Normally, Atlanta’s big restaurant groups — Buckhead Life, Fifth Group, Concentrics — compete. They compete for attention, for press, for customers.

But with the poor economy taking a toll equally on all of them, these restaurant groups plus several others have decided to pool their advertising resources for a full-page ad that will first appear in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Atlanta Business Chronicle this Friday.

“Thanks for sharing life’s great moments with us,” the ad reads. “Join us for another one tonight.”

Among the memorable occasions enumerated in the ad copy are “Dinner with the in-laws” and “Coming out.”

Hopefully, not on the same night….