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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:16:57 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:26:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Rich and vibrant destroys everything it touches. Absolutely. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:32:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The end of endless skrimp? My now exwife worked at one of their locations in N. St. Louis County (Florissant or St. Charles Rock Rd I think). I can't tell you how many times she'd work a table of 8-12 and they have a bill north of 250.00 and either stiff her on the tip or the whole check. I would often go there near closing time, go in and sit at a table and wait for her to get off the clock, then escort her and a few of the other ladies out to their cars. The managers and others loved me, called me their security guy and would try and bring me free Cheddar Bay biscuits, salads and other stuff for waiting for them. I never took anything, felt that was wrong. Damn near every time there would be a few argument or a straight up, full on fist fight or someone making a huge scene trying to get some or all their meal comped... God I hated that place and the usual clientele.. It was so strange, its like "The Lobsta" brought out and enhanced the Ghetto in the usual suspects. I mean take the exact same folks and put them in an Applebees or some other restaurant and they were fine. In Red Lobster, Its Ghetto Gutter and Gangsta... |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:32:44 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Did you make a thread when sears closed too? Nope. Somebody else beat me to that one. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:34:14 AM EDT
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Probably because they can't keep any servers, cause no one EVER tips.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:34:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And endless Cheddar Bay biscuits  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The end of endless skrimp? And endless Cheddar Bay biscuits That’s the official meal of Arfcom. …contains all the major food groups: Flour, Fat, Salt, Sugar and Cheese. Hell, I’ve even seen people post their own recipes. Imagine having a business where your only customers are ghetto mamas and fat lonely basement dwellers. Bankruptcy is a kindness under those circumstances. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:34:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The few in our area are like this. I can only imagine the type of clientele they have now doesn't help things. - churches chicken - red lobster - Popeyes All of the parking lots looks the same. Chargers, challengers, 300s, Altimas and impalas. If these restaurants really wanted to make money they should offer check cashing services, title loans and sell rims. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:35:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Never ate at one  |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:39:29 AM EDT
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Ate there once a friend wanted to go. I have a personal requirement, if I can't drive to the ocean in an hour......... no seafood. We were 250 miles away from water.
Food at Red Lobster was horrible, overpriced and cooked into shoe leather. That was 40 years ago. Never been back. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:41:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The end of endless skrimp?  |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:46:47 AM EDT
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All the ones around us are pretty vibrant and loud. I think we've been twice in like the last ten years, and we made points to go at off times in the middle of the week. We did get HUGE lobsters both times, so it satisfied a craving.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:47:34 AM EDT
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I've eaten at the red lobster in Lynnwood three times in twenty five years and all three times the food was horrible.
The staff was incredibly rude, the food was greasy, they ran out of one of their advertised main entree then offered a sub par alternative and the fish and lobster tasted like a nasty dirty funky fish tank. On two of my visits there I got food poisoning vomiting and diarrhea. I hope they go out of business. For seafood I go to Ivar's in Everett at the Marina, or the fisherman's down in Seattle. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:47:49 AM EDT
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The one near us is always busy and actually really good. My oldest son (12) loves seafood and that place.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:49:17 AM EDT
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The nearest one to me is in Killeen. It's dirty and the clientele are either the vibrant kind or Yankee transplants here on permanent duty at Hood.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:50:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I was going to say McDonalds but yea. This. More like Waffle House. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:52:29 AM EDT
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Some of their business model has to be gift card based . Last time I was in one people in groups of 2 or 4 would order full course w/ alcohol and then the bill shows up and it's wtf , what's this ?
Then they have to put in $50 to $100 bucks over the gift card amount after questioning the waitress about the bill and maybe shorting the tip . Math is hard , those GC 's get them in the door just like coupons used to . |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 10:53:29 AM EDT
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They have good hamburger and steaks. I never tried the fish though.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 11:10:17 AM EDT
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Sizzler of the sea.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 11:18:31 AM EDT
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Kang size meals.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 11:24:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Are you saying that certain cultures don't tip? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: All those people working there now losing their jobs and they've never received a tip. Are you saying that certain cultures don't tip? In my younger days, I dated a lot of waitresses. What I know of it, having never worked in food service myself, is from their observations of tipping patterns. According to my super-scientific research, the groups that were the worst tippers are/were, in order: 1) The demographic that shall not be referred to or even alluded to in any negative fashion 2) The after-church lunch crowd |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 11:31:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Dem skrimps is malicious! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The end of endless skrimp?  
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Posted: 4/17/2024 11:35:52 AM EDT
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They apparently lost Millions with their endless shrimp specials. Why they continued with it after after they were shown to be losing money with it is beyond me.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 11:41:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They apparently lost Millions with their endless shrimp specials. Why they continued with it after after they were shown to be losing money with it is beyond me. Because the head of their marketing department is an oxygen thief who failed to do basic target demographic and market research. Kinda like Republicans going after abortion rights in purple states. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 11:41:45 AM EDT
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The last time I ate at a Red Lobster was 30 years ago and I got food poisoning from the crab legs.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 11:49:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ve been once in my 48 years of life at the request of a slut I was banging in my early 20’s. Thankfully I didn’t get the crabs. No pun intended. 
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Posted: 4/17/2024 11:49:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was so strange, its like "The Lobsta" brought out and enhanced the Ghetto in the usual suspects. I mean take the exact same folks and put them in an Applebees or some other restaurant and they were fine. In Red Lobster, Its Ghetto Gutter and Gangsta... Grandview MO had an Applebees that was that way 15-20 years ago. The same people, over and over again, would come in, eat 90% of their food, complain, and get it comp'd because it was "company policy". I would grab a riblet/ chicken fingers basket and a beer when I dragged into town late, and noticed patterns, which the bartender opened up about. Said they kept firing managers, but the managers were screwed by the "company policy" so their hands were tied. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:02:17 PM EDT
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I have never been to one .
