{"id":153318,"date":"2026-03-05T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153318\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T02:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:53:09","slug":"red-lobster-sign-prank-confuses-manhattan-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153318\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Lobster sign prank confuses Manhattan residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan residents took to Facebook after an apparent \u201cprank\u201d in which a Red Lobster sign was placed in front of the new McDonald\u2019s location. A picture of the construction site, which is located at Tuttle Creek Boulevard and Kimball, was photographed and posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheManhattanMercury\/posts\/1493690879433415\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, where Manhattan residents shared their thoughts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind a Red Lobster,\u201d Manhattan resident Stan Krumm commented on the post. \u201cWith another McDonald\u2019s, we would have 3, which is way too many!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though many Manhattan residents saw the aftermath of the prank, how the Red Lobster sign got to the new McDonald\u2019s location is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea who put the sign up,\u201d Fire Deputy Chief Ryan Almes said. \u201cWhen I drove by the other day, I didn\u2019t see it, so I assume it has since been taken down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The demand for a Red Lobster in Manhattan has been ongoing, Almes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many years, when a new restaurant has started to be built or proposed, people often mention that it is [or hoping for] a Red Lobster,\u201d he said. \u201cIt dates back to at least when the north end redevelopment started around 2006-07.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the chain restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/foodblogalliance.com\/which-restaurants-is-red-lobster-closing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closing <\/a>down many of its locations, including three in Kansas, after filing for bankruptcy in May 2024 and facing continuous financial challenges, it makes the chances of the chain coming to Manhattan unlikely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan residents took to Facebook after an apparent \u201cprank\u201d in which a Red Lobster sign was placed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[610,75,84,83,9,24,12,63],"class_list":["post-153318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-local","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}