Darden announces sale of Red Lobster

[OnePercenter]

Seems the RWN party economics of cutting wages isn't working well for them.

Tyler Morning Telegraph - VIDEO: Restaurant chain announces sale of Red Lobster

 

[Toro]

Good stuff.

We're going to profit handsomely.

 

[blackhawk]

I never thought Red Lobster or Olive Garden's food was all that great which is the more likely reason they are losing customers.

 

[HenryBHough]

When you start a restaurant targeted on a price-point market and your raw material costs push you above what the tarted "audience" is willing to spend then you fail.

Labor cost is a factor, true, but in these cases food costs have skyrocketed and pay packets (for the customers) haven't.

 

[OnePercenter]

When you start a restaurant targeted on a price-point market and your raw material costs push you above what the tarted "audience" is willing to spend then you fail.

Labor cost is a factor, true, but in these cases food costs have skyrocketed and pay packets (for the customers) haven't.

Because of Republicans, 'pay packets' are decreasing. Which is the point of the thread.

Shouldn't labor be labour?

 

[Synthaholic]

Darden announces sale of Red Lobster


They'll freeze it first, then defrost it right before they turn it over to the new owners.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

It's like a massive closing sale / auction. At first you don't notice everyone getting out but then it becomes a trend and you realize it's closing time. There are plenty of signs once your eyes are opened to it. Darden is just another sign of where we are headed.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Red Lobster has been in a death spiral for years. It's all over but the funeral march. I realized that they were in trouble about 15 years ago, when they started advertising their dishes on television, filmed with a telephoto lens, in which they were trying to make their popcorn shrimp look like giant sea monsters. Olive Garden does not have a chance, either. Nobody wants a giant plate of pasta with some heavy duty calorie cream sauce, with 2 ozs. of protein.

 

[SteadyMercury]

in which they were trying to make their popcorn shrimp look like giant sea monsters.

Lol yep, and the breading ratio was so high it was basically a tiny cocktail shrimp engulfed in a hushpuppy.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The aging tee potty types think of RL and OG as fine dining and the menus reflect the obesity/diabetes epidemic.

And they sure as hell don't care if their server is getting shafted. If reading here is any indication, they like knowing that the giant corporation is screwing over the help.

 

[Ava]

When you start a restaurant targeted on a price-point market and your raw material costs push you above what the tarted "audience" is willing to spend then you fail.

Labor cost is a factor, true, but in these cases food costs have skyrocketed and pay packets (for the customers) haven't.

Many restaurants, that attract mainly the middle-class will fold, just as the middle-class is doing.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

When you start a restaurant targeted on a price-point market and your raw material costs push you above what the tarted "audience" is willing to spend then you fail.

Labor cost is a factor, true, but in these cases food costs have skyrocketed and pay packets (for the customers) haven't.

Many restaurants, that attract mainly the middle-class will fold, just as the middle-class is doing.

It does seem the right is winning their war against the middle class but don't despair - Obama continues to fight for equality.

 

[Darkwind]

When you start a restaurant targeted on a price-point market and your raw material costs push you above what the tarted "audience" is willing to spend then you fail.

Labor cost is a factor, true, but in these cases food costs have skyrocketed and pay packets (for the customers) haven't.

Because of Republicans, 'pay packets' are decreasing. Which is the point of the thread.

Shouldn't labor be labour?

Liar.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

When you start a restaurant targeted on a price-point market and your raw material costs push you above what the tarted "audience" is willing to spend then you fail.

Labor cost is a factor, true, but in these cases food costs have skyrocketed and pay packets (for the customers) haven't.

Because of Republicans, 'pay packets' are decreasing. Which is the point of the thread.

Shouldn't labor be labour?

Liar.

 

[Tank]

No big deal, there will be plenty of cheap burritos out there

 

[Iceweasel]

When you start a restaurant targeted on a price-point market and your raw material costs push you above what the tarted "audience" is willing to spend then you fail.

Labor cost is a factor, true, but in these cases food costs have skyrocketed and pay packets (for the customers) haven't.

Many restaurants, that attract mainly the middle-class will fold, just as the middle-class is doing.

People are figuring out that eating at home saves a fortune.

 

[OnePercenter]

When you start a restaurant targeted on a price-point market and your raw material costs push you above what the tarted "audience" is willing to spend then you fail.

Labor cost is a factor, true, but in these cases food costs have skyrocketed and pay packets (for the customers) haven't.

Because of Republicans, 'pay packets' are decreasing. Which is the point of the thread.

Shouldn't labor be labour?

Liar.

Republicans believe you have to keep the peasants working for as little money as possible, it’s the next best thing to slavery and you don’t have to give them room and board.

 

[SteadyMercury]

Republicans believe

Whenever someone on a message board starts a post like this, you can save time and just dismiss the entire thing as some idiot putting a strawman out there with an extremist opinion that they couldn't attribute to anyone else on the forum actually holding.

 

[SteadyMercury]

Many restaurants, that attract mainly the middle-class will fold, just as the middle-class is doing.

Many other restaurants that attract mainly the middle-class have grown rapidly over the past decade.

 

[rdean]

I hope they aren't Gulf lobster. I've read about crabs without claws, shrimp without eyes, dolphins without teeth. I've heard about children who play in the water getting blisters.

I still can't believe Republicans protected BP from investigation. And they claim they are "patriots". How is that possible?

SENATE GOP UNDERCUTS BP PROBE

The commission can't get answers without subpoena power, and Congress has routinely extended subpoena power to related commissions -- including panels investigating the JFK assassination, the Three Mile Island disaster, and the 9/11 attacks. And yet, Senate Republicans yesterday blocked the authority for the BP commission, and wouldn't say why.
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And USMB Republicans are fine with that. In fact, they applaud it.