My husband and I do a date night every week. So for Valentine's Day we decided on Red Lobster. Perfect choice, the food was great and the restaurant was nice and clean. Our waitress was great!! We will be going there more often.
Love this place. Excellent food everytime...and how bout em cheddar biscuits. Can't beat it! Update (5 years later) - Well, this place has really gone downhill. Growing up, I saw this place as a high-end type restaurant. Now, it's a small step above Captain D's or Long John's. We went this time because of the endless shrimp. The shrimp was good (scampi, grilled, dragon, walt's) but having to wait 15-20 mins between orders is unacceptable. I was already prepared for the "short staffed, we got a new guy" excuses, which we did get. I timed our wait between receiving our first reorder, and it took 15 mins to get 4 little grilled shrimp. It'd be different if they actually gave you enough to last more than 1 minute. After our server put it down we complained that it took 15 minutes and she actually said "no it didn't, it took 12 minutes." LOL, really? She started arguing with us about how long it took. To top it off, my last scampi brought out had a hair baked in it. The server did apologize and had 20% taken off our check. I could've stayed for more shrimp, but we had to be somewhere...we were there for 2 hours and only got 2 reorders of shrimp. Honestly, this type of visit called for a low tip, or no tip even, but I don't like doing that. I served tables years ago, so I know how things work and don't feel it was entirely the server's fault, so I still tipped 20%. Another note to the owner if reading...take some time and clean your bathrooms. They were disgusting! We won't be back anytime soon (Update 11-17-22) Red Lobster has contacted me, offered their apologies, and in the process of sending me an e-gift card. I'll update if I give them another shot. I've added 1 star for their efforts for a total of 2 thus far. (Update 2-20-24) Went back and everything was okay this time around. Not bad, not spectacular. Didn't get the shrimp this time cause I just felt I'd have the same experience as before. I got a steak this time around. Ordered medium well, and it was very bloody. It happens, but they could improve on that. I can see us going back here after a very long period of time. It's just that there's so much to choose from nowadays, Red Lobster won't be at the top of our list. I'll probably get in the mood for it a year or so from now when I hear about the endless shrimp again. But I may skip it, we'll see I guess.
Arrived at 4:15 & told it would be an hour wait, yet most tables were empty. Was told there was not enough staff. We waited for a page when our table was ready & it never came. Thank goodness we had already decided to leave. Unacceptable!