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I remember when a Ruby Tuesday actually had live entertainment and great food, a place to go on a Saturday night (Knoxville). Then store locations went to the mall during the 80s and nowadays you can find them along the Interstate. Food quality and service has gone south, in my opinion.
Do you think their location strategy and target market is right on for 2013? What say you?
There's a lot of competition for places like Ruby Tuesday:
TGI friday's (the main competition), Chile's, Outback and Buffalo Wild Wings to a lesser extent. each person has their own favorites mine are friday's and BWW.
When there's only 1 thing on, or want a quick bite I'll go to Friday's. When there's multiple events on, or going with my friend's, most of the time I'll choose BWW because thats where they like to go to. However, if someone wanted to go to Ruby Tuesday, or Chile's I'm definitely NOT going to decline just because its not one of my favorites.
There's a lot of competition for places like Ruby Tuesday:
TGI friday's (the main competition), Chile's, Outback and Buffalo Wild Wings to a lesser extent. each person has their own favorites mine are friday's and BWW.
When there's only 1 thing on, or want a quick bite I'll go to Friday's. When there's multiple events on, or going with my friend's, most of the time I'll choose BWW because thats where they like to go to. However, if someone wanted to go to Ruby Tuesday, or Chile's I'm definitely NOT going to decline just because its not one of my favorites.
In my area it seems like O'Charleys is their main competition. I think Applebee's is more "at risk" than Ruby Tuesday though.
The ruby Tuesday's, tgi Fridays, and o Charleys have closed several locations in my area. The last time we went to a ruby Tuesday's the service was slow the food was bad and we swore never to go back. Then some time past and we forgot how bad it was and tried them again - same result. Then that one closed. I believe the next one closest to ms is in our biggest mall but I won't go.
I've seen a lot of them close down. I actually used to like them back in the 90s, anymore I really don't care for them at all. Many times I will decide not to go to a restaurant and stay gone for a few years and try them again. Well I tried them again and I still don't like them.
The last time I went to Ruby Tuesdays was a few months ago. I like going to restaurants off-peak when I'm by myself, when hubby is at the golf course for the day and I'm left to my own devices. So it was -just- before the dinner rush, and I was seated immediately in a mostly-empty dining room. I went to the salad bar after picking an appetizer with the waitress. The lettuce was brown on the edges, the spring mix was wilted. There weren't any olives or garbanzo beans, they had chopped white onions but no chopped red onions, they had pickled salad selections (like olive salad and antipasto salad), and some tuna that looked like they forgot to drain it before adding the mayo.
I returned to my table and waited for the waitress to tell her I changed my mind about eating. Ten minutes later, she showed up with a single biscuit (the ones they bring right after you order). I told her never mind, all I wanted was a salad and an appetizer, and since I can't have half of what I wanted, I wouldn't be eating there at all.
Haven't had any appetite to return to Ruby Tuesdays, since.
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