Sandwich Company Aims To Take Back Lunch One Conference Call at a Time
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A noon conference call: Is there any greater affront to the sanctity of
lunch? In an effort to take back lunch, Potbelly
Sandwich Shop has partnered with UberConference
by Dialpad, a first-of-its-kind partnership, to remind everyone noon
to 1 p.m. is time to eat, not meet. Starting today, when users dial into
their UberConference free line, they’ll get some hilarious new hold
music to get them through these ill-timed calls.
“A scheduled noon biz call should be a wake-up call that you’re doing
lunch all wrong,” says Potbelly’s CMO and lunch activist Brandon Rhoten.
Potbelly tapped a range of artists to create the original tunes,
including loop DJ phenom Marc
Rebillet, Armchair Expert music director Bob
Mervak and song-a-day YouTube star Jonathan
Mann.
“We wanted to make conferencing fun. Having unique songs has always been
a part of our brand, making this crazy idea the perfect fit for us,”
says Dialpad’s CMO Keith Messick.
The lunchtime bangers are part of Potbelly’s ongoing efforts to help
people take back lunch; previous activations include the “Lunch Doubles”
stunt.
“There are reams of data confirming the health, happiness and
productivity benefits of a quality lunch,” Rhoten observed. “We’re here
to help you enjoy it.”
UberConference will feature Potbelly’s hold music on June 18, and it
will be available for users to choose all month. Additionally, all four
songs are available on SoundCloud.
And for those who eat, breathe and sleep work meetings, Potbelly is
releasing a video of Marc Rebillet’s song as a PowerPoint
presentation. And for the rest of us, as a YouTube
video.
About Potbelly Sandwich Shop
Potbelly Corporation is a neighborhood sandwich concept with warm,
toasty sandwiches, signature salads, hand-dipped shakes, amazing cookies
and other fresh menu items, customized just the way people want them.
Since opening its first shop in Chicago in 1977, Potbelly has expanded
to neighborhoods all over the U.S. — with more than 400 shops. For more
information, visit www.Potbelly.com.
About Dialpad
Dialpad’s mission is to make business communications great. Built on the
Google Cloud Platform for unmatched security, reliability and scale,
Dialpad’s product suite covers the full range of modern business
communications needs with DialpadTalk, DialpadSell, DialpadSupport, and
UberConference, all powered by Voice Intelligence (Vi™). Today more than
60,000 of the world’s most innovative businesses use Dialpad and its
seamless integrations with Google G Suite and Microsoft Office 365 to be
more productive. Customers include WeWork, Uber, Motorola Solutions,
Domo and Xero. Investors include Amasia, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis
Ventures, GV, ICONIQ Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Scale Ventures,
Section 32, Softbank, and Work-Bench. Visit dialpad.com
for more information.
Contacts
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Jacobson/Rost
(717) 413-0370
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