Ping!.......................
There used to be a time when lobster was just thrown away, now it is considered a premium meat.
“Dead Lobster. Yummmmmm.....”
There are 649 Red Lobsters in the US. A few years ago, there were many fights and skipping out on paying. We haven’t been to one in probably 20 years as there are much better seafood chains.
Sea spiders.
No thanks.
They’re a 70’s holdover. Long overdue for extinction.
I suspect they’ve run into what I’ll call the Chinese Restaurant syndrome. You go into any Chinese restaurant, and they have the same, usually intricate “handmade” foods. Virtually all of those foods are created in a factory, flash frozen, and shipped to the various chains around the country. Food that has been frozen, no matter how seasoned it is, tastes like seasoned cardboard.
Red Lobster was one of the restaurants we studied in my MBA classes. It was nearly impossible to hire enough qualified chefs to staff all the restaurants all over the country for all the hours they were open. So Red Lobster was doing the same thing the Chinese restaurants were doing, mass manufactured, flash frozen meals. In essence, you are going out and paying premium prices to eat a frozen dinner.
This business model is now universal. Either you’re using it or you’re out of business. At least the fast food you get in gas stations is mostly as good or better. It is certainly a lot cheaper. If you’re going out on, say, a date or an occasion, dinner at a chain is not the tastiest experience.
Old poopy pants handy work. Everything turns to sh!t while he is office.
Lobster...is crazy priced....It was like $7.99/lb. Now it’s $50/lb..
Ain’t Biden Trainwreckonomics wonderful.
Apparently,it’s a sign of a great economy when long-timed companies, restaurants, and retail businesses are closing their doors.
It’s a great day to be a lobster.
Saw this in my last two attempts to give them my money over the last few years (one attempt was unsuccessful).
Coming out of Covid, tried to go to dinner at the Tallahassee, FL location. Nearly empty restaurant and was quoted a 40 minute wait due to "health and safety concerns". Apparently either the local Red Lobster management was hanging out to the last bastion of Covid policy or it was still their corporate directive.
Went to another sit down restaurant up the street that was plenty busy, and got sat immediately.
Went for lunch at one closer to me in January...walked in the door close to noon and lights were low, no one available to seat us. Walked a bit back saying "hello---are you open?!" and a bartender came out of the back to tell us we would be seated soon (One other couple in the restaurant). Got sat and had a mediocre lunch with mediocre service.
Can't say this news is surpising.
What does this even mean? I see this phrase used often. Are editors extinct?
I guess selling crawdads as lobster didn’t go over as well as they thought it would.
First they came for Skippers....
Regards,
My wife used to love the place. About 8 years ago I noticed the quality slipping. The final nail was obvious cleanliness issues.
Update: This article says 87 locations are closing.