Places that serve large portions or unlimited promos always remind me of the movie Platform. North Americans treat food differently than the rest of the world. We lost a lot of aspects that made us have sympathy/respect for others, even with something simple as this.
What went wrong at Red Lobster (CNN)
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I'm a literal-fucking-nobody who struggles with basic finance management and I could have told them that endless crustacean anything on the menu would send them to certain financial ruin.
Red Lobster has such a strange business model.
1. Sell expensive seafood and relatively cheap prices
2. Lose money whenever you become popular
3. ???
4. Profit...?
1. Sell expensive seafood and relatively cheap prices
2. Lose money whenever you become popular
3. ???
4. Profit...?
I imagine it's a business model thing. Buffets don't have servers like other restaurants, and can just 'not' cook things for awhile (which would anger customers but you don't wind up with tables waiting on plates all the time).
oh babyI've been doing this for years for our family's Thanksgivings and they've turned out great
Apparently, they now have a "ready-to-bake" version also:
Please tell your sister that some random on the internet is cheering her on.
I've had them. They're every bit as good as the mix. And a lot easier to make.
Red Lobster peaked after it got spin off General Mills.
Funny to think we use to consider Red Lobster the fancy place. My mother decided she wanted to go there a few months back because of the endless shrimp, first time I've been to one in probably 15 years at least. Yeah it sucked, I don't care for sea food and last time I had shrimp, coincedentally at Red Lobster, was back when i was around 12 and got sick from it. Anyway, we went in and the place was kinda dead, they stripped the menu of the alternatives I use to get, there use to be a chicken thing that was good, i ended up with over priced cod, bleh. On the shrimp they brought out a small amount every time and after leaving it was decided to never go again.
Funny to think we use to consider Red Lobster the fancy place. My mother decided she wanted to go there a few months back because of the endless shrimp, first time I've been to one in probably 15 years at least. Yeah it sucked, I don't care for sea food and last time I had shrimp, coincedentally at Red Lobster, was back when i was around 12 and got sick from it. Anyway, we went in and the place was kinda dead, they stripped the menu of the alternatives I use to get, there use to be a chicken thing that was good, i ended up with over priced cod, bleh. On the shrimp they brought out a small amount every time and after leaving it was decided to never go again.
It's more a private equity firm doing what private equity firms do and incompetent ownership from Thai Union Group that mainly put Red Lobster in this mess rather than the endless shrimp that was meant to be a loss leader doing what it was meant to do. Not very effective when your food tastes like it came out of a microwave.
Several summers ago a local restaurant offered unlimited lobster tails on Wednesday nights. I think my family may have single-handedly made them end that promotion.
Good lord. I'd not eat for a day or two before I went in and ordered the unlimited lobster tails, so I could shove as much into my mouth hole as humanly possible.
My most detailed memory of Red Lobster is when I had just moved from California to Indiana. I was about 9. I ordered the shrimp platter and it was about half the size of what I had in Cali a few months prior and almost double the price. My disappointment was great.
They continued to put some seafood risotto on the first 5 plates they brought me, hoping to tempt me into filling up on starch. But I was focused, determined to fill myself as full of lobster as possible. I think I managed to eat 10 or 11 one of those nights. They were about 4 ounce lobster tails.
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Seems to be happening in lots of places.
Super shitty thing to do after a weekend of graduations / Mothers Day. I'm sure management still threatened their servers over not showing up for Mother's Day.
I just realized the two locations I used to go to pre-pandemic have long since closed. And it seems the closest one is closed as well as the hours all say "CLOSED" on their site. That's unfortunate, I actually liked their grilled rainbow trout. I do have a great seafood place by me but they are way more expensive.
Wow. Could be as many as 120 locations?
www.news-gazette.com
Danville's Red Lobster closes abruptly
A sign on the restaurant's door at 3217 N. Vermilion St., says "This location is closed. We look forward to serving you at another Red Lobster location in the future."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/13/busi...ptly-closing-dozens-of-restaurants/index.html
So "temporary closures" ain't so temporary.
Looks like of the four in Washington, one (in Silverdale) is closed.
They're auctioning off kitchen equipment, furniture and so on from these locations.
So "temporary closures" ain't so temporary.
Looks like of the four in Washington, one (in Silverdale) is closed.