{"id":143,"date":"2003-11-25T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T15:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2003-11-25T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2003-11-25T15:50:30","slug":"red-lobster-fires-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/25\/red-lobster-fires-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Lobster fires president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this is old news now, but I don&#8217;t remember reading it before.  Red Lobster planned an all-you-can-eat crab special that cost them boatloads of dollars and they had to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/0,,BT_CO_20030924_006778-IdjgYNnlaZ2mp2maKiIbKmCm5,00.html\">fire their president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\n&#8220;It was kind of the worst of all worlds,&#8221; one senior Darden executive remarked as the casual-dining giant said Red Lobster management had badly miscalculated how many times customers would take the chain at its word and eat all they wanted &#8211; at a time when crab costs were going up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t the second helping on all-you-can-eat but the third,&#8221; said company chairman Joe R. Lee. &#8220;And maybe the fourth,&#8221; added Dick Rivera, company president and chief operating officer, on a conference call after the market Wednesday.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess this is old news now, but I don&#8217;t remember reading it before. Red Lobster planned an all-you-can-eat crab special that cost them boatloads of dollars and they had to fire their president. &#8220;It was kind of the worst of all worlds,&#8221; one senior Darden executive remarked as the casual-dining giant said Red Lobster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-2j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}