Red Lobster is OK. For when a chain restaurant will do and there aren’t any REAL sea food restaurants nearby.
I don’t care for seafood and would never go to Red Lobster to eat non-seafood. Anything there would have a fishy flavor and I am not interested.
Good move on their part to go to their roots. If that doesn’t work, then they need to die.
My observation is the restaurant draws low income daters. Which is cool when you’re 16 and trying to impress.
I used to love RL, but I think the quality has gone down to keep costs low. Last time I went was about a year ago for their Shrimpfest, all the shrimp were small, rubbery and had no flavor. When restaurants are in trouble it’s almost always because the food sucks. Serve great food and people will eat there.
We've gone there a few times a year and never had a bad meal. There are many REAL seafood restaurants in our area (New Jersey shore) and frankly only a few are worth the higher prices they command.