date:Jan 02, 2014
The Red Lobster restaurant chain today brushed aside reports that it will be closing its doors.
Rich Jeffers, a spokesman for Darden Restaurants Inc., which owns the chain, said the rumor may have started after the website LA Weekly published a story earlier this week that the company faced an uncertain future. A torrent of tweets and other online media followed with reports that the chain was closing.
We are not closing any restaurants, Jeffers told ABCNews.com on Friday.
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