Red Lobster: A Good Value or Ghetto?

Red Lobster is losing its hold on the Eastern seaboard, I think. Between TGIFriday's, Applebee's, Chili's, Hops, John Harvard's Brew House, Outback, Olive Garden, it's no wonder. Shit, where's the INDIAN chain restaurant?

Maybe that's your life calling, Pandit Popshots. ;-p

One time, Ramon drank the broth from the shrimp scampi cos we dared him to. That was wicked sick. Their drinks are weak but you can get the lobsterita which is really great, despite the nasty ass name, because it comes inexplicably with beads.

there is only one outback steakhouse here unfortunaletly bvecause i looked at their menu and it is so funny, there's shit named after every backwater town on the map - the food don't even match, plus they odn't have any kanga on their menu.

That was a Simpsons episode, wasn't it? Where Homer went to a Red Lobster-like place with an "all you can eat" kinda deal and Homer kept eating and eating and eating and eating ...

Maybe you're a female Homer, Ally?

Is it sad that I live in a town with excellent seafod but I miss Red Lobster? NO! Because Red Lobster is affordable! And NUMMY!!

"Come see Bottomless Pete, nature's cruelest mistake! Come for the freak, stay for the food!"

Raita Way

I thought I was a high roller when I took my HS dates to Red Lobster. Do they still have those two-lb. biscuits? I swear there was a stick of butter in each one.

Oh how I long for the days when I had the metabolism of a bumblebee...

Are there any good seafood chains? Pappadeaux is quality, but that's Cajun food. Joe's Crab Shack is kinda bleh. I liked Landry's, but the one in town got replaced by a Crab Shack.

But my experience has been that the seafood chains are only good in areas where fish etc. are available locally -- the Red Lobster where I grew up is no good at all, and that's about an hour and a half inland, I'd guess.

Walking across hot coals to get to the table, maybe.

I don't get people talking about how horrible some fast food chains are and then admitting they're down with Subway. I mean, these places vary between franchises, but Subway is pretty bad all around here.

when i go to subway it's because i need some calories/blood sugar in a hurry and have no better options. it's not horrible if i close my eyes and think of england.

i had a gift card to red lobster once (or some other chain that was owned by the same company and good at red lobster)and i was going to go with my wife and friends to get trashed but never could quite get it together and then the fucker expired........missed opportunities.

I have Popeyes both north and south of my house, within 10 blocks either way

subways is gross. blimpie's is where it's at in the NE if you want good hoagies from a chain restaurant.

and for the zillionth time, IHOP = ISLOP

Blimpies was great when I was still in Ann Arbor. I don't think it's reached the Pacific Northwest, tho.

Subway in the UK is even worse. I went...once.

but get me near a popeye's and i sometimes succumb to the immense pleasure of 2 pieces and a biscuit for $1.99, which is a fucking unreal deal.

^^cosign

i don't think i'm going to be doing taco bell again. the last time i succumbed i felt like i needed a shower afterwards. like it was coming out of my pores or something

when i was out in CA a few months ago, i went to baja fresh -- it was OK, nothing special and certainly not the best "tex-mex" i've ever had but far from the worst i've ever eaten either. probably better than taco bell.

baja fresh is the anti-tex-mex.

My sister wants to go to Red Lobster for her birthday. I can't really argue it because: cheese biscuits.

I went there once because it was the nicest restaurant in the parking lot of the strip-mall we were shopping at. I could fuck with the cheese biscuits but even better was the white pizza with seafood toppings. Oh hey look it was this thing:

Lobster Pizza

A crisp thin-crust pizza topped with langostino lobster meat, melted mozzarella cheese, fresh tomatoes and sweet basil. 9.50

I would totally eat that again, along with at least 6 other things on their menu. Happy birthday to your sister!

Thanks! It's in a week or so but all of this talk about chain restaurants got me thinking about it.

Now I'm thinking about it.

