Started By
Message

re: Red Lobster considering filing for bankruptcy

Posted on 4/16/24 at 6:11 pm to
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
69492 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 6:11 pm to
quote:


They will be the first of many, folks simply don't have the spending power that they did just a few years ago.


Alternative explanation: red lobster is awful
Posted by dkreller
Laffy
Member since Jan 2009
30481 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 6:11 pm to
quote:

red lobster is awful

Their biscuits are top notch.
Posted by JerryTheKingBawler
South of Memphis
Member since Jan 2023
1557 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 6:25 pm to
I will hear no slander of those cheddar biscuits.
Posted by Hateradedrink
Member since May 2023
1376 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 6:28 pm to
There’s a certain demographic that would wear out red lobster.

They’ve all since migrated to “the juicy crab” type chains.
Posted by GusMcRae
Deep in the heart...
Member since Oct 2008
3267 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 6:48 pm to
Look… RL sucks, but in desperate times in the Midwest or West Texas 20 years ago I may have been in a couple.

At some point there was a bargain involved. At $50 dollars a head, ain’t no fuggin way.

I don’t know if it’s a function of inflation or poor business strategy, but either way, that’s not going to work.

No worries for me. I’m back in ‘ew Orleans, and RL would not break the top 1,000 restaurants. That’s why we don’t have one.
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
27667 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:09 pm to
quote:

Alternative explanation: red lobster is awful



McDonald's is awful yet they're usually the busiest place out of all the fast food joints.
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
43782 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:14 pm to
They should franchise a cheddar biscuit restaurant instead
Posted by McLemore
Member since Dec 2003
31647 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 8:44 pm to
quote:

Alternative explanation: red lobster is awful


How’d it avoid BK for 56 years I’d that’s the full explanation.

My wife and I had a modest lunch today at a casual restaurant in a low cost of living town and caught ourselves thinking out $20 chicken entrees (manicotti and Caesar salad) were reasonably priced. Then realized we’ve been conditioned quickly. The average worker can’t afford shite even with mounting cc debt.
Posted by highup7
Alex City, Al.
Member since Jan 2005
1841 posts
Posted on 4/16/24 at 10:33 pm to
I've eaten at Red Lobster a couple of times. The food wasn't awful and some items on my plate were frozen seafood that you can buy at a local grocery store. I ordered a shrimp platter and some of the shrimp you could easily tell were frozen shrimp. The small fried shrimp on the platter were definitely frozen at one time. Frozen fried shrimp doesn't taste anything like fresh fried shrimp. I was amazed at the number of people that were eating there. I also found that the items on the menu were expensive. I ate most of the food on my plate but I couldn't understand how that place stayed in business due to the fact that it was serving seafood that were frozen. I thought while driving home, if I was going to pay that amount of money for frozen seafood Baton Rouge has plenty of seafood restaurants that are much better than Red Lobster. I never went back there but every time I passed by RL their parking lot was always full.
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
56710 posts
Posted on 4/17/24 at 8:38 am to
quote:

Alternative explanation: red lobster is awful
Maybe so, but it has been in business for a long time producing the same stuff. This summer will be brutal for the left. They have less control over inflation, Iran is melting down around itself, and fuel prices will blow up again. Americans dont pay attention to inflation unless it is ridiculous, but they pay attention to fuel prices and to empty pockets.
first pageprev pagePage 1 of 1Next pagelast page
refresh

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookTwitterInstagram