I love the use of (TM) and (R) in the Subject line, but no such marks on the name sending the email. NOW'S MY CHANCE TO STEAL THEIR REGISTERED SERVICE MARKS! MWA HA HA HA!

@Applekid:

I agree. I hate ridiculous usage of trade mark and registration symbols.

And yet I LOVE it when Moe's Southwest Grill welcomes me... why is TGI Fridays any different?

@Gerret Gary Swearingen: Because the food at Friday's is edible. My Moe's experiences, on the other hand, indicate otherwise.

I don't know what is worse - eating at TGI Fridays or getting spam from TGI Fridays. Well maybe eating at TGI Fridays.

At least it is consistent with the overbearing service at TGI Friday's:

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Also, is anyone else baffled by their ad campaign "Give me more Friday's"? That would just mean a longer work week!

Sometimes when I send emails through work to a large group of people (who asked to receive the property information) our email server goes berserk and sends them dozens of copies at once. They call me yelling "turn it off!" and I call the helpdesk and slink away in shame.

In our case it turned out to be a limit on how many people could be in the "blind cc" field of my email. Now I know, so it's not a problem any longer. But since the email system in the OP is automated and sent to an individual, that is unlikely. Must be some other kind of bug?

If they are sending that many emails on purpose, it's pretty dumb. It will turn the customer off and they'll unsubscribe.

I've signed up for this service and have received like three emails in as many months. Wonder if it's just a bug?

Is that the same system that they use to tell the people working there that they need to put more flair on?

I just signed up & I went to the Fridays in Troy, MI. Didn't get all those emails but even with a BOGO free coupon, I won't be going back. I thought it was absolute crap. I'd rather pay full price somewhere else.

Unless anyone else can report similar issues on a different day, I'm calling unintentional technical glitch. Come on, people, it happens to the best of us, and I'm sure we'd hear more screaming if there was a follow-up apology email for sending too many emails.

What probably happened is that her email server for whatever reason doesn't see it already sent this. This happened where I work. We got an angry call from an irate customer who kept getting the same e-mail over and over again. On our end it showed the message being sent once, we called an IT expert who does small business network setups, and he goes and checks the webmail and even calls TWC to find the source of the problem, after about an hour of her complaining every 5 minutes via phone, and our IT guy talking to TWC for 30 minutes, we found the source of her problem. Her ISP had the email as being recieved on their server but not sent to her IP Address, kept showing up as a Daemon failure, but in reality thru whatever snafu had occurred the mail was constantly being resent because her server saw the fail and did automatic retries. She logged into her account via webmail instead of an e-mail client, found the message and deleted it, end of problem.

@Julia789: No way it's on purpose. Almost all of them were sent at 5:39 am, so I would think snafu.

Apparently she has a lot of flair.

@Julia789: And it isn't necessarily the fault of TGIF or the company that they use for this advertising-- it could be an MTA problem on the OP's e-mail providers servers.

@Applekid:

Yes, (TM) and (R) in subject lines is overkill. Just goes to show how much control lawyers have over how companies conduct business. Ridiculous.

Now if companies could just stop misspelling stuff on purpose just to create a trademark, we'd all be much better off. I mean, is it REALLY necessary to sell "Alli" pills or offer a "Digg" Web site, when English already has perfectly good words, "ally" and "dig," which could have been used instead?

All this hyperlegalistic crap just looks childish. And it's all the fault of the trademark lawyers.

Come on, that's an obvious glitch...hardly worth writing to The Consumerist about. I receive the same TGIF e-mails, and I assure you that I only receive maybe 1 or 2 e-mails a week from them.

@mjpd1: Agreed. I signed up for the same promotion, got some great deals on food, and now opted-out of emails.
This is not a typical, or even repeatable, experience.

@LesterGaze: Yep you guys are probably right. It's likely to be some kind of bug.

The OP should let them know to contact their IT people, otherwise they will never know it needs fixing.

On my end, it looked like I had sent one email blind cc'd to a list of people. On the receiving end, it looked like I'd sent them the same email dozens of times. If they didn't call me to let me know, I'd have never found out.