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'We're calling it the Beyoncé bounce': Beyoncé sends Red Lobster's sales soaring 33%

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Red Lobster's sales soared 33% on Sunday, one day after Beyoncé released a new song that included a reference to the seafood chain.

"We're calling it the Beyoncé bounce," Erica Ettori, a Red Lobster spokeswoman, told Business Insider.

In the song, called "Formation," Beyoncé refers to Red Lobster as a reward for sex.

She released the track on Saturday and performed it during the the Super Bowl halftime show Sunday.

Red Lobster says it trended on Twitter for the first time in history after the song's release.

The brand was mentioned on Twitter about 300,000 times over the weekend, including 42,000 times in a single hour, according to the company.

Some restaurants have been offering special Beyoncé-themed drinks, such as a "Bey Breeze," to celebrate.

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Hayley Peterson
Hayley Peterson
Hayley Peterson is an Executive Editor who oversees coverage of the economy, tech, media, advertising, defense, careers, and more.She was previously a chief correspondent at Business Insider and wrote breaking news, analysis, and in-depth investigations on large consumer companies, with an emphasis on retailers including Amazon, Walmart, major grocery chains, and department stores.Hayley won recognition from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing in 2018 for "defining the retail apocalypse" through her reporting on retail job losses, the decline of Sears, and the impact of store closings on bondholders.Prior to joining Business Insider in 2013, Hayley was a White House correspondent and embedded on the presidential 2012 campaign trail.