MASON CITY – Seems like just yesterday the Ruby Tuesday restaurant in Mason City was built and opened up – but it is closing, NIT has learned.
An NIT informer disclosed the information this morning. The restaurant will cease operations “today or tomorrow, depending on how much food they have left.”
Ruby Tuesday was built back in 2010 and constructed on the former site of the Hanford Inn on Mason City’s west side. A Holiday Inn Express was constructed next door and seemed to keep the eatery humming along.
However, dark clouds for the chain emerged in 2016, when Ruby Tuesday completed a comprehensive review of its corporate-owned restaurant portfolio and determined that it was in the company’s best interest to close approximately 95 underperforming restaurants. Mason City’ was not one of them at the time.
Sad to see any business close…well maybe not this one.
I don’t think I have been there more than 5 times since they opened.
1st time was with a group of 10, with a reservations at 6:00pm. Everybody in our party was there so we told the hostess. She said it would be a minute or two. 1/2 hour later we were still sitting/standing in the entry. Asked again and she had marked us off as seated but never gave us a table so we had to wait another 1/2 hour for some more tables to clear out to be seated. You would have thought she would have noticed the same 10 people standing in the entry something was up. We got a “free” appetizer for our troubles.
2nd time placed our order and everyone’s food came out except mine. Waitress forgot to enter mine so it had to be made while everyone else was eating.
Last time had the “endless garden bar” but was only able to make 1 trip before we got our main entree then the bill for the meal.
The place is (was) a joke.
i got sick twice from eating there super gross!!!
not the best food around!
Las Palmos bought it to move there. Current space is old and outdated and to small
I’d rather have the Hanford still there along with the 4th Street Diner. Those were the days.
Closing? And its not even in the mall. If only they could have waited it out a bit longer, to ride the economic coat tails of the new ice arena.
If Tuesday didn’t work… maybe TGI Friday’s will lol
Another economic loss for the city. And the list keeps getting longer.
Mayor Bill Schickel said in January:
“It’s a new beginning, Mason City”
Said it over and over in his ‘state of the city’ address.
Failing, corrupt leadership is dooming Mason City.
amen. Next up Alpha media.
It’s not the leadership…There have been opportunities for growth brought to the table. It wasn’t your leadership that said ‘no’ to Target Distribution, Casino, and Prestage. In fact, it seems to be the very same group of blowhard curmudgeons that effectively set this city’s policies by their childish antics at city council meetings.
Bull Shit!
What in that post isn’t factual, genius? It wasn’t the city council that said ‘no’ to all that economic development.
Who the hell do you think turned down Target, The casino and Prestage if it wasn’t the city council genius? Everyone on the council presently has come out against Prestage, Genius.
False. All those projects would have been a ‘go’ had it not been for the same group of vocal curmudgeons making a circus show of city council meetings.
That’s right dude we say no to what we don’t, when we want. That’s just too sweeeeeeeeeet!
Great. Enjoy the $12/hr jobs that are around here because you and your pals think change is hard and scary.
You are so full of crap it is coming out your ears. Everyone know it is the elites and the chamber of horrors that keeps new manufacturing business out. They don’t want competitive wages in this town. That is why all manufacturing goes to the towns around Mason City. They have worked for years to keep the city poor.
Are you wearing a tin foil hat right now?!?!? City leadership hasn’t kept manufacturing out, elementary economics has. Traditional manufacturers don’t require skilled labor and therefore will locate where labor costs are minimized in China or Mexico. Advanced manufacturers need skilled labor or access to research institutions, Mason City can offer neither.
What Mason City is positioned to land (ag processing, distribution), the group of loud mouth curmudgeons have chased away at city council meetings.
Bull Shit again. What did you dream the next day?
What part of that do you think is ‘bull crap’ tin foil hat man? In case you haven’t noticed, there aren’t too many places growing in northern Iowa (because they all rely on ag or traditional manufacturing jobs which are not growing industries in this country).
Or do you really think the big meanies in the city council are holding back the Microsoft’s, Ford’s, Pfizer’s, and Amazon’s which would otherwise be beating down Mason City’s door to locate here?!?!
You sound like a typical Dumb Ass liberal. Trump has already proven you are full of crap. As deregulation continues watch the jobs come back.
Nope. Not a liberal. Guess again tin foil hat guy. I don’t associate with any political party as doing so is for the weak minded.
I wouldn’t count on traditional manufacturing jobs coming back in any meaningful numbers. So your idea is that Mason City should wait around and hope that maybe some manufacturing jobs show up at our door step?!?!! Seems like a more effective plan is to focus on our strengths (ag processing and distribution) or focus on industries which are actually growing.