Red Lobster has closed at 15700 Shady Grove Road. The seafood restaurant chain announced late Sunday night that it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. "This restructuring is the best path forward for Red Lobster," CEO Jonathan Tibus said in a statement. "It allows us to address several financial and operational challenges and emerge stronger and re-focused on our growth. The support we've received from our lenders and vendors will help ensure that we can complete the sale process quickly and efficiently while remaining focused on our employees and guests." As part of its bankruptcy filings, Red Lobster will close some locations, sell some - or potentially all - of its assets, and sell its business to a new entity "formed and controlled by its existing term lenders."
This is especially sad news for residents of the Upper Rock neighborhood. The closure removes one of the main dining options within walking distance of the apartments there. Can we get an Olive Garden or Texas Roadhouse into this empty building? Montgomery County may be the only jurisdiction of its size in America to have neither. The machinations of the Montgomery County Council against those brands, Walmart, Cracker Barrel, and modernity in general are truly bizarre! Believe it or not, your constituents want unlimited bread sticks, and to be able to buy beer and wine at Giant and CVS!
Did this red lobster open in 1980s?
ReplyDeleteSay bye to your unlimited shrimp, boomers :p it’s a millennial world, you’re just living in it
ReplyDeleteI want a Olive Garden, which has good breadsticks also Texas roadhouse is good too they have great food also
ReplyDeleteAgree with all of Robert's suggestions.
ReplyDeleteWhy would you want Olive Garden when the excellent, non-corporate That’s Amore is just down the street?
ReplyDeleteThere are dozens upon dozens of highly rated Italian restaurants in MoCo. Olive Garden knows they could never compete here.
DeleteI don't think Olive Garden sees itself as being in competition with more traditional Italian restaurants. There are certainly good Italian restaurants in many of the other localities where Olive Garden currently operates. Fans of Olive Garden know what they are going there for, and there aren't really any pretentions that Mama's Old World family recipes are on the menu. Does anyone think Taco Bell is authentic Mexican? No, but the drive-thru is always packed with cars, and we Taco Bell lovers are fanatical about the chain.
DeleteIf only they knew the real reason for not having an OG.
DeleteTaco bell is fast food as opposed to say Villa Maya, which is authentic Mexican cuisine.
DeleteI think Montgomery County needs an Olive Garden, after I went to my first olive garden in New York around 15 years ago, I was shocked to find that Montgomery County didn't have one.Very good restaurant.
ReplyDeleteYes, I hadn't thought of that. That's Amore down the road and Mama Lucia's at Falls Grove. And many more as someone else pointed out.....
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