It's unfair to blame the restaurant when the private equity firm that bought them deliberately stripped the restaurant's assets, hoping to rip off some later buyer. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/private-equity-rolled-red-lobster-rcna153397
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That’s… kinda the point of this article? It literally says the decline started when private equity acquired them
Yes, but the article makes it seem like their failure was based on mistakes. This was exactly what they intended.
A private equity firm bought them to naked short the stock, while running the business into the ground, so they never have to replace the holdings they never borrowed in the first place. It’s the same as what investors tried to do with GameStop before r/wallstreetbets caught on and held them out of bankruptcy. It’s called predatory naked shorting.
A private equity firm bought them to naked short the stock
You just like throwing around words regardless of meaning?
They owned equity, so they were long, not short. They owned a stake so they weren't naked.
What they did was a simple extraction of value from something they owned, destroying it. It has nothing to do with short selling, and has nothing to do with manipulation of stock trading (after all, they took it private so that it wouldn't be publicly traded, so there were no public traders to manipulate).
Shhhhhhhhhh, we read headlines. Not articles. And we need the headline to be presented on tiktok, with overlaying captions which are only one one at a time, but big enough to cover the whole screen. Also, throw in half a dozen unrelated things, like birds dancing, and some guy skate boarding. All for no reason. This is how things are now.
Yeah. Get your shit together Jeff.
I quit going after my lobster was rubber and the size of a large shrimp.
Personally I think the mistake was letting mice run around the front of the house during my last visit. We pointed it out to the staff who gave us the most fake surprised look I've ever seen.
It's too bad, their Cajun Chicken pasta is FIRE.
Are you sure they were mice and not rats? Because I hear that rats can become gourmet chefs with an odd sort of puppetry technique.
Whenever I see rats in a restaurant, I always assume there’s a Ratatouille situation going on in the kitchen. Quality does vary.
How often do you see rats in a restaurant?
They went one further and hired the rats directly to front of the house.
Ratatouille II: Mousetre D'
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I guarantee you, the secret ingredients are butter, garlic, salt, sugar, and cayenne. You can make it at home.