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.
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.
And constant complaining about minor things to get discounts.
Remember TGIF? Same thing.
The left would say we are racist.
Racism or simple observation?
I have a small pizza place. It’s a 90% chance black customers order a meat lovers. My neice is an Outback proprietor and she knows they order steak well done. Simple observation.