Outback Closing in Goleta
By an edhat reader
I was at Outback in Goleta for dinner the other night and was sad to find out that they are closing this location. The last day they are open is this Sunday, November 12th. Does anyone why or what might be taking its place?
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Nov 08, 2017 08:53 AMRent went way up and now the building is going to sit empty for a long time. It's the Santa Barbara way!
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Nov 08, 2017 08:55 AMOh no! No more Bloomin' Onions.
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Nov 08, 2017 09:05 AMThey should take over the Sears location. Sears is on the way out, and then The Outback could serve even more tourists at once with a larger space.
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Nov 08, 2017 09:51 AMI got cast iron pot and a fancy onion chopper that I could probably replace with a knife. Outback, you failed to innovate and you are now seeing what that results in. I went home and made your only difficult dish. No driving no waiting for the buzz thing to go off I just poured horrible fatty oil into a pot heated it up and dropped an onion in. I then prepared the "secret sauce" : mayonnaise, ketchup, horseradish, 1/3 teaspoon paprika, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon oregano, a dash ground black pepper and cayenne pepper; mix well. And enjoyed in the back yard under an oak tree. Outback (serving cheap food to a strip mall near you)
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Nov 08, 2017 11:15 AMCan't say I'm surprised. I enjoy a good steak now and then but reasonably priced and although "reasonably priced" they were never all that good. I reckon the best and most reasonably priced steak around is going to be the one I cook from here on out.
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Nov 08, 2017 11:22 AMThey aren’t closing because they failed to lure customers they are always busy when I go. Their lease is up and the greed is hitting goleta too so the rent doubled. I suspect something really fancy will go in next but maybe not. Hopefully they find another spot in the area.
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Nov 08, 2017 11:51 AMNever been there.
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Nov 08, 2017 12:16 PMGosh, I was wondering if you had gone?! Good to hear you did not have enjoy the waste.
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Nov 08, 2017 12:32 PMStone the crows!
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Nov 08, 2017 12:57 PM722, not at all surprised.... I only ate there maybe half a dozen times over the years and as one poster noted the quality went waaay dooowwnn over that time.
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Nov 08, 2017 01:09 PMno very good. old steak only. no new steak. eat onion get gas. no very good.
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Nov 08, 2017 05:07 PMThis guy knows what’s up.
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Nov 08, 2017 02:02 PMI wish people would stay on topic. They are closing because once again the landlord at that strip mall has raised rents by double. No other reason. It is a middle performer for Outback and wouldn’t be closing otherwise. The landlord has driven good clients out in that mall for years like Petrini's, the Golf Klub, etc. Just like what the city did with the E-Bar site which cost the city $18M.
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Nov 08, 2017 02:46 PMthe E-bar was on airport property run by SB city. The Outback location is in Goleta another city that is even more poorly run than SB. The evil land lord you are talking about is pricing his commercial location to the demand that local businesses are willing to pay. If they don't rent at his higher rate then he will lower the rate or have a really expensive concrete box.
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Nov 09, 2017 10:51 AMOf course if they lower the rate later it's too late for the store that was already there. Bad idea all around if it's vacant for a long time.
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Nov 09, 2017 10:51 AMOf course if they lower the rate later it's too late for the store that was already there. Bad idea all around if it's vacant for a long time.
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Nov 09, 2017 01:19 PMIs it even legal to double the rent on a lease renewal? I'm not talking rent control here just basic civility. Of course if the landlord has someone lined up they would rather have there then it's just private property rights and "oh, well". But to vacate a place just to fish for a bigger catch... then they just suck and deserve truckloads of bad karma.
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Nov 08, 2017 02:42 PMThey also never honored the national advertising, at least when I was there
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Nov 09, 2017 07:25 AMA quick online search yielded some interesting information about the bloomin' onion, without adding the dipping sauce: it's about 2000 calories, has about 4 grams of transfats and over 4000 grams of salt. And then there's those tasty loaves of warm brown bread and attractive petite tureens of butter. All this before the main and sides arrive...
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Nov 09, 2017 08:32 AMMy husband and I went there once, maybe 5 years ago, and the food was so salty we could hardly stand. No loss in my book.
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Nov 09, 2017 01:13 PMI heard somewhere that landlords with empty property can take a deduction on their income tax for it. So I guess they don't really care if it rents or not. Greed rules!!