Red Lobster

Red Lobster is considering filling for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in order to deal with Leases and Labor Costs.

Say it ain't So........

The one in my town closed a year or two ago and the building is still empty. Saying it was overdue for a remodel was an understatement.

45 years ago I got food poisoning eating at that place, never went back.

Been a looooooooonnngggg time since I’ve eaten at one

They closed ours. Had some good meals there. Bill Martin's was better.

Cheddar bay biscuits are tasty

Great potato too.

I forgot Red Lobster still existed.

I was never a fan of Dead Lobster.

Red Lobster.$$$$$.
20 dollars plus per plate dinner menu.

Used to take my Pops to the Pearland location before it closed down, he dug the “all you can eat shrimp” deal. Each time out of the 5 I went, the food/service/quality progressively got worse. Dirty and dusty af too.

I hate everything

Many years ago it used to be pretty good. They got into a cost cutting death spiral.

Red Lobster in Corpus Christi had some dang good fried flounder when I lived there. That was quite a few years back. Actually everything at that location was good. Wife and I used to go to the one in Pearland but haven’t been in years.

Went to one on a blind, double date back in 1990. We got married 5 months later and neither of us has gone back there since, getting ready to celebrate our 24th anniversary.
Heard that the one we went to has gone down hill really bad.

well, if I didn't hate you so much I would be on your side on this particular subject.





know what I mean, vern?

True. Same with Zeider Zee

The endless deals killed them.

That’s pretty cool. Steak and Ale was our first date, will never forget it, because…….well….were still married and I cant

Ours was spaghetti warehouse in the stockyards. We lasted longer.

Bill and Marty Martins....when they were good, they were good. went downhill fast

red lobster went woke, now they be broke.

poetic justice.

ate at the one in greenville about 7 yrs. ago, everything but the biscuits sucked bad. service was awful (she got a 25c tip), food cold when served, overall sucked.

That’s 34 years.

It’s ok. The rising cost made the price above the product worth.

Victim of Bidenomics. Many, many more to come.

30 - 40 years ago they were the best .... now you go in there and spend $40 each for dinner and fight over bread crumbs in the basket ..... then leave hungry!

They've been going downhill for years. I liked their coconut shrimp, but that was about it. Haven't been in years, so won't even notice it's gone.


**some background on the situation**

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/report-red-lobster-preparing-bankruptcy-filing

time flies when you're having fun

red lob biscuits drive thru.....

Went to one in Orlando last month, it was really good.

I agree. Used to be a nice treat for us on things we couldn’t get ourselves such as king crab. Hate to see them go though. My guess is many more will fold over unsustainable labor costs. Maybe when you file chapter 11 the government should send you a couple thousand illegals and make them work for you for free until their asylum hearing.

$10 - $20 an hour to just stand around the restaurant with their faces buried in their phone.

American yutes these days don’t even have enough gumption to play grab-arse at work.

so, splain to me just when a fast food job became a career choice.

just when did flippin burgers become a career?

confused in telephone.

^^^^^

Well get off the telephone and get to work then!

I was out around PK today and saw a mid 30's looking chick mowing her grass in a bikini top and daisy dukes, my gumption to play grab-arse grew.

How was her garden ?

Never was a big fan.

Red Lobster used to be my favorite resturant but it's probably been 20 years since I've been to one.

sorry sir, wrong number!

Red Lobster, nope.

Spring growth spurt, I didn't mind

Like everything else, it has its place. I'm not a food snob, so I like it just fine, especially for the price.

It was my grandma's favorite restaurant so we took her every year for her birthday. Every year I told her my meal was great!

I worked at one for a few weeks in college. Hated that job and quit. Even back then the microwave and conveyer broiler was the chef. I didn't realize Darden sold them a decade ago. Haven't been since that mgmt change.

Grandmas love Chris B!

The Lobster was my college job. I made plenty of beer money off the olds there. I’ll pour some out for the homies!

Dang, I sure did mess that one up. I sure got a good one, we don't know where the years went.

Cheddar biscuits are good. The rest is dog food.

Everything besides the steaks is prepared prior and then microwaved FYI. The biscuits and taters are the only thing that’s legit!

1shot and Sawhorse will have to find another restaurant for date night.

We eat at one about twice a year. Never had a bad meal at one. One of my favorite places to eat

Don’t worry you can get the same slop at Chili’s and Applebees.

Ate at the one in Longview a couple weeks ago and it was good.....

They are still open?

All you can eat popcorn shrimp in the 80's was the bomb

The one in Amarillo is pretty good, but seafood is limited up here. They switched our Joe's Crabshack into a Saltgrass steakhouse.

Scott's is still open right? I loved that place.

Popcorn [censored] filled shrimp.

You were high.

Yes it's still open, they have opened a couple places that claim to be Cajun style but they leave alot to be desired. Barbecue, Mexican ( Tex-Mex) and Steakhouses are still you're best bet up here.

Some people forget an anniversary every now and then, you missed 10 of them...

A small step above Long John Silver's....

Shame Bill Martin closed

back in college they tan an AYCE crab legs deal well me and my buddy B (who post on here now and then) went when asked about salad or sides we said skip it just bring the legs. We ate ourselves sick with all that melted butter. They finally offered us a GC to come back and comped our meal if we would leave cause they were worried they wouldn't have enough legs to make it through the night. I think the CEO lost his job they lost so much money on that deal.

