Red Lobster made an epic comeback from bankruptcy with seafood boil bags.

What should they do to keep this momentum?

I think they ought to link up with Flaming Hot Cheetos. I sneed this.

>>21444615 (OP)
these make me feel bad for lobsters

>>21444640
Lobsters and crabs would eat you and everyone you hold dear given the chance to do.

They deserve no sympathy, they just got are first.

>>21444615 (OP)
Given the clientelle they seem to be aiming for, Lean. And play R&B over the radio. Fuck it, put a dancing pole over the lobster tank.

>>21444615 (OP)
ngl lobster tail drenched in zesty butter sauce and encrusted with FHC dust sounds better than deadass regular lobster eryone eats.

>>21444671
>put a dancing pole over the lobster tank
hell yeah

>>21444663
>zero empathy autist also can’t spell
pottery

>>21444615 (OP)
I cannot tell if that is a man, woman, child, or adult

>>21444671
>put a dancing pole over the lobster tank.
That will only lead to some fat mammy-type getting raped by a decapod à la Multiple Maniacs.

>>21444679
Change the oil in your Altima or something

It's not a comeback, it's just a demotion from "upper middle class place" to "food truck in a building".

>>21444615 (OP)
I want that green hippo drink.

>>21445157
Yeah me too
Actually I just want the fruit on top

>>21445135
>she thinks red lobster was ever upper middle class
Just how bad is it in the trailer park, Cletus? Jesus fucking Christ, you must be exceedingly poor to think that shit was anything even remotely close to resembling a whisper of even middle class dining, never mind upper middle.

>>21445191
Imagine the look on her face if she ever manages to see a Ruth's Chris lmao

>>21445191
In the 90s it was absolutely upper middle class, of course zoomers don't know this (you) but "middle class" used to mean actual middle class, not people who own "a starter home" for $450,000.00 but owned 2 bedroom average houses for $95,000.00 and spending 40 dollars per person on a dinner was a big spend for them along with olive garden and cheesecake factory. Now, as a child, you're mixing up "middle class" with lower-upper-class, to them any chain is low class. I'm sorry, but just because your parents feed you doesn't mean you should be so ignorant.

>>21445135
Red Lobster hasn't even been upper working class since 9-11 happened

>>21445250
So after the 90s? I'm right then, thanks for agreeing.

>>21445252
What I'm trying to say is Red Lobster is currently for anyone that's ever impressed by a donk car. I guess I'm not sure which side of the argument you're on. Red Lobster has never been upper middle class, it was blue collar but then went downhill.

>>21445240
Wasting money on over priced "fine dining" like Red Lobster is precisely why the middle class died. It ate itself.

>>21445240
>In the 90s it was absolutely upper middle class
No it fucking wasn't, you poverty-stricken retard. Holy shit. Seriously, how poor are you? Be honest. The fact that you think a fucking CHAIN RESTAURANT could every be anything better than the most middling of middling dining experiences is the biggest shibboleth available that you're from well below the poverty line.

>>21445258
Don't bother with Poverty-kun. He celebrated birthdays at fucking Olive Garden lmao
>>21445238
I know! Even that's not upper middle and it at least has (had?) a dress code. This poor dumbfuck thinks his mother's job bagging groceries at the Piggly Wiggly and dad's job as a garbage collector made him something other than working class. It'd be hilarious if it weren't so damn sad. : (

>>21445263
He's right. It was upper middle class. It isn't about the dining experience, it's about the price. Invoking CHAIN RESTAURANT doesn't really mean anything either. Nobu is a chain. Are you going to call Nobu a middling dining experience?

>>21445263
Sadly, this guy is correct.

My dad is an engineer, but poor white trash at heart in all lifestyle choices, and he never took us to red lobster in the 1990s, because it was a trashy restaurant.

>>21445282
No he's not. Back in the 90s and early 2000s unless you lived in the coast, red lobster and bullshit like olive garden dominated and were absolutely destinations for middle to upper mid class folk. I remember because I went from middle to upper middle during that time. Well my parents did

>>21445280
If the restaurant is in a shopping center with a Target or a Kohl's, you're solidly in working class territory.

>>21445294
Do you mean a mall? I've never seen a red lobster in a mall

>>21445280
You don't know what a chain restaurant is.
Are you the same retard who tried to argue that Chesterfield, Missouri (median household income below $140k; median home value below $550k; has a fucking Ross in it) is rich? Because you seem to be just as out of touch with what middle class, upper middle class and upper class actually are as he was. Dude actually thought he grew up rich lmao. Tell me about how fancy Cheesecake Factory was in the 90s lmao

>>21445299
That's all I've ever seen them in lmao
>>21445291
Yep, you're definitely like the Chesterfield retard. Jesus.

>>21445299
Do you not know what a shopping center is?

>>21445300
No, I'm not him. I grew up poor in the 90s. Like living in the projects, no car, on welfare poor. Red Lobster was for upper middle class people. The poor (me) and the middle class people went to fast food chains and local takeout spots.

>>21445313
Oh, you mean the things in every suburb that houses the middle and upper middle class? Yeah I've seen those

>>21445315
Okay, if this is actually >>21445240 and not someone trying to make him look bad, then I can understand where you're coming from and I apologise for the tone and mockery. It's still not upper middle class, though and never was.

>>21445331
>Scottsdale
>upper middle
Dear me, how dreadfully out of touch. Anyway, I'm done with you and your poverty. Time for late-ass dinner. : )

>>21445331
You understand that only 15% of the population in the US is "upper middle class"?

>>21445343
That's like saying 20% of workers are in the bottom quintile of income.

