Live Up to Your Commercial, Joe's Crab Shack

Truth in advertising is something that needs to be taken with a grain
of salt. Joe's only has to has real crab legs in their commercial.
There is nothing to say that they bucket isn't filled with ice almost
up to the top and the crab legs put on there at the very last second.

It isn't false avdertising since you got what they advertised. You
ordered king crab and that is what you got, not a bucket of french
fries.

it seems most everyone here has forgotten something.
truth in advertising. one should be able to expect what they see on
the menu board or commercial, Mc D's Subway Burgerking you name it.
next time you eat at a restaurant, DEMAND that you be served what you
were shown.

just my two (one after tax) cents

Haven't you ever heard of buyer beware? Commercials are just to sell
products. I never expect to get what I see in a commercial, I'm
shocked that you do.

P.S. - Red Lobster? Oh my.

There was a commercial for a treatment center for alcoholics, and the
commercial shows a woman in bed, worrying about her husband because
he's walking around the house drunk again.

My coworker: "Wow, how brave for this couple to let themselves be
shown on TV for people to see the husband's drinking problem."

Me: "Um, Lori, you know those are actors, right, not a real couple
dealing with alcoholism?"

Lori: "You're wrong. All commercials are true -- there aren't any
actors. They find people who really use the product or services and
pay them to be on the commercial and talk honestly about their
experience."

I sold her some land in northern Florida that day.

Your coworker probably is one of those people that believed Gilligan
was really stranded on Gilligan's Island.

I heard one time that the Governement got thousands of letters telling
them to try and get the castaways off the Island in the 60s.

Thank God Sherwood Schwartz finally got them off in the 80s! :)

My brother is an actor. Tell her the people making the commercials
have to be union actors for most everything.
The sad part is, she gets to vote in Presidential elections. She must
be the kind of person that sues to get a warning lable on microwaves
that say, "Never try to microwave your head".

This one has me thinking about my 5 dollar foot long Subway Sandwich
recently.

Ads never live up to their actual product. I know my Subways didn't
have a quarter of the meat the ones in the commercials had on them.
Even the display boards over promote the look of food and menus.

If you thought it looked skimpy I would of said is this all you got
for me. Take it back then I don't want it. If they are bold enough
to bring you out a skimpy size ..then be bold enough to send it back.
After all it is your money.

I would of then paid for my drinks and left.

You didn't even get full you say!

Nothing worse than going out to eat and spending your money then going
home hungry!

If so, you'd be writing a lot of letters. Even Red Lobster juices up
the food in their commercials. I've been there before - their shrimp
specials they advertise on television look nothing like what actually
comes on the plate. Highly disappointing? No, because I know better.
Most of the time, the stuff in the commercial is not even real food!
*gasp* Props are used and used often. Did you know that most ice cream
advertisements use butter in their commercials rather than ice cream
because it looks better and holds up longer in shoots. A golden rule
of commercial shoots is don't eat the food on set because, again, most
of the time - its not real.

So, if you want me to see this complaint as valid - you better start
posting more letters to other companies that you patronize who have
advertisement of their food items.

In my limited seafood dining experience (mostly just Red Lobster),
crab legs are sold by the weight -- 1 pounds, 1.5 pounds, and 2 pounds
seem to be the most common. Did the menu (or signage in the
restaurant) not tell you the amount (or weight) of food you were
getting?

This link has some help:

http://www.joescrabshack.com/menus.php?LC=CORP

Not as much information as I might expect, but perhaps some things
vary by location/region of the country.

I love crab legs even more than lobster. My only problem with
ordering them is they often are cold by the time I get to the last of
them. Whomever, downthread, recommended going to an Asian buffet that
offers crab legs: Thank you! I would gladly pay $15 for all I can
eat. Because I can eat A LOT of crab legs! :)

I never go into a restaurant (fast food or sit-down type) and expect
EXACTLY what I see in their commercials. Is that a good thing...?
Up for debate.

I've been to Joe's Crab Shack once and while the food was good, the
atmosphere was just way too loud and rowdy.

The food in pictures and commercials is very much enhanced to draw
customers in. Its not false advertising at all. There was most likely
the same amount of crab legs in these buckets as on the ad, but it
depends on the size and how these are arranged. They can easily make
the buckets overflow by placement.

Did you look at the menu or ask the server how many crab legs are with
each sized bucket? That would have probably made a difference also.

As for Red Lobster I have never gotten quantity or quality for the
amount of money we have forked out there...I have given it three tries
and that is it.

I would rather go to a Chinese Buffet and get all the crab legs one
can eat. Generally the buffet is $9-$10 and adding all you can eat
crab legs is an additional $2-$3 for each person who chooses to eat
these.
Much better value for the money. I see people going back 4,5 & 6 times
just for crab legs.

Since when does the food on your plate look like the food in the
commercial? Come on. You should have let the manager know, and they
could have got you some more food.

Did they say "2 pounds of crab legs" and you only got one?

So they didn't live up to the expectations you have from eating at Red
Lobster. Then go back to Red Lobster. Why should they reimburse you?
Did they not deliver what was on the menu? I'm confused.

It sounds like Joe's advertising department is doing a good job. They
got you in the door. You know, the actual item usually does not look
like what is pictured at an establishment that provides pictures of
the product.

Patti D.,
Did you bring this to the attention of the Store Manager at the time?
Reimbursement? Hardly. If it would have been brought up then it could
have been "fixed".
Maybe an appetizer coupon.
BillR.