Ot: Joe's Crab Shack Closings.
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An owner of a highly respected seafood restaurant once told me that you can't do volume with seafood. Said places like Red Lobster, Joe's, etc. have to buy in such volume that they start to have real quality issues as a result. He told me buyer beware in those places.
Were there others besides the one at Station Square?
Food was terrible. Simply awful.
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Ate at my first one in Myrtle Beach last week. Just - boring. The big thrill was having the staff line up and dance to Cotton Eyed Joe. Food sucked.
Ate at several in Louisiana, food was good as was the service. Was accompanied by native LAer's. They know their seafood.
Had one just around the corner from me. I really wanted to like the place: the old ship, nets, fishing gear.....food was crap. Low end shrimp buttered until you oozed it out of the pours on your nose. They tricked up the shrimp like Taco Bell trying to give taco's 47 different names (its still just a taco, for God's sake). They closed within a year. IMHO, the only thing that keeps Dead Lobster going is the Bay Biscuits (which you can buy the mix and make yourself).
Poster about big box seafood is pretty well on. I am not sure I've ever eaten at a big box seafood store and was satisfied. the best is Bonefish but by the time you get out of there, you were better off to go with the local place where you'd have paid the same.
Poster about big box seafood is pretty well on. I am not sure I've ever eaten at a big box seafood store and was satisfied. the best is Bonefish but by the time you get out of there, you were better off to go with the local place where you'd have paid the same.
Oh I've been there. Great food.
I work in Wilmington. A Joe's opened on the Riverfront, and having never heard of it before (I didn't know it was a chain at the time), I took the family there for dinner one Saturday night. Very disappointing to find out that it was the Olive Garden of Seafood Restaurants.
It's the pitt football of seafood resteraunts. No one knows why it's there and who likes it, but there's always a seat if you want it. The world will be a better place when it's gone.
Both where also owned by a guy named Joe.
Both where also owned by a guy named Joe.
I never ate dinner at a Joe's but I've eaten lunch a few times and it was good. I also spent quite a few nights drinking beer at the bar and eating from the appetizer menu at the one in San Diego harbor right down from the baseball stadium. Good times for sure.
I do remember looking over the full menu while there and wondering why they didn't include something local...
I do remember looking over the full menu while there and wondering why they didn't include something local...
About 12 years ago my wife accompanied me on a business trip to Orange County, CA. We arrived late in the day and were looking for somewhere to eat and it was our first visit to a Joe's Crab Shack. It wasn't bad. A few years later on our annual vacation to FL, we found one in Kissimmee. Every year we would eat there as a family and never had a bad experience. When my daughter was visiting colleges, we went to St. Joe's in Philly. Found a Joe's there. Pretty shady. Slow service, food presentation was not good, drinks were weak. Two years later we were down there for something and decided to give that Joe's another shot. It was closed. If you don't instill a core quality message to your franchises, you fail.
That was one of the sub-plots of "The Founder," the Ray Kroc/McDonalds movie starring Michael Keaton that was out earlier this year.
Side note -- that movie tanked at the box office, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's currently on Netflix and well worth checking out, in my opinion.
We had one in the Bel Air/Abingdon area of MD. I went once and thought ehhhh. It wasn't good enough for me to go back.
This is Crab country and if you don't do it well you wont be around long because there are 15 other places in a 10 mile radius that do.
That being said I do like Bonefish.
They had them, they were just in a pot with everything else. That is not going to go over well anywhere in MD or VA and probably Delaware.
