Endless shrimp.
Ends.
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Walks in, limits your shrimp, refuses not to elaborate, leaves the entire world.
Me: please do not elaborate
Red Lobster: elaborates
Never ending story...
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Did it or did the kid reading it just stop reading? 🤔
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Sounds like an open-shut case. Who's with me? I want a $9 check in 7 months.
Filing bankruptcy over 11 million? Really? Doesn't seem like a lot for a big restaurant chain.
Well considering that I'm a "millennial" and literally not a single person I know has ever visited, requested, or mentioned Red Lobster as a restaurant choice... they might have deeper trouble than some shitty shrimp. Can't run a business forever when your largest potential market is 65+...
The "endless shrimp" excuse seems like a marketing ploy. Doesn't hit as hard as "no one's coming to our restaurants to eat our shitty food."
The biscuits are the best part and they sell the mix, so not a lot of reason to visit if there's any other options for seafood.
The biscuits are amazing
God yes. When i die, take my ashes to cheddar bay
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I live in Saskatchewan, which is as land locked as it gets in Canada. And for some reason, my city has a Red Lobster. I don't think I've heard anyone talk about going to it because who would expect a seafood restaurant all the way out here to be good? I have no clue how they're making enough money to operate.
(Also, nice pfp! 🐾 )
Everything in red lobster is frozen anyway.
But then again, all fish is frozen before being served to kill parasites. Even the most delicious sushi will be flash frozen first. I've had high end raw fish in Las Vegas, a literal dessert.
That said, yeah, Red Lobster isn't going to be top notch on the coast, let alone butt fuck nowhere.
I've had high end raw fish in Las Vegas, a literal dessert.
Fish as a dessert??
Desert. The fish was a desert. It's Las Vegas that's in a dessert, obviously.
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Once their cheddar biscuits became purchasable on a store shelf, I imagine that decreased the impetus to visit the actual restaurant.
Their biscuits are the best part.
In the late 90s I mentioned never having tried lobster. This resulted in a dangerous u-turn and a drive to the closest red lobster. Only time I went and I forgot until your comment.
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The previous owners purchased the company via a leveraged buyout. It's not one quarters losses, it's the massive long-term debt on it's books.
This is a handy excuse to fuck over employees and suppliers.
It's also really expensive importing biscuits from Cheddar Bay
Why didn't they stop doing it sooner? Lol once they saw it was costing too much they could have retired it and made up some new marketing crap.
Or.. raised the price. You know.. capitalism. They seemed to have failed econ 101. Or the bankruptcy is a good way to get out from under debt and start over. It's the American way.
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They tried all sorts of tricks actually. But this event brought people in. In the 90’s I’d see it on the local news about the hour long waits and whatnot. This was still true up until the last time I went.
I recall they slowed service, refill limits at a time, even type of order repeat(not getting 10 scampi in a row). I was a fan of the grilled shrimp and as a teen could eat 20 orders (a feat I’m not so proud of now). As an adult I stopped eating there when I realized what I was doing to my body (mid 00s).
I was never asked to leave due to the amount I ate, but I experienced some of these. damn if it wasn’t 5-10 minutes between food, couldn’t order more until you had cleared the only 2 plates allowed at a time, never find the waiter, etc. oh, and they would bring those ungodly amazing biscuits over, “to hold me over”.
I do not miss the man I was back then. I can honestly say I’m half the man I was then.
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First time I heard of this, feels like I missed a huge opportunity
Same. I love me unlimited shrampies. I had no idea it was permanent on the menu.
permanent
Well, not anymore...
Same here. It was always overshadowed by unlimited soup salad and bread sticks I guess.
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Every time I went to get a "All you can eat" deal from places that weren't normally a buffet you would have to wait for a waiter to bring you more and the waiter hates the extra trips to the table and/or the owner tells their employees to drag their feet bringing more and makes the amount they bring miniscule. Just an awful experience the couple times I tried.
I don't go out to eat except for a Asian buffet a couple times a year. I'd rather eat cheetos in the basement.
Sorry mcdonalds and taco bell, your shit was barely worth it when it was cheap. Insane prices coming out of the fast food industry these days.
I own a oven and can buy frozen pizzas, get fucked.
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The Applebees of the sea.
If that much loss is going to bring down a corporation? Maybe the corpo wasn't being taken care of good enough
What does 11 million dollars in shrimp look like? Let alone 11 million in losses, how much god damn shrimp is that? Was cocktail sauce calculated into this?
The cost here for shitty frozen shrimp is about $13 for 2lbs of "31-40" (31-40 shrimp per lb); at that cost, averaging 35 shrimp per pound, you could buy approximately 29,615,385 shrimp, which would weigh around 400 tons. I think I did that math right. It's late.
And you know they ain't buying it at the Piggly Wiggly, but at a deep discount they negotiated ages ago with their distributor(s).
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Appreciate you. You're causing me and my friends to consider indoor shrimp farming for profit.
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I've only gone to red lobster for the endless shrimp (though there are much better all-you-can-eat options out there). They should try making their regular offerings better. It also doesn't help that private equity is in the middle of raiding the company and that's probably the main reason they're currently eyeing bankruptcy.
Same with olive garden they want the decades old prime real estate. They could give a fuck about the restaurant
I'm not surprised. Every endless seafood deal Red Lobster did lost money.
Red Lobster: “Endless Shrimp”
Ocean: “Dude… no.”
Some people can't help themselves at the seafood buffet
I do it all for the skrimpz
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