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Iconic but pretty shitty restaurant
This is truly a sign of the apocalypse. You fucking idiot.This is sad. If Red Lobster can't handle the economy than small businesses have little to no chance.
I have sympathy for people that lost their jobs and businesses. Feeling bad people must be a foreign concept for you since you constantly joke on other people's misfortunes.This is truly a sign of the apocalypse. You fucking idiot.
In the two posts you made that I responded to you only mentioned how Red Lobster closing is going to hurt the economy as a whole. That is a stupid thought and you are stupid for thinking it.I have sympathy for people that lost their jobs and businesses. Feeling bad people must be a foreign concept for you since you constantly joke on other people's misfortunes.
Red Lobster is just one of the many businesses in trouble. Many small businesses are struggling. McDonald's sales are dropping to the point where they are heavily promoting a five dollar meal deal.In the two posts you made that I responded to you only mentioned how Red Lobster closing is going to hurt the economy as a whole. That is a stupid thought and you are stupid for thinking it.
If you had said you felt bad for some people losing their jobs that would be different. I worked at Red Lobster as a teen. It's not a super specialized job, the staff that are losing their jobs are highly likely to get jobs at restaurants that people are actually eating at.
Originally, they were. It was the first restaurant Bill Darden started. He's dead now, and Darden Restaurants sold them off years ago.Those biscuits were good.
I thought they were owned by Darden, who also owned Olive Garden.
I don't know why you laugh at this. They are still a major chain. It's the largest seafood franchise in the USA. At their peak, Red Lobster was so large that over 50% of seafood served in sit down restaurants in the USA as tracked by restaurant association was served by them, or something like that. In 2019, before COVID hit, they did $2.6bn in sales. Unlike fast food restaurants, those sales furnish a labor force of which roughly half earns tips. Those are good jobs.
Ok so now you have forgotten the poor workers again and you are talking about how poor McDonald's is being forced to offer cheap food.Red Lobster is just one of the many businesses in trouble. Many small businesses are struggling. McDonald's sales are dropping to the point where they are heavily promoting a five dollar meal deal.
Red Lobster is just one of the many things showing the economy is not in good shape.
If you bothered reading the quote that I replied to you'd see that I was laughing about a moron claiming that some Red Lobster stores closing will hurt the economy. It won't. I am certain that the employees of the "nearly 50" restaurants will find other jobs at restaurants that people actually go to and there will be no economic collapse because of this.I don't know why you laugh at this. They are still a major chain. It's the largest seafood franchise in the USA. At their peak, Red Lobster was so large that over 50% of seafood served in sit down restaurants in the USA as tracked by restaurant association was served by them, or something like that. In 2019, before COVID hit, they did $2.6bn in sales. Unlike fast food restaurants, those sales furnish a labor force of which roughly half earns tips. Those are good jobs.
The issue is that it appears the restaurant could be in peril, and yes, even on a national scale, when a restaurant that does billions of dollars in sales every year can't stay solvent, it negatively affects the economy. Temporarily closing nearly 90 locations including permanently closing almost 50 is a big deal. It's a tiny piece of a big picture, but it's not good news from an economic standpoint.If you bothered reading the quote that I replied to you'd see that I was laughing about a moron claiming that some Red Lobster stores closing will hurt the economy. It won't. I am certain that the employees of the "nearly 50" restaurants will find other jobs at restaurants that people actually go to and there will be no economic collapse because of this.
If you bothered reading the quote that I replied to you'd see that I was laughing about a moron claiming that some Red Lobster stores closing will hurt the economy. It won't. I am certain that the employees of the "nearly 50" restaurants will find other jobs at restaurants that people actually go to and there will be no economic collapse because of this.