Restaurant Clocked Analysis

For my evaluation essay I wrote about the restaurant Clocked, a small diner located in downtown Athens. Clocked has good food, wonderful customer service, and a sci-fi vibe that will send many people back to their childhood. Athens is a large city, and the University of Georgia is a large school with over 36,000 students. It can be easy to get lost in such a large city. In my evaluation, I spoke about how Clocked can help Athens seem more like a small community. For my paper remix I wanted to send the same message as my original paper, that a large city like Athens can become a home. Instead of sending my message through words, I created a poster board filled with pictured from different points in my life. By using different pictures from Rome and Athens, I show that both cities can become home with the help of a small diner like Clocked.

For my remix, I wanted to show how Clocked has helped Athens become my home away from home. In the center of my poster, I painted the word ‘home’ in white. Instead of writing the letter ‘o’ in home, I replaced it with a heart to show that feelings, such as love, remind me of home. In the center of the heart, I painted the arch. Surrounding the word ‘home’, I placed different pictures that showed my connection to Clocked. In one

photo, I am in my high school cheer uniform with my friend Olivia. While I was in high school, the football players and the cheerleaders would often go to Steak ‘n’ Shake after every Friday night football game. Clocked is like Steak ‘n’ Shake, offering different flavors of milkshakes and every type of burger imaginable. By placing the photo of myself in my cheer uniform on the poster, I show my connection with my hometown and Clocked. Another photo that I included on my poster was a photo of my brother and I when we were both young. Clocked has a sci-fi theme, with old sci-fi movie posters hanging on the walls. When I was young, my brother and I would always watch Star Wars together. By adding the young photo of myself, I display how Clocked reminds me of my childhood. I use many other pictures on my poster, such as pictures with family members and pictures of homecooked meals. By including these pictures, I show that Clocked is family oriented and that when I eat at Clocked I feel like I am eating in my own home. Not only, did I include photos of myself from the past, but I included pictures that I have recently taken since I have been in Athens. By including pictures that I have recently taken since I have moved, I show that Clocked is starting to become my home. Each photo on my poster has a different connection to how I personally relate to Clocked and how it makes Athens feel like home.

While writing my evaluation and creating my poster, my intended audience were freshmen like myself.

I relate to freshmen who are on their own for the first time in their lives. I grew up in a town so small that wherever I went I always ran into a familiar face. Moving to Athens was a huge culture shock for me, not knowing anyone except for my roommate. I felt like I was drowning in the crowd, until I visited Clocked for the first time. Clocked offered me a sense of relief, knowing that there were small diners similar to those found in my hometown. By creating my poster, I wanted to reach out to college freshmen like myself and show that there are small diners in Athens that can make you feel at

home.

The purpose of my poster is to show my own experiences at Clocked and how eating at Clocked has offered me a sense of home, allowing me to be more outgoing. When I was first accepted to the University of Georgia, I was not sure I wanted to attend. Athens is four hours away from my hometown and I had never been that far away from home without my parents. I only knew one other person who was attending UGA and when I am put in a situation where I do not know anyone, I am not the most outgoing person. On move in day, I ate lunch with my family at Clocked. After eating at Clocked, I realized that Athens is not the big city like I imagined. The purpose of my project is worthy because it can help other students in the same situation as me. In my experience, Clocked showed me that there are ways to make Athens feel more like a small town that I am used to. When others see my poster, the will see that there are different ways to get connected and make Athens home.