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'I ate 108 in four hours': Customers react after Red Lobster's $20 'endless shrimp' deal is blamed for its demise
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 15, 2024 | Alice Wright

Posted on 05/15/2024 10:35:28 PM PDT by Morgana

Red Lobster customers have taken to social media to say goodbye to the beloved chain as it edges towards bankruptcy.

But other Americans have boasted about how much they ate in the chain's famous $20 'endless shrimp' promotion, recently raised to $27, which is blamed for the chain's demise.

One customer claimed she managed to guzzle down 108 shrimp as part of the deal by staying at the restaurant for four and a half hours.

'I set a new record at my local Red Lobster, this is my greatest achievement in life' the poster explained in a TikTok video.

The seafood chain announced the immediate shuttering of almost 100 restaurants across 21 states on Monday night - and is auctioning off the contents of 48 of them.

Only in America could we eat Red Lobster into bankruptcy. pic.twitter.com/rCoepfTcVW — teatime75 (@teatime75) May 14, 2024

fly high, silver spring red lobster 🕊️ pic.twitter.com/8NU1Yg7GG1 — Mishka Espey (they/them) (@mxespey) May 14, 2024

The abrupt closures come after the chain's owners reported losses of $11 million in three months last year, which its CFO blamed on its unlimited shrimp deal.

The company is now expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to reports.

Some posters saw the funny side of the company's predicament, while others expressed regret for the laid off staff and the loss of a dining out fan favorite.

'Only in America could we eat Red Lobster into bankruptcy' one user wrote on X, alongside a Rebel Wilson gif reading 'crushed it.'

Another posted a Judge Trudy meme of red lobster characters in court with the caption 'Day One of the Red Lobster bankruptcy proceedings and the lobsters have already disrupted order in the court.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: allyoucaneat; redlobster; seafood; shrimp
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I was never a Red Lobster fan and I don't like shrimp.

So tell me was this a big thing and were people really pigging out on shrimp to this degree so that the place is now going under?

1 posted on 05/15/2024 10:35:28 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

This was the situation in one of the earlier (and very funny) episodes of The Simpsons. Homer is ejected from the Frying Dutchman seafood restaurant because he’s eating them out of business. It winds up with Homer taking Sea Captain to court for faulty advertising.


2 posted on 05/15/2024 10:41:54 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America needs deliberalization like Germany needed denazification.)
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To: Morgana

I wonder if she is friends or related to the oyster-eating pig in the news a few weeks ago?


3 posted on 05/15/2024 10:47:29 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: Morgana

I think a good idea might have been to discontinue the promotion if it’s putting you out of business.

But that’s just me.


4 posted on 05/15/2024 10:49:22 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Morgana
One customer claimed she managed to guzzle down 108 shrimp as part of the deal by staying at the restaurant for four and a half hours.

🐖 🐷 🐽 {oink! snort!}

5 posted on 05/15/2024 10:51:39 PM PDT by Allegra (Toss a zeeper in the Dnieper)
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To: Morgana
I'm not a fan of Red Lobster and I do like shrimp....

but I see these animals at buffets...just because they can stuff themselves doesn't mean its the right, proper, healthy thing to do....

people own these businesses and expect reasonable behavior....

6 posted on 05/15/2024 10:57:10 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Ciaphas Cain

In the past I’ve heard of Chinese all you can eat buffets complain about how American men can eat like, well, like Homer Simpson even though that is not how they said it.

This guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKZrDQHMkEI

and this guy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8hGwQi8ek

and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAUz-qk5o3w

then there is this video...Look how Chinese pig out at a buffet while in Thailand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMVjskBB4w0


7 posted on 05/15/2024 11:02:06 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Reno89519
I wonder if she is friends or related to the oyster-eating pig in the news a few weeks ago?

I suspect there are at least some similarities.

8 posted on 05/15/2024 11:10:37 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Morgana
This is why we can't have nice things.

9 posted on 05/15/2024 11:12:05 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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I think a good idea might have been to discontinue the promotion if it’s putting you out of business.

It sounds like it was a “Going Out Of Business” sale.

10 posted on 05/15/2024 11:12:07 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: cherry

The company is the one who made up the rules.

They also have/had the ability to modify the rules.


11 posted on 05/15/2024 11:16:42 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins. And dunkenness is considered a form of gluttony!
Eating for 4 1/2 hours is certainly nothing to brag about.
Mrs. Reverend Helen Lovejoy


12 posted on 05/15/2024 11:22:51 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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drunkenness hic
MRL


13 posted on 05/15/2024 11:24:19 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: PLMerite

Good idea.


14 posted on 05/15/2024 11:24:24 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
This was the situation in one of the earlier (and very funny) episodes of The Simpsons. Homer is ejected from the Frying Dutchman seafood restaurant because he's eating them out of business. It winds up with Homer taking Sea Captain to court for faulty advertising.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

One of the classic episodes.
In my 20’s (way back when) I went to KFC with an older co-worker, because of an all you can eat. He ate 11 pieces of fried chicken, potatos, all the sides, it was repulsive.

15 posted on 05/15/2024 11:34:47 PM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: Morgana

to green light endless shrimp in these times shows an uncanny lack of understanding of basic business.

if they charged $1 for a quarter pound of shrimp, it would’ve covered costs and not put the company at risk.

oh well. that company will fail making way for another, better run, organization.


16 posted on 05/15/2024 11:38:48 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Morgana
this is my greatest achievement in life

The sad thing is — She’s probably right.

17 posted on 05/15/2024 11:40:55 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I heard somewhere that the company supplying the shrimp bought and owned 40% of red lobster and pressured them to keep the shrimp deal. I wonder how they came out.


18 posted on 05/15/2024 11:49:22 PM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: Morgana

All these dimwits had to do is offer the deal to only preferred customers, instead of every glutton in America.

- a once a year offer to pastors and their families
- a once a year offer to first responders
- a once a year offer for bronze star to MOH veterans
- a once a year offer to community awardees for doing something other than stuffing the fat asses


19 posted on 05/15/2024 11:49:25 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: tumblindice

You know once in a while when my Iron is low I go to Golden Corral and eat their steak like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Mind you I don’t do this often because GC has raised their prices and yes gluttony. However when I need the extra Iron it really makes me feel better for days.
I only eat the steak, no carbs or vegies unless they have sweet potatoes which is not every time I go. I can put away around 6 to 8 steaks, cooked rare, eating small bites and chewing carefully, but the good part is I won’t be hungry until noon the next day.


20 posted on 05/15/2024 11:50:06 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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