Red Lobster is OK. For when a chain restaurant will do and there aren’t any REAL sea food restaurants nearby.
I live in Wilmington, NC. How can I ~NOT~ like seafood? The only people down here that don’t eat seafood are those with shellfish allergies.
That said, I don’t see a lot of Red Lobster restaurants around here, but some mighty fine local restaurants!!
Maybe when their old parent company went in big for Obama they lost a lot of customers?
Red Lobster needs to have menu items like that.
We used to go to RL every now and then, but the prices went up and the food quality went down. Haven’t been there in a few years now.
Is there anything more overated than Lobster?
It’s not that people don’t like seafood, We just do not like BAD seafood!!!!
Bad food/Service and high costs, then sales declined and stores closed.
I love seafood and have run kitchens in some really good seafood restaurants.
I last ate at a Red Lobster in the late 1980s. It was crap seafood then and it’s crap seafood now.
What kind of seafood is chincy?
Sort of. Red Lobster does a kind of middle of the road seafood that most people like (lobster, shrimp, salmon, mild white fishes) and they should focus on that with an improvement in their sides, less concentration on quantity and more on quality (make sure the fish is really fresh, for example), and a more modernized presentation. The hokey “old timey” things don’t attract anybody anymore.
There’s a small chain down here, Bonefish Grill, that does almost all seafood (they have a couple of meat dishes) and is reasonably priced but popular with middle aged and younger people because it’s modern feeling, cheerful, the menu is modern classic, and you don’t feel that people only come there for the “twilight special” or whatever they’re calling it. Red Lobster has kind of a depressing, mass produced feel, and nobody likes that.
I live in an area where you can get good seafood, but for people who don’t, Red Lobster could fill a need. The only problem is that they have such a dreary reputation now that it’s going to be hard to rebuild the brand.
And in JCPEnneys case, much of the damage they suffered, they brought onto themselves. aka catering to the 1% perverts of america/ellen watch the lesbian dance.
Red Lobster is showing signs of “Chain Restaurant Death Spiral”. In an effort to stem the bleeding, corners are cut. Quality and service goes down, prices go up, and people stay away.
I’ll give RL credit for trying to expand its appeal beyond seafood. And also for not going the “fun” route. I *hate* theme restaurants that try to entertain you. I hate them with a passion. If I want entertainment with my meal, I’ll do dinner theater.
New owners changing the plan isn’t really throwing in the towel, it’s new owners making new decisions. It’s good to have a couple of non-seafood items on the menu, helps with large groups. Just like how every Mexican restaurant has burgers.
I like Red Lobster. The one by me is always packed. Even when you go early. I think the fried shrimp is really good. I think it’s gotten better over the years.
I’ve never been to Red Lobster-—there are none in my area.(Eastern MA)
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Never much liked Red Lobster. About five years ago we had a meal there so bad my wife called the manager over and dressed her down. My wife is usually fairly mild-mannered, but they wrecked both our entrees. My opinion...their food is just not very good. And unlike many Freepers, I like a lot of chains.
Obamacare is killing Darden restaurants. Along with other middle class food chains.
These non-seafood dishes had been added by the chain’s previous owner, Darden Restaurants Inc., in the vain hope of attracting people who don’t like seafood as sales declined.
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What an atrociously constructed sentence!