/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19955219
red lobster should be called sambo shrimp

>>19955219
>Abused it
>Oh no a deal we offered lost us money, this is the customers' fault!

Derp.

What a bunch of fucking morons. They didn't figure that into the promotional plans? Their board of directors should be fucking fired.

just put out a patch and put half the seasonings of the next shrimp flavor behind a paywell

>>19955219
fat people are ruining our high trust society with their gluttony

Those cheddar biscuits are the only reason that restaurant has to exist.

What makes this even funnier is they are owned by a group of Thai businessman. I would have given anything to be in that earnings report meeting.
>We lost $14 million dollars because the Americans won't stop eating the shrimp! What are we going to do??

>>19955219
>Hmm.. Red Lobster is offering an unlimited shrimp deal?
>I know, I'll go there and eat a *moderate* amount of shrimp

These people are retarded

I'm doing my part

I wonder which demographic abused the all-you-can-eat deal on skrimp.

inb4
>there was no loss
>CEO made an extra 11 million last year

>>19955255
>Those cheddar biscuits are the only reason that restaurant has to exist.
I don't want to sound like a Black gentleman of color, but if Joe Biden made crack cocaine illegal tomorrow, I would start eating Red Lobster's biscuits to get that dopamine rush.

>alright here's endless shrimp but DONT ACTUALLY take an endless amount please
Nah.

The company is ran by a bunch of 5'3 Thai businessmen. All you can eat to them is probably 4 shrimp.

>>19955219
yes, I bet you know a lot about abusing shrimp, don't you?

>>19955322
>alright here's endless shrimp but DONT ACTUALLY take an endless amount please
Most restaurants avoid this issue by charging the customer a certain price for certain food items, and then they only provide those food items to the customer in exchange for shit like money. It's like when you go to McDonald's and order a combo meal, and you like pay a certain amount of money and they give you a certain amount of food in response.

>>19955332
if these 'thai business men' brought all you can fuck ladyboys to america i would absolutely bankrupt them

>>19955336
if you don't know what I mean, I am implying your manhood is tiny, and you regularly 'abuse' it

>>19955242
RIGHT! I don't eat at Red Lobster but I've no sympathy here. It's not up to the customer to worry about your profit margins. You fucking up is not on your customers to fix. They are not your friends. They don't owe you shit.

>>19955219
I’m pretty sure me and my buddy are the reason Tony Roma’s stopped serving unlimited ribs. We had nothing else going on that day so we sat there for six hours ordering ribs.

Not likely this is true. It's more likely the ceo or board made off with the $11M

>>19955312
Fat cunts

They lost money due to DEI diversity hires

>>19955219
Hey Red Lobster patrons! The ocean called, they're running out of shrimp!

>>19955312
>abused
That IS the deal. That's what red lobster offered.

>>19955245
These dumb fucks admitted that they didn't do the math and were selling all you can eat shrimp at a loss. It wouldn't surprise me if the price increase to $25 (from $20) ended up with them still selling it at a loss. I don't know why they didn't require you to buy a drink in order to be eligible for the promotion which is what most restaurants do in order to cover the cost of the loss leader. No wonder Red Lobster is on the verge of bankruptcy.

>>19955219
at red robin the slow roll the endless fries on you. so i guess its technically endless, but good luck seeing your server more than once every 30 mins

>>19955246
Do these sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat?

>>19955219
>It's definitely not a known demographic of thieves from the feral race specifically marketed to by the company. Certainly, they wouldn't be stuffing shrimp in ziploc bags and cramming them in oversized purses. They obviously aren't so unruly that no remotely sane or civil person still goes this establishment. Surely that could not be the reason.

>>19955515
this guy right here

>>19955555
>QUINT 5s
FOOKIN ELL LAD

>>19955312
all demographics

>>19955354
thanks for clarifying bud
could do without the legs and shell on mine desu

>>19955322
>>19955294
Endless anything is easily defeated by increasingly slow service. The longer you stay in a table the less servers want to come anywhere near you

>>19955312
>When a business loses money it's "abuse", but when businesses cheat customers that's just business, kid.

Fuck off, corporatist.

>>19955659
That's why you have to have resolve and wait them out. If you are still at the table, they can't get someone else in your place and get more tips. It's in their best interest to get you as full as possible, as fast as possible. This is just a complete boondoggle all around.

>>19955659
>sit in table for 4+ hours
Now you're losing on an entirely different front

>>19955515
Oh, yeah, Reilly? Well, the jerk store called, and they're running out of you.

