Red Lobster files for bankruptcy

[Anonymous No.20511437]

I haven't eaten there since 2011, do any of you have any entertaining stories to share?

[Anonymous No.20511509]

>>20511437
not a lobster,
Pic related is a lobster
Lobster have no claws.

[Anonymous No.20511558]

>>20511437
For one of the larger chains to fail like this is a foreboding sign of things to come that literally everyone should be paying attention to. The restaurant business as it currently exists is about to collapse due to the rising cost of food prices rendering the entire business model unprofitable. Next up, Outback.

[Anonymous No.20511617]

>be young kid
>order popcorn shrimp
>came in a big basket
>big for a kid anyway
>half way through eating it
>my gets a concerned look on her face
>where are the shells, she says calmly
>what do you mean I say
>you have been eating the shells, she said calmly
>I guess so
>at that point I thought she was taking me to the hospital to have my stomach pumped
>dad grabs a handful of my shrimp
>He says I don't think these have tails
>He eats the rest of my shrimp
>go home hungry
>eat the rest of his ruffles ranch chips

[Anonymous No.20511621]

The last time I went was a couple years ago and only because I got a gift card for Christmas.
The biscuits were delicious but the rest of my food was cold and not very good.
The bar was also lacking, 2 shitty beers on tap, shitty mixed drinks, a few shitty wines.
They mostly appealed to lower class people who wanted an affordable "fancy" meal, but they couldn't keep the prices low enough to have that appeal anymore.
Pretty much every corporate restaurant chain deserves to fail, but Red Lobster especially deserved to fail.

[Anonymous No.20511622]

>>20511617
>my gets a concerned look on her face
MOM meant to write

[Anonymous No.20511630]

>>20511509
no that's a spiny lobster.

[Anonymous No.20511674]

>>20511437
I recently witnessed a 30-something /ck/ soiboi manchild try to scam them into letting him get one more order of endless shrimp to go. Waitress told him to btfo, so he asked for the manager. In the end, she gave him a to-go order for half off. He looked almost exactly like that anon who made threads against some sherriff on this site and got arrested in real life.

[Anonymous No.20511722]

>>20511558
https://www.businessinsider.com/red-lobster-endless-shrimp-bankruptcy-private-equity-debt-real-estate-2024-5
It's not food prices, it's the usual reason.

[Anonymous No.20511731]

>>20511722
next you gonna tell us there's no santa for reals?

[Anonymous No.20511829]

Nothing entertaining but I unironically loved their lobster pizza.

[Anonymous No.20511857]

>>20511437
I was meaning to dine and ditch before they closed…because why not? It’s not like they can ban you from a restaurant that’s days away from closing, but I lost interest. Anyway, there’s a seafood buffet down the street, and I don’t know how they get away with it, but it’s only $45 for all you can eat crab legs, lobster, oysters, mussels, clams, octopus, and yeah different kinds of fish cooked in a variety of ways. But there’s NO WAY they’re making money off me when I go in there and eat 5 lobster tails, like 10 oysters and then crab legs until I couldn’t possibly eat a grain of rice, because that’s how full I am.

And I’m not fat either. I’m just always hungry…I don’t know where it goes.

[Anonymous No.20511914]

>>20511437
I ate there growing up on rare occasions, food seemed ok and biscuits are good. Of the meals I've had there that I can remember, they were either salmon or shrimp, and never had lobster
Probably will go this weekend and load up on some shriggers before they're broke

[Anonymous No.20511915]

>>20511437
Found fifty cents in a payphone at one when I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.20511952]

>>20511558
The major chain family restaurant is going to die altogether within a generation. Outback, Olive Garden, Chili’s, Applebee’s… they’re all reheated cisco foodservice trash. Their one saving grace was they used to be cheap, as in feed a family of 4 for 30 bucks cheap. Now it’s simply not worth it. Pay a little more and get decent food, pay a little less and get a sack of mcburgers, or take the time to make dinner at home. There’s no reason to go exactly in the middle where it’s the worst of all worlds.

[Anonymous No.20512095]

>>20511722
>Michael McDonald's
Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m4BlRzPiWo

[Anonymous No.20512404]

>>20511437
it was a nice place to go with your family in the 80s and 90s. and then the black people came.

[Anonymous No.20512407]

>>20511558
its not a mystery whats going on. sea food was extremely cheap when only america ruled the seas because our small population couldnt possibly exhaust the entire world's ocean. but then the evil shlomo gave the chinese the technology to harvest the entire ocean and they did. theyve eaten everything and they wont stop until its all gone.

[Anonymous No.20512422]

>>20511437
I havent been to a red lobster in like 20 yrs and the only thing I say that's entertaining is the nigs will nig nog. It's not the kind of place to bring your mom. Do they still give out bibs?

[Anonymous No.20512425]

BEHOLD THE RED RUBSTAH BIB

[Anonymous No.20512432]

>>20512407
Check out the chinks at buffets going crazy for king crab legs.

[Anonymous No.20512451]

>>20511437 I am European. We do not have Red Lobster; we have restaurant lobster.

[Anonymous No.20512456]

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/red-lobster-black-community-rcna152584

[Anonymous No.20512556]

They could turn things around with the exact right kind of Millennial nostalgia marketing. The first thing they should do is fire anyone who uses the word "contemporary" to describe ideas for new decor.

[Anonymous No.20512579]

>>20512456
>https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/
I'm not clicking that.
>>20511437
I've been there once to celebrate a graduation of a friend of a friend, eating with the friend. Nothing spectacular.

