Also foiled by bidenomics food inflation. We seldom eat out in restaurants, but I can so swear and attest the fish and seafood have REALLY increased in price in shall we say recent years.
Salmon filets used to be a weekly staple on our menu, but it has increased from about $6-7 per pound to ~$11-13 per pound for the non-Asia origin, non-farm salmon.
Stagflation at its finest.
There are entire families who live for the all-you-can-eat challenge.
Or possibly by the cost having to ship live lobsters from the East Coast and keep them alive and not eating each other.
I doubt the tips are very good.
As a mid-western country kid in the 1970’s-80’s, Red Lobster was peak fine dining.
They bought out a lot of Ponderosa places up here in the Great White North back in the mid 1980s, so I was that bit annoyed with them over that, lol.
“Red Lobster launched a $20 all-you-can-eat shrimp deal which, although popular with customers, ended up costing the company over $11 million in one quarter.”
Piss poor planning.
Here on the Gulf Coast, we have so many truly fine seafood restaurants Red Lobster just can’t compete. Why eat a pre-made frozen entrée they plop into the oven for 15 minutes or more when you can have actual real fresh seafood prepared by a real chef for maybe even less?
Red Lobster here is like Captain D’s or Long John Silvers with better looking staff..................
Last time I ate at Dead Lobster it wasn’t very good.
Years ago I read that the restaurant chain is worth a lot. Not for the name of it but for all of the property the buildings are on and the chain owns.
No biggie, they can just sell more and make it up on volume. /s
Biden did this... lots of middle class restaurants will struggle under President Sniffer Pervert and his goons.
Good riddance. It’s not what it used to be.
They changed up their menu and eliminated my favorite choice on my favorite dinner.
They changed the stuffed mushrooms.
Used to go there quite often, but not recently.
They also used to be PACKED! “Not anymore” as Inspector Clouseau would say.
Red Lobster is the Sonic of seafood chains.
Ever notice there’s always an Olive Garden (the Sonic of Italian chains) within spitting distance of a Red Lobster?
Yeah, no kidding. The lunch special we used to get at Lazy Dog has gone from $7.95 to over $17.00.
Eating out has become a very rare phenom for our family.
All you can eat shrimp sounds like a shortcut to bankruptcy for most any place that would feature this. Most people apparently are crazy about eating shrimp, but many of the necessary price increases at any restaurant(or other businesses) are caused by this lack of government to control it’s spending & inflation. That’s wherein lies the real problem in my estimation & it started a long time ago. Prices were going up slowly in many cases & some businesses just didn’t like giving raises. In some cases they may not have been able to because of what they had to contribute to the government.
Divers call them bugs.
My wife and I recently went to the local Red Lobster for lunch where Fish and Chips was priced at $18.99! I ordered something else and we vowed to never go back, so I’m not surprised.