r/redlobster

i work at a red lobster and my boss just told me im getting a red card and she needs to take my picture for it. Ive only been here for a short while what exactly is a red card 😓

As a former Red Lobster employee, and had family who also worked there for decades, to see how Red Lobster has become pisses me off, and I blame Darden entirely, they also need to rename their company.

Bill Darden was a great guy who only had one dream; and he created Red Lobster from that. That was his ONLY baby. Olive Garden is some abomination created by General Mills in the 80s, and the menu was designed by Red Lobster chefs.

Darden as a company doesn't deserve the name Darden because his only restaurant is gone. They decided to abandon it in 2014 for no reason and sold it to a bunch of mornonic asswipes, who sold all the land to themselves so they can make leases on land that had 0 leases. General Mills bought all that property in the 70s and 80s for literally nothing.

Why wasn't Olive Garden sold off? I think Olive Garden would have done better on it's own, and then they should have kept Red Lobster as part of Darden and really work on it. After all, Olive Garden is just pasta, and you can get better pasta at local Italian places. Red Lobster is unique, there isn't really seafood places everywhere.

It seems the only profitable part of Red Lobster now is the 27 locations in Canada that actually make profit. Other than that, the US is seeing tons of restaurant closures and lots of declining sales and guest counts.

Olive Garden isn't even that good, isn't it microwaved pasta and sauce??

I had the most amazing potatoes on my crab leg plate a few days ago. I did the crab your own way with the old bay and butter sauce. I asked the waiter to leave off the potatoes cos I never eat them- he insisted I keep them.

They were the most amazing potatoes I think I've ever had. I'd like to make them for a BBQ this weekend. Is there a recipe for these somewhere? I'm sure it would be easy enough to just roast some potatoes with butter and old bay but they got the temp and crispiness and amount of sauce absolutely perfect.

Is this exact recipe available somewhere?

Did I like do red lobster wrong? Is there a red lobster code of conduct? My partner and I (both 20yr old men) went for endless shrimp and the staff was like openly hostile. We wore normal everyday clothes, we didn’t like make out over the shrimp or have like a crazy loud conversation, it wasn’t super busy when we went or anything. We had a modest amount of shrimp (only two rounds). After the second round the server asked if we wanted more and I said ‘no thanks we’re all full’ and she goes ‘yeah I bet, I think you’ve had plenty’. ??? I literally only had the first round with the three dishes and a side and one other dish for my second round.

I get endless shrimp is annoying af for the staff but we ordered a really reasonable amount and were super polite. The vibes were so wack the entire time. I’ve literally never been shamed for eating at a restaurant before- Did we mess something up? Is she part shrimp? Did we eat her shrimp friends?

Is my store the only one that's pathetically dead? I'm in a big city in Ohio and lately it's not even worth it tbh! I'm guessing my location is closed by next year and so many vets are also leaving sadly. To make it even better we are keeping Endless Shrimp as our Monday lunch special lol and I work lunch! I used to easily clear 200 in 4 hours and today I was there 5 or 5 1/2 and walked with 71 after a 9.00 tip out. I only made that cause I'm a good server and pull good tips on my few tables