Costco Members: 2-Count $50 Red Robin Restaurant e-Gift Cards Expired

Can servers buy these for $75 and then tip themselves out $100? Infinite money loop.

Some locations won't honor gift card for mobile order. You must dine-in to use gift card as payment. Very sneaky! No more Red Robin gift card for me with this charade from franchise owners.

This is a great deal if you combine it with the free birthday burger. They have a double burger that's huge! I'd use the gift card to buy a milkshake and pay for tip.

They raised a lot of their prices from 20-50% in the last year alone. Pass.

red robin used to be our favorite family restaurant when our kids were little.

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.

They're gonna betray you at the Red Robin wedding

Can servers buy these for $75 and then tip themselves out $100? Infinite money loop.

RR changed their policy on free b-day burger meal. You have to dine in now to be able to redeem your free b-day burger meal now. No more carry-outs.

Can servers buy these for $75 and then tip themselves out $100? Infinite money loop.

I have run across this sporadically. Their online order system seems to constantly change. The last time I ordered online for pickup, not only did they take a gift card, but they took multiple gift cards! That was new. When I was unable to use a gift card, I would call the order in, and the order taker would indicate that I'd pay when I picked up. Then I'd pay with a gift card when I was at the restaurant. I also stopped dining in at Red Robin because of the incessantly long waits. I really don't know what was going on with that. I learned to ask the server for fries to be brought to the table early, so at least we had something to nosh on while waiting so long for the food. This was BEFORE COVID!

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.

You get a server or a non fast food quality burger at Culver's? strange comparison

At the Culvers we go to you order at the front, they bring your food quickly to table, has always been hot, and their double butter cheese burger (made to order) is our favorite burger. (Hack: they allow anyone to order their kid's meal and you get a single burger, fries (or other,) drink with refills, and a ice cream (even their creative flavor of the day). Great value....no tip expected.