Red Lobster Revives Endless Shrimp Two Years After Deal Led to $11M Loss

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They are blaming "endless shrimp" for the recent bankruptcy, but really it was more private equity selling off their assets and making them rent it back:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/private-equity-rol...

> When a private-equity firm bought the iconic seafood chain in 2014, it sold the real estate under the restaurants for $1.5 billion. Then the restaurants struggled to pay the rents.

I wonder how much Golden Gate, or the people running it, had invested in the real estate company that got the properties at below market value. I would not be shocked at all to learn some self-dealing was happening.

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