The Cheddar Bay Biscuits are just as popular at Red Lobster restaurants as the seafood.
About Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay Biscuits
Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay Biscuits have been wildly popular since 1992 when Kurt Hankins, then-head of Red Lobster’s culinary development team, substituted sugar for garlic and added cheese to biscuits.
By 2017, a news release from Red Lobster claimed the company was baking nearly one million biscuits a day by putting a fresh batch in the oven every 15-20 minutes.
Cheddar Bay Biscuits weren’t originally served at the table
Red Lobster first served its signature biscuits on trays to hungry patrons waiting in the lobby. However, servers couldn’t keep up with requests for more biscuits. The demand became so high that Red Lobster began serving them as table appetizers.
Fun facts about Cheddar Bay Biscuits
- Food staff bakes over 8,000 pounds of cheddar cheese to create about one million biscuits daily.
- If stacked up, the number of Cheddar Bay Biscuits served daily would be 137 times the height of the Empire State Building.
- In one year, the number of biscuits served could stretch coast to coast in the United States about five times.
- The number of Cheddar Bay Biscuits served equaled 17 times the population of Florida, which had roughly 21 million people.
- As part of a promotional deal seven years ago, Red Lobster released a limited-edition Cheddar Bay Biscuit-flavored lip balm.