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I have not seen similar issues at Red Robin around here. Seems a YMMV thing specific to your location(s). Our local RR have lots of staff.
Oh... also minimum wage is like $15 here and wait staff get full minimum plus tips. So maybe that matters..
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And yes, they raised prices across the board like 30%-50%. Used to be you could get a basic Red Robin Tavern burger (their lowest menu) for $6.99. Now it's $8.99. And their other named burgers like Blue Ribbon were around $10-$12, now they are $14-$17. Of course all restaurants and stores hiked prices during COVID and for 'inflation'. What they don't say is that all places raised their prices to cover their increased inflationary costs, and then ADDED A LOT MORE to up their own profits. Gouging at it's finest, keeps inflation up. This is the dirty secret. And prices are sticky on the upside -- once they are increased, they won't go back down, even if their costs have fallen -- just more profit for them! As long as people keep buying, the prices will keep staying high or even rising more. At least during COVID, Red Robin allowed you to get your free birthday burger for takeout. Now they've reverted the birthday burgers to dine-in only. Even with a free burger enticement, I'm not going to suffer the frustration of horrible non-service and slow food with dine in. AND they want you to do it all yourself via tabletop screen at my Red Robin, including pay the bill, and then auto-default to 18% tip on the checkout screen. This is while all the servers are hiding out somewhere and only show up to physically bring you your food before they go back into hiding. And before you talk about servers making $2/hr and need those tips, this is a Red Robin in CA, where ALL EMPLOYEES INCLUDING WAIT-STAFF make CA state minimum wage of $15.50/hr. But this particular Red Robin is in San Jose, CA where the minimum wage is $17/hr. So $17/hr PLUS tips, for hiding out while they are supposed to be your server. I believe all West Coast states (WA, OR, CA) plus a few others require all employees including wait-staff, to be paid the full federal or state minimum wage, whichever is higher. Oh, and our illustrious governor Newsom created a Fast Food Council to determine all things Fast Food, because Fast Food employees deserve stuff. The Fast Food Advisory Council wanted all Fast Food workers to get a minimum wage of $25/hr, later reduced to $22/hr that was supposed to start in 2023. Yes, you read that right. But lawsuits/referendums/whatever have currently put that rise on hold until at least Oct. If that happens, you'll see a lot of wait staff, cashiers & other minimum wage employees potentially jumping ship to work fast food instead.
Ugh, sorry for the rant. But back to Red Robin, I won't be buying a large quantity of Red Robin GCs unless I am just about to use it. Usually I buy a smaller discounted Red Robin GC right before I am going to place an order. I'm afraid my Red Robin might close / go bankrupt. My brother got stuck with a bunch of Sweet Tomatoes/Soup Plantation GCs when they abruptly went Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. But I don't go to Red Robin much these days, so I don't know if they are prospering or not.
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I loved their baileys milkshake and their guac burger
my son loved the oreo shake
my wife loved the whiskey burger
but every time we went there (and the last time was probably 5+ years ago) the wait to get our food just got longer and longer and longer and we started noticing people around us having very frustrating conversations with their server about how long they'd been there and their orders weren't right. And then we showed up to one red robin and the restaurant was basically empty and they told us it would be a 45 minute wait for a table.
and at that point we just walked away from red robin. Which was incredibly sad for us.
We now mostly go to Culvers which is maybe 75% of the experience for 25% of the price.
so sad that really great businesses like that just run themselves into the ground.
Don't worry dude I thought it was funny.
Great idea, I didn't even think of this! You're so devious!
Depends if the POS software allows tips on gift card payments. RR's software looks for this kind of activity. If you have significantly more GC payments than your fellow servers you will catch the attention of above-store management.
And yes, they raised prices across the board like 30%-50%. Used to be you could get a basic Red Robin Tavern burger (their lowest menu) for $6.99. Now it's $8.99. And their other named burgers like Blue Ribbon were around $10-$12, now they are $14-$17. Of course all restaurants and stores hiked prices during COVID and for 'inflation'. What they don't say is that all places raised their prices to cover their increased inflationary costs, and then ADDED A LOT MORE to up their own profits. Gouging at it's finest, keeps inflation up. This is the dirty secret. And prices are sticky on the upside -- once they are increased, they won't go back down, even if their costs have fallen -- just more profit for them! As long as people keep buying, the prices will keep staying high or even rising more. At least during COVID, Red Robin allowed you to get your free birthday burger for takeout. Now they've reverted the birthday burgers to dine-in only. Even with a free burger enticement, I'm not going to suffer the frustration of horrible non-service and slow food with dine in. AND they want you to do it all yourself via tabletop screen at my Red Robin, including pay the bill, and then auto-default to 18% tip on the checkout screen. This is while all the servers are hiding out somewhere and only show up to physically bring you your food before they go back into hiding. And before you talk about servers making $2/hr and need those tips, this is a Red Robin in CA, where ALL EMPLOYEES INCLUDING WAIT-STAFF make CA state minimum wage of $15.50/hr. But this particular Red Robin is in San Jose, CA where the minimum wage is $17/hr. So $17/hr PLUS tips, for hiding out while they are supposed to be your server. I believe all West Coast states (WA, OR, CA) plus a few others require all employees including wait-staff, to be paid the full federal or state minimum wage, whichever is higher. Oh, and our illustrious governor Newsom created a Fast Food Council to determine all things Fast Food, because Fast Food employees deserve stuff. The Fast Food Advisory Council wanted all Fast Food workers to get a minimum wage of $25/hr, later reduced to $22/hr that was supposed to start in 2023. Yes, you read that right. But lawsuits/referendums/whatever have currently put that rise on hold until at least Oct. If that happens, you'll see a lot of wait staff, cashiers & other minimum wage employees potentially jumping ship to work fast food instead.
Ugh, sorry for the rant. But back to Red Robin, I won't be buying a large quantity of Red Robin GCs unless I am just about to use it. Usually I buy a smaller discounted Red Robin GC right before I am going to place an order. I'm afraid my Red Robin might close / go bankrupt. My brother got stuck with a bunch of Sweet Tomatoes/Soup Plantation GCs when they abruptly went Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. But I don't go to Red Robin much these days, so I don't know if they are prospering or not.
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Yeah, Culver's is pretty good and decent quality for the price. I wish there were more of them in Texas, but they closed a lot of the stores around me. For some wierd ass reason, they still have one in Conroe , TX, like wtf 😒