Getting the savings out of daylight savings

Updated

I'm starting to admire the marketing team at White Castle. First, they turn Valentine's Day to their advantage by offering candlelit dinners to couples, and now, according to a story in MediaPost, they're taking Daylight Savings time, this innocuous if disruptive moment in our lives, and they're creating an advertising opportunity.

On Sunday morning, during the young hour of 1 a.m.-2 a.m., right before the time change, all White Castles will offer two free hamburgers to each customer who drops by.

It's a no-brainer. They know the relatively few who will take them up on the offer are likely to order a soft drink or a few other items off the menu, off-setting the cost, and by doing this, they'll get hungry-for-copy writers like myself mentioning them in the media.

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