Good morning.
As a 15-year-old waitress at Ponderosa, I dreaded the all-you-can-eat fish fry. Combined with cheap beer, it made our no-tipping family restaurant a magnet for some rowdy crowds on a Friday night. You try stopping a bunch of high school football players from flinging fish into each other’s mouths. Our manager, Vince, thought it was hilarious. In fact, he played on one of the teams.
So I wasn’t surprised to learn about the financial carnage induced by Red Lobster’s “endless shrimp” promotion. But I’m also heartened to hear its new CEO Damola Adamolekun, 35, cite the stress on servers as one reason to end this culinary chaos. You’re a better leader than Vince was, sir.
