So it was crap management and too many customers for their dumb shrimp deal
[QUOTE=Spidy;2952920]Then explain, why hasn't it been a problem, for many of the "42 Fastest-Growing Restaurant Chains Right Now", in the article I provided, for them to get loans or expand their businesses to new locations? Or why their customers seem to have no problems buying, from their restaurants, that have fueled the record growth and healthy increases in profits.
[b]The 42 Fastest-Growing Restaurant Chains Right Now[/b]
[url]https://www.eatthis.com/fastest-growing-restaurant-chains-2024/[/url]
Your delusions aside, Forbes magazine quotes the problems for bankruptcy, mainly as a revolving-door of ownership, 5 CEOs in the last few years, the poor management, poor sales, financial issues (which is again poor management) and a massive million dollar lost/fiasco on an [i][b]"all you can eat shrimp" bet[/b][/i] that when south (again poor management).
[i][LIST]"Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy due to struggling with ownership turnover, plateauing sales, financial issues exacerbated by debt, the pandemic, and an all-you-can-eat shrimp deal that resulted in significant operating losses." [url]https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/05/20/why-red-lobster-went-bankrupt-covid-rising-costs-and-millions-lost-on-endless-shrimp/[/url]
[b]After All-You-Can-Eat-Shrimp Deal FIASCO[/b]
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2rOPAoP-94[/URL][/LIST][/i]
Appealing to "god" with OMGs is NOT going to help your woefully inept argument.
Dude, if you read the article above "42 Fastest-Growing Restaurant Chains Right Now", you'll see the growth in sales and locations in [i][b]"these restaurants"[/b][/i] that you claim Red Lobster is having problems with, in a so called bad Biden economy with "high inflation", "limited resources" and "cash".
Explain why they are thriving and Red Lobster is not? Why their customers have money?
[b]PS: [i]"All-You-Can-Eat" endless shrimp fiasco"[/i][/b] is just hilarious, as employees recant their tales of hordes of families coming in, looking to get fed on one (1) order of endless shrimp (...kkkk!)
Talk about [b]gross mismanagement[/b], that has nothing to do with a Biden Economy!!![/QUOTE]LOL. How funny is it in the context of this discussion that Red Lobster's problems had NOTHING to do with too few customers or customers with no money during the glorious Bidenomics Recovery from Trump's Pandemic Repub Disaster but everything to do with their crap management and attracting TOO MANY customers for their stupid and greedy market grab all-you-can-eat shrimp fiasco. Lolol.
Oh well. Actually, I enjoyed eating at Red Lobster back in the day, no problem. But when I tried their premier Bangkok location at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center near my apartment, it was an overpriced nothing worth ever repeating experience.
Many of the imports from the West / USA are fine if not better here in Bangkok; Lawry's the Prime Rib, Cheesecake Factory, Shake Shack, hell, even Pizza Hut is better here than it was in USA if you suddenly have a taste for a chain restaurant version of pizza, although there are plenty of better pizzerias here for that as well as fine Italian restaurants.
Red Lobster was a notable disappointment here and I was not surprised that it filed for bankruptcy. Maybe they learned their lesson, hired better management and the dozens of outlets that survived will do a better job of it. There is already a 2nd location open in the new Emsphere Mall and I have heard a 3rd will open in the new huge shopping and residence Bangkok One complex set for a Grand Opening in week or so.
Please read these links, I can send a few 100,000 more if you like
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2952939]Man, talk about your classic DEA propaganda. Is the doctor responsible for the people who do kill themselves because he undertreated pain? He would get lynched in 2002 but today it is fine. He is a great doctor. He kept you from getting addicted.
And you had no part in it huh? I guess those pills magically flew from your pocket into your mouth. Of course, when it comes to alcoholism, that is different. Budweiser makes money. They sell to addicts, but when it comes to alcoholism, that is on the individual. The difference is he physically put the beer in his mouth, and pain pills magically fly into your mouth.
If that is the case, then when the doctors were put in jail and the number of pills went down by 2/3, the death related to opioids should have gone down. They went up ten fold, and you just gave the answer as to why. If you are thinking of killing yourself and you can buy something illegal in the street, then a lot of people are going to do that, and that crap they are buying now is laced with Fentanyl.
