I generally don't love chain restaurants, nor do I feel the need to review them because of their general mediocrity, but being from the SF bay, Ruby Tuesday was new to me and I always like to give new-to-me restaurants a shot. Their website makes everything look so delicious. That was my first mistake though, right? Never believe the pictures.
Having gone at an off-peak hour (about 8:30 p.m.) in an off-peak season (summer, so I heard the waitress tell another table) I would've expected prompt service and fresh food. However, this was not so. Our waitress had a total of 2 tables and she had gotten so caught up in chatting with the other table that our food sat under heat lamps for who knows how long. (You can always tell when that happens by how hot your plate is when they serve it to you.) Our burgers were over-cooked, almost to the point of being rubbery, and the fries were luke-warm. Ate enough to get full and threw the rest away. Oh well, now I know.