>>21445294
>Target or a Kohl's
I am working class and I considered these higher than my usual price range.

>>21445337
>>21445343
>In the United States, the upper middle class generally earns a median income between $117,000 and $150,000
I don't think either of you understand what upper middle class is vs wealthy.

>>21444785
Forsooth
What in yon FUCK

>>21445333
I'm not him but I agree with him as someone who actually grew up in living in the projects poverty in the 90s

>>21445368
Hate to break it to you but if Target is too expensive for you, you are below working class. You are poor

>>21445300
>Are you the same retard who tried to argue that Chesterfield, Missouri (median household income below $140k; median home value below $550k; has a fucking Ross in it) is rich?
Chesterfield also has a trailer park, if you want to dunk on it more precisely

>>21445280
Upper middle class chain would be like Fogo de Chao or Ruth’s Chris. Somewhere middle class people would go maybe once a year for a special occasion, but richer people might go a few times a year. Places with long ass wine menus.
Red lobster was about the same tier as outback steakhouse

>>21445375
Love your uncited statistic. Really convincing.

>>21445399
If it has a kid's menu, it ain't upper middle. Red Lobster is not upper middle. It's some working class shit.

>>21445406
Googled it. Really simple. You can do it too

>>21445412
Free drink refills are a sure sign you're in a poor person eatery. Free breasticks/cheddar biscuits are an extension of this.

>>21444615 (OP)
people who live in their car and cant afford homes shouldn't be allowed access to the internet

>>21444663
>anon is on level ground with a lobster

When did /ck/ get so gentrified? This used to a poorfag board.

>>21445280
>>21445399
You aren't touching upper middle class till you spend triple digits on a single meal. Which means fancy ass steakhouses with unique names. RC is still a chain. Upscale, yes, but a chain with forgettable steaks. Fogo isn't bad, but it's still a whole category different from a place that has fancy imported steaks and whatnot.

Richfags have yahts and personal chefs and shit, they don't fuck about with poor people establishments where thirdies can spit in their food. They have vetted chefs who can confirm to whatever fad diet the richfag follows. Of course richfags can slum it with the poorfags, Trump and Buffet are famous for their McDicks obsession.

>>21445448
When they graduated uni and got big boy jobs.
>>21445430
lol
Maybe. I kinda scoff at one pair of semi-friends I have because they're fucking 40 years old and still rent. Bitch, I bought my house at 30 years old and thought that shit was late. Stop wasting money on Funkopops, a new phone every couple of months and whatever Instagram tells you is the new "in" thing and maybe you can afford a fucking house, Brett. Everytime I think I'm deeply, deeply poor, I think about how I own my home, own my car and am paying off a mortgage on a rental property while people like Brett own Funkopops and fucking Legos.

>>21445472
you’re so gay.

>>21445475
My wife makes fun of me because I crochet. She calls it "so gay."
"My husband so gayed me these gloves."

>>21445388
The working class is the poor class, numbnuts. Especially now!
Thanks, Trump

>>21445499
There's no such thing as being poor in America. The poorest American is better off than the richest 3rd worlder.

>>21445507
Enjoy your medical debt lmao

>>21445472
Idk, dad bought me my starter home when I turned 21 which was a little late, my friends got theirs earlier

>>21445468
I was specifically trying to limit it to chains I could remember existing in the 90s, since anon was claiming red lobster was “upper middle class” back then. Obviously there are better steaks, but Ruth Chris is at the higher end of national chains from that time.

>>21445468
For poor people and middle class people there isn't any distinction between upper middle class and rich. Ruth's Chris may as well be the most upscale as far as poorfags are concerned.
>the upper middle class is poor
That's a distinction rich people make to seperate themselves from the less rich.

>>21444615 (OP)
is this some tickety tocket trend of people eating ridiculous shit in their car because literally everyone on that platform films themselves in their cars for some reason?

>>21445532
Cars have good lighting and acoustics. It's the ideal place for middle class people who can't afford their own professional studio to film content.

>>21445399
We're not talking about once a year special occasion restaurants. We're talking about a "higher end" place you can go that won't break the bank but still seems classy enough

>>21445499
No H1B-kun.... there are classes below working class. Poor and working poor come to mind.

>>21444615 (OP)
Your taxes pay for her foodstuffs so that she can buy lobster while you eat packet ramen

>>21446328
Foodstamps*

>>21444615 (OP)
Do Americans really have so little privacy that they need to each fucking seafood in their cars?

>>21446347
Americans "each" wherever they please

>>21446350
>wherever
Warever*

>>21446347
when they don't want to show the ghetto slum section 8 hovel they live in on camera they do, yes.

>>21444785
what

>>21444615 (OP)
Why didn't we send them in a great ship convoy back? What was the reason to keep them once tractors were available?

>>21445381
>>21446408
How have you absolute children never seen Multiple Maniacs?
Have you never seen Pink Flamingos, either? I highly recommend you watch PF. Make sure you get the director's cut and don't stop the film until the very end.
>>21446439
That's what Liberia is. It was a bunch of former slaves sent back to Africa who founded their own country. lrn2history, retard

>>21446452
History is woke, libtard. Burn that book, it turned me gay.

>>21446439
They tried that, only a few were willing to go back to Africa, America set up the colony of Liberia for them and when they arrived they immediately started enslaving the Africans already there

>>21445523
>>21445519
red lobster was upper middle class where i lived, but among among white people so it was always very clean with impeccable service

>>21446481
>red lobster was upper middle class
No it wasn't, you're just poor. I don't mean 4chan poor as in "I want to insult you and that's a convenient word", I mean you grew up in distressed economic conditions