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Consumer complaints and reviews about Carls Jr

Arizona00 Send email
 
Mar 1, 2015

degrading & disgusting commercials

I would not eat at Carls Jr if was free. Your commercials and ads are degrading and disgusting. If this is the only way you can sell your products then it must not be worth eating.
Cali77 Send email
 
Feb 25, 2015

Sexist ads degrade women's rights

these commercials are so disgusting and offensive. It objects women like we are meat and is borderline soft porn. If I had children I would be very angry that this shows during the day. Women are still fighting for equality in this country and Carl's jr shouldn't be allowed to air such offensive commercials.
willteach Send email
 
Feb 25, 2015

Crass sexism in your revolting ads!

The latest ad by CARLS JR. is so over the top, I have to lodge my complaint right here, at the source of the problem.

I stopped buying your burgers years ago, on account of your sexist ads. The newest one (02.24.2015) is so very revolting in its depiction of a woman that I feel compelled to add my voice of protest. I will actively encourage everyone I know to boycott your stores and products!

There is another, simpler, less expensive way to get customers to buy ones product. Take notice of how "IN & OUT BURGERS" is growing in scale and popularity in and outside of California! Nothing but great burgers, fries, shakes, and most of all, well paid, friendly providing exceptional service. Simple, straight forward service and excellent product instead of expensive - or in your case, sleazy, demeaning, sexist TV ads.

Have you no shame...? Have mothers, wives, daughters? ...or are you just a bunch of frat boys getting your jollies this way?
JM1980 Send email
 
Feb 24, 2015

Commercials = Decreased Sales

I love Hardee's breakfast however like many families ours has stopped eating at the chain due to the overtly offensive ads. As a marketing professional, it's amazing to think a business would alienate half of its audience with commercial advertising when they already have a terrific product? Women are typically meal planners and many are now protesting by not frequenting your restaurant on advertising alone. It seems counterintuitive to continue. Consumers have consumed enough sexist material and are ready to start consuming your food instead of your competitors. It's difficult and ebarrassing to say the least to explain these commercials to my young children.
sirajmoope Send email
 
Feb 22, 2015

I will never eat at Carl's Jr because of your garbage ad campaign

Unlike most of the complainants, I am not a parent. I am a single, 26yo male, the demographic Carl's Jrs utterly brain dead ad campaign is supposedly aimed toward and I can say with absolute certainty that I will never ever eat at Carl's Jr specifically because of their ads.
I would rather eat gas station sushi or a 3 day old tuna sandwich out of a dumpster before I eat an all natural burger at Carl's Jr. I am being this discreptive in the hope that someone at the company realizes that their ad campaign is costing them customers and that they switch tactics, if not on the grounds of decency, then at least for the sake of better profits.
asdfadsf Send email
 
Feb 22, 2015

Carls Jr Commercial

Watching the Warriors with my family is fun. Carls Jr commercials during the game are not fun. I have young daughters and seeing naked women compared to fruit racks makes me sad and angry. If you want to do something truly radical in your ad campaign, why not drop the 2000 year old cliches and show some respect.
asdfadsf Send email
 
Feb 21, 2015

commercial

I'm feeling pretty depressed after seeing your naked girl at the market commercial. Is your company mission to demean women? Especially galling is the self-congratulatory tone, as if you're doing something clever and hip. You're using such stale old jokes. You are gross. I have two teenagers and even though your hamburgers look good we will never eat at your restaurant.
Becca Send email
 
Feb 21, 2015

Carls Jr. Commercial

As a teacher of young preteens, our conversation often is about the "isms" of our society and about those who are continually marginalized. We talk about sexism as one example and how women are often portrayed as "less than" in literature, and media. We also talk about the damage that does and how that impact is seen in the disorders girls( and now boys) are plagued with such as anorexia, depression, low self esteem, aggression and violence(rape)...After being subjected to your commercial, I thought about all the young girls who would feel violated by what they saw as your opinion of women, and I was so disheartened when my students ( both boys and girls)talked about the suggestive nature of the ad and how it portrayed women and men. They were curious as to why a woman needed to be in the state of "undress" in order to sell the burger. They asked if the burger was not good enough to sell in the conventional way. In our country, women and children are often victimized in abusive relationships, kidnappings, rapes (see recent sports figures)etc. These types of portrayals of women, as things to be ogled, undressed, handled, cared less about, and manipulated, only contribute to this ever growing problem( check the statistics). It's sad that someone in your organization ( a father?) did not foresee the negative impact of such a blatantly sexist ad and say, "We've gone too far. This is inappropriate and offensive ". Perhaps he did and was overruled or perhaps a woman was ignored who voiced an objection, or worse, you didn't notice because this has become your norm and how the company views women.
moorejanice04 Send email
 
