The Amazing (and Often Hilarious) Signs of the NRA Show

By Anthony Todd in Food on May 24, 2011 4:00PM

Anyone with condoms in their pockets? Stop RIGHT there.

This is for a service that supervises your employees. Also, for paranoid people.

Is that man scared, or is he a steel eater?

Then it would just be \"Duct,\" right?

Is smell a virus? We always thought it was a bacteria.

What CAN\'T the VibaBody Slimmer do? Well, anything to do with food or restaurants, for one.

OMG indeed.

Yes, it\'s for oil. But it\'d be funny if it wasn\'t.

Because of all the electronics, we thought this was a mobile app. But no, it\'s for tables with wheels.

Trade shows always seem strange to an outsider - and the National Restaurant Association show, held in Chicago over the past weekend, was no exception. Most of these signs made some sense in context (though, the "vibrate your fat away" signs might not have) but for a member of the public, it looked like someone had gone mildly crazy. Our full impressions of the NRA show, including dining trends for the next year and a discussion of the new field of electronic menus and ordering systems, will be coming soon. But for now, enjoy the silly signs.