openly envied his prowess and probably drooled while asking for his recipe for lobster shooters (seriously, these things are addictive – like little lobster balls splashed with Tom Kha soup and sent down from heaven), the guy in front of us took our photo. I asked if we could get our picture with him. But, I immediately recognized Chef Rathbun sitting by the check-in table. We got back to the restaurant and inside they wanted to take our picture … probably in case, we did something wrong. We are definitely not in the market for a car that can’t handle four car-seats – and it would have been a shame to sully the Cadenza with a vomit stain. However, when we told the guy taking us on the test drive (picture a car dealership-style test drive with the valet from the fancy restaurant…that’s exactly what this was) that we had four kids, well, he stopped showing us the car. It drove well and had tons of bells and whistles. They want to be seen in a Lexus or Infiniti – even if it’s a stripped-down Lexus or Infiniti. As my wife said, people in Dallas won’t buy a $40,000 Kia. It’s not a bad car … but it’s a Kia that costs $40,000. We were quickly ushered outside to test drive the Kia Cadenza.
It appeared Kia had even thought to include a vintage touch to this modern shindig. That was done off of a piece of paper that I think was from some sort of 80s dot-matrix printer. They were everywhere – and what the event team was using for everything – except the check-in. I’ve never seen so many Samsung Galaxy tablets in my life. We were immediately ushered into the restaurant to check-in. We pulled up to the restaurant in our pimped out Honda Odyssey minivan (pimped out meaning equipped with four car seats, hidden goldfish crackers, various sports objects, and at least one vomit stain). But we had a sitter, and when you have four young kids, having a sitter (thanks NaNa and PaPa) trumps timeshare skepticism.
#ABACUS DALLAS FOOD PICTURES FREE#
My thoughts immediately went to that time in Cancun when, for a free booze cruise, I had to endure three hours of mind-numbing, soul-sucking timeshare talk.
OpenTable made it clear that this reservation would NOT appear in my OpenTable reservations. I pulled out the email again and noticed it was put on by Kia Motorcars. I’m pretty sure that adage applies doubly to free dinners from world-famous chefs at pricey foodie restaurants. I was skeptical, but my wife said, “We can get a babysitter and go.” I didn’t read any fine print … the offer of a free dinner at Abacus had me willing to sit through a timeshare presentation if necessary.Īs the night came closer, I started thinking of the old adage about free lunches. My wife (who’s physique does NOT reflect her foodie acumen) and I both received this email, inviting us to a free dinner at Abacus – the Dallas mecca of haute cuisine run by world-famous (and Iron Chef winner – he beat Bobby Flay!) chef, Kent Rathbun. If you ever meet me in person, you’ll realize that I have worked hard to earn my status as a foodie – and my physique is a proud reflection of that work. If you don’t know what OpenTable is, you probably aren’t a foodie. It all started with an email from the folks at OpenTable. You want to read about this awesome event Kia put on at Abacus restaurant in Dallas and why it’s so awesome from a marketing perspective. But, now I’m navel-gazing, and you don’t want to read about me. And, then I go through all five stages of grief, eventually arriving at acceptance and knowledge that people besides me can think of great ideas. It’s even worse when I realize that even if I did think of it, I’m not sure I could convince any of my clients to take a chance on an idea so innovative. I get angry when someone comes up with a great marketing idea I’d never even thought of. I HATE event marketing.īut, I’m also super egotistical. First, let me say that if you ever see “Tony Wright” and “event marketing” in the same sentence – know that someone is doing all the work and I’m sitting around drinking scotch somewhere. All too frequently, I see the execution of a marketing idea that makes me jealous.
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