False Advertising

How many people have ordered this Whopper:

And got this:

Or ordered this Big Mac:

And got this:

Or this:

Why do these companies get away with this false advertising? They should be made to show their food exactly as it is served instead of being meticulously constructed by artisans.

 

The Japanese are masters at constructing plastic food displays.

 

Just wondering how it's even legal to advertise like that. They fleece the public for years, but the sad thing is that the people just go back and buy from them anyway.

 

A lot of times, advertising, whether fake or not, sells.

 

If those companies displayed what their stuff really looked like, sales would plummet. They're marketing hope - hope you'll remember the way it should look rather than the way it did the last time.

 

One of the things they do in advertising photography, in order to stay "within the law" is move most of the sandwich ingredients to the front of the sandwich. You're getting everything you see, you're just getting it spread out. If you assume that the whole sandwich looks like that.....well, they don't think that's *their* problem.

As for photos of soup just STUFFED with noodles and veggies and meat? One soup company got caught putting clear glass marbles in the bowl before the soup was poured in, so the solids were all on top. They were ordered to cease that practice. I have heard the latest practice is to freeze most of the broth in the bowl and then pour the rest and the solids on top. Serves the same purpose but they don't get slapped for putting something else in the bowl.

I have never seen a frozen dinner come out of the microwave or oven looking anything like the photo on the carton.

 

In many of the restaurants I have worked with, when the menu displays a picture of the food item, the picture is also displayed in the kitchen for the cooks to conform to.
I have been known to move a cook off the line and take their place when I saw sloppy work performed or in the case of having an expeditor supervising the line, take their place and send the expeditor to the dish rack.

 

That sounds like a restaurant that cares about quality.

 

"Secret sauce."