I live in fucking Boston and periodically I miss Red Lobster

this is what growing up in the midwest does to you

hahaha oh boy I could have saved us all some time by using cntl-f before submitting that last post

I like langostino lobster, but it is in fact, not at all a lobster

I'm fine with that! I do not in fact actually like lobster that much, and the pizza was delicious.

if I hear one more student qualifying dismissal of RL with "but their cheddar cheese bread" or whatever I'm going to asphyxiate them with shredded cheddar cheese

hahaha oh boy I could have saved us all some time by using cntl-f before submitting that last post

new board description

anyway in a revelation that will surprise exactly no one, i got no problem with red lobster.

http://mealtime.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/tl_chef_jeff-smith.jpg

WONderful!

their new commercials are a hoot and a half though

http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/2004/07/09/2001976208.jpg

A-1!

I kinda love Red Lobster even though I mostly dislike seafood. Those two facts are probably related.

Red Lobster being owned by a crybaby bitch who will deliberately cut back on employees' hours to make sure they don't have to pay health coverage to the very people handling your food:

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/10/olive-garden-red-lobster-putting-more-workers-on-part-time-because-of-obama-health-care-law-80832.html

Servers at Red Lobster now handle four tables at a time, instead of three. And last year, the company also put workers on a "tip sharing" program, meaning waiters and waitresses share their tips with other employees such as busboys and bartenders.

That allows Darden to pay more workers a far lower "tip credit wage" of $2.13, rather than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Starting next year, the company will change the way it offers health insurance to full-time employees, to keep costs more predictable. Instead of offering one insurance plan for all 45,000 employees, it will give workers a contribution toward buying coverage and then send them to an online health insurance exchange where they can chose from five medical, four dental and three vision plans.

Figures

The lobster pizza and cheddar biscuits are the only edible things on the Red Lobster menu. Love that lobster pizza, but I always hate myself after ordering one.

Aaand.. I already made my Isaiah Thomas joke six years ago.

Red Lobster's Problem Is That the Food Is Bad

Memo to Mr. Khaki Pants: Red Lobster is NOT "fancy dining" in the big city unless you are really, really POOR. Please, there is a fish place on every corner in the "ghetto".

My sister used to work at LJS and I used to BEG her to smuggle me a bag of those batter things that accumulate at the bottom if the fish case. She succeeded a few times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scraps_(batter)

I'm serious, she told me that Long John Silver had a "no batter" policy and that staff were not allowed to eat scraps! What is the point of working there if you can't eat the stuff? Also they don't serve it to customers deliberately.

How Old People and Pricey Shrimp Turned Red Lobster Into a Castoff

It’s big. It’s green. And it tastes even more incredible than it looks! Introducing the NEW! DEW Garita💚👅 @MountainDew Get yours today*, along with all of your favorite PepsiCo drinks! #RedLobsterDewGarita * May not be immediately available in all restaurants. pic.twitter.com/SByIIxufg8

— Red Lobster (@redlobster) September 15, 2020

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Horrifying on its own but when you think of the garlic butter drenched frozen seafood and Cheddar Bay biscuits that it will accompany, may god have mercy on us all.

How is this shit up for six years and people are still using the phrase "ghetto" on it

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, April 26, 2009 5:48 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

who's still using it itt?

it's in the thread title, so every revive throws it up there on SNA. we should lock it now that i think about it.

it's ok to make fun of poor, stupid, tasteless people for liking it in the other thread, we just have to be more polite about it.

It is precisely because this thread calls out the customers rather than the food that I started that new, more 'polite' thread. It is up to others whether the focus returns to the customers or the food. I tried to indicate that the food is the subject in the OP.

If someone does make fun of poor people on this thread or the other, feel free to bash them for it. I have not seen any such posts yet.

Red Lobster one of those places like the Olive Garden, TGI Fridays or the Sharper Image I'm surprised hasn't reached the brink of bankruptcy yet.

for something called a "doo-garita", it's the wrong color

Burrito was the first dumbshit to even post something in the neighborhood of "derogatory" in the other thread, so just ignore his trollish attempt at performance art.

(This Thread, on the other hand...)

Mods, can we please lock this thread before more people have to look at the G-word in the thread title, or get called vulgar obscenities like d*mbshit?

(Sorry, should've replaced the vowel in the cuss part of the obscenity with the asterisk in order to protect people from reading it. So, dumbsh*t)

yeah. right.

Locked Lobster.