Red Lobster in Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, United States | Restaurant

Great Service. Great Seafood.
Now that's what we call enjoying the best of the sea. Whether your family comes together over a big plate of succulent crab legs, you celebrate life's special moments by dipping into Artichoke, Lobster & Seafood Dip or you mark your calendar for Lobsterfest year after year, Red Lobster is undoubtedly where America goes for great tasting seafood.
Company founder Bill Darden tested his entrepreneurial skills at the ripe old age of 19. That was when he opened a Restaurant concept of a different color called The Green Frog. From the very beginning, Bill Dardenâ??s Restaurants focused on quality and service. He also thought thereâ??d be great consumer appeal for a Restaurant that specialized in seafood. Darden and his team opened Red Lobster in Lakeland, Fla., in 1968. One member of the first Restaurantâ??s management team is our former Chairman and CEO, Joe Lee.
By the early 1970s, we had expanded throughout the Southeast, establishing Red Lobster as the leader not only in chain seafood Restaurants but in all of casual dining. "Our biggest competition back then was the kitchen stove," remembers former CEO, Joe Lee. But that didnâ??t stop the Red Lobster crew from innovating in the kitchen, introducing much of the country to calamari, snow crab and key lime pie, not to mention inventing popcorn shrimp.