Why a Professional Voice Over Is So Important To Restaurants
Why a Professional Voice Over Is So Important To Restaurants
Say what you want about Jack In the Box restaurants…you have to admit the company has a professional operation. The food is hot, delivered in an orderly fashion, and comes at a fair price no matter where you happen to find a franchise.
But do you want just “professional” when you’re eating? No. That’s why a chain like Macaroni Grill might be a more quality choice. The ambience is pleasing. Food is prepared with care from a unique menu, and the service is usually charming. Absolutely professional, but with a quality component added.
Still, for a top-of-class experience, something is missing even at Macaroni Grill. That element is refinement. In Las Vegas, when you visit Ferraro’s new restaurant across from the Hard Rock resort, you’ll see the added attraction of gourmet food from award-winning chefs, a table setting and service second-to-none, even a Sommelier to suggest the perfect wine to go with your choice of entre’. Professional? Absolutely. Quality? Unquestionably. Refined? But of course, Monsieur!
There are no signs to indicate Ferraro’s combines professionalism, quality and refinement. People just know. Enjoy a meal at Ferroro’s and there’s no mistaking the impression that you’ve reached a position near the top of the culinary dining experience.
This is not a put-down of fast-food restaurants. Quite the opposite, because, you see…even Jack In the Box understands that to be successful in the marketplace, their working-class product must nonetheless be portrayed in popular media with professionalism, quality, and refinement.
Make no mistake, the voice behind that silly guy with the white cone-head was chosen through a talent agency audition process that weeded out the un-professional, poor quality candidates with little refinement of their craft.
Puh-leez!….how many cheesy late-night, local TV ads have you suffered through, where the spokesman is likely the company’s owner, president, or maybe the secretary. There’s no mistaking the impression that you’ve reached a position near the bottom of the advertising experience. People just know. The unprofessionalism, lack of quality, and absence of refinement portrays no product you would ever buy, visit, consider for purchase, or otherwise patronize.
Viewers, listeners, buyers, and consumers can smell the odor of “cheap” a mile away. It’s a turn-of. No – more than that, it engenders an internal promise never to participate in THAT product.
Savvy company owners, presidents, managers, and ad agency executives choose a quality, professional, refined portrayal of their product/service with fancy graphics, good copywriting, enduring images, and the delivery — either on camera, or through voice-over — of a talented, experienced actor.
A voice-actor can bring the worst copy to life….can elicit emotion from the most colorless pictures…and can do it all in 30 seconds. There’s no mistaking the impression that you’ve reached a position near the top of the advertising spectrum. People just know.
Like a fine chef, a true voice actor takes pride in his/her work…achieves professionalism by working their way up through the ranks…exudes quality through years of practice and training… and proves again and again a sense of refinement through experience. Most have found success in voiceovers through a tough evolutionary process known as survival-of-the-hardest working and most talented.
You could pay a lot less, and grab Clancy, the clean-up guy to be the voice of “Jack” the cone-head. Clancy may be able to mop floors, but it actually takes a professional, quality actor to produce a refined sound as sarcastically silly and convincing as the brand spokesman for Jack In the Box.
People just know.
Very insightful! And I agree completely. Any marketing that is customer facing needs to be extremely professional or they might as well not produce it at all.
Great post! Thanks!
Bradley,
Our pleasure:) Thanks for taking the time to read our blog!
David
Right on the money – and a key reason why our industry is steadily growing.
Thanks for the post!
-jm
John,
Thanks for reading the blog!