The best thing that happened to the Mexican drug cartels is they are treating pain now versus doctors. That makes up for the loss of the cannabis market.
If the doctor prescribes safe medication to said people, then they would be saving lives, but that does not fit the narrative now does it?
I am not sure why you would cheer on a policy that killed so many people and caused so much suffering, but then I remembered that you are not that good with numbers.[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/17/doctors-charged-illegal-prescription-opioid-crackdown/[/URL]
[URL]https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/30/581930051/drug-distributors-shipped-20-8-million-painkillers-to-west-virginia-town-of-3-00[/URL]
[URL]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/probe-780-million-painkillers-in-6-years-west-virginia/[/URL]
Red Lobster: Blame gross mismanagement...
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2952969]The truth has that effect. When you lie and say the restaurant industry is doing great when it is not, that is a downer.
[/QUOTE]There you go again, sucking the [u]JOY[/u] out of reporting the [u]FACTS[/u], misrepresenting the [u]TRUTH and LYING[/u] to deflect from DATA and PLAIN EVIDENCE, that shows, your wrong in your claims regarding the restaurant industry and Red Lobster, in particular.
More than enough effort, facts and economic data has been presented to you, that indicate said restaurant industry, is doing just fine and have steady increasing in profits and have been growing in more locations, during this so called, "bad" Biden economy.
All except your venerated "dog(s) in the fight", Red Lobster and others, that have shown to be failing due to [I][b]gross mismanagement,[/b][/I] poor sales , crappy food and in the case of Red Lobster, bad [I][b]"endless shrimp deals"[/b][/I], that turn into fiascos, as to why they were failing and went into bankruptcy.
[B]Red Lobster's Bankruptcy Is INSANE (Endless Shrimp Fiasco)[/B]
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLxmW7urJgk[/URL]
As soon as you provide me with representative FACTS and DATA, that shows Red Lobster, DID NOT go into bankruptcy, mainly due to [i][b]gross mismanagement[/b] (by multiple CEOs of massive debt, bad rental land leases, and "endless shrimp")[/i], I'll be listening...take your time!
[b]PS:[/b] BTW, Red Lobster in a so called "bad" Biden Economy is now exiting Chapter 11 bankruptcy and looking to reinvent themselves, as any good company should, [b]if they're worth[/b] their weight in salt...or in Red Lobster's case, their weight in "endless shrimp" (...kkkk!)
Maybe Poll respondents don't know the facts about Trump, The Stupid Businessman
[QUOTE=WestsideGuy89;2953025][b]Trump For Prez[/b]
The guy is business smart. He is good for business. He isn't good for politics but name one elected official who really is. Here is a guy who is a convicted felon (which he won't be after he wins his appeal) and still holding on strong in the polls. Thats good whether you're Republican or Democrat.[/QUOTE]Trump might be hanging on like a rat on a rafter to a position slightly behind Harris in the polls because many Poll respondents were conned by that scripted game show he hosted into believing he was some kind of smart and successful businessmen when he was in fact a spectacularly failed joke of a businessman merely reading a script written by someone else on a teleprompter.
[B]Trump's economic plans would worsen inflation, experts say.
Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, "inflation will vanish completely. ".
Oct. 15,2024[/B]
[URL]https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/trumps-economic-plans-worsen-inflation-experts-114801463[/URL]
[B]Two-Thirds Of Economists Think Inflation Would Be Worse Under Trump Than Harris, Poll Finds.
Oct. 14,2024[/B]
[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/14/two-thirds-of-economists-think-inflation-would-be-worse-under-trump-than-harris-poll-finds/[/URL]
[B]Donald Trump Slipping Against Kamala Harris in New Survey From Economists.
Oct. 14,2024[/B]
[URL]https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-kamala-harris-economic-policies-survey-1968884[/URL]
[B]The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust.
Oct. 14,2024[/B]
[URL]https://www.economist.com/special-report/2024/10/14/the-american-economy-has-left-other-rich-countries-in-the-dust[/URL]
[B]USA Productivity, 'the envy of the world,' was better than initially estimated in second quarter.
