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Dave's Maine Café · Kittery, Maine

# One place.One whole world.

A complete Local Legend System: story, rituals, sound, site, campaigns, room experience, measurement, and rights.

The work does not decorate Dave's. It makes the place easier to recognize, easier to repeat, and more meaningful to belong to—while keeping the claims honest.

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The transformation

## From ingredients to memory

Dave's already had everything a strong brand needs. The intervention was not invention; it was coherence.

### Strong ingredients

- A real owner with a point of view
- Fresh-picked Maine food
- Weekly offers and named menu items
- A Route 1 location and roadhouse soul
- Family-run hospitality
- Humor people can repeat

### One ownable world

- The week itself has branded rituals
- One visual and verbal grammar
- One sonic identity across six songs
- Room behaviors create real proof
- Content invites the next occurrence
- Measurement decides what survives

System anatomy

## Eight organs. One organism.

The deliverable is the connection between the parts. A song without a ritual is content. A ritual with sound, staff behavior, proof, and measurement becomes culture.

01 · WORLD

### Legend thesis

Route 1, real Maine food, cold beer, good trouble, and a host people remember.

02 · VOICE

### Verbal identity

Direct, useful, lightly irreverent, never corporate and never fake-local.

03 · SIGHT

### Visual grammar

Road shields, paper and ink, lobster red, bourbon gold, Maine forest and navy.

04 · SOUND

### Sonic identity

Three-note guitar pickup, stomp-stomp-clap, and a title the room can answer.

05 · WEEK

### Ritual engine

Named recurring moments with cues, physical touches, staff lines, and metrics.

06 · ROOM

### In-person system

Signs, table tent, playback windows, guest consent, and service-first capture rules.

07 · MEMORY

### Content organism

Each real moment becomes invitation, proof, and memory across owned and social channels.

08 · BRAIN

### Learning loop

Recognition, repeat behavior, transmission, operational fit, and commercial contribution.

The Dave's sound

## The week has a soundtrack

Six compact songs share one communal entry gesture. The full mix works as a feature in the room; the cutdowns cue social and ritual moments.

7:32 continuous café mix

### Route 1 Good Trouble

Built from twelve full-song candidates plus independent motif challengers, blind-selected, repaired, sequenced, and mastered.

NOW PLAYING · FULL SYSTEM
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### 6s · Sonic logo

### 15s · Social hook

### 30s · Campaign cut

The ritual engine

## Give every return a name

Each moment has meaning, a sonic cue, a staff behavior, a physical proof, a capture rule, and a measurement—not just a hashtag.

Tuesday

### Dave's Day

The owner is the format. Useful chaos becomes intimacy.

CUE · “You get exactly one Dave.”
Wednesday

### Shell Yeah

Midweek becomes a group seafood celebration.

CUE · “Claws up.” + 15s chorus
Thursday

### It's Thursday

Route 1 freedom; the weekend starts early.

CUE · Route shield + windows-down hook
Friday

### Bugs & Bourbon

Two Maine pleasures become one roadhouse ritual.

CUE · Featured pour + guitar riff
Weekend

### Sweet Detour

The road trip earns a Maine ending.

CUE · “Save room for good trouble.”
Sunday

### Everyone Needs a Dave

Gratitude and belonging close the week.

CUE · Quiet thank-you + final movement
Campaign assets

## Real place. Repeatable grammar.

Every card uses real business imagery and the same roadside language as Dave's site. No synthetic plate or generic pub is presented as documentary proof.

The culture has to live in the room

## Not just online

The room kit makes the system tangible while protecting the actual job of the café: hospitality.

- One weekly board for staff and guests.
- A scannable album table tent tied to the live record.
- Intentional playback windows instead of constant looping.
- Three-clip capture limit: preparation, room, finished item.
- Consent-first guest footage and service-first veto power.
- One-minute closeout: orders, recognition, friction, lesson.

The real sensory world

## Nothing generic survives

The strongest creative decision was knowing what not to fake. The flagship uses Dave, Dave's food, and Dave's room imagery.

Receipts, not theater

## What this proves today

The system distinguishes production proof from commercial outcome. That makes the next experiment credible.

8 connected system organs
6 finished original songs
12 full-song candidates blind-reviewed
90 days of operating cadence designed
Truth boundary
This portfolio proves breadth, coherence, production, packaging, and deployment readiness. It does not yet prove increased traffic, revenue, reach, retention, staff adoption, or guest ritual adoption.
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## Take the whole system apart.

Download the strategy, ritual playbook, 90-day calendar, content system, measurement plan, rights statement, audio cutdowns, campaign cards, in-room assets, and manifest.

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