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Red Lobster Commercial

  • Thread starter Laurence Glavin
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Laurence Glavin

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There's a Red Lobster restaurant commercial currently running on broadcast and cable TV filled with scenes filmed in the State of Maine and voiced by actors pretending to be Mainers. RED LOBSTER HAS NO RESTAURANTS IN MAINE! If you were a resident of a visitor to Maine, with top-notch seafood restaurants all about you, would you go to a chain restaurant for lobster. If you were a resident of Omaha, NE or a visitor there for some reason (Warren Buffet's annual get-together maybe) would you go to an Applebee's?
 
Laurence Glavin said:
There's a Red Lobster restaurant commercial currently running on broadcast and cable TV filled with scenes filmed in the State of Maine and voiced by actors pretending to be Mainers. RED LOBSTER HAS NO RESTAURANTS IN MAINE! If you were a resident of a visitor to Maine, with top-notch seafood restaurants all about you, would you go to a chain restaurant for lobster. If you were a resident of Omaha, NE or a visitor there for some reason (Warren Buffet's annual get-together maybe) would you go to an Applebee's?
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I meant to say "if you were in Omaha, would you go to Applebee's FOR STEAK?
 
Closest Red Lobsters to Maine are 4 in Connecticut. Maybe they expect Mainers to take a weekend road trip for a lobster dinner. ;D
 
On the gulf coast of Florida in the Tampa area, there are literally hundreds and hundreds of local seafood restaurants, all serving fresh gulf seafood. Yet the line out the door at the Red Lobster is often longer than any of our real Florida seafood restaurants.

It's the same reason an authentic Italian restaurant can never outdo an Olive Garden. People want their safe, reliable choices.
 
MarcB said:
And that's why in the town of Southington, Connecticut a town with a large Italian population and dozens of Italian restaurants people are clamoring for an Olive Garden to open.
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Be careful what you wish for.......
 
MarcB said:
Lehos said:
It's the same reason an authentic Italian restaurant can never outdo an Olive Garden. People want their safe, reliable choices.
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And that's why in the town of Southington, Connecticut a town with a large Italian population and dozens of Italian restaurants people are clamoring for an Olive Garden to open.
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I've been to Olive Garden in Hobart, IN, & I'm not impressed with their menu selection, nor their food. I'd rather go to a real Italian restaurant over an Americanized Italian restaurant for Italian food. I'm not sure what Greek restaurants might be part of a chain, but all the Greek restaurants in my area are locally run, & serve real Greek food. There are even a couple of Polish restaurants in my area, now that my area is starting to see a resurgance in Polish immigrants, though 1 Polish restaurant has been open since either the 1930's or 1940's (I just know it opened during the depression). That's like if you want real Mexican food, you go to a locally owned Mexican restaurant over going to Taco Bell or Chilis.

As for seafood, there are a few seafood restaurants, but only 1 serves lobster, & that's Red Lobster. I haven't had lobster, & not sure I want to eat lobster. Most seafood restaurants in my area would rather serve lake or ocean perch, walleye, salmon, cod, flounder, shrimp, or crab legs over lobster.
 
When in Rome, eat at the same Olive Garden as the Romans do, I always say...
 
There WAS a Red Lobster in Keene, New Hampshire, but according to the 'R-L' website, it ain't there no more. I haven't been to Keene for a while, so I'll have to take their word for it. Personally, I can't imagine a Red Lobster doing very well in Maine or NH, with the ocean spittin' distance away.
 
Is everyone really missing the point of this ad?

Maine is the most popular source of fresh lobster... so of course they are playing up that angle in their ads. It doesn't matter if there is a Red Lobster in Maine or not. It's for the person in the midwest to see and say "Wow, let's go get some fresh Maine lobster at the Red Lobster!"
 
Ironically, lobster is not even a prominent feature of Red Lobster's menu. Sure you can get it, but seafood and even non-seafood dinners make up most of the menu.
 
ansky212 said:
Ironically, lobster is not even a prominent feature of Red Lobster's menu.
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It is a prominent feature of their lobby
 
McDonalds sells lobster rolls in parts of New England during the season...and they're not horrible.
 
garnet said:
McDonalds sells lobster rolls in parts of New England during the season...and they're not horrible.
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Hmmm...I thought there was someone on YouTube showing a video of this food, but I can't seem to find it!
 
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