{"id":9176,"date":"2011-11-30T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=9176"},"modified":"2011-11-30T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T03:23:20","slug":"shoneys-thanks-guests-with-free-hot-fudge-cake-and-invites-facebook-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/11\/30\/shoneys-thanks-guests-with-free-hot-fudge-cake-and-invites-facebook-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoney&#8217;s Thanks Guests With Free Hot Fudge Cake and Invites Facebook Feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>Celebrate with a free dessert and participate in shaping the brand&#8217;s new direction<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-98371\" title=\"Shoney's\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Shoneys.gif\" alt=\"Shoney's\" width=\"240\" height=\"79\" \/><\/span><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; On Tuesday, December 6th, 2011, America&#8217;s iconic restaurant brand, Shoney&#8217;s, invites consumers to enjoy a free Hot Fudge Cake. The invitation continues the company&#8217;s Starting Fresh campaign, designed to help consumers celebrate and rediscover what they love about Shoney&#8217;s, while providing feedback that will shape the brand&#8217;s makeover.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_98372\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shoneys-hot-fudge-cake.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98372 \" title=\"Free Hot Fudge Cake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shoneys-hot-fudge-cake.jpg\" alt=\"Free Hot Fudge Cake\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-98372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free Hot Fudge Cake<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The Starting Fresh campaign will return the Shoney&#8217;s brand, with 230 locations in 17 states, to its glory days and the company is celebrating by giving guests a free Hot Fudge Cake \u2013 Shoney&#8217;s favorite dessert for more than 60 years. There is no purchase necessary and cakes are available all day, while supplies last. Shoney&#8217;s hopes the Free Hot Fudge Day will encourage customers to share feedback about their experience publicly on its Facebook page, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Shoneys\" >www.Facebook.com\/Shoneys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I bought Shoney&#8217;s for one reason: to make it great again,&#8221; said chairman and chief executive officer David Davoudpour. &#8220;To revitalize the brand, I&#8217;m inviting consumers to partake in Free Hot Fudge Cake Day and then post honest feedback and ideas on our Facebook page for us to evaluate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Since Shoney&#8217;s commitment to Start Fresh, the company has:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Declared &#8220;Shoney&#8217;s Free Hot Fudge Cake Day&#8221; on December 6th;<\/li>\n<li>Hired five-star executive chef, Will Eudy, to enhance freshness and quality;<\/li>\n<li>Refurbished older Shoney&#8217;s locations;<\/li>\n<li>Been developing and opening new restaurants; and<\/li>\n<li>Promised America a reinvigorated brand that listens to its customers.<\/li>\n<li>Shoney&#8217;s guarantees the freshness and quality of its menu and invites customers to rediscover the Shoney&#8217;s they love on Free Hot Fudge Cake Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shoneys.com\/\" >www.Shoneys.com<\/a> for information about Shoney&#8217;s locations, hours of operation and more special offers.<\/p>\n<h3>About Shoney&#8217;s<\/h3>\n<p>Shoney&#8217;s, based in Nashville, traces its beginnings to 1947 and a single drive-in restaurant in Charleston, W.Va. Its &#8220;Starting Fresh&#8221; campaign highlights a new CEO, a new executive chef and a new attitude. More information about restaurant hours, locations and special offers is at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shoneys.com\/\" >www.Shoneys.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate with a free dessert and participate in shaping the brand&#8217;s new direction Nashville, TN &#8211; On Tuesday, December 6th, 2011, America&#8217;s iconic restaurant brand, Shoney&#8217;s, invites consumers to enjoy a free Hot Fudge Cake. The invitation continues the company&#8217;s Starting Fresh campaign, designed to help consumers celebrate and rediscover what they love about Shoney&#8217;s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1730,11924,11925,11926],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2o0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9177,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions\/9177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}