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Red Lobster Hospitality, LLC is an American casual dining restaurant chain headquartered in Orlando, Florida.The company has operations across most of the United States (including Puerto Rico and Guam) and Canada, as well as in China, Ecuador, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates; as of June 23, 2020, the company had 719 locations worldwide.
William Bristor Darden (November 17, 1918 – March 29, 1994), known as Bill, was an American businessman and the founder of the Red Lobster restaurant franchise. He is also the namesake of the multi-brand restaurant operator Darden Restaurants, which considers Darden to be its founder.
Red Lobster. In 2024 the Orlando, Florida-based seafood chain slipped towards bankruptcy closing 93 locations and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 20, 2024, with over $1 billion in debt.
Red Lobster attracted both working-class and affluent Black diners during the 1970s and 1980s at a time when many sit-down restaurants were unwelcoming of Black patrons, said Marcia Chatelain, a ...
Red Lobster’s new 35-year-old CEO explains what went wrong with ‘endless shrimp’ — calls the chain ‘one of the most important companies’ in American history.
Red Lobster’s annual customer count has dropped by 30% since 2019, Red Lobster said in its bankruptcy filing. Paul Kenny steps in Red Lobster was started in 1968 by Bill Darden, an architect of ...
He later founded the Red Lobster Inns of America and opened the first Red Lobster restaurant in Lakeland, Florida, in 1968. [4] Red Lobster, which grew quickly, formed the basis of the organization that later became known as Darden Restaurants. [5] Darden chose Lakeland to see how a seafood restaurant would fare in a non-coastal region.
Known for its affordable seafood and cheddary biscuits, Red Lobster has seen multiple ownership changes over the course of its 56-year history. The brand was founded back in 1968 by Bill Darden ...