Applebee's Lunch Decoys: Chain Selling Inflatable Dolls To Use At Office Desks

Applebee's Gets In The Inflatable Doll Business

Clearly, Applebee's wasn't happy with its standings on HuffPost Food's Chain Food Showdown. So it's gone ahead and come up with a sort of crazy newfangled marketing approach: selling inflatable dolls. No, really.

The idea behind this tongue-in-cheek campaign for their new Pick 'N Pair lunch is to have workers use an inflatable doll as a replacement for their physical presence. That way, they can totally take time for lunch (at Applebee's, clearly) and no one will notice that they've been replaced by a blow-up doll (aka "lunch decoy" in Applebee's-speak). Genius, right?

This isn't just a silly commercial though. Applebee's is actually selling these dolls through Amazon for $6.99. You can choose from six different models such as The Executive or The Cubicle Queen.

Here's the commercial:

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