Ruby Tuesday

I normally don’t ever give out one star reviews but this is one of those very rare situations that I can say was just a bad experience overall.
I was with a couple of work team members and we need to stop to grab a bite on the way through from Bangor and we’re looking forward to a nice hearty salad to curb the appetite.
First this when we were sat at the table the waitress seemed to really not want us to sit in her section because she gave a huff and a puff and strolled right by our table. It then took about 10 minutes or so for her to even come by to ask for drinks or service.
When she decided to come back and check on the table, she started with «Hey I’m … I’ll be your server. What do you want to drink?» I was looking to see if there was any urgency or some sort of apology for it taking forever but nope … Anyway maybe she was busy right?
She the took about another 10 minutes to come back with our waters. We the knew we were going to have to order our food fast because she might not be back anytime soon. We the received our food … She then told me the following story about my grilled chicken salad … Soooooooo, you only have a quarter of your chicken because when the cooks tried to throw the chicken on the salad they dropped it on the floor, they are making you another piece of chicken.
I don’t know if I really needed to know that but with the way the service had been, the hospitality had been it just topped it off … She then disappeared for a while until we had to flag her down for the check … We were in our business attire so you would normally think she would know we needed to hit the road anyway.
Ok ok I feel bad that I am saying nothing good about this experience but it really is what it is … So I would avoid it and pop downtown in Waterville for some real food and friendly service.

Our experience was good … Jenna was our server and she was pleasant to us and her other tables. My husband didn’t love his Cuban sandwich but I had the chicken spring rolls and thought they were okay. Salad bar was fresh tasting soooo for a chain, it did the trick.

I preface this with the acknowledgement that I generally dislike restaurant chains… But calling this the Walmart of restaurants would be an insult to Walmart. Something as simple as a burger is so shoddy to the point a bigmac seems gourmet by comparison. At least the servers are nice, about all it has going for it if your meal happens to come out edible.
The salad bar (quit calling it a garden bar!) is actually OK, but if you get a soup and salad don’t expect crackers.

Surprisingly good chain restaurant. When you walk in, you get the usual disorientation of a chain restaurant. It could be anywhere between 1968 and 2014, any place on earth– it’s always the same. One of the nice things about this place is that it’s one of the few restaurants in this price range that has a salad bar. After eating a crapload of fattening food, it was a relief to eat some salad. We continued on this relatively healthy track by having the salad plus soup (chicken tortilla, not bad) or vegetables (choice of 3 vegetable side dishes, also not bad– surprisingly, they serve spaghetti squash as one of them), We had an unusually perky waitress, who was a pleasure. There were free soda refills. The menu contained the usual range of fried, cheesy, starchy artery clogging things that we Americans love so much, and I’m sure they are just what you think they are, but we skipped them. Good place if you don’t just want a burger.

Not impressed at all. Promotional item we ordered was not even available but the waitress seemed to not even care. Salad bar was decent but very messy when we got there. Was never served the biscuits which was also a disappointment. Overall a very poor lunch especially since this was on the 4^th of July.

We had a wonderful experience here. The food was good, as was the salad bar, and so was the service. The nicest thing was that they had replated my daughter’s meal so that the plate was not hot when they brought her food to the table.

Rhonda, I think that was the waitress, was very nice. She was very nice when I told her the the chicken taco lunch item with two tacos had one taco with a single slice of chicken and the second taco with a smaller slice of chicken and a barely perceptible escort piece of chicken. The «death by onions» tacos poured out of the shell. CRAP.
The queso had so much disgusting spinach and it was sweet. I want salty queso not sweet. Tasted bad.
All this place has going for it is Rhonda and the tossing salad bar. But that’s not enough for a restaurant that shoved a $ 48 bill up our you know what with $ 2.50 soft drinks. Screw this dump. Oh, and I never slam a place without mentioning the shortfall and this is what Rhonda said…
«The cook admitted the chicken tacos have small amounts of chicken on them, and these had even less, so I should be prepared to tell customers the onion tacos are called ‘chicken tacos’.», to paraphrase. So based on this piss on their crap onion tacos, sweet cheese dip and overpriced crap. Rhonda is a very friendly waitress and I would come here for drinks with my wife and customer and sit in her area.

on behalf of a family member who is not a Unilocaler:
«this place was wonderful when it first opened 10 years ago. now the restaurant is freezing inside, the food is cold and made colder by the chilly temperature, and the salad bar is full of fruit flies. for the price, you can do a lot better. i won’t be eating here again»