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Ruby Tuesday to close 70 or more restaurants
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Ruby Tuesday will close at least 70 restaurants — 40 by the end of March 2009, and about 30 more in the coming years — according to this news release from the company and to other news reports.
Ruby Tuesday didn’t identify which restaurants would close. The chain has more than 950 company- and franchise-owned restaurants worldwide, including several in the Miami Valley such as those in Centerville, Vandalia and Huber Heights.
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By Tim Simpson
January 21, 2009 10:20 AM | Link to this
Ruby Tuesday was a fairly decent restaurant in H.H., to bad they closed, it was just one of the few restaurants we did have. I feel bad for some of the staff that will be now unemployed. Very sad.
By Justin Livingston
January 19, 2009 5:35 PM | Link to this
Ruby Tuesday’s in Huber Heights closed.
By Summer
January 14, 2009 10:39 AM | Link to this
Everyone is saying good riddance Ruby Tuesday! What about the people at the bottom of the food chain who work there and have families to take care of? Very Insensitive. But I guess it doesn’t matter since everyone lives by… well, I don’t care, I’m not the one suffering. Very Sad.
By jack
December 30, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this
food is decent but overpriced i think.
By Big G.
December 20, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this
ruby tuesday’s ROCKS!!! the only thing mediocre going on here is all the lame comments i read. and for the record, they’re not all lame. but the one’s that are, you know who you are so, SHUT UP ALREADY!!!
By Big G.
December 20, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this
great salad bar! stupid comments from the peanut gallery, as usual. what’s the auto-makers bailout got to do with this? NOTHING!!! if they would make better-built, more affordable cars & trucks, then maybe they wouldn’t be in the state they’re in! thank the unions for that, MORONS!!!
By Wordell
December 19, 2008 10:00 PM | Link to this
Rob: Service industries are always difficult to work in if you’re on the “front line”. I commiserate with you. Prior to his “huff”, I would’ve enjoyed commenting to him: “We’re you born an a—hole, or have you worked at it your life?” Too bad this factual statement is not allowed in common discourse between employee and food customer. I applaud your common sense in dealing with what has become, in recent years, “The great unwashed”. P.S.: If the sandwich is tasty, packed with what I like to eat, I’ll be a “schmuck” and buy it. Please calm down (I say this in a friendly way), and realize that the occasional idiot you wait on shouldn’t be allowed to vote, let alone be assumed to be able to figure out a menu with prices on it!!! Rob…if they can’t do that, could you assume that other cognitive “abilities”, such as “critical thinking” are also lost? I say this as I believe: “You are what you eat”
By Rob
December 19, 2008 8:12 PM | Link to this
I have a simple rule: if you’re going to complain about the prices at a restaurant, DONT’T EAT THERE! I had some idiot come through where I work today and order two sandwiches that are almost $4.50 each and a drink (which I will admit are expensive, $1.59 plus tax), and he had a fit when with tax his order was over $10. My reponse was: “Then why did you order it if you think it’s so expensive? You didn’t bother to read the prices on the menu did you?” He huffed, snatched the bag out of my hand, and drove off without saying a word. Personally I say good riddance. There are plenty of schmucks willing to pay $4.50 for a sandwich.
By Keith Richards
December 19, 2008 7:10 PM | Link to this
It’s spelled “lose” not “loose”. I think Jason Evans is the idiot. Go cast a vote for change you chimp. BTW: Ruby Tuesdays stinks like a homeless ladies rear end. Good Riddance to them.
By Old Scratch
December 19, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this
Who cares? A below average dining experience for the forty nine point five percent of you that are below average. I’ll stay regal with Burger King.
By j
December 19, 2008 6:45 PM | Link to this
My husband and I just went to the one on Far Hills last night. I remembered why we rarely ate there when I saw the prices. WAY too high for such mediocre food.
By Joe
December 19, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this
The few times I went to the one in Vandalia I was very disappointed.
By Wordell
December 19, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this
Ya’ win, ya’lose. Had a bad experience once at the 5 star (4?) french restaurant on Far Hills at Town & Country…my “Escargo” (snails) were still moving, ALIVE!!!, trying to escape the smothering effect of the garlic butter I was attempting to drown them in. Nothin’ like eating garden slugs to define what the french are all about. Anyway, The Rolling Stones had it right:”Good… Bye… Ruby Tuesday…….
By Kevin
December 19, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this
I guess their jobs are not as important as GM’s, Chrysler’s, or Ford. I see where this bailout agenda is heading. The federal government decides who survives and who doesn’t.
By N Alexander
December 19, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this
politics have nothing to do with it. We had to threaten our relatives with never seeing their grandchild again if they gave us another RT gift card. The last time we were there, we sat an hour and then the waitress comes up and apologizes for forgetting to put our order in. If not for the desire to be rid of the gift card, we’d have complained or walked out, except complaining might leave us with another GC to that place. (This applies to the ones in West Chester, Sharonville, and I believe Deerfield or Westland Michigan. All three of those were terrible.
By greg p.
December 19, 2008 5:38 PM | Link to this
I hope none of the local Ruby Tuesday’s close, we have always enjoyed the food and atmosphere.
By Jason Evans
December 19, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this
What the heck does Obama (who isn’t even in charge yet) have to do with Ruby Tuesday’s closing some stores???? You idiot. And if Bush was so great…why didn’t McCain loose….o so horribly :D
By TRICE
December 19, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this
Bush is desperate to change his terrible legacy. He is the freakin’ lame duck.
By William
December 19, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this
I was never impressed with this chain anyway. Just anothe mediocre player in a crowded casual dining field.
By Goooood bye..........Ruby Tuesday
December 19, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this
Obama should have sent them a check. He a lame duck. Bush Rocks. At least he saved 2 + million auto jobs. We need more bush!!
By mikey
December 19, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this
smoke em if ya got em