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Red Lobster In Hot Water
MSN Money ^ | 20 December 2013 | Jim Probasco

Posted on 12/20/2013 5:17:15 PM PST by zeestephen

Owner Darden Restaurants says the seafood chain is underperforming and wants to sell it. Red Lobster has failed to attract the number of higher-income diners that both Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse have.

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To: Drango

Olive Garden has “high end” diners? Seriously? Is this from the Onion?

Maybe the author is also one of those that likes Walmart because they don’t have to dress up.


101 posted on 12/20/2013 8:45:26 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: zeestephen

The economy ia bad and Red Lobster still has a black eye for supporting that lying waitress a few months ago.


102 posted on 12/20/2013 8:51:34 PM PST by Baladas
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To: zeestephen

I used to love Longhorn, and maybe it’s just our local one, but the steaks are tough now. Why pay premium price for a small tough steak? No thanks! I ate at a Red Lobster for the first time in decades a couple months ago, in Tallahassee and it was really good! It was very crowded. Hopefully, not all will close. I have NOT tried the local one in Valdosta, GA, but friends have said it is just okay. We are still somewhat “new” to the area and trying to find good restaurants is not easy! Terrible food, mostly. A couple high end restaurants have great food, but being retired, we cannot afford them...ever! It’s too bad for RL, though! This is a tough economy to make any business in.


103 posted on 12/20/2013 8:52:18 PM PST by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: zeestephen

Red Lobster quality of food has slipped. Darden should focus on what it wants to be not a Italian, seafood, steak chain.


104 posted on 12/20/2013 9:19:20 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (Ben Carson/Rand Paul or Sara/Nikki in 2016)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Really long waits for a decent service crew to bring large servings of bad noodles to the table. They only stay in business because men pay high margins on bad pasta because young women love pasta, don’t know any better and already filled up on bread. Its generally cheaper than a real Italian restaurant but this is a situation where you get what you paid for.


105 posted on 12/20/2013 9:20:02 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Obama: Evincing a Design since 2009)
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To: married21

Weird how RL became the restaurant of choice for blacks

Whites stopped going because they were turned off by the antics of some of the blacks, then the blacks stopped going because they don’t have the money because of the recesssion

All RL needs to do is change its name to Whiteys Seafood, problem solved


106 posted on 12/20/2013 9:21:17 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: fatnotlazy

buca di beppo Italian? in what universe?


107 posted on 12/20/2013 9:57:54 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

When they did away with the “Sensational 7” cake, my friend wisely asked if they had the fake plastic one that the servers would display when trying to sell dessert. They still had it... he asked if he could have it and so they gave it to him to take home.


108 posted on 12/20/2013 10:09:57 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: EBH

We live in a world that has, as I put it, “settled for Applebees”. Disgusting, isn’t it?


109 posted on 12/20/2013 10:12:33 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: yarddog

I have just filled my freezer with Omaha Steaks food and find it to be better than most.

We do buy the sales and in person at the store. Now we find the store is closing Jan 6,


110 posted on 12/20/2013 10:34:08 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Randy Larsen; Rebelbase
These are like crack cocaine as far as I am concerned...

Just Say No!

Funny true story... I live about 5 hrs away from my parents and called them tonight to pass on my new schedule and that I would be coming home for Christmas... Dad was all like, "Your mother will have to make Christmas dinner... but that's OK". I could feel my mom's icy glare at dad through the phone. I told dad I was good with something from Schwan's so mom doesn't have to cook... and as I was hanging up, Mom said "Ok... breaded haddock squares works for me!" Hahaha!

111 posted on 12/20/2013 10:44:07 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: packrat35

Thanks, I hope the filet Mignon are better, probably will be.

She said by buying three different deals, she got a lot better price, tho it stills seems pretty expensive to me.


112 posted on 12/20/2013 10:52:42 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: azishot

...it’s a reminder for me to flag down the next Scwan’s truck I see and buy a bag of frozen Cheddar Bay Biscuits.


We buy from Schwans all the time. Didn’t know they had cheddar biscuits. I take it they’re good?
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Sam’s Club also sells the mix and it says right on the outside that it’s Red Lobster’s biscuits.


113 posted on 12/21/2013 12:00:14 AM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: GeorgeTex

Frankly, any restaurant that you go to the mall to eat at is low to middle class.


114 posted on 12/21/2013 4:28:37 AM PST by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: EBH
Frankly, any restaurant that you go to the mall to eat at is low to middle class.

Well, technically, chain restaurants are low class, your high-end jacket required restaurants are middle class, and upper class people don't eat out at all.

115 posted on 12/21/2013 4:39:27 AM PST by southern rock
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To: nascarnation

-— In the Era of Baraq, there ain’t enough prosperity to support all these restaurants -—

For us, eating out at McDonald’s, BK, or the local pizza shop is a splurge. I can’t remember the last time we ate at a sit-down restaurant.


116 posted on 12/21/2013 4:47:34 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: zeestephen

I do like Olive Garden; Longhorn is OK. Never been to a Red Lobster.
Traditionally they may not have too many locations here in New England because there’s already a ton of seafood places,
ones that prob do a better job. Hey, I feel like opening a steakhouse in Chicago, how will I do...


117 posted on 12/21/2013 6:21:31 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: leapfrog0202; Rebelbase

Thanks to both of you for your suggestions.

Merry Christmas!!


118 posted on 12/21/2013 8:06:48 AM PST by azishot
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To: zeestephen

I stopped going to that chain when they pulled their ads from Glen Beck.


119 posted on 12/21/2013 8:10:14 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: azishot

Somewhere above a link was posted to recipes for the biscuits.

I just made a batch. Simple and as good as the restaurant ones.

In a nut shell it’s just a butter milk biscuit recipe with cheddar cheese, garlic powder and a pinch of cayenne added.

I added some dried parsley for color.


120 posted on 12/21/2013 8:13:35 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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