A puzzle for Wednesday

Most days I get an email advertisement from an outfit called the Texas Mesquite Grill, with the message for today being: 'The Wait is Over! Come enjoy some great Crawfish and Craft Beer.  $7.95 a pound comes with corn and potato'. I assumed that this was a chain belonging to the same family as a chain which I had actually used at some point. Alternatively, I used to see a blog written by a chap who worked for the Red Lobster chain, the people at reference 2. Perhaps they were in the same family and that was the link.

But this afternoon, I was moved to check and as far as I can make out the Texas Mequite Grill is a one restaurant operation a few miles north west out of Houston, just off the US 290 HOV at a place called Cypress. Snapped above in gmaps and to be found at reference 1. I did once go to Texas, but that was a very long time ago, well before Internet mailing lists were invented, so I don't think that was it. So it all remains a puzzle.

As do the Red Lobster people, of whom I can find no trace on my blog, despite Windows search claiming that the string 'redlobster' occurs in the archive for April 2014. The nearest I get is reference 3. This despite my being sure that I once reposted a snap of a similar red lobster sitting on top of a car, somewhere in the US, advertising same. Maybe it will turn up later.

PS 1: for once in a while Google services seem to be struggling a bit. At least, either the Google servers are struggling or the Epsom Broadband is. Either of which is a pretty rare event.

PS 2: but I do now know that HOV means a road or lane reserved for high occupancy vehicles. So perhaps car share is a bigger deal in the US than it is here.

Reference 1: https://texasmesquitegrill.com/.

Reference 2: https://www.redlobster.com/.

Reference 3: http://psmv2.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-hunt-for-red-january.html.

Reference 4: https://www.ranker.com/list/the-top-seafood-restaurant-chains/restaurant-chains. Red Lobster gets the second spot here.

Reference 5: https://rlserver.blogspot.com/. Probably not the blog in question, which I had not thought was a company operation.