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  1. The headline: "Red Lobster’s Ultimate Endless Shrimp promotion is described as a ‘car crash’ for the company, lawsuit says"

    The second bullet point that undermined the headline: "“Thai Union doubled down on a campaign to squeeze out every drop of value that it could” from Red Lobster, creditors said."

    cnbc.com/2026/06/26/red-lobste

    #Business #Food #RedLobster #Lawsuit #Facepalm

  2. @drahardja

    IDK. I've eaten at #RedLobster on occasion & while it's not great, it's not that bad either.

    This CEO seems to have an excellent history in turning around a business & it sounds like he's taking a reasonable approach in incorporating AI into its operations to make Red Lobster better & more profitable.

    I wish him good luck.

  3. Times Square Dining Staple to Close in June: ‘No Longer Viable’

    Red Lobster is closing its Times Square location in June after construction impacted access, visibility, and foot traffic. The company said the building’s planned conversion to residential use also left the restaurant no longer viable. Red Lobster will shut its doors o…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #foottraffic #redlobster
    diningandcooking.com/2666797/t

  4. Curtis Sliwa woke up this morning and said to himself, "Self, there are still more than zero people taking me seriously. How can I fix this?"

    bsky.app/profile/jaythurber.bs

    (Apparently in some video interview where he discusses this, he goes one step farther and says he is "sitting shiva" for the restaurant? Oof. He's Catholic, even.)

    #NYC #TimesSquare #RedLobster

  5. I had what I think is probably a white person rite of passage tonight.

    I had Red Lobster for the first time in my life tonight. It was mid, except for the cheddar bay biscuits. I am thoroughly disappointed 😔.

    -Allēna

    #food #redlobster #SliceOfLife
  6. You can laugh at the fate of #RedLobster as "mass market drek"

    But consider the #vulturecapital details of its demise (financial parasites stripping it of assets, etc)

    And consider its place in the history of #desegregation, and in the heart of #Black #America

    "Customers would enter and exit the same doors; sit wherever they chose to sit and receive the same food and the same service. This should not have been a radical proposition but it was"

    msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

  7. "Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024)"
    mastodon.online/@lekowicz/1124

    Dan Gillmor: "Meet the "private equity" people who did so much to drive Red Lobster into the ground"
    mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11
    #RedLobster

  8. We should be reposting this as loudly and often as possible:

    #redlobster was killed by private equity, not endless Shrimp.