Ruby Tuesday Reviews

Pros

same team there for a while and the chemistry was good

Cons

they changed out managers way too often

Pros

The schedule is flexible. It is easy to relocate seeming how there is a RT in most towns. The food is good.

Cons

The company expects more for less, the pay is terrible. There is constant negative feedback from upper management. There is too much change and not enough consistancy.

Advice to Senior Management

Positive feedback promotes positive work. If you treat your employees like valued assets instead of "replacables", they will strive for the excellence you demand.

Pros

You're able to meet many new friends.

Request off's and vacation are easy to work out.

Work is easy (most of the time).

Cons

You make a lot of enemies.

Employees do not get praise for doing a job well.

Unfair, unfair, unfair.

New hires make more than employees who have worked with the company far longer.

Drama.

Advice to Senior Management

Positive feedback promotes positive work. If you treat your employees like valued assets instead of "replacables", they will strive for the excellence you demand.

Pros

Enjoy most of guests and the work is fast paced, high energy and scheduling is very good for requests off.

Cons

Worked their since 2008, and had one raise after 90 days and since, one lousy 25 cents increase.
The GM THINKS it's cheaper to hire new employees constantly and lose them after a short period, than pay a fair wage to retain the good kitchen staff.

Advice to Senior Management

You micro-manage every stage of business except employee compensation, leaving it only up to clueless store managers. Every employee that has been there over a year should have an annual pay review. If they are not deserving of an increase, give them a written plan on what steps they need to improve. Store mangers are too worried about qualifing for bonus and not retaining good employees.

Pros

Lots of support from management and fellow co workers
Plenty of extra shifts to pick up
Good money for very easy work
Good discounts on employee meals (50% off)
Met a lot of great people and friends
Just an overall fun and exciting environment

Cons

Customers can be very cheap
Not a lot of opportunity for advancement
Long wait times during the evenings and weekends

Pros

Make great friends.
Good for a first time server.
Good food.
Menu items are changed per season which leads to more intuitive customers.

Cons

They base your performance on tip percentages,but when they put out so many coupons its impossible to make money and numbers they expect. There is absolutely no positive feedback on our performances from managers and it's hard to want to work harder. There is also so much favoritism between managers and certain employees. They criticize one person for something and let it slide with another. The managers who write the schedules don't take anybodies personal life or other goings on and schedule you ridiculous shifts and hours.
Our cooperate office is so money hungry that they could care less about the servers who basically make them the money and do all their b*tch work. They brainwash their managers to the point that they completely lose touch with the reality of the restaurant business.

Advice to Senior Management

Consider your life...do YO really want to work at ruby Tuesday forever? Money isn't everything...how happy are you really? Do you enjoy walking allover the little people in your stores?? This is a good way to make lasting enemies.

Pros

Food and bev. are top notch... We are light years ahead of others in data available to managers. This makes it easier to manage numbers.

Cons

Setting such high goals and expectations an then not getting what we need to meet them in labor is very frustrating . The coverage and cost of insurance has gotten worst over the past few years. Managers should be asked, just like team members rate managers preformance, how their opperators performance rates.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper managment has truly lost touch with what managers have to deal with day to day. The work ethic of society is not what it once was. The pay scale for our team members is rough. We cant pay D- money and expect to get A+ results.

Pros

When it is busy, the money is good. Depending on the management things can run smooth or not. Food is great.

Cons

When things don't run smooth things can get very hectic. It is necessary to have a good leader to run a smooth restaurant.

Pros

The people you work with are generally very friendly and fun. There us flexibility in scheduling and you get to work in different areas...ie hosting, bartending, serving.

Cons

The pay is horrible for management. They expect you to work rediculous hours for pay that is less than what a server generally makes. Promotions are few and far in between. Most of the nanagers are failures in previous jobs.

Pros

Good work is always appreciated by managers. Good place for chefs to begin to learn to cook. Overall good experience.

Cons

Things are streamlined and the is no creative freedom and the pay feels a little low for the bulk of work.