Posted on 09/10/2024 6:25:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Living in Florida by some of the best seafood restaurants on Earth, I never seriously considered ‘Red Lobster’ as a ‘great’ seafood restaurant. It was just one step up from Captain D’s or Long John Silvers......................
The article is looking backwards and not addressing changes Red Lobster is making now, including a new CEO. Full disclosure: I am neither “Pro” nor “Con” Red Lobster, but its cuisine and style has never been among my favorites.
Among employees, news that Endless Shrimp would, in fact, never end was greeted with dread.
Especially because of the “Canadians” who don’t tip.
Wife and I tried to go there Sunday. We stood and waited at the front door for someone to greet and seat us. We waited 5 minutes and no one showed up. We left. Won’t go back either. Red Lobster can die.
I will acknowledge this seems to be a problem everywhere, hosts don’t greet diners promptly, and we have encountered this elsewhere. Is it simply the staff hoping the customers go away?
I remember my first meal at a Red Lobster in 1977, right after my discharge from the Marines. It was, okay, nothing special, but expensive at $20!...................$101 in today’s money..............
You know your “All You Can Eat” fiasco is doomed once the Tik Tokers turn it into a “challenge.” Shut ‘er down!
Ours closed last month.
The problem is the hires....................
Amish Canadians!...........................
BTW: Love the term, “Endless Shrimper”. Sounds like a surfin’ song from the 60s.
What gets me is these places letting people sit there for hours stuffing themselves. You would like to think that there would be a reasonable time limit such as an hour or so and then you can, politely at first, ask such people to leave. I guess it should not surprise me as how both greedy and overall rude that many people are nowadays.
Especially because of the “Canadians” who don’t tip.
Our last visit to RL was 10 years ago outside of Philly. Felt like a night at the appolo pregame hotspot.
Golden Gate Capital is an American private equity firm based in San Francisco. The firm makes investments in a number of select industries, including technology, financial services, retail and industrial, through leveraged buyout transactions, as well as significant minority purchases and growth capital investments. As of April 2018, it had over $15 billion in assets under management.
The firm was founded in 2000 by former investment professionals from private equity firm Bain Capital and its affiliate, Bain & Company, led by former Bain Capital partner David Dominik.
On July 28, 2014, Golden Gate completed the purchase of Red Lobster from Darden Restaurants, for $2.1 billion.
Oddly enough, I was thinking about the other day about the Ponderosa (Red Lobster replaced many Ponderosa restaurants in the mid 1980s when they closed) and how nice it would be to bring back that chain up here in the Great White North, with the salad and dessert bars that were basically all you can eat, along with the soups. Bet you’d have to be careful of the Tik Tokers as what you mentioned in your post, lol.
IOW, they are ‘CORPORATE RAIDERS’.......................
And yet how many Americans even know who runs all these companies?
very few.
What used to be ‘American’ companies are now basically foreign owned.................
We have a BINGO.
While not a RL, my wife and I had a dining experience last night that seems to occurs way too often.
A too-long wait to be seated, a frantic, unfriendly server who got the order wrong and acted like it was our fault, sat and waited forever for take home boxes and our check, etc.
We’re not chronic complainers, but when we mentioned our dissatisfaction to the restaurant manager/owner he apologized and said, “It’s a struggle to find people that will even show up for work.”
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