Posted on 09/10/2024 6:25:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Didn’t they learn from the “Endless Crab Legs” debacle?
I remember Ponderosa. I liked eating there.
LOL. That's not a statement I expected to see. Endless Shrimp actually was a good promotion if done right. Red Lobster needs to figure out the average amount of shrimp a diner eats when they order Endless Shrimp and price accordingly. Of course, you'll always get the stories about someone coming in and eating 100 shrimp like you do here. But that is the exception, not the rule. Most people probably eat 20 to 30 shrimp. OK, price accordingly and you'll have a good promotion.
You want to ask these outfits, "What the hell were you thinking?" They didn't even have the good sense to cut their losses and end the offer.
I bet the Football Team was well fed.................
ONLY thing missing is Mitt Romney & BAIN Corp coming in & buying up the assets & selling them piecemeal.
I worked at a Ponderosa, they were pretty good for the prices.
Wow. This article quotes the chief executive as lamenting the lack of black patrons and lack of marketing towards that demographic. Are we talking about the same Red Lobster???
First of all, that is a train of thought only a foreigner and someone of wealth/and higher education comes up with. Red Lobster wasn’t ruined from endless shrimp, and any honest server would tell you the chain declined from increased black patronage!
Blacks, for some reason, claimed ownership of sorts over Red Lobster dining rooms. Dominating the dining space, always present, always rude and never tipped the servers. The no tipping is a trademark of the black community and is nothing unique to Red Lobster, as I can personally attest as a server in my youth back in the 1990’s.
Blacks require an extraordinary amount of attention from the server and cooking staff, to such an extent that it does affect the rest of the patrons in various ways, particularly less attention from staff.
Only corporate would come up with the lame brain idea that MORE blacks are the answer in any restaurant, when at the street level, the waiters and chefs would never in million years want that. Believe me, it’s a massive victory just to get any black patrons out of the restaurant without incident. You already know they aren’t going to tip, so you’re being super nice and attentive just to pray they pay their bill and leave without shouting or complaining about the food.
Blacks ruined Red Lobster, yeah I said it.
That’s okay...just wait awhile for all that iodine overload to kick start an epidemic of kidney failures.😎
As in the rest of life;"...some people always ruin it for others..."
Chris Rock said it best......................😏
Your comments make me think of when I was in Los Angeles back in May and I went to the Olive Garden twice and a few other places in and near West Hollywood. As I recall, few if any black people were there and the service was good (especially the Olive Garden) as was the ambience.
I recently had Red Lobster for the first time in about 35 years. It just wasn’t good. Clams were bad. Scallops and shrimp were no better than the frozen items you can get at the supermarket. I’d rather have Long John Silver’s. Even Culver’s fish is better (actually Culver’s fish is better than Long John Silver’s, but I haven’t had any other seafood from Culver’s.)
The menu items are pre-cooked and flash-frozen elsewhere. All they have to do is remove the covers and pop them into a 500°F oven for 15 minutes. They aren't 'cooked to order' like the old days.........................
Shrimp is not good for you. It’s something that should be consumed rarely and in small quantities.
How are the prices? Are they affordable? How about the fresh oysters?
That’s absolutely how I feel, too, and felt when I lived there. I think I’ve only been in a Red Lobster twice in my whole life, as a teenager.
Went there about two decades ago for their all-you-can-eat crab legs, but they were so heavily salted that I couldn’t eat more than a few. I left hungry and never went back.
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