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:04:36 PM EDT
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When the free handouts dry up the simps resort back the $2 value menus.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:06:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And endless Cheddar Bay biscuits Yep, that will be a real crime but perhaps they will still be available in the grocery store to be made at home. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:10:14 PM EDT
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Chapter 11 is a reorganization bankruptcy. It allows the company to clean up its finical books and reorganize their debts. Most of Red Lobster’s restaurants are dated with designs and themes going back to the 1970’s and do not reflect current market trends. Getting out from underneath them is not a bad deal. The number of stores will decrease by cutting the dead weight.
One thing they could do to improve the dining experience would be to have the local cops run everyone who walks through the doors for wants and warrants. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:16:01 PM EDT
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Quoted: Just caught a blurb on it one the local news in the background. Although I have never set foot in one of them, I was under the impression they were doing well. I guess not. There goes a ton of new you tube brawl videos. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:19:58 PM EDT
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Was a show that tested the meat recently. A lot of it was not lobster, it was Langostino
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:23:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No, no its not. Burger king has consistent and somewhat safe and palatable food compared to Red Cockroach. Somewhat palatable? I disagree.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:26:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Burger King of seafood. KFC of seafood |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:27:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:31:36 PM EDT
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Never went to one. Had heard the lobster wasn't the right kind.
Went to an Outback Steakhouse once and the steak was obviously sugar injected and mock tender. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:34:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The hood rats love them some Red Lobsta I don't know how they can afford it. The local one always has a good crowd of white, upper class, boomers and tourist that come to FL to eat seafood?!?!?! |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:39:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't know how they can afford it. The local one always has a good crowd of white, upper class, boomers and tourist that come to FL to eat seafood?!?!?! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The hood rats love them some Red Lobsta I don't know how they can afford it. The local one always has a good crowd of white, upper class, boomers and tourist that come to FL to eat seafood?!?!?! FFS... I don't think I've ever even seen a red lobster in Florida and I lived there for 10 years or more. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:46:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: FFS... I don't think I've ever even seen a red lobster in Florida and I lived there for 10 years or more. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: The hood rats love them some Red Lobsta I don't know how they can afford it. The local one always has a good crowd of white, upper class, boomers and tourist that come to FL to eat seafood?!?!?! FFS... I don't think I've ever even seen a red lobster in Florida and I lived there for 10 years or more. As i posted above, it started in FL. there are many |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:46:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There is one here. Been in operation over thirty years. Still has a crowd on most days. Ball&Chain and I go there couple of times a year. It's ok. Never had any problems. Same here. Not very vibrant. People around here know how to act in public for now at least. They keep building housing for more and more imports though so who knows how long civility will last? SWMBO is a big seafood fan and she says it'll work occasionally. NO seafood for me so I usually get the burger with BP. Burger ROCKS and the rolls are gtg too.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:50:23 PM EDT
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Red Lobster
For the ghetto lover in you. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:51:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In my younger days, I dated a lot of waitresses. What I know of it, having never worked in food service myself, is from their observations of tipping patterns. According to my super-scientific research, the groups that were the worst tippers are/were, in order: 1) The demographic that shall not be referred to or even alluded to in any negative fashion 2) The after-church lunch crowd My daughter will co-sign this. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 12:55:07 PM EDT
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Damn, if they shut down and menthol cigarettes are banned, it could be a long, hot summer…
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:00:34 PM EDT
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Red Lobster was where we got taken for birthdays growing up.
I hadn't been in one for years until around 2015/6 went to one in Ft. Worth The crowd was a mix of Walmart and World Star Hiphop. Never went back. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:15:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My woman’s grandparents like doing family dinners there so I eat there a few times a year. When I was a kid you’d be waiting for a table any night of the week. Now it’s a ghost town even on the weekends. It’s kind of surprising because the food isn’t terrible. I’d much rather eat there than Crapplebee’s, Olive Garden, or most of the other franchise mostly microwaved restaurants. My family would do little mini reunion lunches there every 6 months or so. It was decent for the price but they seemed like the last chain to innovate or renovate their offerings (Olive Garden fell into the same trap). Same went with the decor. All early 90s style furniture and lighting. Not really conducive for an upscale atmosphere. A Time Machine to its heyday but they never adapted. Add the stagnation to rising food prices and covid this is all kind of expected. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:16:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Burger King of seafood. More like the Waffle House of seafood. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:16:52 PM EDT
[#47]
they have NEVER done well. Maybe in the 80's when they were considered high end dining.
Arent they owned by a BIG restaurant group? |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:24:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don't know how they can afford it. The local one always has a good crowd of white, upper class, boomers and tourist that come to FL to eat seafood?!?!?! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The hood rats love them some Red Lobsta I don't know how they can afford it. The local one always has a good crowd of white, upper class, boomers and tourist that come to FL to eat seafood?!?!?! One of my late friends was like that, they would go to Panama City or Destin then eat at Red Lobster. He swore they had better food at the beach. |
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:28:31 PM EDT
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Kind of surprised they didn't go under several decades ago. Maybe because I lived near the gulf coast for much of that time.
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Posted: 4/17/2024 1:31:36 PM EDT
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When I was a kid in the 80s, I remember getting dressed up to go eat at Red Lobster. It was considered a rare treat.
Kinda funny how times change. |
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