Friday, July 21, 2023

Closed!

 Red Lobster shut down  recently.



Is it closed for good? Probably so even though it says the closure is temporary on Facebook. 







54 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks Chuck. Your crime infested city has taken away one of my favorites. Again!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

One of your favorites? Bro …

Anonymous said...

On Yelp it states that it will re-open on August 4. The reviews on Yelp and on Trip Adviser are terrible.

Anonymous said...

It’s about time!

Anonymous said...

Of course it's closed for good

Anonymous said...

They lasted way, way longer than I'd have ever thought.

Bet they reopen outside Jackson... probably somewhere like Pearl or Clinton.

Anonymous said...

Where will they reopen. Madison? Flowood? Gluckstadt?

Anonymous said...

The next Hwy 80 disaster in the making.

Anonymous said...

Horrible food….stopped going to it several years ago

Anonymous said...

Food was terrible last time I was there. I mean if you can fry fish and chips in Mississippi unfortunately it’s time to go.

Perfect match said...

Madison can have them. Red Lobster with tacky Corinthian columns…

Anonymous said...

Who cares? It’s red lobster.

However, if they’ve gone through the trouble of setting a reopening date of august 4 (which would make relocation very unlikely), then im inclined to believe them until august 4 comes and goes. This is a complete non-story through and through fed by Kingfish to the redneck contingent of his readership who just want something—anything—to bitch about Jackson. How cheap!

Anonymous said...

Red Lobster’s time is up……everywhere.

Anonymous said...

Haven't eaten there in years but did like their garlic cheese biscuits. Back in the 70s (seems like they were farther south than the current store), they would have all you could eat king crab legs on Sunday night. At the beach recently, they had some giant crab legs that were $44 a lb. We did enjoy them for family meals on special occasions such as birthdays and things after Church, but again, that was years ago.

Anonymous said...

Mark my words, if you interrupt the flow of crab legs in Jackson, there will be rivers of blood flowing through the streets. Oceans, I say! City fathers should act now, and they should act fast; the citizens of Jackson will not look benignly upon being denied crab legs.

Anonymous said...

What surprises me is not that Red Lobster is closing but that Olive Garden is still open.

If you look at Yelp (or any other reviewer) you will see that Olive Garden is the lowest ranked of any Olive Garden in the US.

It is a reflection of the people who run it and work there.

How it stays open is a mystery.

Anonymous said...

I look forward to ZeroBear giving us their version of the cheddar bay biscuits!

Anonymous said...

I am amazed that it stayed open this long. The only place that served worse food was Capt John's. Ugh!

Anonymous said...

This is a complete non-story through and through fed by Kingfish to the redneck contingent of his readership who just want something—anything—to bitch about Jackson. How cheap!

Actually I'm convinced Kingfish pubs these stories to draw out the reflexive Jackson-is-fine crowd living in denial and it appears the strategy has worked once again.

Since this story was also reported by at least one of the TV Newsers, did you contact their News Editor or Station Manager to complain? Of course you didn't.

Anonymous said...

@6:47
For $44/lb, I'd expect live lobsters to my door.

Anonymous said...

11:18 PM you can keep your Red Lobster, your trashy thugs and your backwoods hicks.

Anonymous said...

Olive Garden and Red Lobster in Jackson, Mississippi have both been trashy, loud and poorly staffed for fifteen or more years.

Bonefish and Outback are owned by the same corporation. I look for Bonefish to go belly up within another year.

You can find the original Cheesy-biscuit anywhere. No need to wait for Zero to publish his wife's relative's friend's recipe.

The worlds largest food corporate umbrella is...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darden_Restaurants

Anonymous said...

This is temporary while they rearm, reload, and replenish their ammo supplies.

Anonymous said...

Madison is a beautiful, thriving City, despite Queen Mary's Corinthian Columns and other fake-eyelash-architectural indulgences. I remain impressed by Richard Dean's Renaissance shopping Center in Ridgeland, a masterpiece for its carefully balanced style, sans fake eyelashes.

Anonymous said...

I was there on opening night sometime around the late eighties. It was a long, long line of people waiting.

Macy said...

"Last Night at the Lobster" is a very good 150 page novella. By Stewart O'Nan. We need more Cheddar Bay Biscuits!

Hookah said...

