Walks in, limits your shrimp, refuses not to elaborate, leaves the entire world.

Never ending story...

Ended.

Sounds like an open-shut case. Who's with me? I want a $9 check in 7 months.

Well considering that I'm a "millennial" and literally not a single person I know has ever visited, requested, or mentioned Red Lobster as a restaurant choice... they might have deeper trouble than some shitty shrimp. Can't run a business forever when your largest potential market is 65+...

The previous owners purchased the company via a leveraged buyout. It's not one quarters losses, it's the massive long-term debt on it's books.

This is a handy excuse to fuck over employees and suppliers.

It's also really expensive importing biscuits from Cheddar Bay

Or.. raised the price. You know.. capitalism. They seemed to have failed econ 101. Or the bankruptcy is a good way to get out from under debt and start over. It's the American way.

They tried all sorts of tricks actually. But this event brought people in. In the 90’s I’d see it on the local news about the hour long waits and whatnot. This was still true up until the last time I went.

I recall they slowed service, refill limits at a time, even type of order repeat(not getting 10 scampi in a row). I was a fan of the grilled shrimp and as a teen could eat 20 orders (a feat I’m not so proud of now). As an adult I stopped eating there when I realized what I was doing to my body (mid 00s).

I was never asked to leave due to the amount I ate, but I experienced some of these. damn if it wasn’t 5-10 minutes between food, couldn’t order more until you had cleared the only 2 plates allowed at a time, never find the waiter, etc. oh, and they would bring those ungodly amazing biscuits over, “to hold me over”.

I do not miss the man I was back then. I can honestly say I’m half the man I was then.

Same. I love me unlimited shrampies. I had no idea it was permanent on the menu.

Same here. It was always overshadowed by unlimited soup salad and bread sticks I guess.

I bet this is just the setup for when they try to weasel their way out of California's minimum wage and then when they win, they'll use the same playbook to try to get around minimum wage in other states. This could cause a snowball effect where a nonzero number of employers get a free pass on select labor laws.

Hopefully they just lose and go out of business.

The cost here for shitty frozen shrimp is about $13 for 2lbs of "31-40" (31-40 shrimp per lb); at that cost, averaging 35 shrimp per pound, you could buy approximately 29,615,385 shrimp, which would weigh around 400 tons. I think I did that math right. It's late.

Same with olive garden they want the decades old prime real estate. They could give a fuck about the restaurant

Red Lobster: “Endless Shrimp”

Ocean: “Dude… no.”

Man. They always do everything first.