The demise was also about a private equity company that sold the company’s land to a real estate conglomerate who saddled the restaurants with more expensive rent deals they didn’t have before .
RL always: 1980s 1990s 2000s had a issue with QC, food safety, decor, sales. A RL 🦞 in Smalltown IN in 1994 is not going to have huge fresh 🦐 or fish that's caught, sent in 24hr 🛳. Can staffs be trained? Yes. Can bldgs, kitchens be clean, meet food/health standards? Yes. But many times they arent.
It used to be decent quality, but that was so long ago. The food is so horrible there now. Haven't gone back in like 4 years after the $56 lunch that my daughter and I had there that made us both sick all weekend. Yeah, they deserve to be gone. 🤢🤢
I absolutely love these business breakdowns. Thanks to eBay and online we've gotten to know you, and know you're a legit business man, and a down-to-earth good dude. The perfect type of person to tell us about how these other businesses online or not, really get down. 💯
Worked there as a manager for ten years. When thai union took over- everything went to turds. It was already crap with golden gate capital. They gutted most of the kitchen positions and then moved everyone to learn all positions for the same pay. When thai union took over it got terrible. Just an unending rotation of corny covered turds. I was working nonstop and i eventually downgraded myself to server before finally leaving june 2023. Good thing i did. My old store i managed was one of the ones that got shut down
Knowledge is power. You can't fix what you dont know is broken. As a hobby seller, I would get into the weeds of my business sporadically. I've been informed that by years end, I will be out of a job. That makes me have to get down to brass tacks in my side hustle and make it into a real income.
I am from the u.k every time i Come to the U.S I have to find a red lobster we just dont get that around here, I love the cheese biscuits and lobster its value to, once one of the servers gave me his name badge as a memento of my visit lol, Id be sad if it went.
I was a server during the endless shrimp and it almost broke me, not only mentally but spiritually. Ultimately quit without notice because I was too ashamed to tell them I couldn't mentally do it anymore. Running 6-8 tables constantly. Worked in three of their restaurants in Westland MI, Honolulu HI, and Marion IL. Was never broke that is for certain. Always a love/hate relationship, but to me it was always that "fancy" place I was taken when I was 4 and I'm 46 now. SO! Damn Thai Union group for DESTROYING that once great restaurant chain. They can come back but standards must be substantially raised and properly staffed with quality. Was painful coming back after working for Thomas Keller.
RL food got horrible here in town…shrimp tasted like foreign frozen in stores small shrimp and way too expensive! So disappointed in them! We have a lot of great seafood restaurants in town here so RL parking lot got smaller!!
No there are USA owned business that are up and coming ... too bad about Red Lobster , personally I was never much of a fan as lobster is very sensitive to freshness . i grew up in Montauk and most lobster is very hard for me to deal with since my standards are of utmost freshness.
So know of this place called Angies ,that is expanding and probably will take the place of all red lobster. Its just an amazing place and there are 5 right now in Phoenix with 2 coming to Tucson. The menu is mouth watering and very reasonable. ... )
Well im for good business. I have 3 places i go when i can.. 1 is a reasturaunt chain... however the owner hires students to teach them work ethics. And i support that. Food prices everywhere stinks like rotten tuna. I do what i can. You cut corners... by hiring someone from outside... your goona fall.
@@RockstarFlipperlast time I went was 28 years ago. It was a lasting impression. I remember back in the 70s people saw this guy come in with long shorts on. It was the talk of all the tables. lol!!
The demise was also about a private equity company that sold the company’s land to a real estate conglomerate who saddled the restaurants with more expensive rent deals they didn’t have before .
I don't watch the News, I watch Rockstar Flipper!
LOL touche.. thank you
I have wondered for several years how our Red Lobster has stayed in business. They are busy if they have a dozen cars in the lot
Red Lobster was always an overpriced, mediocre seafood restaurant - survival of the fittest strikes again!
RL always: 1980s 1990s 2000s had a issue with QC, food safety, decor, sales. A RL 🦞 in Smalltown IN in 1994 is not going to have huge fresh 🦐 or fish that's caught, sent in 24hr 🛳. Can staffs be trained? Yes. Can bldgs, kitchens be clean, meet food/health standards? Yes. But many times they arent.
