Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

[rpm]

 I stumbled across this watching Tony Bourdain. One of the commercials was about blowing up the last "old" Ruby Tuesday. To be honest, I've never eaten there. Apparently I'm among the majority in this respect. Heck, I never heard of them before last year and could care less if they've remodeled. But throw in some high explosives and a live netfeed and you've got my attention!

This afternoon at 2pm Central they will put fire in the hole, live at RubyTuesday.com .

Investors in the struggling chain may get a perverse pleasure out of watching as Ruby Tuesday's performance has been among the poorest in the casual dining category. Earlier this month, the chain released its annual fiscal 2008 report, which saw revenue decline 3.5%. Fourth-quarter same-store restaurant sales fell 10.3% and 7.2% at company-owned and domestic franchise respectively. For Ruby Tuesday's fiscal 2009, it is projecting a decline of low to mid-single digits for the year with next quarter's sales to be down 8-9%.

Translation: That's worse than Bennigan's numbers.

I'm sure I could work in a bit about them dropping the minimum pieces of flair, but I've got a stack of TPS reports to get done and I really just don't care.

[Ripsnort]

I've eaten there....ONCE. Once is enough.

[007Rusty]

              1 hour 34 min. left till BOOM    

[Spikes]

That was basically the only commercial that was shown when I was on the plane out to AZ on jetBlue. I've eaten there, good food.

[Steve]

That was basically the only commercial that was shown when I was on the plane out to AZ on jetBlue. I've eaten there, good food.

Yup.  I ate there.  Had a good burger.

[zoozoo]

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooo i liek ruby tuesday burgerz 

[Mickey1992]

I don't know about the "old" ones, but I go to a new one near me quite a bit.  Their salad bar rules.   

[Motherland]

I like Ruby Tuesdays. Apparently it's pretty popular in our area since there're two of them within driving distance of me.

[Spikes]

Yup.  I ate there.  Had a good burger.

When I travel I always look for a TGI Fridays or a Ruby Tuesday's, both of which have very good burgers.

[CAP1]

I stumbled across this watching Tony Bourdain. One of the commercials was about blowing up the last "old" Ruby Tuesday. To be honest, I've never eaten there. Apparently I'm among the majority in this respect. Heck, I never heard of them before last year and could care less if they've remodeled. But throw in some high explosives and a live netfeed and you've got my attention!

This afternoon at 2pm Central they will put fire in the hole, live at RubyTuesday.com .

Investors in the struggling chain may get a perverse pleasure out of watching as Ruby Tuesday's performance has been among the poorest in the casual dining category. Earlier this month, the chain released its annual fiscal 2008 report, which saw revenue decline 3.5%. Fourth-quarter same-store restaurant sales fell 10.3% and 7.2% at company-owned and domestic franchise respectively. For Ruby Tuesday's fiscal 2009, it is projecting a decline of low to mid-single digits for the year with next quarter's sales to be down 8-9%.

Translation: That's worse than Bennigan's numbers.

I'm sure I could work in a bit about them dropping the minimum pieces of flair, but I've got a stack of TPS reports to get done and I really just don't care.

i ate at one in franklin mills once. the food sucked, the service sucked, the portions were too small, and they were too expensive.

[Spikes]

i ate at one in franklin mills once. the food sucked, the service sucked, the portions were too small, and they were too expensive.

It depends on where you go I suppose. I went to at least 4 different ones and everything was the opposite of your experience.

[Ripsnort]

i ate at one in franklin mills once. the food sucked, the service sucked, the portions were too small, and they were too expensive.

Ditto for Puyallup, WA location.

[Vudak]

IMO, Ruby Tuesday's has better food than a place like Chilli's, but they don't give you anywhere near as much of it.  The portions are very small.

[Slamfire]

IMO, Ruby Tuesday's has better food than a place like Chilli's, but they don't give you anywhere near as much of it.  The portions are very small.

Ate there only once in my life - I thought the entire menu was weak, so I had a Buffalo burger - it was darn good.

[007Rusty]

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