diff --git a/src/deepsparse/image_classification/README.md b/src/deepsparse/image_classification/README.md
index dbbd83eea5..56cf2c0a2f 100644
--- a/src/deepsparse/image_classification/README.md
+++ b/src/deepsparse/image_classification/README.md
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ inference = cv_pipeline(images=input_image)
 Spinning up:
 ```bash
 deepsparse.server \
-    task image_classification \
+    --task image_classification \
     --model_path "zoo:cv/classification/resnet_v1-50/pytorch/sparseml/imagenet/pruned95-none" \
     --port 5543
 ```