Red Lobster — Restaurant in Battle Creek

Place was awesome. Food was served fast and fresh. Waitress was mostly awesome. Took out orders served us drinks. Food came out by another person. Annoyed by this, as who's the tip really for. Another family at another table. Made made it an issue about how all there orders had a problem. They were loud about it. The manager at the time, tried to accommodate them. Seems like all they wanted was free food. Manager jumped though hoops basically to make them fell welcome. She repeatedly said that she personally over saw there order. And it was brought out as requested. I mentioned loud about it. It was date night for my wife and I. So I wont knock down the review for that. Doesn't make for a pleasant evening though. Drove way out of our way for a seafood dinner. About 150 miles. The manager really tied, stating multiple time she doesnt see a problem with things. I feel she was right. As only one person from the start said something was cold. When the manger wasn't around we could hear them basically conspiring about how nothing was right. The manager handled as best she could. Offered them a discount on there meal. As well as a gift card for the next meal. And they said it wasn't enough when she walked away. It was more than enough, If their problems were true. We had a great experience here. Order my steak medium rare. Came out closer to well done. But, let's be real. I'm not a seafood person at all. And this is a seafood restaurant. So if my steak isn't perfect. I completely understand. Not sure if the waiter heard me wrong, or the kitchen didn't understand.It was still a great steak. So I recommend...

I’ve never been to a Red Lobster before and I’ll never be back. We didn’t even have a chance to eat. It was a 45 minute wait for a table which wasn’t the end of the world but the hostess/server was so incredibly rude. We had a party of 8 and they sat us at separate tables. We asked to put them together and they said no since it would block an aisle. Except there was no aisle? They’d literally just have to walk around the table. It wasn’t in the way as it was near the corner of the restaurant. Whatever. We’ll survive. Since we were seated separately, and trying to talk to each other from a distance, the server/hostess told us we need to be quiet. Excuse me? You sat us separately. We don’t get to see each other often so of course we’re going to want to talk. Literally made one of our guests cry from being so rude. As we were walking out from the horrible service, a different server who has always served my grandparents for many MANY years stopped us and asked why we were leaving. When he told the server, she was shocked and disgusted by how we were treated. She said that wasn’t right and she offered to have us sit in her section but at that point, we were done. Heidi and Steve (maybe is his name? Not sure) were wonderful. Kind and compassionate. Today is my grandfathers first wedding anniversary without my grandmother. 59 years. And this is how he gets to remember it. On top of that, it is Veterans Day and my grandfather served for the military for years. This experience was so horrible that I don’t even want to try Red Lobster at this point. So disappointed in this...

I can't believe I just paid $50 for some dry noodles and 4 shrimp per person. We got the family shrimp linguine to go. The last time we got it the price was like $35. It was swimming in sauce and I don't know how many shrimp there were because there was enough for everyone to have a decent amount. We used to get it regularly but then the price went up so we stopped doing it. Then finally tonight we decided we would do it for a special dinner and it was a huge disappointment. There was barely any sauce at all. Some of the noodles didn't even have sauce on them (even after I did my best to mix it.) And there were hardly any shrimp. If I ordered this in person as a single dinner I cannot believe that they would only put four shrimp on a plate of shrimp linguine and bring it out...but thats essentially what they did with our order. I don't understand how the price can increase by $15 and the quality can plummet all in one. I could have bought a pound of shrimp for ten bucks and put it on some dry noodles and it would have been essentially the same meal but 80% cheaper. I'm extremely disappointed. The meal its self wasn't even worth one star. I gave them three because based on previous experience, I am hoping this was the exception and not the rule. I wouldn't be so upset if it wasn't for the substantial price increase along with an even more substantial decrease in quality. Such a bummer.

Edited to two stars because after everyone finished eating, two people were still hungry. We used to have leftovers after...