My wife and I and family on both sides have been dining at RT for many years and it at one time it was in the top 4 or 5 spots to go to because of food quality, choices, salad bar and price. Since my wife and I eat out a lot we dined at RT often over the years and over the many years we have noticed a slow and steady decline in the overall quality of the RT experience. It always puzzles me when items that are popular are taken off the menu with out any corresponding alternative so when my wife looked for her favorite item and found it was no longer available it confirmed our suspicions. We immediately noticed that the latest advertising of a "new salad bar" was only a ploy. There were no remarkable new items on the bar and to our disappointment some simple item had been eliminated. We both ordered burgers and again suspicions further confirmed, they were they size of happy meal burgers. Although the patty was only slightly thicker then McDs, they were dry and relatively tasteless.
So our suspicion is that RT is going the way of Dennys (anyone remember when Dennys had bars). Will we ever return to RT? Well maybe if our senior aged parents insist and buy, maybe we will go back. On our own, probably not. Its really to bad because we really did enjoy RT at one time, a long time ago.