[Anonymous No.20512600]

Businesses don’t just fail. As a past fan, and employee, of RL, my sense is that it has been failing over the years for the following reasons:
1) For 20+ years, RL failed to evolve, to address the changing behaviors, wants, needs of customers, and a dynamic and competitive marketplace.
2) Some 20+ years ago, leadership failed to make the right decisions. When a brand is strong, iconic, the effects of those decisions manifest slowly, but then hit the wall rapidly.
3) The script was written for an accelerated decline when RL was sold, its real estate assets sold to assure a short-term return for its buyers rather than investing those resources in a vision, a transformation that was long needed and overdue.
4) The more recent sale to an unsuspecting seafood company with little US restaurant experience, without the expertise or determination to rejuvenate the brand.
5) Recent, disastrous, horrible marketing decisions like continuous Endless Shrimp, and the “Welcome to Fun Dining” (Not differentiated, ownable, unique to, or delivered by RL) ad line pushed the brand over the line.
Yes, failure doesn’t just happen, it results from bad decision making, and for large, strong, iconic brands, that failure can occur over an extended period of time. But, they still ultimately hit the wall.

[Anonymous No.20512659]

>>20512600
>3) The script was written for an accelerated decline when RL was sold, its real estate assets sold to assure a short-term return for its buyers rather than investing those resources in a vision, a transformation that was long needed and overdue.
Sounds like private equity shenanigans.

[Anonymous No.20512697]

>>20511437
I've only been to Red Lobster 2 or 3 times as a kid and it left fond memories for me. The last time I went there was a very big black woman there and I just couldn't stop staring at her. The way her lips were like fat sausages and how she slurped and sucked the lobster meat into her gullet. The way her brightly patterned spandex bodysuit barely contained her bulging rolls. How she jounced and grunted at every guttural exertion. The glisten of the tiny beads of sweat covering her thick forehead skin.

[Anonymous No.20513426]

>>20511437
Last time for me was 2005 with their "endless shrimp" which was ok back then for S19,90. biscuit was great but overall a forgettable experience.

[Anonymous No.20513602]

>>20511437
You know this cow is absolutely devastated about the news.

[Anonymous No.20514945]

>>20512697
>I just couldn't stop staring at her

[Anonymous No.20514979]

>>20512659
Antisemitic posts like this are shameful. Do better

[Anonymous No.20514984]

>>20512456
>hsitory

[Anonymous No.20515513]

>>20511437
Sheeit, where am I gonna take my bitch for fancy dinin when I get my welfare check now?

[Anonymous No.20515525]

>>20511722
I don't know anything about finance, how was Golden Gate able to sell off Red Lobster's real estate to raise money for the deal where they bought Red Lobster? Seems like causality was broken here.

[Anonymous No.20515532]

>>20511857
Enjoy it while you can anon, your metabolism won't last forever.

[Anonymous No.20515533]

>>20511437
I only went once as a kid with my mom. I ordered popcorn shrimp, she got crab legs. Watching her crack open the crab legs and seeing the viscera being pulled apart disgusted me on a level I had never felt before at that young age and I couldn't eat my meal. She was mad.

[Anonymous No.20515543]

>>20511437
I've never been to one, kind of want to go before the chance is gone forever but I don't know anyone trashy enough to do that with me.

[Anonymous No.20516780]

>>20515543
Everyone's good memories of Red Lobster are from 20 years ago when family type restaurants still had a lot of business and could afford to serve relatively decent food for an affordable price. By now they serve the cheapest most preserved slop possible for outrageous prices because people stopped dining out as families years ago. That's why they're all going out of business.

[Anonymous No.20516847]

Where are people of low light reflectivity going to go in place of Red Lobster if they all close down?
>>20515525
Short term loan. Funding the purchase with the assets of what you're purchasing is a common practice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout

[Anonymous No.20517836]

>>20511437
Used to eat here with my grandparents all the time as a kid. Got the walt's favorite fried shrimp almost every time.

[Anonymous No.20517892]

>>20511722

[Anonymous No.20517906]

>>20511437
my daughter wanted to eat at red lobster. i advised against it. she was adamant about eating there since she'd never been. we went. it was terrible. it's like the entrees were cooked offsite, frozen...then reheated as ordered. the cheddar bay biscuits are still pretty ok. honestly, long john's or captain d's has better "food"

[Anonymous No.20517973]

>>20511617
You’re parents sound almost as retarded as you.

[Anonymous No.20517983]

>>20517973

[Anonymous No.20518106]

Lads, the 'Lobst by me is still open, but hasn't mown their grass in weeks. Is it over?

[Anonymous No.20518144]

>>20513602
how do they allow that on a plane?

[Anonymous No.20518166]

>>20511437
Stopped eating there a long time ago. Sad because I love seafood and redlobster used to be great.
>lunch time rowdy waiter takes 20 minutes to to show up for drink order
>comes back 20 minutes later with drinks.. fly in one of them
>dissapears for almost 40 minutes
>finally comes back after buying drugs in the parking lot stinking of weed to drop off check

My last visit

>justice-impacted individual waiter gives attitude entire time.tsking order
>stops by the melanin group booth next door every ten .instead giving "excellent" service
>ignores us and cops attitude
>don't tip and leave, never to return

[Anonymous No.20518185]

>>20518166
You had a bad waitress. The one by me just happens to have awesome waitrii (at least at lunch, the only time I go) and they keep me coming back.

[Anonymous No.20518198]

>>20518185
>waitrii
Lol based latin enjoyer

[Anonymous No.20518305]

>>20511617
>>20511622
>>20517973
>>20517983
What a fucking Rollercoaster kek

[Anonymous No.20518394]

Not really. I used to get piss drunk and wander to the one near my apartment in a nasty t-shirt and they hated serving me. Gobble gobble.