Almost two decades have passed since the simulated work of the workplace “The office” First he established an episode within a Chile’s, where Michael Scott delivered the Dundie Awards to his always tolerant employees, including trophies for whiter shoes and to ease the bathroom.
In nine seasons, “The Office” regularly the real places and products of names associated with Scranton, where the Emmy winning show was established. There is the great Pirate Ship restaurant known as Cooper’s Seafood House and poor Richard’s Pub inside a bowling alley. But in 2005, there were no peppers in the city of Pennsylvania.
Then, finally, the chain is filling a hole in the office tradition by opening a Chile in the city of Dickson, about 6 miles (10 kilometers) north of Scranton.
The restaurant will be decorated as it would have been in the mid -2000s with old signs and art of slate. It will also present direct winks to the fictitious program of paper of the program, Dunder Mfflin. In an episode, Scott, played by Steve Carell, orders an incredible flower, a fried onion with a cheese sauce, while trying to win a new client during lunch in Chili’s. That element, for a long time since the Chili menu throughout the country, is being reintroduced only in the restaurant of the Scranton area.
The new Chile will open on April 7, when a “Scranton Marg” will be available throughout the country for the day.
Two office actors appear in commercials for the restaurant: Brian Baumgartner, who played the hesitant accountant Kevin Malone; and Kate Flannery, whose character Meredith Palmer was a divorced mother lover who worked in relations with suppliers. Other actors, including Melora Hardin, Andy Buckley and Amy Pietz, also appear in a promotional video.
“It seems that an error hardened here around the 20th anniversary of the program to finally have a scranton branch of Chili’s,” Baumgartner told The Associated Press.
Decades ago, when the voice ran that an American version of the British program “The Office” would focus on Scranton, some locals feared that his hometown was the top of the joke. The city of Rust Belt had its apogee generations before with anthracite coal mining and steam trains.
The program ended up celebrating Scranton and the characters, without mocking them, Baumgartner said.
Flannery, who is philadelphia, said he is happy for “the office” helped reinforce local pride in the city. Scranton has housed Great office partiesIncluding one that attracted many cast members and about 10,000 people around the end of the 2013 series. Transmission services have increased the popularity of the program.
“It’s something like what Pam Beesly says in the last episode: there is beauty in common things. And Scranton can feel ordinary for some people,” Flannery told the AP. “But it’s really special. It really is.”
The show approached residents and companies to donate Scranton Swag, and shouted to local reference points. John Krasinski, who played Jim Halpert, filmed scenes for opening assembly in Scranton, causing the city’s penn paper tower to be recognizable throughout the world. The sign “Scranton welcomes you” from Krasinski’s images moved to a center shopping center because people kept stopping on a road to take photos.
For Chili’s, building a thematic restaurant that is expected to attract tourists is not the normal business course, said George Felix, Chili Marketing Director. In 2005, the closest Chile was about 19 miles (30 kilometers) from Scranton. Since then he has closed.
“Given the ties that this brand has to scranton, this was definitely special for us,” Felix told the AP.
Baumgartner, who analyzed the program in a podcast and book, said that the new Chile returns to a crucial episode, the Dundies, who began season 2, Baumgartner said.
“We were a failed show, frankly, with very bad grades of that first season and was barely brought by a second,” Baumgartner said. “But some tonal things changed. We decided to open that second season with a kind of explosion and leave the office for the first time.”
In that episode, Pam Beesly, played by Jenna Fischer, won the Dundie “Whitest Sneakers” and declared tensely: “I feel God in this Chile’s Tonight.” Subsequently, PAM was expelled from Chili throughout the country for stealing people’s drinks. In 2017, Chili forgave the character, saying he was welcome.
“It will feel as if they are really in the program because it will look exactly the same,” Flannery said about Chile of the Scranton area. “So it’s like a fan’s destination. It’s amazing.”
