Ruby Tuesday

The servers aren't too attentive here.  But it's as good as it gets for a chain restaurant, I'd think.  It's actually the only chain restaurant I frequent, largely due to the coupons they often appear in the newspaper.  Look out for those.

The salad bar is always stocked and fresh.  

The bar area has high-top roomy booths.  

My food today (Chicken Parmesan Pasta) was good.  It's consistently good.

We had another crack at this location tonight when we went out with seafood on our minds. Herb Crusted Tilapia for me and Salmon Florentine for my wife.

This time Marc was our sever. He was new but quite knowledgeable and easy to work with. He was juggling several tables but as far as I could tell no one had to wait long for anything.

The food was good on this night also. The buffet salad is hard to mess up and was fresh as usual, My wife's pan fried green beans were cooked just right and served hot. This was always an issue in the past but it seems to have been worked out. My baked potato was cooked perfect with the skin not baked too hard. I always eat the entire potato and really hate to get one that has sat under a heat lamp for long.

The only issue we had was that the hostess sat a couple in the booth behind us when we were 2/3 done with our meal. Normally that is not an issue but tonight the lady was wearing some pretty stinky hair pomade and, she had lots of hair. I wish the hostess would have had enough sense (of smell) to identify someone with an odor and seat them away from others. It wasn't like the place was full. Having someone with an offensive odor sitting about a foot behind you takes the pleasure out of eating.

Pleasantly surprised.  It's been a while since I've been here, they've stepped up their game.  Sunday brunch was very tasty, and the kids enjoyed it as well.  One complaint is that they have alcoholic drinks intermingled with the menu, add to that the enticing names like "tropical berry blast' (or whatever it was) and you will no doubt run into the same issue I had, my 10 year old girls ordered, and almost received, alcohol!  quick thinking on the waitress prevented the accident.  she too was unaware that they were alcoholic drinks, it wasn't until she put it in the machine and the machine placed the order 'at the bar' that it was brought to attention.
I know the waitress should have "known the menu" but I also blame Ruby Tuesday's for this fowl-up, alcohol should be kept on a separate drink menu, clearly defined. once I was told it was alcohol, I went back and still took me a second to notice that it was in fact labeled alcohol.  I just don't feel it was clear enough, and should not be on the menu that kids are reading.