Do Red Lobster Customers Care the Chain Appears Doomed?
We went to Times Square to find out.
It’s a bad time to be a lover of Cheddar Bay biscuits: Red Lobsters across the country have been forced to close as the seafood chain faces a financial tsunami. Almost 100 locations, including nine in New York State, have (“temporarily”) shuttered. This is all moving very fast: equipment, like lobster tanks, is listed for auction, with sold items needing to be picked up tomorrow, May 17.
The good news in the city is that the Times Square outpost seems safe from the deluge for the time being. So we stopped by to see if diners were aware of the chain’s tumult, and if so, were worried about the possibility of saying good-bye to endless shrimp.