Red lobster times square closure is a wake-up call: another business bites the dust because running a restaurant on common sense is now a crime.
As a local who’s watched this place struggle for years, I’m not shocked. It’s simple—you don’t need a business degree to see that slapping a 20% surcharge on every check while serving frozen shrimp in a tourist trap was a recipe for disaster. They spent millions on rent and fancy signage instead of paying line cooks a living wage. Now it’s empty, and everyone’s acting surprised. Common sense says you can’t charge $30 for a bowl of soggy biscuits and expect families to keep coming back. Maybe if they’d priced for actual locals instead of just Times Square suckers, they’d still be open. But no, let’s blame the economy instead of the obvious mismanagement.