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"Last year, Red Lobster reported $11 million in operating losses following its flubbed 'Ultimate Endless Shrimp' deal, which backfired when it reeled in too many customers after the limited-time promo became a permanent menu fixture last June. The restaurant chain later reported $12.5 million in losses in the fourth quarter of 2023."

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Every time I went to get a "All you can eat" deal from places that weren't normally a buffet you would have to wait for a waiter to bring you more and the waiter hates the extra trips to the table and/or the owner tells their employees to drag their feet bringing more and makes the amount they bring miniscule. Just an awful experience the couple times I tried.

I don't go out to eat except for a Asian buffet a couple times a year. I'd rather eat cheetos in the basement.

Sorry mcdonalds and taco bell, your shit was barely worth it when it was cheap. Insane prices coming out of the fast food industry these days.

I own a oven and can buy frozen pizzas, get fucked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Fucking the frozen pizza is slightly better than fucking them straight out of the oven.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've only gone to red lobster for the endless shrimp (though there are much better all-you-can-eat options out there). They should try making their regular offerings better. It also doesn't help that private equity is in the middle of raiding the company and that's probably the main reason they're currently eyeing bankruptcy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If that much loss is going to bring down a corporation? Maybe the corpo wasn't being taken care of good enough

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

The Applebees of the sea.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised. Every endless seafood deal Red Lobster did lost money.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Red Lobster: “Endless Shrimp”

Ocean: “Dude… no.”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I do it all for the skrimpz

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

the frying dutchman is actually a killer name

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's what they get for offering 30 shrimp for just $10.99 and fueling people's addictions...

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