Feb 20, 2015

Carl's Jr. natural burger commercial

I Don't want Our Daughter Seeing Women displaying Themselves without any clothing! We're teaching her that she can be Beautiful Without being Practically Naked, and That she can respect Herself more than all this trash on tv and media, she's also
Learning that being smart is Beautiful!!! Tv & media are just getting too redicuiculous,its a lot of the reason why Our family doesn't watch tv often & We do not & we will not let Our Daughter belong to facebook or any social media because of women being treated so shamefully.look at the NFL or Colleges.should we be afraid for our Daughters to be rejected to rape and brutality because there looked at like naked pieces of nothing!!! Coming from someone who left home when I was 14 I know first hand how women can be treated by men, how they can treat us like we're nothing and I don't want anyone expecting my Daughter to be like that trash, that should not be Our Daughters Future.
FeistyFox Send email
 
Feb 19, 2015

Sexist Commercials

I don't appreciate the sexual suggestive display of women during hours that my young teen daughter is watching television. Your pervetd advertisment should at least be aired late at night. I think it is time to start complaining to the networks that air these commercials since your advertising department is so narrow minded and unable to advertise without their hand down their pants.
ESP Send email
 
Feb 19, 2015

Carl's Jr Response to my complaint

"Thank you for taking the time to share your comment with us. Our goal is to make every guest happy, every time!

We regret that you were displeased with our advertising promotion. ?CKE Restaurants, Inc., owner and franchisor of Carl?s Jr. and Hardee's restaurants, adopts a creative approach to our advertising. We do not aim to offend anyone with our efforts, but merely to offer entertaining content. We understand that not everyone may view our advertising the same way, so we respect all views and welcome all comments. ?Your feedback is very important to us.

Please feel free to contact us again at any time."

When will you do something about this???? If not remove commercial completely then charge them with releasing adult content prior to 11 p.m.!!!!! This is not a creative approach when a 12 yr old can think up the same ideas!
ESP Send email
 
Feb 19, 2015

CARL'S JR SLEAZY COMMERCIALS

WELL IT IS 7:25PM PST AND MY TEEN SON AND I ARE WATCHING JEOPARDY - THEN CARL'S JR'S DISGUSTING "ALL NATURAL" COMMERCIAL THAT MAKES WOMEN LOOK LIKE NOTHING BETTER BUT TO BE FOR SHOW CAME ON!!!!!! I AM SICK OF COMAPNY'S BEING ALLOWED TO SHOW STUPID PERVERTED COMMERCIALS - GROW UP AND FIRE THE IDIOTS THAT CAN'T COME UP WITH A NON-MORBID SEXUAL COMMERCIAL FOR YOUR COMPANYS. WE HAVE NOT EATEN AT CARL'S JR SINCE YOU STARTED THESE STUPID NON-INTELLIGENT COMMERCIALS THAT SHOULD BE BANNED AND I HOPE MORE NORMAL, DESCENT PEOPLE STOP AS WELL. GREAT WAY TO MAKE YOUNG GIRLS NOT THINK THEY HAVE TO LOOK LIKE YOUR MODELS TO BE APPRECIATED - AT LEAST THINK OF THE YOUNG GIRLS IN AMERICA AND BE A BETTER EXAMPLE FOR THEM IF YOU CAN'T BE A BETTER EXAMPLE FOR THE YOUNG MEN IN OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHARGES SHOULD BE PLACED AGAINST CARL'S JR AND ANY CHANNEL FOR ALLOWING SUCH FILTH ON TV BEFORE 11 PM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
k1012 Send email
 
Feb 17, 2015

Carl's Jr commercials

VERY disappointed in the commercials for Carl's Jr. Our family loves the food at Carl's and actually frequent the restaurant 2-3 times a week. However, that has now stopped. We love when the commercials show the different types of food and how delicious they look, but using and perverting a woman's body has nothing to do with food or selling it. Your most recent commercial in my opinion is the worst I've ever seen. It has also become quite an embarassment to many franchise owners. An apology and hiring a new adverstising group would go far with many of your once loyal customers.
ratfink Send email
 
