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TURBOCHEF

Compliments to the chef.

A spec campaign for TurboChef's home ovens: restaurant-grade, home-cooked. Restaurant-grade speed and searing turn ordinary houses into the best restaurants on the block, from rooftop neon to a lawn sign that ships in the box. Visuals AI-assisted.

The insight

TurboChef builds the ovens restaurants run on. Now there's one for the home.

The idea

Compliments to the chef.

Out-of-home: new restaurants in the neighborhood

Billboards that make you look twice: real homes with restaurant neon on the roof. Every family that owns a TurboChef gets a name in lights.

A white colonial home at blue hour with a red neon restaurant sign on the roof: The Hendersons, steak, chops, Sunday roast, open — The Hendersons. Steak, chops, Sunday roast.

A brick ranch house with a giant orange neon sign: Dave Kowalski, est. last Tuesday — Dave Kowalski. Est. last Tuesday.

A Spanish-style home with a red neon sign: Casa Garcia, now seating — Casa Garcia. Now seating.

A farmhouse with a teal neon sign on the porch: Barry's Kitchen, reservations recommended — Barry's Kitchen. Reservations recommended.

Social: dinner service at home

Six-second loops for Reels and TikTok, built to land with the sound off. Each one ends on the payoff with the TurboChef lockup over the final frame.

Passed inspection.

Order up.

Service charge not included.

In the box: the sign comes with the oven

Every oven ships with a welcome card and a "Now Serving" lawn sign. Buyers put it in the yard, neighbors stop and ask, and the campaign spreads street by street.

A woman unboxes a TurboChef oven and lifts out an orange Now Serving, reservations recommended lawn sign from the lid; a card reads Congratulations on your new restaurant — Congratulations on your new restaurant.

A Now Serving, reservations recommended lawn sign in front of a home at dusk as a woman walking her dog stops to look — In the yard.

The insight

Out-of-home: new restaurants in the neighborhood

Social: dinner service at home

In the box: the sign comes with the oven

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