Red Lobster — Restaurant in Fruit Cove

Where to begin, went to this location tonight 1/13/18 Got here around 730pm, was told it would be roughly 30-40 mins before we would be seated which was fine, so we waited, while we waited a ton of people where leaving after finishing eating and complaining all the way out about poor service, food not being right, waiting 3+ hours and a bunch of other things, we decide to still stay, the staff literally waited till the entire restaurant was almost empty before they seated any one who was waiting on a table, after about 50 mins we got seated, the waitress comes up obviously tweaking/coked up, she was a sweet as could be thou, the bus girl was clearing a table next to us and clearly as high as you could possibly get on pills, we ordered and waited, while waiting my wife realized she was freezing cold sue to the severe draft coming in thru the window at our table, 45 mins later we get our food which was very good or we was just that hungry, we ask for a box, my wife goes to put her mashed potatoes in and there is a massive clump of hair at the bottom of her bowl, the waitress gets the manager who comes over at this point the hair is sitting on the table and I go to take a pic of it and he grabs it and says it's just plastic and offers to give us another order to take home which we refused, he then stands like he was waiting for me to just say it's ok, he then deciders finally to take our bill then cones back and said he discounted it for us, I put my card in assuming he removed the charge for my wife's food, waitress comes back and I check the receipt he took $8 off the bill, which wasn't even half the cost of my wife's order, he seemed bothered that I took pics of the hair that he didn't grab and the hair still in the potatoes, I do not recommend this location at all, I will never return to this one, which is said because I love red lobster, over the experience was terrible, the waitress was sweet but obviously drugs and be high at work are acceptable at this location, avoid this place

UPDATE: I followed the request in the response from the company, got zero response from them. Avoid this place. They posted for us to go to the website blah blah blah just to save...

I've been going to Red Lobster since I was a kid, so I've come to expect a certain level of service without expecting some fine-dining experience. This is probably the worst Red Lobster that I've ever been to.

The food was fine, so this has nothing to do with the quality of food. There's a good selection of seafood here and you can get it at pretty much any location.

My issue was with the service.

I was sat at a table next to the kitchen, so I got to hear a lot of the chatter coming from the employees. I think I counted 4 different occasions where either a server, hostess or manager asked for assistance on something and nobody was willing to help. The excuses ranged from "I'm not on the clock yet," to "I'm too busy for that." There was never an offer to come back and help if they could wait a moment, it was just immediately dismissing them as being an annoyance.

The lack of teamwork probably explains why we were never given any plates for our appetizers, only received one offer for refills at the very end of our meal and weren't able to order another round of rolls because they hadn't been made, yet.

Apparently Red Lobster believes the conspiracy theory that straws are filling the ocean; you aren't even offered straws for your drinks. You only find this out later when your hostess leaves without dropping any straws on the table and you find a small note in the menu about it. This kind of virtue signaling usually wins you points in beach towns or towns where conspiracy theorists thrive; not in a small town in the middle of nowhere.

Like I said before, I don't expect some fine-dining experience from Red Lobster, but until your staff starts working like a team and ensuring your guests are at least receiving the bare minimum service, you aren't going to see many smiles leaving through...

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