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And that’s basically it!
Why didn't they stop doing it sooner? Lol once they saw it was costing too much they could have retired it and made up some new marketing crap.
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.
First time I heard of this, feels like I missed a huge opportunity
Same. I love me unlimited shrampies. I had no idea it was permanent on the menu.
permanent
Well, not anymore...
Same here. It was always overshadowed by unlimited soup salad and bread sticks I guess.
Of eating shitty frozen shrimp? No, no you did not miss an opportunity.
"Stop liking what I don't like!"
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.
Fucking the frozen pizza is slightly better than fucking them straight out of the oven.
The Applebees of the sea.
If that much loss is going to bring down a corporation? Maybe the corpo wasn't being taken care of good enough
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.
What does 11 million dollars in shrimp look like? Let alone 11 million in losses, how much god damn shrimp is that? Was cocktail sauce calculated into this?
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.
And you know they ain't buying it at the Piggly Wiggly, but at a deep discount they negotiated ages ago with their distributor(s).
Appreciate you. You're causing me and my friends to consider indoor shrimp farming for profit.
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.
Same with olive garden they want the decades old prime real estate. They could give a fuck about the restaurant
Some people can't help themselves at the seafood buffet
I'm not surprised. Every endless seafood deal Red Lobster did lost money.
Red Lobster: “Endless Shrimp”
Ocean: “Dude… no.”