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Posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 00:20:37 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 23 00:14:21 2012. LOL @ the asterisked comment.I suspect there are shills on yelp also. your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 23 00:25:19 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 23 00:14:21 2012. I can sort through yelp views and find either a consensus or at least people that seem to have the same tastes as me. Trip Advisor is harder because the expectations for what should be a good hotel are so different. I read them sometimes, but I don't find them useful. In fact, most hotels are ok to me and I can't understand all of the bad reviews. |
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Re: Ruby Tuesday (Corrected) |
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Posted by Easy on Sat Jun 23 00:29:21 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday (Corrected), posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 23 00:17:09 2012. You spelled TripAdvisor wrong twice. :)And my biggest problem with TripAdvisor is that there are tons of fake reviews. You can tell when a hotel gets way too many reviews, all great and by people making their first review but it's still annoying. |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 23 00:59:17 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 00:20:37 2012. LOL @ the asterisked comment.It's true. I'm perfectly content in a clean, simple hotel, but some people expect that bottom of the level chains to be as good as the high end stuff. Somehow, people manage to expect McDonald's to be sub-par to what you can cook at home on the grill with meat from a good butcher, yet somehow people expect $50/night hotels to be as good as $300 hotels... As for Yelp, I've seen the same phenomenon at play, but then I've seen it at Amazon and Newegg for stuff that I've purchased. Some people will never be satisfied. :-) |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sat Jun 23 02:15:03 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 23 00:25:19 2012. i agree |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 23 02:54:05 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Dand124 on Thu Jun 21 14:19:50 2012. Elitist! |
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Olive Garden (was: Ruby Tuesday) |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 23 02:57:08 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Jun 22 18:07:28 2012. I can't dispute that, as I've been to lots of Italian restaurants. They can actually hold their own with some of the good ones. Of course, if you're looking for stuff like a chicken parm sub sandwich, the local pizza joint is without fail . . . |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 23 03:22:14 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jun 21 14:12:48 2012. What's with the automatic shift towards discussing Olive Garden in threads about Ruby Tuesday . . . ? |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sat Jun 23 06:12:43 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Easy on Sat Jun 23 00:25:19 2012. You are correct. I often have liked a hotel...and the later come acrosa the trip advisor page on it with cranks compaining.....some people.kust live to complain. |
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Re: Ruby Tuesday (Corrected) |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sat Jun 23 06:14:32 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday (Corrected), posted by Easy on Sat Jun 23 00:29:21 2012. Haha....so true....those reviews srand out as much as the crank ones. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 23 06:17:23 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sat Jun 23 06:12:43 2012. Ever heard the saying "Hunger is good sauce" . . . ? |
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Posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 10:38:16 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Jun 23 00:59:17 2012. You mean to say you get what you pay for? Capital idea!your pal, Fred |
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Re: Olive Garden (was: Ruby Tuesday) |
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Posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 10:40:38 2012, in response to Olive Garden (was: Ruby Tuesday), posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 23 02:57:08 2012. The local pizza place can fail too, especially if it's not Italian.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jun 23 12:44:31 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Fri Jun 22 17:54:28 2012. A properly run OG makes good food. Again, if you wanna chance it with an unknown, potentially expensive restaurant...One of the most expensive, and WORST meals I have ever had was at Pellegrinos in Little Italy, I spend $135 for god awful food. And Pelligrinos is considered one of the top Italian restaurants out there. |
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Posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 12:57:54 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jun 23 12:44:31 2012. With websites like yelp and chowhound, etc, there's not that much leaving to chance anymore, although yes, there is chance you could hit lemons. The days of just picking a spot out of the phone book are long gone.OG does make good food; my point was to debate the food snob claim. Some people just don't like it or other chains. your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jun 23 15:29:37 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 12:57:54 2012. This before yelp, but Pelligrinos has a 4.6 star rating there. I do not trust online reviews, they are easy to fabricate. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jun 23 15:29:48 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 12:57:54 2012. This was before yelp, but Pelligrinos has a 4.6 star rating there. I do not trust online reviews, they are easy to fabricate. |
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Posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 15:45:02 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jun 23 15:29:48 2012. Reviews can be bought, and online ones can even be the owner himself :OOnline fora like Chowhound are good since false reviews can be wrestled down, kinda like this place :) I think the sense of dining adventure is proportional to time, and of course, money. If you're in town for one night, a sure thing like OG is prudent. If in town for a week then there's time to explore. your pal, Fred |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 23 20:26:49 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 12:57:54 2012. OG does make good food; my point was to debate the food snob claim. Some people just don't like it or other chains.And they are food snobs. Again, fine dining it's not, but it's not bad either. As I said, you can do way worse at some bad mom and pop Italian places. While you won't get the orgasmic experience meal either, you also won't get the meal from hell. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 23 20:29:13 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jun 23 12:44:31 2012. Actually, some of those overrated expensive tourist trap restaurants like Peligrinis is WORSE than Olive Garden in my experience. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 23 20:30:42 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 15:45:02 2012. I agree with you except for in Manhattan. I have had some of my worst chain experience restaurants in Manhattan. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 23 20:38:35 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 23 20:26:49 2012. And they are food snobsNo they are not. Refusing to eat garbage does not make one a food snob. It makes one normal. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 23 20:42:13 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Easy on Fri Jun 22 21:16:38 2012. Chains are good in that they tend to be more consistent.Yes, consistently bad. MREs are also consistent. Should I eat them when I'm out of town so that I have the reassurance of predictability? You scared. |
