Red Lobster in Mira Mesa is one of more than 100 locations closing
The popular restaurant chain Red Lobster is in the red, and could soon file for bankruptcy protection.
On Monday, the Florida-based company shuttered dozens of its locations, including here in San Diego.
The Red Lobster in Mira Mesa is one of up to 120 location closures throughout the nation. A restaurant supply liquidator plans to auction off their kitchen equipment.
While there are still a couple of other Red Lobsters here in San Diego County still open. What their future holds is uncertain.
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I’m sure the lobsters 🦞 happy af!
Red Lobster is closing,how is Chucky Cheese still open????
The one by Grossmont Center is boarded up with windows smashed in. 😨
@michaeltabanao8092
17 күн бұрын
Good 👍 call.....scene that yesterday....windows smashed, plants 🪴 growing like jungle.....
Another casualty of private equity. They'd still be in business if they never were bought out in 2014. _Golden Gate, which bought the chain for $2.1 billion in 2014. At that time, virtually all of the real estate under Red Lobster restaurants was owned by the chain, which has no franchisees._ _Golden Gate, a private-equity firm, then sold the real estate for $1.6 billion to American Realty Capital Partners, which changed its name and reformed as Vereit this July. The properties were leased back to Golden Gate._
@MA_808
17 күн бұрын
They did fine under a lot other Presidents. So, your theory is full of holss
@kennixox262
6 күн бұрын
You are so right on this. Such a common occurrence and yet the media never reports this. One might imagine that it won't fit in their 90 second news segment on this.
Make sure they close it up because the one in la mesa the homeless destroyed the fence and broke the windows. You can’t keep them out.
@michaeltabanao8092
17 күн бұрын
La Mesa slowly 🐌....turning into a scene from the Purge....Fletcher Parkway , next to what was Soup Plantation...abandon for over 10 years...😮💨
@alexeinorris9537
14 күн бұрын
I emailed the mayor in la mesa no reply he doesn’t care. It’s sad people can destroy property and not be accountable
@michaeltabanao8092
14 күн бұрын
@alexeinorris9537 doing the same, it looks like a scene from the Purge.....you can see it from the bottom street 😳. Further more traveling up the street towards Jersey Mike's, the Median has cracked curbing with exposed rebar....😮💨...an E Mail to the Mayor with CC; La Mesa Public Works and I believe they have a City Council.....they only address problems if they are embarrassed, local government is non proactive, that's why Channel 8 has " investigations"..... get enough heat 🥵 to start a fire 🔥......El Cajon is turning into what La Mesa used to be.....
If they were popular, they wouldn't be in the red....
Red Lobster has been in the “red” for a long time. Many food chain companies just lease properties & when their lease expires…. It expires.
@HKim0072
17 күн бұрын
Red Lobster owned all their real estate until...private equity swooped in and sold their locations.
@davidclemens1578
17 күн бұрын
The reporter says that one of the problems could be the all you can eat shrimp which he makes it sound like started last year. I have not been to a Red lobster in years and even then they had the all you can eat shrimp. We can blame the economy because food has had the highest inflation rate of all the things affected by inflation and the fact that covid shut down the businesses for over a year. I would guess there are many hundreds of businesses that are on the edge of going bankrupt because of the government policies. One of the people interviewed blamed the Thai company for not being very good at investment when it is likely that they could see the writing on the wall and there was no way to recoup the losses with the current government. The government must be included in the equation.
The La Mesa location already closed. I grew up in Mira Mesa in the 1980's and remember when the location there opened.
@michaeltabanao8092
17 күн бұрын
😊 remember Pheralls.....late 70s
@User_92020
17 күн бұрын
Reb lobster in LA mesa? Where's that at? The only red lobster I know is the one in point loma
@michaeltabanao8092
17 күн бұрын
@@User_92020 near the Wal-Mart
@user-xh2yg4uv9q
17 күн бұрын
@@User_92020 , Grossmont Center.
@ll4680
17 күн бұрын
Same here I grew up in MM in the 90s that place, Tio Leos, and El Torrito was bussin!
Inflation is making restaurants bite the dust. Only thing transitory about this inflation are businesses leaving the marketplace. Spend trillions more … let’s see what else can break. 😂
@ericn8442
17 күн бұрын
Younger people don't like dinning at big food chains. Those young gens are dinning at popping up restaurant they see in IG. Im grew up going to watch these types of food chain restaurant on TV. Just in the past 10 years I have been on the social media watch food blogger. I live in Mira Mesa and there so many restaurant are doing very well with 1 to 2 hours waiting list. its just time have change.
@kennixox262
6 күн бұрын
Private equity as noted above is mostly to blame in this case and many others. They always use "inflation", or the "pandemic", or "9/11" or something else to assign blame. Asset strippers come in, strip the best parts of the company, load it up with debt then take the money and run. This leaves the stripped company holding the bag. This practice should be outlawed.
