Red Lobster’s ‘Endless shrimp’ ends Monday and new, cheaper menu items start Tuesday

Red Lobster, the budget-conscious seafood restaurant chain operated by Orlando-based Darden Restaurants Inc., is ending its “Endless Shrimp” promotion this coming Monday.

But on Tuesday, all 700 Red Lobster restaurants in the United States — including the four locations in the Kansas City metro — will roll out a new menu that’s even more sensitive to budget-strapped diners.

A story posted online yesterday on the Nation’s Restaurant News website reported that the popular dining chain will debut six new items on its dinner and lunch menus that “expand customer choices around the $13 to $17 entree price range. Red lobster typically runs an all-day per-person check average of about $19.”