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Posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 23 20:45:28 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 23 20:29:13 2012. That's true. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jun 23 20:49:13 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 23 20:42:13 2012. Hey!Don't you be dissing the Ala King! :) |
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Posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 21:14:32 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 23 20:30:42 2012. Yeah that's a whole different animal.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 21:16:14 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jun 23 12:44:31 2012. They could have an off night, or they could indeed suck.I've had bad experiences in upscale joints too, but it was mostly with poor service; the food was great once it got to us *-* your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 21:28:53 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jun 23 20:49:13 2012. He was a funny man, great tv comic.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jun 24 01:29:47 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 21:28:53 2012. Barum-pum. :) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jun 24 01:51:38 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by SMAZ on Thu Jun 21 18:33:14 2012. what Italian restaurants do you like? you never said. only listed pizzerias.thanks. |
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Posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 04:30:24 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Jun 23 20:26:49 2012. No no, the food snobs would skip OG simply because it was in a shopping center. For them it's more the status than the food. I'm talking about people who have tried OG and don't like it.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 05:31:25 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 23 20:38:35 2012. No...since its not "garbage"....it males one a food snob |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 05:32:35 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 23 20:42:13 2012. No...Consistently mediocre perhaps.... But not consistently bad |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 05:32:38 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by SMAZ on Sat Jun 23 20:42:13 2012. No...Consistently mediocre perhaps.... But not consistently bad |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 05:37:41 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 21:16:14 2012. I have to agree with that.... In the case of upscale restaurants... The problem is more with service.... Then the food. They quite often have snobny Wait staff that sucks |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 05:43:44 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 04:30:24 2012. There are some that feel they don't like it... Simply because it's a chain and it's beneath them.Funny you mention shopping center... We have a pretty upscale restaurant that's located in a store front of a shopping center. The waitstaff absolutely sucks. The food good but extremely small portions... but the place is full of snacks would feel they should go there because of the name... and will suffer with snobby stuck up wait staff |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 05:46:03 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 05:43:44 2012. Sorry I'm using voice typing... that was supposed to say the place is full of snobs not snacks |
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Posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 06:29:58 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 05:37:41 2012. Sometimes that and sometimes they don't staff properly so 3 people are working the tables 5 should be doing, that kinda stuff. Snotty waitri = no tip and explaining why.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 06:30:48 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 05:37:41 2012. Sometimes that and sometimes they don't staff properly so 3 people are working the tables 5 should be doing, that kinda stuff. Snotty waitri = no tip!your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 06:33:53 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 05:43:44 2012. They'd hate it out in the west as a lot of the best places are in shopping centers and strip malls. Albuquerque is like that.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 08:40:57 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 06:29:58 2012. This thing is I usually have a snotty wait staff at the better restaurants not the cheap or chain restaurants were the service it's usually pretty good |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 08:42:59 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 06:33:53 2012. The place I was talking about is in the shopping center is a better restaurant... and the food is not bad.. aldo portions way smaller than I would like... but the wait staff is absolutely terrible. The whole attitude sucks. Even the bartenders a snot |
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Posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 10:01:10 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 08:40:57 2012. Really? I get treated like a king. I can count on one hand the times I've encountered a snotty waitri at a fine dining establishment and still have enough fingers left over to flip the snotty ones off. This out of hundreds of times I've dined at so-called good places in NY, New England, Colorado, California, Las Vegas, New Mexico, Arizona, Montreal, Toronto, Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia.Not only am I treated like a king but the waiter is professional enough know what kind of waiter to be, just by the initial body/eye language. Not only that but drink glasses are never less than a third full and he or she just appears with a fresh bottle ready to be corked. Other than a handful of times, the service was perfect. If a snotty waitri happens more often than not, I suspect the customer has attitude or might be buzzed. your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 10:02:17 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 08:42:59 2012. Haha, I used to have a different definition of a snotty bartender, as one who couldn't keep up LOL.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 10:56:32 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 10:01:10 2012. I didmt say it was common...i said that when i have ever had snotty wait staff its been at a better place...never at a chain or less expensive place. |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Jun 24 16:33:48 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jun 23 03:22:14 2012. Well, I posted about Randy long after this thread drifted into a general chain food thread. |
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Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Sun Jun 24 20:05:04 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sun Jun 24 10:02:17 2012. Heh....nah at the place i am thinking of...the whole attitude sucks. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Jun 24 20:26:23 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Jun 21 19:58:38 2012. Exactly. When you want certainty, chains assure that. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Jun 24 20:28:41 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by Fred G on Sat Jun 23 21:16:14 2012. I recall that the tiramisu for dessert was edible. |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Jun 25 08:07:13 2012, in response to Re: Ruby Tuesday, posted by orange blossom special on Fri Jun 22 17:52:14 2012. You can do it for less than 12 bucks with the dollar menu.your pal, Fred |
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