Noooooooooooooo. My coconut shrimp and cheddar bay biscuits!!!!
@JHRIRS2010
17 күн бұрын
I love their coconut shrimp but alas no more, funny thing is just got an email a day the other day for RL what gives?
@Roquea.207
16 күн бұрын
Cook it at home
@JHRIRS2010
16 күн бұрын
@@Roquea.207 sorry, but not the same.
@Roquea.207
16 күн бұрын
@@JHRIRS2010 of course no …is actually healthier and less addictive
Two adorable ladies! Sorry about the restaurant chain.
Subway closed a bunch of locations too. Good job $20 min wage!
@user-cw3wm9lx7w
17 күн бұрын
Subway makes subpar garbage food, bur sure higher wages is killing their business and not competitors like Jersey Mike’s or Firehouse subs making better sandwhiches.
@Loarnold
17 күн бұрын
@@user-cw3wm9lx7w all of that is overpriced garbage food
@mrmakeembreakitdown
16 күн бұрын
Restaurants don’t pay 20$ smart one
@mrmakeembreakitdown
16 күн бұрын
They literally attributed their losses to coupons and special deals its broke peoples fault
@Loarnold
16 күн бұрын
@@mrmakeembreakitdown I can tell you’re broke. where do you live? Restaurants around here pay $20 an hour, these aren’t restaurant workers they are fast food employees. Like you probably are.
The one in La mesa has been closed for a year now. Keep up People, this company has been in the red for years now.
*That man ate all our shrimp, and three plastic lobsters!*
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Poop happens like the google /youtube algorithm censor sheat detail 😂
San Diego is next to the ocean last time I checked.
Did sizzler teach no one anything .?
I loved working there 40 yrs ago, made good money, too
Bankruptcy 😌😌😌😌 not following directions
That's a shame, it was my favorite restaurant.
Let’s talk about buttered sausage, where it comes from, what it does. Why does it do what it’s doing, get it out of my face. It’s not my jam, I don’t buy jam, I buy honey and I kiss it on the lips.
Damn the restaurant These are people jobs Save your money Don’t pay rent if you lost your job Don’t buy anything new Save your money Own some property if you can no matter how small I did that in 2017 I was ok
That's what you get when you're for profit only and not there just to serve the public
Bring back the red barn best hambugers ever😁
ALL 99 CENT STORES CLOSING
who the heck eats at Red Lobster any more... laughable
I blame Beyonce.
@Shua98
17 күн бұрын
🤣🤣 that’s funny
Bro who goes to red lobster lol. That place is disgusting.
😱😭😱😭😱😭
Private equity killed another business, ban PE.
@LemonHillSoccer
16 күн бұрын
Ban Biden
Good I'm glad Red lobster's closing the food there sucks
food sucks anyway
@janedoe1404
15 күн бұрын
I agree
Food was 2/10 nothing of value was lost
Joe Bidens America 🇺🇸
@HKim0072
17 күн бұрын
GOP Private Equity America. The company had $1.6 billion in real estate assets that the private equity sold off in the 2014. Instead of owning $1.6 billion in assets, they had to start paying rent.
@user-cw3wm9lx7w
17 күн бұрын
@@HKim0072 yel.
@BuB2181
17 күн бұрын
Ignorance in ownership, keep the political crap out of this.
@shadyscruples7161
17 күн бұрын
@@BuB2181Trump 2024!! MAGA!!
@yayayay4277
10 күн бұрын
Could you please elaborate? Maybe I'm just not in the loop but are you able to provide literally any facts at all that would indicate this has anything to do with the biden administration?
Place is trash
Dead Lobster
Bidenomics. Bravo dems you're "building back better" .... 🤪
@yayayay4277
10 күн бұрын
He just curious, could you please provide any, literally any, facts that would suggest this is a result of the democrats and biden administration? Maybe I'm just out of the loop, I'm genuinely asking I'm really not even trying to get political
Bidenomics
@yayayay4277
10 күн бұрын
Why do you say that? Could you provide any facts? I'm sincerely asking maybe I'm just out of the loop
Bidenomics 😱
@mrmakeembreakitdown
16 күн бұрын
Did you not hear broke aka cheap people like you caused this
@yayayay4277
10 күн бұрын
Can you elaborate on why exactly this has anything to do with democrats/biden administration? I'm genuinely asking
Who cares. Nobody respectable eats there.
Blame tRump
@moderndaycaveman2519
17 күн бұрын
How??? Sleepy Joe has been in charge
@michaeltabanao8092
17 күн бұрын
I blame Trump for having the biggest rally in NJ
@davidpulido2942
17 күн бұрын
Another deranged fan of sleepy Joe.
Nasty food anyways
Bidenomics
@yayayay4277
10 күн бұрын
Could you please elaborate?