USA Output per hour rises at 2. 5% annual rate vs. Prior estimate of 2. 3%.
Sept. 5, 2024[/B]
[URL]https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-productivity-in-the-second-quarter-was-better-than-initially-estimates-6c328aa7[/URL]
[B]As a Businessman, Trump Was the Biggest Loser of All.
May 8, 2019[/B]
[URL]https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/as-a-businessman-trump-was-the-biggest-loser-of-all[/URL]
[B]The Worst Businessman in America.
The revelations about Trump's taxes prove he was a grifter and a fraud, a braggart and a blowhard. In other words, he was the same man he is today.
May 8, 2019[/B]
[URL]https://newrepublic.com/article/153855/trump-tax-returns-worst-businessman-america[/URL]
[B]Column: A lengthy list of Trump's disastrous business deals compiled by his newest business partners.
May 18,2022[/B]
[URL]https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-05-18/trump-business-partners-outline-his-failed-deals[/URL]
Actually, there is no reason to believe a businessman or businesswoman, especially a miserably failed one like Trump until he found himself in a position where he could con dumb Repub hillbillies out of big chunks of their entitlement checks, would make a good or effective president, essentially the steward for a complex national economy like that of the USA.
Why would they? Even if they were good for their particular business or industry, their "expertise" is being good for their particular industry. Which often involves shitting on their industry competitors, not "lifting all boats. " They might even be more inclined than anyone else to steer policy to benefit their business or industry and not give a shit about anything else.
Trump spent his 4 years as so-called president trying to raise the profile of his "brand", apparently in order to get loans and permission from Russia and China to build big, garish, ugly Trump buildings in those countries after USA banks no longer wanted to lose money on his scams. Therefore, in one example he kissed Xi's ass by defunding and removing the Pandemic Prevention teams from those Chinese labs in 2019, in the midst of his failed trade negotiations with Xi, contrary to all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid.
Now, that might have seemed like a shrewd move for a pathetically needy businessman. But it was a damn lousy decision for America and the rest of the world.
[B]Trump will leave office with a historically bad economic record.
Dec. 13,2020[/B]
[URL]https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/politics/trump-economy-record/index.html[/URL]
[B]Record-Breaking Accomplishments On Jobs And Unemployment Under Biden.
June 7, 2024[/B]
[URL]https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardmcgahey/2024/06/07/record-breaking-accomplishments-on-jobs-and-unemployment-under-biden/[/URL]
Red Lobster: "Endless Shrimp and TOO MANY customers...
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2953031]LOL. How funny is it in the context of this discussion that Red Lobster's problems had NOTHING to do with too few customers or customers with no money during the glorious Bidenomics Recovery from Trump's Pandemic Repub Disaster but everything to do with their crap management and [b]attracting TOO MANY customers[/b] for their stupid and greedy market grab all-you-can-eat shrimp fiasco. Lolol. ... [/QUOTE] It's freakin' hilarious! Just picture it...[i]"TOO MANY customers"[/i] gorging in gluttony to "all-you-can-eat/endless shrimp", resulting in part to a bankruptcy fiasco (...kkkk!)
Just as funny as the ISG Repub economists, claiming that customers, in a so called "bad" Biden economy, have [b]"no money"[/b] to gorge themselves on "endless shrimp".
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2953031]Red Lobster was a notable disappointment here and I was not surprised that it filed for bankruptcy. Maybe they learned their lesson, hired better management and the dozens of outlets that survived will do a better job of it. There is already a 2nd location open in the new Emsphere Mall and I have heard a 3rd will open in the new huge shopping and residence Bangkok One complex set for a Grand Opening in week or so.[/QUOTE]Red Lobster, just emerged from Chapter 11, so who knows, perhaps with better management, maybe they'll be good again. If they bring back "endless shrimp", color me there. (...kkkk!)
