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?
You know your “All You Can Eat” fiasco is doomed once the Tik Tokers turn it into a “challenge.” Shut ‘er down!
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.
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.
Didn’t they learn from the “Endless Crab Legs” debacle?
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.
ONLY thing missing is Mitt Romney & BAIN Corp coming in & buying up the assets & selling them piecemeal.
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..."
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.