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1 posted on 05/20/2024 10:02:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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So it’s not Endless Shrimp after all?


2 posted on 05/20/2024 10:04:47 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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3 in my town, one we have actually patronized a couple of times in the last 6 months with the service and food quality at a more than acceptable level.

That particular location has been there since at least the early 80s so they must have been doing something right. A shame really.


3 posted on 05/20/2024 10:07:28 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Sign of our declining times


5 posted on 05/20/2024 10:09:10 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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the victim of endless shrimp and

large purses


6 posted on 05/20/2024 10:14:13 AM PDT by joshua c
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Bidenomics.


8 posted on 05/20/2024 10:18:46 AM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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It’s probably the best seafood chain restaurant in their price range. The better ones are pricier. Seems like they should be able to make money with the right management.


9 posted on 05/20/2024 10:20:01 AM PDT by lasereye
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A hallmark of Generica


11 posted on 05/20/2024 10:23:11 AM PDT by bigbob
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They can fix "all you can eat shrimp" very easily. Charge the normal price for the shrimp dinner of your choice, and charge $3 for each subsequent shrimp 'refill.'

That way you can try a few different types of shrimp, and Ded Lobster doesn't go broke.

My two sons would go to all you can eat Shrimp days and I swear they'd eat $100 worth of shrimp apiece.

12 posted on 05/20/2024 10:27:59 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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Cheap horrible place. Glad to see it go. I went in 2020 and was unimpressed.


13 posted on 05/20/2024 10:30:08 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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They’ve been terrible for decades, so they shouldn’t blame anything but themselves.


19 posted on 05/20/2024 11:13:46 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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Women, minorities, and crustaceans hardest hit.


24 posted on 05/20/2024 11:34:41 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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Is this the type where a restaurant chain is “in bankruptcy” but continues to operate, just not paying creditors and old bills they owe”


26 posted on 05/20/2024 11:46:30 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Endless shrimp is insane...bread, salad, or pasta are much better ideas to convince people they won’t leave hungry. But shrimp?


27 posted on 05/20/2024 11:54:40 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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Was it them, Yogi?


28 posted on 05/20/2024 12:10:08 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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Won’t miss ‘em. Ate in one in Michigan once. Yuck! Never again.


30 posted on 05/20/2024 1:00:24 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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Red Lobster was the chain version of a popular seafood restaurant in Orlando named Gary's Duck Inn. I ate there with my family when I was a boy. Gary's was a dress up place that drew a solid business crowd in suits during the week and families on the weekend.

In its best years, Red Lobster was the pioneer chain operator of upper end seafood restaurants. Eventually, the market Red Lobster appealed to fragmented and diminished, with seafood becoming available in many other restaurants, dress up going by the wayside, and alcohol and bar service becoming the key to profitability. Red Lobster's corporate parent will survive in that they wisely branched out and developed other restaurant chains that continue to be successful.

31 posted on 05/20/2024 1:19:22 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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So giving away shrimp as a loss leader wasn’t a good idea?

WHOODA THUNK? /s

Woke, young idiots elevated to positions of authority - likely in part via DIE - killed Red Lobster.

Though this case pleases me, there’s a lesson in there from K-12 through all the crap colleges, but it was the idiots at Golden Gate Capital who ultimately stuck a fork in Red Lobster.

This is the pertinent web page

https://goldengatecap.com/responsibility/

Oh, and perhaps stating the obvious, they are San Francisco-based.

Who the hell at GGC or RL didn’t see this coming?

If I had holdings in either, the lawsuits would be flying.


34 posted on 05/20/2024 7:30:40 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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