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Noodleface

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Yeah, Ruby Tuesday has some very underrated burgers. The Spicy Jalapeno Pretzel Cheeseburger and the Black & Blue Bacon Pretzel Burger are both excellent, and adding an all-you-can-eat salad bar on for $3.00 is just icing on the cake. I love having something to eat while I wait for my meal. I just wish they'd get real croutons instead of those soft black things they try to pass off as croutons.

*Edit* I had the Cinnamon Molten Cake at Chili's recently. Oh. My. God. It was amazing. A++ would (and will) eat again.
I always get the burgers at Ruby Tuesday. They had a double cheeseburger that was like 6 inches tall.. plus, their burgers are usually one of the few places that actually tastes like fresh hamburger and has a homemade taste to it.
 

Tenks

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Is Red Robin good everywhere? We only have 1 in Rhode Island, it's like a year old now, and it's amaaaaaaaaaaazing. I'd never really heard of it before.
Red Robin is decent but I'm not a fan of their fries. I don't really like steak fries in general. They had the "Godfather" burger which had mozerella sticks, marinara and mozerella on it. Shit was delicious.
 

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Yeah, Ruby Tuesday has some very underrated burgers. The Spicy Jalapeno Pretzel Cheeseburger and the Black & Blue Bacon Pretzel Burger are both excellent, and adding an all-you-can-eat salad bar on for $3.00 is just icing on the cake. I love having something to eat while I wait for my meal. I just wish they'd get real croutons instead of those soft black things they try to pass off as croutons.

*Edit* I had the Cinnamon Molten Cake at Chili's recently. Oh. My. God. It was amazing. A++ would (and will) eat again.
Sounds like Ruby Tuesday gets the

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Gravel

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I think Red Robin is pretty decent, but they don't have all you can eat fries anymore, which sucks. Then again, Fazolis doesn't have all you can eat garlic breadsticks anymore either, which also sucks. I think you can still get both if you pay extra, but fuck that, it used to be free.

As far as quasi-fast food sit-down chain restaurants go, I think Ruby Tuesdays makes a damn good burger, I like them better than Red Robin. Their triple-prime burger is top notch. They have a solid pretzel burger too.
I went to one in the last month, and just like the above posters, it still had endless fries. Not sure why yours doesn't.

I'm a big fan of Ruby Tuesdays. That salad bar is fucking delicious.
 

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Goddamnit, I need to kick some ass at my local Red Robin then. Last time I was there the waitress told me "you can add endless fires for an extra $1.99". Maybe it was just a temporary thing they tried and it failed so they went back to normal, this was probably 6-9 months ago at least.
 

Falstaff

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or they tried to just upsell you and see if you'd fall for it?

happened to me once at... Olive Garden or somewhere a few years ago. We ordered some appetizer and the waitress said, "oh do you want some dipping sauce with those?" and we said sure and turns out it that was buried in the menu as an extra cost. Who doesn't assume fried ravioli comes with dipping sauce? fucking olive garden assholes.
 

McCheese

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or they tried to just upsell you and see if you'd fall for it?

happened to me once at... Olive Garden or somewhere a few years ago. We ordered some appetizer and the waitress said, "oh do you want some dipping sauce with those?" and we said sure and turns out it that was buried in the menu as an extra cost. Who doesn't assume fried ravioli comes with dipping sauce? fucking olive garden assholes.
It comes with dipping sauce. You got extra, and extra costs money. The only 'dipping' appetizer that doesn't come with dipping sauce is breadsticks, which are free anyway (with your meal, at least), and costs like $3 - $4 for a boat of dipping sauce.

If you literally got charged extra for the base ramekin of marinara sauce that fried ravioli comes with, then yes, you got fucked over and could have complained. If you got more than 1 ramekin of sauce then you got what you paid for.
 

Noodleface

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Olive Garden used to have a meal "Garlic Chicken con Broccoli" and it was a gift from the heavens. Now they don't make it anymore and I refuse to eat there. Fucking COCKSUCKERS
 

Tenks

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I know it makes me a terrible foodie but I find Olive Garden's food pretty good and pretty inexpensive. Especially when they run that buy 1 take 1 promotion.
 

