Ruby Tuesday removed from company website
The Mt. Pleasant location of Ruby Tuesday has been scrubbed from the company’s website of locations, following a pattern whereby the chain is silently closing locations permanently during the COVID-19 shut down.
Rumors started to circulate Thursday on a post on the Facebook group Townie Talk 2, where a relative of the management team announced that the Mt. Pleasant eatery, 1023 E. Pickard Road in front of Meijer and next to Culver’s, had transitioned from closed temporarily to closed permanently.
A check of the restaurant lo
cations based on proximity shows that two nearby locations, open just two months ago, have been scrubbed, including the one in Mt. Pleasant.
There is no number to call Ruby Tuesday management in Maryville, Tennessee, but the Morning Sun sent messages along a wide, broad social media front. That included direct messages to the company’s Twitter account, comments on a Facebook post, an email to a marketing department employee and a series of Tweets mentioning the company periodically Thursday and again on Friday morning.
The company never responded, and that included to questions left on a Facebook post that the Ruby Tuesday team was monitoring and responding to questions about curbside service.
That also includes a question from a woman named Lauren who inquired about the Chambersburg, Pa., location, which has also been scrubbed from the company’s website.
This follows a pattern first set four weeks ago, when the company scrubbed its location in the Midland Mall in Midland. In a Facebook post in a local group, a former employee confirmed that indeed that restaurant location was now permanently closed.
Ruby Tuesday opened the Mt. Pleasant location more than a decade and a half ago.
Founded in 1972, Ruby Tuesday is one of the oldest casual dining chains. As interest in that style of restaurant has waned in recent years, it was sold to a private equity firm in 2017, which developed a long-term plan to revive it.
There were immediate closings of low-performing locations, and when most states when into shutdown due to COVID-19, it frequently appeared on lists of brands most likely to disappear as a result.
On Friday, as questions continued to swirl about the Mt. Pleasant location, the Grand Forks Herald, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, published a story that, that location had also been scrubbed from the company’s website.