This article is about the United States restaurant chain. For other uses, see Red lobster (disambiguation).
Red Lobster Hospitality, LLC
Company type
Subsidiary
Industry
Restaurant
Genre
Casual dining
Founded
January 18, 1968; 56 years ago (1968-01-18) Lakeland, Florida
Founders
Bill Darden Charley Woodsby
Headquarters
Orlando, Florida U.S.
Number of locations
649 (2024)
Area served
United States (including Puerto Rico and Guam)
Canada
China
Ecuador
Hong Kong
India
Japan
Malaysia
Mexico
Philippines
Thailand
Turkey
United Arab Emirates[1]
Key people
Jonathan Tibus (CEO) Salli Setta (President)
Products
Seafood, Chicken, Steaks, Pasta
Revenue
US$2.6 billion (2018)[2]
Owner
Golden Gate Capital (2014–2020)
Number of employees
55,000[3]
Parent
Darden Restaurants (1995–2014) Thai Union Group (2020–present)
Website
RedLobster.com
Footnotes / references [4][5]
Red Lobster Hospitality, LLC is an American casual dining restaurant chain headquartered in Orlando, Florida. The company has operations across most of the United States (including Puerto Rico and Guam) and Canada, as well as in China, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates; as of June 23, 2020, the company had 719 locations worldwide.[6][1] Golden Gate Capital was Red Lobster's parent company after it was acquired from Darden Restaurants on July 28, 2014.[7] Seafood supplier Thai Union acquired a 25 percent stake in the company in 2016 for a reported $575 million, and in 2020 purchased the remaining portion from GGC.[8]
On August 6, 2014, Red Lobster announced its new headquarters location in CNL Center City Commons in Orlando.[9] On March 6, 2015, Red Lobster officially opened the Restaurant Support Center.[10]
RedLobster Hospitality, LLC is an American casual dining restaurant chain headquartered in Orlando, Florida. The company has operations across most of...
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It is also known as Atlantic lobster, Canadian lobster, true lobster, northern lobster, Canadian Reds, or Maine lobster. It can reach a body length of...
word "lobster" in their names, the unqualified term "lobster" generally refers to the clawed lobsters of the family Nephropidae. Clawed lobsters are not...
later founded the RedLobster Inns of America and opened the first RedLobster restaurant in Lakeland, Florida, in 1968. RedLobster, which grew quickly...
– March 29, 1994) was an American businessman and the founder of the RedLobster restaurant franchise. He is also the namesake of the multi-brand restaurant...
the European or common lobster, which is blue while alive (but becomes red when cooked) A mutated form of the American Lobster This disambiguation page...
American restaurateur and businesswoman. She is the former President of RedLobster and Executive Vice President of Olive Garden American restaurant chains...
and the chain's per-store sales soon matched former sister company RedLobster. The company eventually became the largest chain of Italian-themed full-service...
England), common spiny lobster, Mediterranean lobster and redlobster. Palinurus elephas is a common species of spiny lobster, found in the eastern Atlantic...
high school, he started a commuter van service and waited tables at RedLobster. When John was 16, his mother had a boyfriend, an attorney, whom he considered...
The California spiny lobster (Panulirus interruptus) is a species of spiny lobster found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California, to...
Homarus gammarus, known as the European lobster or common lobster, is a species of clawed lobster from the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and...
A lobster roll is a dish native to New England and Atlantic Canada. It is made of lobster meat served on a grilled hot dog–style bun. The filling may...
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finger foods eaten like popcorn. In 1974, the American restaurant chain RedLobster introduced a menu item called "popcorn shrimp", a fritter of small shrimp...
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a RedLobster restaurant in New Britain, Connecticut. O'Nan has said that he was prompted to write the book after reading about a real RedLobster restaurant...
trade to refer to the meat of the squat lobster, which is neither a true lobster nor a prawn. Squat lobsters are more closely related to porcelain and...
Restaurants, which incorporated tip-sharing in 2011 at their Olive Garden and RedLobster chains, said that it was more consistent and fair "to recognize everyone...
called RedLobster and expanded it nationwide. Soon, a division of General Mills titled General Mills Restaurants developed to take charge of the Red Lobster...
Lobsters are widely fished around the world for their meat. They are often hard to catch in large numbers, but their large size can make them a profitable...
was 14 years old, he was accidentally shot by a co-worker at a local RedLobster restaurant and was partially paralyzed for nine months. During this time...
she struggled with her acting career, she worked as a waitress at a RedLobster in the Bronx, but was fired for discourtesy to customers. She said she...
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