>>19955555
Checked and truth pilled

>>19955555
is "entry points" code for not offering it in certain areas?

>>19955555
this seems like a total lie and just cleaver promotional marketing
people do not realize how fucking dirt cheap imported shrimp is
it's literally just a bunch of fucking bug meat

How stupid are you people?
Red lobster has been doing endless Shrimp in October/November for like 15 years, this shit is not new at all. For a year or so they had it available on Mondays only but I think they canned that idea.
Are you retards all chat gpt or are you seriously that clueless about this promotion that's been advertised every single year for over a decade

>>19955729
Split service into smaller windows.
>Sorry sir, you ordered the Endless Shrimp from the brunch menu but now we're serving lunch. If you want more Endless Shrimp, you'll need to order that from the lunch menu.
>Sorry sir, you ordered the Endless Shrimp from the lunch menu but now we're serving from the mid-afternoon menu. If you want more Endless Shrimp, you'll need to order that from the mid-afternoon menu.
etc

>>19955659
>finish plate
>burp and fart
>waddle up to the kitchen window
>OH CHEEEEEEF

>>19955761
ah. people would literally camp out there all day? lmao

>>19955219
I sure as fuck did

>>19955762
KEK

>>19955761
>sorry sir your endless shrimp ended 2 minutes ago would you like to buy another

>>19955219
I've been to red lobster once in my entire life and a cockroach crawled across the table and I puked afterwards. I was sober the entire time.

>>19955515
Happy to see people making Seinfeld references.

Never did the endless shrimp but I've gotten this thing take-out a couple times. 2 orders of shrimp alfredo and 2 orders of shrimp scampi to mix in plus a baked potato makes for 2 nice meals. Could do 4 alfredo but I think the scampi really adds to it.

>>19955752
>Are you retards all chat gpt or are you seriously that clueless about this promotion that's been advertised every single year for over a decade
I'm seriously that clueless and can't feel that bad about it - nearest Red Lobster is over an hour away and I would have to go alone unless I wanted to invite a stranger.Last time I ate at Red Lobster was when I still had family in the late 00s.
Genuinely wasn't aware they had endless anything until now.

I do wonder how real this crisis is for Red Lobster as it appears to be good marketing if I'm hearing about it - I guess corporate schadenfreude is pretty alluring.

>>19955810
>I was sober the entire time.
Oh god.
The roach is pretty normal for a red lobster - you should work on holding your stomach better if you want to eat out - but it is actually EVIL to be forced to eat at one without being inundated with alcohol.
Next time you should make sure you are sufficiently boozed up before even entering one.

>>19955752
>>19955826
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/red-lobster-announces-iconic-first-ultimate-endless-shrimp-is-here-to-stay-all-day-every-day-301862594.html
They started the promotion in June of this year

>Thai businessmen lose their shirts because they don't know about black people
it's just fun

>>19955850
It's black people's fault that they didn't do a proper cost benefit analysis and didn't price their promotion correctly?

>>19955729
>>19955555
I'm not that anon, but what the fuck does entry points mean here? I cant even find it on google.

>>19955606
I thought the shrimp was n-less

test

>>19955338
>you like pay a certain amount of money and they give you a certain amount of food in response
Yeah imagine that. I think that's what they call buying food.

>>19955846
They've been doing since at least the early 00's that I can remember, don't need to read whatever article that you're probably misreading

>>19955762
based

>racist replies getting deleted
Hey man, I'm not the one who started a Red Lobster thread ffs, what did they think was going to happen
May as well have started a Chick E cheese thread

>>19955879
Didn't even use slurs just said b***k. Jannies are out of control.

>>19955242
They really did abuse it. People would go in groups, one person would order endless shrimp, and everyone would eat even though it is only for the customer who orders it and you are supposed to order it for each person at the table if everyone wants it. They eventually put their foot down and stopped it, but they should have known it would be abused.
Worst was retards posting on tiktok crying when they’d get cut off for cheating the system. Like no shit they aren’t going to feed you family of ten endless shrimp for $20.

>>19955873
It's a fucking press release from Red Lobster, retard.

>>19955873
If you read the press release, you'd know that it's a permanent addition.
I hate the people on this website, smug, stubborn dipshits.
You think if this was normal, they'd make a big deal about losing their ass on it?

>>19955919
Lmao, how TF is it permanent, all they need to do is put out another press release saying they're cancelling it
It's a fucking restaurant shrimp promotion, not a missile strike

>>19955911
Are you seriously trying to say RL endless shrimp didn't exist before this current year?