For those of us that considered Red Lobster fine dining...we are saddened by this announcement.

Anonymous said...

Haven't been to Red Lobster since we moved from Meridian to Clinton over 8 years ago, but I can still close my eyes and taste the cheese biscuits. In Meridian, we would go there for their Caesar salad with shrimp. Always cold crispy and always tasty in Meridian.

Didn't the Jackson location have the reputation for getting your vehicle stolen off the lot while you were inside asking for another basket of free cheese biscuits?

They could move it to Clinton and I wouldn't complain. Maybe I should buy a box of cheese biscuit mix from Sams. I always slow down and look at it when we shop there, but have never yielded to temptation because an easy source of cheese biscuts is the last thing I need to add to my dinner table.

Stuff About ZeroBear PolyBear said...

8:54 am

"wife's relative's friend's recipe"

You are a cleaver investigator guy and I salute you! I had hoped to keep my website a secret. Since you have outed me I guess I'll share the website with everyone else.

www.Mywifesrelativesfriendsrecipe.com

Anonymous said...

Shooter McGavin wouldn’t even eat there when someone offered to buy his meal. Good riddance.

Anonymous said...

Red Lobster Cheddar Biscuits
Red Lobster biscuits are loaded with Cheddar cheese and brushed with seasoned butter in this easy copycat recipe. No kneading is required — just drop the gently mixed batter directly onto a prepared baking sheet and your warm, freshly baked, bite-sized biscuits will be ready to enjoy with dinner in just 15 minutes.

Recipe by cookingmaniac Updated on February 3, 2023
Tested by Allrecipes Test Kitchen
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 25 mins
Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon garlic powder

⅔ cup milk

⅓ cup butter, softened and cut into pieces

1 large egg

2 tablespoons butter, melted

2 teaspoons dried parsley (Optional)

1 teaspoon garlic powder (Optional)

Directions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease or line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Stir flour, Cheddar cheese, baking powder, salt, and garlic powder together in a bowl.

Stir milk, softened butter pieces, and egg together in a separate bowl. Add to the flour mixture and stir until just combined and chunky, being very careful not to overmix.

Drop batter by tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheet.

Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, stir melted butter, parsley, and garlic powder together in a small bowl. Remove biscuits from the oven and brush melted butter mixture over top.

Return to the oven and bake until golden brown, about 5 more minutes. Serve warm.

Tips
You can make larger biscuits if desired, just adjust the baking time.

Anonymous said...

July 22, 2023 at 4:55 AM, to come on another man's website, anonymously of course, and denigrate said owner of the website, who isn't anonymous, because of the subject matter, is also cheap. Since, you are, or at least present yourself as such, knowledgeable, in all things cheap, should we take your post as a professional opinion? Old wise cheap skate, what sayeth thou?

Anonymous said...

Here is the thing, having been around the food industry years ago, and actually in Jackson, when you see this type of closure. Its usually for two reasons: 1) renovation or 2) infestation. since there was no notice of the first in advance, then I would bet on the second. The infestation can be brought in on the clothing and personal effects of the clientele, and very much so by who they buy their food products from. I would also be willing to bet both. A good way to figure out where you would want to dine, is ask your own pest man. they know and they talk. If they re-open on the 4th and no new aesthetics. INFESTATION

Anonymous said...

@Zerobear - bad link

A. Old Rankin County white guy said...

I had not been to the current Jackson location of Olive Garden in the past 6 or 7 years where as with family we'd enjoy it every few months. That being said, I've been 3 times in the late afternoon early evening in probably the past 2 months, and I must say, the service and the food are surprisingly good to excellent. I think they've shaped up the ship over there, if you haven't been there in a while you really should try it out.

Anonymous said...

7:27 How will we know the difference between how Jackson's majority act now vs how they will act if RL doesn't reopen?

Anonymous said...

Speaking of things going wrong in Jackson, I recently called 311 to report traffic signal outage but 311 is not working. So I called Mayor’s office to report 3 traffic signals along Bailey Avenue that had been out for months. The lady in the Mayor’s office told me that the reason the traffic signals didn’t work was the fault of the state sending Jackson’s money to Rankin County to build those stores on Lakeland Drive that were supposed to be built in Jackson. So I guess the reason all the good restaurants were supposed to be built in Jackson but the state sent the money to build them to Rankin County.

