— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
I know the idea of a reality show about Ike's seem ludicrous, but it appears to be true. Posted yesterday to Facebook:
The Ike's Place reality show could be a reality! Tomorrow morning(4/11) at 10am, representatives from Indigo Films via the Discovery Channel will be filming the first 'episode'. Shooting should go until 1pm. Come stop by and say Hi—You could be the next reality TV star!
I'm sorry, but if ordering a sandwich makes you a reality TV star, you're doing it wrong. It takes a very special kind of princess to order a “Mobile Momma” and then immediately start freaking the fuck out because it's going to be another 20 minutes before the sandwich is ready. In fact, I'm pretty sure this will publicity stunt backfire and hurt business. Yeah, there will be some tourists who want to eat from “that sandwich place that was on after Sarah Palin's Alaska,” but most normal people who actually live in the city won't be interested in having a camera pointed in their face every time they want to order a $10 sandwich before getting high in the park.
Comments (17)
At the old Ike’s, people would stand in line and eat right next to garbage cans that smelled like rotten meat. You could tell right away that the only thing bringing in customers was the hipster sheep principle. Hell, Ike could make them walk in to his restaurant through a sewer, then wait four hours to be served, and they wouldn’t care as long as they thought it was trendy.
Now the new Ike’s is going to be a reality show. That means the hipsters will have to wrestle for food with New York and Flava Flav, while listening to Gordon Ramsay berate Ike for his poor food quality and long waits.
I’m sure there’s a point at which the hipster sheep principle and human tolerance for abuse merge, and Ike will go out of business. But I’m not convinced that he’s hit it yet with his latest move.
Totally. There’s no way people were going there because the sandwiches tasted good.
If you’re sitting right next to a garbage can that smells rotten, can you really taste anything?
You’re high, there were no smelly garbage cans next to the tables. (There are cans down the street, if people wanted to sit there it was probably because they didn’t find them all that smelly.) And you could phone in your order, show up when they told you to, and never have to wait more than 5 minutes or so.
High or not, there were garbage cans right outside the door every day. It was bad enough that I had to hold my nose when I walked by, and my sense of smell is pretty bad.
sorry to break it to you bro, but you are really coming off as the sheep here.
goddamn you sound like one of those yelp elite asshole who complain about trivial shit. seems noone else has had this problem; and cmon idiot, people eat there cause it’s trendy? the sandwiches are fucking good you dickwad (i will fight anyone for a Fat Bastard, seriously anyone). by your logic, all the jam-packed restaurants in C-town are trendy then too, and those REALLY smell like garbage and piss.
fuck, i’m feeding the trolls…
directed at Eric, not you bra
You’re calling someone who won’t eat a restaurant that smells like garbage a “sheep”?
Dude, I can tell you firsthand that sheep eat garbage, or pretty much anything else you put in front of them.
hey troll, look for the word sheep anywhere in my response. let me know when you find it
Well let’s see, it’s the second word from the end of the sentence.
Calling someone a troll when you’re trolling? OLD.
I always heard that the sandwiches were good, but I was never willing to wait in the line to find out for myself. I don’t figure that this state of affairs will change much with the new location.
Since everyone here is posting on a “website”, I am sure most of you are familiar with these crazy things called “the internet” and a “cellular telephone”. Using these two weird devices the wait, and endurance of supposed smelly trash cans, for Ike’s is almost nothing. Just a few weeks ago I read the menu online, made a call using a cell phone and was able to pick up said sandwiches without waiting more than 10 minutes!!
I understand everyone on here LOVES complaining, but pick your damn battles. Yes, the wait at Ike’s was retarded but they fixed the problem. Now you can return to your asinine critiques of mustaches, fixed gear bikes and burritos.
I’ve used this thing you call a cellular telephone before to order Ike’s, and, like you said, this device brought the wait down to minutes. However, my point about not wanting the Discovery Channel to stick their cameras in my face still stands. I hear those things steal your soul.
Will TCB Courier deliver sandwiches to us dbags downtown?
I like the Spiffy Tiffy
Would like to know if production of 100%Pure Vermont Organic Maple Syrup with other Ventures would make. Good Reality Show?