>>19955897
I've never been to a place with all you can eat anything where it was ok for just one person to order it, it's all or none.

>>19955897
>People
How much sunscreen would you say these people use a year?

>>19955846
The "new" part is that they have decided to make it a permanent menu item rather than being a fall seasonal promotion. They wouldn't do this unless they had crunched the numbers and determined the promotion makes more money than it loses.

>>19955859
In this sense entry point means what the rules are regarding you being eligible for the deal. As the quint 5 anon said most restaurants require you to buy a drink in order to be able to participate in the deal.

>>19955862
Made me smile have a (you)

>>19955911
>>19955919
Link the press release, you smug, stubborn dipshit. It's not my job to find it, and it hasn't been posted in this thread.

Correlation is not equal to causation which so far is all the spam bot that created this thread has done.
>Since June Endless Shrimp is now a regular menu item instead of being seasonal
>Red lobster lost a bunch of money last quarter
These two are not directly related

>>19955219
The funniest thing about this is that it's not the first time that Red Lobster lost money on a never ending shrimp promotion. They got hammered the year they introduced it because they seriously underestimated how much people could eat.

>>19955250
Pfahaha.

all red lobster needs to do to make money is stop cutting people off at 3 drinks

>>19956589
Guy who posted this, I take back my comment. It was the endless crab promotion that bit them in the ass the first time they ran it.

https://nypost.com/2003/09/26/endless-crab-pigout-is-end-for-red-lobster-boss/

>>19956609
>The crab gluttony helped bloat first-quarter food costs by more $31 million from a year earlier.
Based and glutton pilled

>>19956609
>endless crabs

That's the last time I spend the night with your mum m8.

>>19955257
No-no, it's
>We rost $14 mirrion dorrars because fat dumb Americans no stop eating the shrimp! What are we do??

>>19956616

>>19956623
Kek

>can go to my local oriental buffet at lunch and pick out all the shrimp from the seafood bake for $7.99.

People who go to red lobster are idiots.

>>19955246
Do these seem like the actions of a man who had ALL HE COULD EAT?

>>19956577
That was the press release, retard

>>19956730
So you don't provide a link and everyone in this thread is supposed to trust that 11 million dollar loss was caused only by making a seasonal menu item a regular menu item? And I get called a retard by a low effort shitposter? This place has fallen so far. Kill yourself asap

>>19956740
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-red-lobster-promotion-was-too-successful-now-the-price-has-been-raised-c9af73f0

>>19956740
Are you really this stupid? It's a simple search and there are 1000000 links talking about it. Stop begging people to spoonfeed you info like a baby.

>>19955312
>>>/pol/

>>19956678
This.

My local chinese buffet has takeout for $4.25 a pound, and like 8 different kinds of shimp. I go there and load up on more shrimp than I can eat for like $14.

How do you let your losses get to $11 million before you notice it?

Is it good? I've never been to red lobster or had endless shrimp from anywhere before. How would you rate the experience? Do you feel like kings? Am I missing out by not going there and wolfing down an decadent amount of butter-soaked shrimp?

>>19955891
yeah ck has some of the worst ones on the site

>>19955219
How much do lunch buffets go for in America? Like cheap ones. Chinese ones.

>>19957146
Around me the going rate is 13-18 dollars

>>19957150
Then I don't understand how they're losing money on this.

>>19955312
shramp lovers

>>19955319
Crack cocaine is illegal today...

>>19955579
>That could’ve been ME!

>>19955312
they don't build red lobsters in the ghetto anon. this is the work of fat white trash in arkansas

>>19955897
not
my
problem

>>19955765
The managers will tell their servers to give slow service to the people with the all you can eat items. The strategy is literally to wait you out so yeah it's a test of wills
Or you can do the genius move of telling your server up front they can expect a big tip for faster service but then you're paying more

>>19956678
>>19957032
>chinese buffet
Eating at those places is like playing triple 0 roulette. Every month when the list of restaurants that failed food & safety inspections come out, it's littered with various Asian buffets

>>19956059
But those joints are usually $20 per head still, not one family member pays $20 and everyone else gets in free. I bet I know which minority was cheating it too.

>>19957334
Mandarin is high quality (in comparison) luckily.

>>19955636
Yeah...
Ok, so, You clearly have never worked at a restaurant and had tables of loud obnoxious "customers" with 6 keeds, order water and extra lemons and sugar, complain about every little thing to try to get it comp'ed, or either got stiffed on a tip or just 10 top "dine and dashed"
While it's becoming more pervasive in this IDGAF about anyone but ME, entitlement society, this has been a thing for over 40 years, and you are either ignorant, or evil to deny it.

