Posted on 05/20/2024 7:07:11 AM PDT by knighthawk
Red Lobster has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection days after shuttering nearly 100 restaurants across America.
The seafood chain, which has closed restaurants in 27 states, has been struggling with rising lease and labor costs in recent years and also promotions like its iconic all-you-can-eat shrimp deal that backfired.
Demand for one such recent promotion overwhelmed restaurants, reportedly contributing to hundreds of millions in losses.
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I don’t understand OG’s popularity. There are real Italian restaurants everywhere that have way better food................
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Restaurants make all their money on drinks. Especially alcoholic drinks. The food is a break even at best.
I worked in a restaurant/bar in the 1980s. It was busy on the weekends. Closed on Mondays. Tuesday was the slowest night.
We decided to do a drink special just on Tuesdays. From 8-10 you paid $2 to get in. All vodka drinks were FREE for the first two hours. Then from 9-10 they went to $1. From 10-11 $2. The back to full price at 11. Which was about $4.50. Remember this was 1982.
It went from our slowest night to our busiest night in a couple weeks. Once the word spread. People could not believe we were doing this. We had to be losing money. No, it was hugely profitable. We bought Popov vodka in 1.75 liter bottles for about $4/bottle. We mostly served it with ice tea. Which we premixed in 5 gallon pails ahead of time.
A drink was poured in a 8 oz plastic cup. We kept track of exactly how much vodka we poured. We had two bartenders. A bouncer and I checked IDs at the door. Drinking age back then was 18 in NYS.
It costs us $.06 to pour each vodka drink including the cup.
They place was so crowded that at most you might get four drinks in the first two hours when drinks were “free” under the $2 cover charge. So, even they first two hours we were making money. Our profits increased as the night went on.
Tuesdays went from the slowest night of the week to the busiest night during that summer.
We got the ideal because there was another bar in Buffalo that did the same thing on Wednesday nights. Except they did it with all mixed drinks. Except, they used GENERIC Booze.
No Tito’s, No high end bourbons or Scotch.
Their alcohol bottles came in cases with white labels that just said VODKA, GIN, RUM, TEQUILA.
This excuse of Red Lobster blaming everything on an all you can eat deal is getting old. When they buy shrimp by the ton, it is probably $5 a pound. The excuses they are using are to cover up bad management, nothing else.
You can send food back at a restaurant, but you would be well advised not to eat it after it is brought back to the table.
Very carefully.
“There’s a reason God forbade the Israelite s from eating crustaceans.................”
Yes, because it was easier than trying to explain proper food handling procedures to mostly illiterate people.
Which is why I won’t eat seafood at restaurants staffed by people who don’t speak English.
Staying at Embassy Suites they had a Managers Reception where it’s open bar for 1.5 hours. Of course everybody lines up and drinks as fast as they can. I tried their Bourbon and Coke. Nasty nasty stuff. Undrinkable. The bourbon was called Concierge or something like that. I passed.
No, that's not the reason. God doesn't want people eating scavenger meat no matter how it's prepared. That excuse is used by those who love their pork and don't care what God says. Our body is considered a temple of God, not to be polluted with scavenger meat.
Lobster and seafood is expensive and the price fluctuations aren’t controllable. Their biscuits were really awesome.
Jesus did away with all the dietary laws in the New Testament. This is why Christians eat pork and Jews who do not believe Jesus was the living breathing son of God hold the old laws. Thank you Jesus because lobster and long crab are delicious same for mudbugs and it’s still mudbug season.
True- Never tick off a cook or waitress- sending food back aggravates them no doubt
I hope he checked with Dr. Laura first................🙄
What’s different now from a generation or so ago is the introduction of food stamps then ebt. You didn’t see ghettopottomai waddling in then bellying up to the trough until then.
Yep. I learned that from one of my sisters who worked as a waitress or bartender all her life. She had some stories of what the cooks especially would do to food that was sent back.
They might just be using this excuse to close their restaurants in ghetto areas attempting to avoid the inevitable attacks of racism.
You can buy the biscuit mix in boxes at Walmart and some other stores. We fix those from time to time; they're pretty good, especially if you put in extra cheese.
I suppose I should buy a few more boxes if Red Lobster's going out of business.
Unless it’s pasta, bread, or salad...all you can eat is a bad idea.
That said, ‘all you can eat’ is a bad idea. Just go to a buffet and look who goes there. You will find the largest people you’ve ever seen.
George, the Ocean called. They want their shrimp 🦐 back.
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