Posted on 02/11/2016 4:17:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
Red Lobster says it's feeling the "Beyonce Bounce."
The seafood chain says sales surged 33 percent Sunday, compared with last year's Super Bowl Sunday. The increase came after the release of "Formation," a song in which Beyonce says she took a man to Red Lobster after sex.
The halftime show -- seen by an estimated 112 million people -- is drawing praise from her fans and consternation from critics.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
I agree; we have many Spanish/Portuguese restaurants in and around Newark NJ, and I would much prefer their fare than anything from a chain (for comparable prices). My town still has one surviving Scottish fish & chips place (there were five when I was a kid), and I’ll eat better there than in some big chain (again, for comparable price).
Chain restaurants are OK for what they are. But we prefer locally owned one of a kind places for seafood, Italian, steak, Chinese food. The quality seems better to us at the locally owned and operated places.
+1
Don't let the superbowl halftime show dissuade you or convince you.
When you get a restaurant that stays "on the list". It's a keeper.
Yep, I've been to bad RL's; but the one in Nanuet NY ? I go back.
What does seafood have to do not with sex? (wait a minute, better not answer that)
Yeah but the $18.99's worth of the rest of the meal is awful.
I live close enough to Texas and Louisiana gulf coast to wonder how they stay in business.
And, it would be equally silly. Someone bad has said something good about just about everything in our lives. To apply grudges here would mean to have a life that does just about nothing.
Can we use a little imagination. Is it possible to go to Red Lobster without the illicit sex, or even after sex the good Lord’s way? Why not defy Beyonce by doing that?
Ownee by Darden. Big donator to Obama. I avoid at all cost. RL used to be good....years ago.
Two things I won’t touch are skanks and lobsters..no matter how much butter you lather them with.
Tell me about it:
Well, I still wonder if they have already bought themselves a lesson, making grudges superfluous. They, like all America, are now groaning under Bureaucratcare.
Wonder if they back Trump this time around?
And anyhow... the campaign is just a big fig leaf, as probably are the votes, with anything Democrat.
It’s a matter of a Politburo that nothing but God can stop.
Is this correct or is it GGC that is the Obama crony?
On May 16, 2014, Darden announced it would be selling the Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain to Golden Gate Capital for US$2.1 billion.[36] Darden announced the completion of the sale of Red Lobster on July 28, 2014.[37]
Before or after she got paid?
Beyonce looks like she’s been eating too many of them.
I should even say “Democrat” as in “gay” or “liberal” — all monikers which are oxymorons.
And I’m still wondering how many of these past Obama aficionados have now gotten well and truly burned and aren’t even thinking Democrat this year.
I think most “crony capitalists” have done well under the Obama regime.
She’s a pig.
I am not so sure, Obama will use and abuse anybody.
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