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‘atta boy

Mort Zieve of SMZ Advertising returned from vacation a few weeks back to find one of his “clients” waiting for him outside the agency’s Troy, Mich., office. It was a 4-foot-tall, 80-pound cement Big Boy statue, making a rare appearance somewhere other than outside a Big Boy restaurant.

The statue, carried around by a “caretaker,” was positioned as if was peering into Zieve’s office, and holding a sign that read, “Welcome home to OUR Big Boy.”

There was another surprise waiting for Zieve in the kitchen—a chocolate ice cream party.

“Ice cream Fridays” have been a longstanding tradition at SMZ, with Big Boy supplying the ice cream to employees, said agency representative Jaclyn Lupo.







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