This is TGI Sportscenter.

In the sprit of the holiday, here is, I think, my all time favorite restaurant commercial.




Dan Patrick is a sports caster/commentator who has always had a great sense of humor. Case in point, here are two excellent commercials from when he worked for ESPN:






So what is it about these three commercials that SO many restaurant commercials don't get? It's hard to say. I'm no Don Draper, but a logical attachment to the product they are selling (food and sports) with a semi-recognizable figure as your pitch person certainly helps. Plus the ideas for the commercials are fresh and somewhat innovative. They aren't recycling songs from the 1960's with "reinvented" lyrics pushing some imaginary vision of how much their cooks/waiters deeply care for our dining experience.