I never considered Red Lobster ‘fine dining’ as many claim.
It’s a restaurant chain.
The only thing good was their biscuits. 😂
I agree. It is all about the biscuits. I haven't been there in years, because they always seemed like low quality seafood.
It used to be decent quality, but that was so long ago. The food is so horrible there now. Haven't gone back in like 4 years after the $56 lunch that my daughter and I had there that made us both sick all weekend.
Yeah, they deserve to be gone.
🤢🤢
RL is a "casual" dining chain. They are not a "high end" 🧐 classy place. No one is thinking Red Lobster is like French Laundry or Capital Grille.
@@janesjunglesafari In the 1990s I called RL- Red Lobster & Butter 🧈 ... every entree item was soaked in heavy butter.
I absolutely love these business breakdowns. Thanks to eBay and online we've gotten to know you, and know you're a legit business man, and a down-to-earth good dude.
The perfect type of person to tell us about how these other businesses online or not, really get down. 💯
Thanks so much for those kind words!
Worked there as a manager for ten years. When thai union took over- everything went to turds. It was already crap with golden gate capital. They gutted most of the kitchen positions and then moved everyone to learn all positions for the same pay. When thai union took over it got terrible. Just an unending rotation of corny covered turds. I was working nonstop and i eventually downgraded myself to server before finally leaving june 2023. Good thing i did. My old store i managed was one of the ones that got shut down
Knowledge is power. You can't fix what you dont know is broken. As a hobby seller, I would get into the weeds of my business sporadically. I've been informed that by years end, I will be out of a job. That makes me have to get down to brass tacks in my side hustle and make it into a real income.
I am from the u.k every time i Come to the U.S I have to find a red lobster we just dont get that around here, I love the cheese biscuits and lobster its value to, once one of the servers gave me his name badge as a memento of my visit lol, Id be sad if it went.
I was a server during the endless shrimp and it almost broke me, not only mentally but spiritually. Ultimately quit without notice because I was too ashamed to tell them I couldn't mentally do it anymore. Running 6-8 tables constantly. Worked in three of their restaurants in Westland MI, Honolulu HI, and Marion IL. Was never broke that is for certain. Always a love/hate relationship, but to me it was always that "fancy" place I was taken when I was 4 and I'm 46 now. SO! Damn Thai Union group for DESTROYING that once great restaurant chain. They can come back but standards must be substantially raised and properly staffed with quality. Was painful coming back after working for Thomas Keller.
The one in my city is closed down. For sure, they done.
RL food got horrible here in town…shrimp tasted like foreign frozen in stores small shrimp and way too expensive! So disappointed in them! We have a lot of great seafood restaurants in town here so RL parking lot got smaller!!
I love their cheesy biscuits.
That is sold in grocery stores and could go on forever i think
You never give up over 50% ownership of your company unless you want others to do what happened to Red Lobster and others.
They gave up 49% lol
Its all full of gmos. Best that they close down
I see it cming
No there are USA owned business that are up and coming ... too bad about Red Lobster , personally I was never much of a fan as
lobster is very sensitive to freshness . i grew up in Montauk and most lobster is very hard for me to deal with since my standards are of utmost freshness.
So know of this place called Angies ,that is expanding and probably will take the place of all red lobster. Its just an amazing place and there are 5 right now in Phoenix with 2 coming to Tucson. The menu is mouth watering and very reasonable. ... )
Well im for good business. I have 3 places i go when i can.. 1 is a reasturaunt chain... however the owner hires students to teach them work ethics. And i support that. Food prices everywhere stinks like rotten tuna. I do what i can. You cut corners... by hiring someone from outside... your goona fall.
Red Lobster sucks. I haven't been back since 2015
Same since 2018
@@RockstarFlipperlast time I went was 28 years ago. It was a lasting impression. I remember back in the 70s people saw this guy come in with long shorts on. It was the talk of all the tables. lol!!
love the spit lips
Red Lobster was fine dining in the nineties!! It was legit good!!
How sad . Olive Garden turned crawl to. So sad 😞
It was better in the 90s, agreed. But it was never fine dining.
Olive garden just does well
you are so wrong! you have no clue fortress is buying red lobster. come back is now
Really......its been a few months and where is that buy? lol stop
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