Have not been in a long time , i bet the prices are sky high . Nothing great about the place

A very small step at that for Ghetto Lobster!

The biscuits is the best part

I never thought they were great but they were as good as any other chain and some of there food wasn’t bad they had a salmon dish with a Cajun blacken sauce with shrimp that wasn’t bad at all pretty good I thought fried food is fried food use to love it not such much any more

I know a guy that spends most of his money eating at RL.

he weighs about 400 pounds.

Seen bigger brine shrimp then what they served me last time I was there. Too many other better choices.

At one time many years ago Red Lobster was pretty good especially since not too many other seafood choices. Somewhere along the line their food and service went downhill. These days RL is not even a consideration too many other much better choices. Actually my favorite seafood place is Big Fish on Main Street in Grapevine.

Agree with Hard Rain above . . . there's just too many other choices. Haven't been to a RL in 20 years and that was only when my mom was alive she liked the place and would request we go there.

And as has been said, the food used to be ok to pretty good.

Tip of the iceberg....... the industry is in a death spiral. Leases got completely out of hand and the labor issues are the cherry in top of the poop sundae. I expect to see 50 percent of the casual dining segment in some type of restructure or flat out go away in the next 5 years. You are gonna see some transactions where profitable store get bundled and sold then stores with garbage leases get grouped in companies and bankruptcy declared to get out of lease deals. The 30 dollar a foot plus leases with 15 triple net were never sustainable.

And for those griping about prices they are not going backwards. Eat at home or enjoy the $ menu at McDonald's

mickey D's costs as much or more than RL

Dairy Queen can get quite expensive. The ice cream is good but not that good.

Too many other choices for seafood. If you like Red Lobster let me tell you about this great BBQ place called Dickie’s, you’ll love it.

Common DQ prices for its treats menu are:

Blizzards: $3.19 for a mini, $3.69 for a small, $4.49 for a medium, and $5.29 for a large
Royal blizzards: $3.79 for a mini, $4.29 for a small, $5.09 for a medium, and $5.89 for a large
Vanilla cone: $1.69 for a kids, $2.19 for a small, $2.49 for a medium, and $2.89 for a large
Chocolate dipped cone: $1.99 for a kids, $2.49 for a small, $2.79 for a medium, and $3.19 for a large
Sundae (choose a topping): $2.59 for a small, $2.89 for a medium, $3.29 for a large
Banana split: $4.49
Peanut Buster Parfait Royal Treat: $4.29
Cupfection: $4.79
Dilly bars: $1.79 for a single bar, $7.99 for a pack of 6
Non-dairy Dilly bars: $2.19for a single bar, $9.99 for a pack of 6
Buster bars: $2.99 for a single bar, $12.99 for a pack of 6
DQ ice cream sandwiches: $1.39 for a single bar, $6.99 for a pack of 6
Milkshakes: $3.49 for a small, $3.99 for a medium, $4.49 for a large
Malts: $3.49 for a small, $3.99 for a medium, $4.49 for a large
Moolattés: $3.49 for a small, $3.99 for a medium, $4.49 for a large
Misty drinks: $1.99 for a small, $2.29 for a medium, $2.89 for a large
Soft drinks: $1.99 for a small, $2.29 for a medium, $2.89 for a large
Orange Julius original drinks: $2.69 for a small, $3.19 for a medium, $3.69 for a large
Orange Julius smoothies: $2.89 for a small, $3.29 for a medium, $3.69for a large
Signature ice cream cake: $23.99 for an 8-inch cake, $26.99 for a 10-inch cake
Oreo Blizzard cake: $26.99 for an 8-inch cake, $29.99 for a 10-inch cake

I don't care for seafood, but I do like to fish.

An old girlfriend's son had a 20th birthday back in 2010.
He wanted Red Lobster.

I know that at a seafood joint, all fried food is fried in the same grease, therefore, I didn't eat.
Once inside, everything smelled like fried fish, shrimp, whatever.
All I could put down was a Dr. Pepper, but even the ice had a fish taste!!!!

My girlfriend knew all this, but I happily went.

Addendum: This woman is the woman I "would" have married, but her son, this son, was so messed up with drugs and weed, I eventually broke up with her. I knew that if I married her, "he" would become my responsibility, and Carmen and I would have gotten divorced because of it.
To this day, she and I still talk, and her son is more messed up now than he was back then. Blessings to her. She's a trooper! She has no choice.

Red Lobster...I'm indifferent.

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They should band together and share space like Pizza Hut, Wing Street, KFC, Taco Bell, A&W, etc..

Your mom drove us there. I'm sure she will find us another spot.

Because those places are doing great? Bahahahaha

Just watched a news blip on this subject RL is saying they lost something like $5mm on the endless shrimp promotion AYCE for $20. Even at that cost I would not bother with RL. Heck Kroger usually has a dozen fresh cooked shrimp and includes cocktail sauce for $5. We buy some occasionally and actually very good.

I read 11m in the first quarter.

That's just bad server training. They should have brought out a plate of sides and bread regardless, and left it sitting there for 10 minutes prior to serving the crab. Then they slow roll the crab and serve only small quantities at a time, and always with fresh biscuits on the plate.