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I worked at a RT as a line cook. Their food is pathetic. All of their steaks and burgers come in frozen, individually "cryovac"ed in plastic. The burgers are pink and void of any moisture what so ever. Even the rice comes pre-prepared in a plastic poach and nuked. The mashed potatoes and soup also come in bags and reheated in a pot of boiling water. All the seafood comes in frozen and ran thru a conveyor type mini-pizza oven. Bassicly, you're buying a TV dinner. Even all the salads come in in bags. UGH. I quit when I decided to return to a cooking job, rather than be a professional re-heater.

Now they are using this as the basis for a TV ad campaign. I work in advertising, and am usually all in favor of anything a little bit different. But I'm also an ex-New Yorker who knew people who died in 9/11. So maybe this sounds over-sensitive, but given that event, and fatal bombings that take place on a fairly regular basis on Europe and The Middle East, are buildings being blown up "by accident": really such a big yuk?

Sounds like a "had to be there" type of thing, which doesn't work very well for a national marketing campaign. I imagine if you're standing there watching the Ruby Tuesday's waiting for it to blow and the restaurant across the street goes up in smoke you'd be effectively suprised. But in print, it's boring.

ok so the ruby tuesday they shown here was in harriman, tn. I know cause i couldn't get through there hardly that day with all the people around and the only restaurant sitting right beside it is a mexican place and nothing was blown up at all.