Haven't changed what in 3 years? LOL
[QUOTE=WestsideGuy89;2953132]Say what you want. Any guy who gets convicted and goes up in popularity with the opposing party is pretty good IMO. At the debate he brought up a good question to this day still isn't answered; if the Dems think his policy was so bad why haven't they changed it in 3 plus years?[/QUOTE]Remember Trump's fantastic programs passed in his various Infrastructure Weeks?
Yeah, neither does anyone else.
Biden passed a HUGE bi-partisan Infrastructure Bill.
How about Trump's fantastic Chips and Science Bill? Remember that one?
Yeah, neither does anyone else.
I'm sure you remember when Biden defunded and removed the Pandemic Prevention Team from those Chinese labs contrary to all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid, right?
Yeah, neither does anyone else because Biden never did or ever would do something that dangerous and stupid.
But Trump did. In 2019.
On a related matter, that and other sterling Trump economic policies and stewardship (see next entry) contributed to Trump being the first president since Repub Herbert Hoover to leave office with fewer jobs in place than when he took office vs Biden leaving office with more jobs created than any 2-3 Repubs combined no matter how many terms they "served. ".
Not to mention that $2. 5 Trillion monstrosity Trump passed that produced 1 million FEWER jobs in his first 3 "ok but still below average" economic years pre Trump's Pandemic than in the 3 previous Obama-Biden years without it vs Biden's American Rescue Plan Act producing so many jobs a few nervous Nellie "economists" slammed it for creating TOO MANY jobs.
And then there was that time Biden sided with Putin's intel community and lies over those of the USA and their facts on the world stage.
Oh wait. That was Trump, never Biden.
And who could forget Trump adding two more countries to the greatest pro democracy military alliance in history, NATO.
Oops. My bad. That was Biden, never Trump.
Oh, sure. We can hardly tell the difference between the policies and especially the policy results of Trump and Biden. LOL.
But let's say you were only talking about tariffs, which have been in place in one way or another during almost every presidency. The ones that might contribute to giving domestic manufacturing a boost were kept. But Biden never ever characterized them as anything but additional revenue-generating costs to the American consumer and sure as hell not as money paid TO America BY other countries or any such nonsense.
Also, a tariff is something one can get away with adding to an imported item as long as domestic manufacturing is growing and not shrinking. Biden knew his economic stimulus legislation WOULD expand the manufacturing sector, add more manufacturing jobs and would therefore better arm domestic manufacturing to take up the business that tariffs would inhibit. And he was right.
By contrast, Trump only said his TCJA would expand USA manufacturing and he was dead wrong. Consequently, his trade war tariffs drove the USA manufacturing sector into a Recession (pre Trump's Pandemic) while manufacturing jobs declined and he had to add more to his record high deficits by issuing emergency welfare checks just to keep them afloat.
There are other reasons Biden could not simply stop some of Trump's trade war tariffs that are similar to why an incoming president can't just stop fighting any war started by his predecessor on day one. Once a war has been started and engaged, one side doesn't get to halt all of the complex nuances of the conflict by simply announcing, "OK, we'll lay down our guns and stop shooting now. " It tales much longer than that to disengage in a way that at least gets a compromise and similar disarmament on the other side. Is Xi agreeing to halt his side of Trump's Trade War yet?
MSM are trying very hard to keep this hush hush before the election:
Apparently, the typically pro Repub Mainstream Media just can't bear the thought of mentioning this astonishing bit of news so close to a possible 2nd term election win for their beloved Repub Donald Trump.
This is similar to their near total MSM silence over the past 4 1/2 years about how it was Trump's supposedly "smart" economic policies that contributed more than anyone or anything else on the planet to ushering in and exacerbating Trump's Pandemic in the first place.
A so-called president's own Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff characterized him as "Fascist to the core" and "the most dangerous person ever" while enthusiastically endorsing his presidential election opponent as the only sane and patriotic thing to do? LOL. Nothing new to see or hear here, folks. Happens all the time.
[B]Broadcast news shows and print outlets largely ignored Gen. Milley calling Trump fascist to the core.
Only one article from The Washington Post and one segment from NBC News covered the comments.[/B]
[URL]https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/broadcast-news-shows-and-print-outlets-largely-ignored-gen-milley-calling-trump[/URL]
