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Red Lobster CFO blames chain's 'Endless Shrimp' promotion for company's whopping $11M Q3 loss​

  • Red Lobster - an all-American casual-dining classic - has faced a colossal $11 million loss in the third quarter of 2023
  • The company's CFO is blaming their 'Endless Shrimp' offer - which allows customers to order as much shrimp as they can stomach for $20
  • Their all-you-can-eat plan to attract diners massively backfired and the restaurant is set to face a $20 million annual loss

 

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Red Lobster CFO blames chain's 'Endless Shrimp' promotion for company's whopping $11M Q3 loss​

  • Red Lobster - an all-American casual-dining classic - has faced a colossal $11 million loss in the third quarter of 2023
  • The company's CFO is blaming their 'Endless Shrimp' offer - which allows customers to order as much shrimp as they can stomach for $20
  • Their all-you-can-eat plan to attract diners massively backfired and the restaurant is set to face a $20 million annual loss

Yeah, but instead of ending that promotion, they're just going to charge $25 for it now.
 

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Red Lobster CFO blames chain's 'Endless Shrimp' promotion for company's whopping $11M Q3 loss​

  • Red Lobster - an all-American casual-dining classic - has faced a colossal $11 million loss in the third quarter of 2023
  • The company's CFO is blaming their 'Endless Shrimp' offer - which allows customers to order as much shrimp as they can stomach for $20
  • Their all-you-can-eat plan to attract diners massively backfired and the restaurant is set to face a $20 million annual loss

They did the exact same thing with their endless crab legs promotion before this. Its amazing they don't learn.
 

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Diamonds Are A Universe’s Best Friend​

While some believe diamonds are rare, they’re really not. In fact, the reason diamond jewelry costs so much to buy is due to one company owning most of the diamond mines on Earth. Thus, they set the price extremely high. Yet their monopoly won’t last once Earthlings are able to go into space mining. Some asteroids contain them, yet on some planets, it literally rains diamonds quite often.
 

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China Used More Cement In Three Years Than The U.S. Did In The Entire 20th Century​

We should make sure to state when the 20th Century took place to avoid confusion, as it was not from 2000 to today. This era took place from January 1901 to December 31, 2000. This was a major time in American history, as several businesses and homes popped up across the United States during this time. Even major cities began to pop up during this time when the West was won through the invention of computers and DVDs.

However, China used more cement just from 2011 to 2013 than Americans used in the entire 20th Century. This seems incredible how they could use more in just three years than America used in one hundred years! The U.S. Geological Survey confirms this, however. They claim the U.S. used 4.5 gigatons of cement from 1901 to 2000. Meanwhile, China used 6.6 gigatons from 2011 to 2013. Scientific facts like this need context though. China began to open more factories and businesses in this time of change within the nation. As a result, cement was used a lot for this nation of over a billion people.
 

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Scientists Who Work With Cockroaches Often Become Allergic To Preground Coffee​

You’ve likely heard the concept that bugs are in a lot of what you eat without you knowing. While bugs and insects do this a lot with things like chocolate, they also infest other things too. Coffee beans get more cockroaches than anything else we know of today. Douglas Emlen, a notable entomologist, noted that cockroaches actually infest large piles of coffee beans on the regular. But here’s the weird part, those cockroaches are often just ground up in the coffee and never removed.

Scientific facts like that would be enough to freak out over, but it’s not over yet. It is too hard to eliminate the roaches completely, which is why the United States FDA allows a certain percentage of insect filth to be included in coffee, among other foods. Some scientific researchers who work with cockroaches go on to develop acute allergies to them. Due to this, they also become allergic to preground coffee among other things cockroaches are known to infest.
 

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Heroin Was Given To Kids To Help Relieve Coughs​

Ah yes, the Bayer Pharmaceutical Company. You might know them best today as the company that brought us Aspirin. Yet this was by no means their first major drug used to relieve pain and help a lot of other conditions. In fact, they are the people that invented and commercialized heroin. This occurred mostly during the 1890s and early 1900s. Bayer claimed it was useful for cough, cold, and pain problems. In fact, they specifically marketed heroin for children this entire time.

They did this all the way up to 1912! This was well after evidence proved heroin was a dangerous drug. Various reports of scientific studies found this problem, so Bayer knew better. By 1914, heroin became prescription-only within the United States but the FDA eventually banned it altogether by 1924. This is one of the scientific facts that really amaze us because Bayer clearly put its profits over people.
 

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China Used More Cement In Three Years Than The U.S. Did In The Entire 20th Century​

We should make sure to state when the 20th Century took place to avoid confusion, as it was not from 2000 to today. This era took place from January 1901 to December 31, 2000. This was a major time in American history, as several businesses and homes popped up across the United States during this time. Even major cities began to pop up during this time when the West was won through the invention of computers and DVDs.

However, China used more cement just from 2011 to 2013 than Americans used in the entire 20th Century. This seems incredible how they could use more in just three years than America used in one hundred years! The U.S. Geological Survey confirms this, however. They claim the U.S. used 4.5 gigatons of cement from 1901 to 2000. Meanwhile, China used 6.6 gigatons from 2011 to 2013. Scientific facts like this need context though. China began to open more factories and businesses in this time of change within the nation. As a result, cement was used a lot for this nation of over a billion people.
Caused all kinds of issues in the market too!
 

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Red Lobster CFO blames chain's 'Endless Shrimp' promotion for company's whopping $11M Q3 loss​

  • Red Lobster - an all-American casual-dining classic - has faced a colossal $11 million loss in the third quarter of 2023
  • The company's CFO is blaming their 'Endless Shrimp' offer - which allows customers to order as much shrimp as they can stomach for $20
  • Their all-you-can-eat plan to attract diners massively backfired and the restaurant is set to face a $20 million annual loss

I remember in my younger years going to that when they had it. After the first plate they would bring you like 4 tiny shrimp out and every time you asked for another round, usually once it hit the table because they made your wait forever on the refill, the little kid waiter would just stare aimlessly in dread that they had to ask for another round.
 

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I remember in my younger years going to that when they had it. After the first plate they would bring you like 4 tiny shrimp out and every time you asked for another round, usually once it hit the table because they made your wait forever on the refill, the little kid waiter would just stare aimlessly in dread that they had to ask for another round.
Wife and I have been there many times when the endless shrimp was just a special one time per year. We figured out that the skewered shrimp, when ordered as the initial order, came with rice and two skewers. After the initial order you only get the one skewer and no rice (which was fine with us because we went there for the shrimp, not the rice). The scampi order was cut in half with subsequent orders too.
 

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A black stallion hangs from a large tree in a grove of trees outside Louisville, Kentucky in 1937, drawing a crowd of spectators. The group is pictured admiring the marvelous sight and talking about how the horse climbed it. Later, they went and invited the oldest elder in the village over, who gave the answer after careful observation. The horse was washed by the flood to the tree, just by the branches of the tree and hung on it, the horse struggled again and again but could not get rid of it, and finally drowned hanging on the tree, and then the flood water receded, and then presented the present appearance!
 

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A black stallion hangs from a large tree in a grove of trees outside Louisville, Kentucky in 1937, drawing a crowd of spectators. The group is pictured admiring the marvelous sight and talking about how the horse climbed it. Later, they went and invited the oldest elder in the village over, who gave the answer after careful observation. The horse was washed by the flood to the tree, just by the branches of the tree and hung on it, the horse struggled again and again but could not get rid of it, and finally drowned hanging on the tree, and then the flood water receded, and then presented the present appearance!
A flood??? If that’s the case, the horse must’ve bailed out of the Ark.
 

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