>>19955312
fat white people and young college aged people

>>19955862
Underrated.

>>19955891
OH SHIDD!!
Can't have the TRUTH!!
I guess a bunch of us will see ya in 3 days...

>>19955251
For me it wasn't even fat people they were just assholes.
>Be me
>Was a teenager in a small town with a K-Bobs
>They offer an all you can eat crab leg buffet for years and years
>Everyone goes in, enjoys a few lets, goes to the salad bar. Normal shit.
>My Dad has the bright idea to invite his junky hippy friends to it
>They're autistic Colorado retards who either can't read a room or are just assholes on purpose (it's this one)
>They proceed to each eat about 10 plates of crab legs noisily and disgustingly while the entire restaurant and staff and patrons and my family look on in horror
>K-Bobs never has another all you can eat crab leg buffet
>K-Bobs closes down
>My Dads hippy friends are off on to the next thing to pillage and destroy
There's truly nothing more selfish then a cock smoking hippy. If I had a time machine I would travel back to the 1960s before mass surveillance and I would kill hundreds of them.

>>19956602
How do you square that with the inevitable property damage that comes after drink 5 or 6?
I mean, *CANADIANS are rowdy enough, dumping MORE alcohol into those belligerent fucks?
I don't think you thought this out very well.

*Servers know what I mean.

>>19957304
Uh...This is a RACIST POST Jannies...
Take note, or be KNOWN as a Hypocrite.

>>19957446
>he doesn't know the jannies are raging racist anti white troons

>>19955659
>attempt to defeat customer by providing deliberately poor service for a thing they have paid money for
>proceed to whine on tiktok when customer doesn't leave a tip due to poor service
Gottem.

>>19957862
Indeed.

>>19955761
>endless shrimp
>except it has an end
AKA fraud, false advertising, etc.
Genius idea, instead of losing money by failing to do proper accounting, they can instead lose money in court litigation and settlements.

>>19955219
Red Lobster is reporting losses because China is compromising our sherrfish market and it's raising prices. Now nobody's going to spend $40 pp at Red Lobster >:|

sinae delenda est

>>19957415
lmao if u actually think white people eat at red lobster

>>19956063
i would say the amount they use is such that it is one of the few things not kept behind locked plexiglass at the store

>>19957891
https://youtu.be/40AA0m9HEzc?si=Wnt2RHqm1fOU7iJx

>>19957881
There's already a related case where an all you can eat buffet cut off a customer because he stayed too long. The buffet claims they had the right to do so because the buffet at lunch costs less than the buffet at dinner and he stayed too long so lunch ended and dinner started.

>>19957881
This is the most blatant case of false advertising I’ve seen since the film ”The NeverEnding Story”.

>>19955236

>>19955219
That's not that big of a loss
I mean they shouldn't be loosing money at all and having one sale put you in the red is grim
Next quarter all the people who went there for endless shrimp won't return because the endless shrimp is gone

>>19955897
Should have told them everyone at the table had to order endless shrimp

>>19955295
Based fries denier

>>19955219
Imagine all the complete and total one chair for each ass cheek fatasses that would congeal at Red Lobster during this promotion. I wouldn't be able to eat with such a disgusting show in front of me.

You guys are fucking retarded. You're all so paranoid about shills, yet you fall for obvious marketing hook line and sinker. The company didn't "accidentally" lose $11M on unlimited shrimp. They spent $11M on an ad campaign to make you think that you can get such a great deal at Red Lobster, you're literally ripping the restaurant off. Which is cheaper and more effective than a regular ad campaign, and they're going to write it off their taxes too.

>>19955245
fucking retarded you actually fell for the marketing. amazing how you can put a moderately positive spin on something negative. "oh no we lost 11m!!! must be the Endless Shrimp for just $25 at Red Lobster come on down to get your Endless Shrimp that will always exist"

>>19958604
Lmao get a load of this retard. You think they are just making it up? Do you know what an earnings report is? Moron.

>>19957921
Based Simpsons watcher

>>19958621
ya they lost 11m and made sure to let everyone know it was the endless shrimp. do you not see how that works? the earnings report is not their news report

>>19958601
But anon
This was marketing too

>>19955897
This is a perfect example of people turning their head to how blacks abuse systems and trying hard to not be "racist" shoot themselves in the foot