I liked it, used to be awesome but their quality of food is not great and many dishes are way too heavy - you need to be more focused on healhy food Red lobster or you will end up closing stores very quickly and it'll be painful. Nobody thinks about customers any more and that's the primary reasons why many stores and restaurants are closing nowdays, it includes Red Lobster.
Overall, they should focus more on the customer, see what they want and how their preference changed recently. Once they accomplish that the threat of locations closing in 2017 or beyond will certainly be removed. Keep in mind that I am writing this from Oregon and I used to live in California, so it may be just preference of folks on the West coast some folks in Mid West or Florida and East Coast may have different opinions.
Whatever happens, it'll be an interesting year for Red Lobster.