Anonymous said...

Kind of off topic, but back in the day... (1970's) ... the new Long John Silvers at the intersection of Ellis Avenue at Gallatin Street was quite a good fast seafood joint for it's first few years.

But that's a long gone time and era.

Anonymous said...



"Madison is a beautiful, thriving City, despite Queen Mary's Corinthian Columns and other fake-eyelash-architectural indulgences. I remain impressed by Richard Dean's Renaissance shopping Center in Ridgeland, a masterpiece for its carefully balanced style, sans fake eyelashes."
July 22, 2023 at 9:03 AM

Some of us moved to Madison FOR what, TO YOU, are "fake-eyelash-architectural indulgences". Those features which distress you so, are GREAT MARKETING TOOLS. There's a reason why Madison attained primacy, and attracted the movers-and-shakers. One glance at the town, and people know it's NOT ORDINARY. People who, themselves, are not ordinary: people who want MORE, are attracted to Madison.

For those who want LESS, there's a place called "The Rest of the World". I bet you could find it on a map, if you really tried.

But have no fear: Madison seems to have had a Changing of the Guard, and the new buildings going up, are as plain-&-repressed as the ones in Gene's Little Brick Hooterville, next-town-over.

Anonymous said...

@9:37, it was a different demographic in the 80’s. Jus sayin…and you didn’t have to worry about being carjacked or your car being broken into. After awhile a business has to make a decision about where they operate. Here is an Example, Your commercial auto is more expensive to insure if you have a jackson address. Business property insurance is more also if you have to cover losses inside a city that has 1. Numerous attorneys , 2: sky high crime rate.

Anonymous said...

" Gene's Little Brick Hooterville, next-town-over. "

Gawd... that's funny as hell coming from a upset Madison resident.

Anyway, without getting into Corinthian, Ionic or Doric Columns...
the big question in Madison "the city" remains what is real stucco and what is fake stucco ?

Anonymous said...

@1:41
ZeroBear posted neither a “link” or a URL.
And it was clearly a decent boomer “dad” joke to anyone with an IQ above room temp.

Anonymous said...

Walmart Carrie’s the frozen Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Kroger has had them as well.

Anonymous said...

Will the employees have to "claw back" their lost wages?

Ben Dair said...

One day summa you people will figure 'Queen Mary' out. Sadly, some of you never will. But, that's OK too.

Her personal motto has always been:

Recruit
Use
Discard
Destroy
Ridicule

How long one remains in the second category depends entirely on blind allegiance.

Anonymous said...

3:58 Don't think Ellis ever intersected Gallatin... but I could be wrong.

Anonymous said...

@12:13. You're not wrong. I was about to ask the same thing. Ellis runs almost parallel to Gallatin, even after Gallatin changes to Bailey north of Fortification.

Anonymous said...

Red Lobster is not quite classy enough to be courted by accepted in Madison. They don't feature chicken on the drive through menu.

Some of you will find out the truth about The Queen one day.

Anonymous said...

This Red Lobster in the late 90’s was a happening place! $10 Cover to get in and two bands nightly. Outdoor and indoor bars going at the same time. It was awesome place. Shot girls, bouncers etc. Good times were had by all. Even a few bar clearing fights and a shootout (by white people) in the parking lot! Who remembers that?

Anonymous said...

2023 Jackson is so much worse than I thought it would be. And I expected it to be very, very bad.

-a person who left Jackson in 2003.

Anonymous said...

"the new Long John Silvers at the intersection of Ellis Avenue at Gallatin Street was quite a good fast seafood joint for it's first few years." I think you mean Ellis and Lynch...

Anonymous said...

I seem to remember a Long John Silver’s on Ellis Avenue near the intersection with John R Lynch Street back in the early 80s. Last time I dared to venture into that war zone it was a seedy looking pawn shop.

Anonymous said...

RL temporarily closed for renovation.
https://www.wlbt.com/2023/07/24/north-jackson-red-lobster-will-not-join-list-national-chains-along-i-55-shut-down-permanently/

I'll Take Bream Any Day.. said...

Long John Silver(s) has never been a quality place. That breaded fish, or whatever you call that plaster of Paris coating, is indistinguishable from gar soaked in soured milk and tile grout.


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