Noodleface

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I like Olive Garden a lot but I believe it to be overpriced for what it actually is. I remember an AMA on reddit where the person said everything is prepared offsite, mostly all frozen and reheated.
 

McCheese

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I like Olive Garden a lot but I believe it to be overpriced for what it actually is. I remember an AMA on reddit where the person said everything is prepared offsite, mostly all frozen and reheated.
That's bullshit. While there is a large amount of stuff prepared offsite, it's mostly the stuffed pastas such as ravioli, tortellini, manicotti, etc. Pasta was always boiled in large batches throughout the day so generally only sat around briefly, many sauces were made from scratch, and all of the soups were made from scratch. For example, there is the "zuppa e toscana" soup, which consists of sausage, cale, and thinly sliced potatoes. Every morning they took raw potatoes and sliced them all, tore up fresh kale into smallish chunks, and ground the sausage. It always impressed me how the walk-in was almost entirely filled with fresh vegetables that got delivered every morning. They had huge bins of raw eggplants that they would cut up, bread, and fry for the eggplant parm. It definitely wasn't brought in prepared and reheated.

Granted, maybe this has changed recently, but I worked at Olive Garden from 2004 through 2009.

*Edit* Hell, they even made lasagna from scratch every morning, and that is definitely something that requires a lot of effort and prep time. In addition, they never froze it and reheated it the next day; we used to give the leftovers to the local police officers.
 

Tenks

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I like Olive Garden a lot but I believe it to be overpriced for what it actually is. I remember an AMA on reddit where the person said everything is prepared offsite, mostly all frozen and reheated.
As long as it is good I don't really give a shit how it gets to my plate.
 

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I used to get wasted with my boys up until last year everytime the never ending pasta bowl came around. We would dress up in fancy clothes and take a cab up there to get bombed and eat different pastas. I kinda miss that tradition =(
 

Noodleface

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That's bullshit. While there is a large amount of stuff prepared offsite, it's mostly the stuffed pastas such as ravioli, tortellini, manicotti, etc. Pasta was always boiled in large batches throughout the day so generally only sat around briefly, many sauces were made from scratch, and all of the soups were made from scratch. For example, there is the "zuppa e toscana" soup, which consists of sausage, cale, and thinly sliced potatoes. Every morning they took raw potatoes and sliced them all, tore up fresh kale into smallish chunks, and ground the sausage. It always impressed me how the walk-in was almost entirely filled with fresh vegetables that got delivered every morning. They had huge bins of raw eggplants that they would cut up, bread, and fry for the eggplant parm. It definitely wasn't brought in prepared and reheated.

Granted, maybe this has changed recently, but I worked at Olive Garden from 2004 through 2009.

*Edit* Hell, they even made lasagna from scratch every morning, and that is definitely something that requires a lot of effort and prep time. In addition, they never froze it and reheated it the next day; we used to give the leftovers to the local police officers.
Just relaying what I've heard. Personally I have felt the quality dwindle a bit in the last 5 years. I still enjoy the food there though.
 

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I'm a huge fan of Spaghetti Factory over places like Olive Garden, Macaroni Grill, etc. I particularly like filling up on bread and salad, ordering the Hearty-Size of whatever I'm getting, and then taking half of it home for leftovers. And the prices are still pretty reasonable compared to most places.
 

McCheese

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I used to get wasted with my boys up until last year everytime the never ending pasta bowl came around. We would dress up in fancy clothes and take a cab up there to get bombed and eat different pastas. I kinda miss that tradition =(
Oh man, the never ending pasta bowl. Back in college my friends and I used to do a yearly contest to see who could eat the most. Everything had a point value, like a sausage was 2, a meatball was 1, etc. In my prime I managed to down the initial (large) bowl, 9 (smaller) refill bowls, all of which had 1 meatball or sausage, and a plate of 9 meatballs. That was the most disgustingly full I've ever been, and I remember how finishing those last few bites felt like the fork weighed 3 tons. Those were the good ol' days.

In terms of Italian, I'm partial to the family style places such as Carmine's and Maggiano's.
 

Noodleface

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As I was reading the beginning of your story, McCheese, I already knew the outcome. I am glad you delivered on what my brain promised me would be the outcome.