After opening The Grind in 2009 we used the caricature you see above as a chief component in our marketing campaign. We placed an ad in The Rebel Yell (the UNLV student newspaper) that contained a very small version of this image on the bottom of the ad below a giant picture of a burger. An outraged reader wrote an op-ed into the paper which sparked an enormous amount of controversy (documented below). I hope everyone knows that we don't intend to be offensive in any way by using this caricature. I am sorry if some people are offended but we only created this as a gimmick and hoped it would draw people in to try our food. I think it works and still does. In this town there are worse things in more visible places and I think some people need to lighten up a bit.
This is the ad:
The Burger Grind Bar ad in The Rebel Yell is offensive
-October 5, 2009 by Anthony Guy Patricia
Sexism in UNLV's Newspaper
-October 7, 2009 by Huston
EDITORIAL: The Rebel Yell responds
-October 8, 2009 by Editorial staff
An Open Letter To The Rebel Yell
-October 9, 2009 by Huston
Responsible Free Speech
-October 12, 2009 by Sylvia R. Lazos
Juicy discussion follows ad controversy
-October 15, 2009 by Sean Jaramillo
-October 18, 2009 by Thomas Mitchell
in brief
-October 22, 2009 by The Rebel Yell
Chief Insight-We won't shut them up but you should speak out too
-February 22, 2010 by Jorge Labrador
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