Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Longest Standing Red Lobster Is Officially Closed
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- 0:00Speaker 1: One of six twenty seven lightff Covey Christine producer Kristen.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Yeah, I really bummed out about Well, you just told
- 0:05Speaker 2: me off the air about Red Lobster.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Okay, I mean we're kind of okay. Our red lobsters
- 0:10Speaker 3: are safe right now. Cobby Marked is safe. But the
- 0:13Speaker 3: longest running red lobster restaurant in our country has closed forever. Yes,
- 0:20Speaker 3: where was it? Tallahassee, Florida. It opened in nineteen seventy.
- 0:24Speaker 3: I hope they never touched the Day Corps too. They
- 0:26Speaker 3: should just like leave nineteen seventy s Day Corps location
- 0:29Speaker 3: closed its door on Sunday. Comes after Red Lobster previously
- 0:33Speaker 3: closed dozens of locations across the country before filing for
- 0:36Speaker 3: bankruptcy in twenty twenty four. It is sad to see
- 0:39Speaker 3: something from nineteen seventy go away.
- 0:41Speaker 2: And that's the thing. A lot of them are disappearing.
- 0:44Speaker 1: My wife and I occasionally went to the one on
- 0:47Speaker 1: Route eighteen in these bruns.
- 0:48Speaker 2: With New Jersey.
- 0:49Speaker 1: They had like a fire like five years ago or something,
- 0:51Speaker 1: but they never came back.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Then they started closing down. I'm online right now.
- 0:56Speaker 1: There's a Red Lobster in Times Square. It opens eleven am.
- 1:00Speaker 1: I think it's still there.
- 1:01Speaker 3: You and I are walking past it. I haven't even noticed.
- 1:03Speaker 1: There was one not far from here, okay, And there's
- 1:05Speaker 1: one in secaucas, New Jersey where we used to hit
- 1:08Speaker 1: up back.
- 1:08Speaker 3: You remember that the guys used to go there.
- 1:10Speaker 2: That in Bazukas, Yes, because they knock off of a Hooters.
- 1:15Speaker 3: Yeah, that was when the stations were located in Seacaucas
- 1:19Speaker 3: The guys went there. I did not go there, right right.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Fun fact about Z one hundred back in the day
- 1:25Speaker 1: when you and I worked there, huh, we always said
- 1:27Speaker 1: from the.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Top of the Empire State Building.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Yeah, because the antenna was on top of the Empire
- 1:32Speaker 1: State Building.
- 1:33Speaker 2: We didn't like people thought that we were actually in
- 1:35Speaker 2: the building.
- 1:36Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:36Speaker 1: No, we're in Secaucus, New Jersey, overlooking the meadowlands, going
- 1:42Speaker 1: to that little shopping center.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Ho was that Harmon Cove. Oh yeah, Harmon Harmon, Harmon
- 1:47Speaker 2: Meadow Cove, meadow something meadow there.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:50Speaker 1: We had a Hula Hans there, which I think is
- 1:53Speaker 1: one of the busiest hula hands in the country.
- 1:55Speaker 3: So you're talking about that little like mall area. Across
- 1:58Speaker 3: the street there was a movie theater.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and there's an acme over there.
- 2:02Speaker 3: There was Wow, I used to live.
- 2:05Speaker 2: Over a Midlands parkway about the radio station.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Right.
- 2:07Speaker 2: I never walked to work once.
- 2:08Speaker 3: Did you ever? So you went to Red Lobster was
- 2:12Speaker 3: one of your faves?
- 2:12Speaker 2: Yeah, that was one of my go tos, and that
- 2:14Speaker 2: uh and the and the Hula.
- 2:16Speaker 3: Hans And there was still a Red Lobster on Read
- 2:18Speaker 3: seventeen in Paramus. I'm just looking, okay, you know, because
- 2:21Speaker 3: I think you need to save your local Red Lobster.
- 2:23Speaker 1: And there's one in Brooklyn. So give us a text
- 2:26Speaker 1: at four four three six three looking for a good
- 2:28Speaker 1: Red Lobster. But you're not a big seafood fansye, I
- 2:30Speaker 1: don't think if you're.
- 2:31Speaker 3: I've never been, No, I would. Would you put Red
- 2:34Speaker 3: Lobster like an Olive Garden kind of in.
- 2:37Speaker 2: The high like it's like the seafood version. Yeah, you know,
- 2:41Speaker 2: chain restaurant popular.
- 2:43Speaker 3: So you get a lot of fun stuff.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Olive Garden is known for their breadsticks.
- 2:46Speaker 3: That's what I was going to ask. Red Lobster has
- 2:48Speaker 3: those salad and the bread sticks and the biscuits. Oh
- 2:51Speaker 3: some biscuits, right, everybody talks about the biscuits.
- 2:53Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a crab biscuit or something. I forgot
- 2:55Speaker 2: the name of it, Chris, do you remember the name
- 2:56Speaker 2: of it. The kind of biscuits they have, a red lobster.
- 2:58Speaker 3: I think they're just plain old biscuit.
- 3:00Speaker 2: It's they're going out of business. I don't you remember.
- 3:02Speaker 3: They are not out of business yet.
- 3:04Speaker 2: It's not all of them, but the one in Tallyhassee's gone.
- 3:06Speaker 3: We're trying to save them.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a giveaway right now.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Oh wait, wait, you have it, you have it. What's
- 3:12Speaker 2: the name of it again?
- 3:13Speaker 3: Justin cheddar Bay biscuits.
- 3:15Speaker 2: That's it.
- 3:15Speaker 3: That does sound good, cheddar Bay bish. Thank you, producer, Chris,
- 3:19Speaker 3: red lobster, thank you all right.
- 3:21Speaker 2: She has no voice, but she can still deliver information
- 3:24Speaker 2: to Thank you so much.
- 3:25Speaker 3: It's amazing.
- 3:26Speaker 2: All right. What do we have to give away?
- 3:27Speaker 3: Pair of tickets to see Shakira. She's coming to a
- 3:31Speaker 3: Prudential Center on Tuesday, July fourteenth, or Barclay Center on Monday,
- 3:36Speaker 3: July twentieth, or Thursday July twenty third at Ubs Arena.
- 3:40Speaker 3: You have a few choices. Tickets on sale now at
- 3:42Speaker 3: ticketmaster dot com or give us a call.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Brought to you by Red Lobster one one hundred and
- 3:46Speaker 1: two two two one oh six seven