Red Lobster Closes Times Square Location, AITA for Thinking This Was Inevitable Since They Kept the Endless Shrimp Deal?
Oh boy, another corporate Titanic hits an iceberg. TL;DR: Red Lobster shuttered its iconic Times Square spot, citing "financial struggles" and "lease issues." Like, no cap, you’re telling me a restaurant that literally bet the farm on all-you-can-eat shrimp in a tourist trap where rent is the GDP of a small country couldn’t make it work? Shocked pikachu face. The internet’s now flooded with eulogies for the Cheddar Bay Biscuits, as if they didn’t see this coming when they burned through $11 million in shrimp profits. AITA for not shedding a tear? Probably not, but go off, redditors—I’m sure the next “viral closure” will be some chain that thought “bottomless soup” was a stable business model.