Feb 14, 2015

Carl's Jr. Commercials

I just viewed the latest Carl's Jr. commercial featuring the skimpily clothed blonde. What are you trying to sell, sex or hamburgers? It is really offensive and totally inappropriate for young viewers. My husband and I have been going to Carl's Jr. Restaurants regularly for a few years now but will no longer do so. It is clear to viewers that Carl's Jr. thinks that in order to sell anything you have to not only have subtle sexual undertones but blatant ones! It has been said that the United States will someday fall from within and this is just one part of the decay of this country. It's too bad that a well educated person such as the CEO of Carl's Jr. is unable to produce an outstanding commercial with out the use of sex. Shame on you Mr. Andrew Puzder!
I will relay this information on the downfall of morals pertaining to Carl's Jr. restaurants to as many people as I am able and they will do the same. It's amazing how fast bad news travels in this technical world!
janewills17 Send email
 
Feb 7, 2015

Carl's Jr. Commercial

I am watching the UA basketball on TV today, February 7, 2015, and just caught a glimpse of the latest Carl's Jr. commercial featuring the bouncing breasts of a model with burger in tow. I am a regulary customer, female, and will no longer buy anything from Carl's Jr. until they quit airing these offensive sexist commercials. Try something new with your marketing, please!
Margareta Send email
 
Feb 6, 2015

Carl's Jr Misogynistic Ads

I just watched the most graphically sexist hamburger ad I have ever seen in 55 years of TV viewing. I have never yet and will never visit a Carl's Jr., and will ask all humans I meet to boycott this shameful company. It embarrasses men, assuming they all are sex starved dolts, and uses models to objectify women as attention seeking half naked sex workers.
Is this 2015 or 1915? The ad agency has its head buried in the porn industry toilet, and Carl Jr. should be moaning In his grave.
TheJustine Send email
 
Feb 6, 2015

are you kidding me?!

women are not meat! I can't believe you would let children watch this offensive disgusting sexist commercial. guess what? i am the mother and wife of a very big household and who determines what is for dinner? ME and carls jr is not on the menu. #cutthecarls
TheJustine Send email
 
Feb 6, 2015

SEXIST commercials

I can honestly say I will NEVER eat at a Hardee's/Carl's Jr ever again. Your commercials belong on a porn channel. Having a photo shopped model dripping sauce and rubbing a burger all over does NOT make anyone want to eat a hamburger. It is sexist and down right disgusting. I guess your food really does suck if you need a chick in a bikini to try and "bribe" people to eat here...
fire_07 Send email
 
Feb 3, 2015

carls jr commercials

I think the carls jr commercials, are disgusting and inappropriate, I think they should b removed from tv
salt Send email
 
Feb 3, 2015

disgusting and inappropriate

We are done eating at Carl's Jr. I guess the thousands of emails of complaints about your down right disgusting and offensive commercials means nothing to you. You are basically exploiting these woman and its ridiculous. It's insulting and this is why our society is the way it is. Because of businesses like yours. Unbelievable that you don't listen to your customers and remove these commercial.
whitedove Send email
 
Feb 3, 2015

carls Jr inappropriately sexual ads

My family loves Carl's burgers but we finally are willing to stop patronizing this restaurant. The ads have reached a new low, or i should say a continued low level. Why do we need to see women having what the audience is supposed to imagine as a sexual experience while eating a hamburger? How do other fast food restaurants manage to stay in business without sexually charged ads? Although Carl's has the best burgers, our family will not return.
Bantheporno Send email
 
Feb 2, 2015

Done Eating at Carl's

We live right by a Carl's Jr. and eat there frequently, or should I say we did eat there frequently. I am done taking my family there at all. I will also spread the word to the 350 students I teach to avoid the porno pit.
Lost in america Send email
 
Feb 2, 2015

Carl's jr commercial

I will go out of my way to NOT buy your food- and tell everyone I know to do the same.
Horrible commercial. As an Adversitising major in college:
When the product won't sell itself, have sex sell it. Pathetic

Obviously you don't give a rats ass about the children watching. Go start a porno movie company.
That seems like what you really want to do. Let someone else make hamburgers.
I'll be eating at Wendy's,Burger King, in and out and whataburger!!!!!!
Vmh Send email
 
Jan 31, 2015

Commercials

A friend of mine told me about your recent highly sexualized commercials. I figured oh they couldn't be that bad – but after watching them online I was shocked! Who's lame idea was it to utilize these commercials to sell fast food? My guess is it was a man who drags his knuckles on the ground…you may be selling but I am not buying from Carl's Jr.'s ever again.
carole Send email
 
Jan 31, 2015

Hardee's Super Bowl 2015 Nudity

THAT'S IT ! My family and I have had our last delicious Hardee's biscuit. Why in the world should I give my hard earned money for filth like this commercial. By no means do I consider nudity filth but I do consider flaunting nude women on a family program distasteful and filthy. Managers who approve this type of advertisement surely have no respect for women. Why should we women give our money to companies that disrespect women. Come on ladies, we are smarter than that.

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