These reports have come from employees at restaurants from Indiana to New York to Missouri. Further, some of those employees told Business Insider that they received instruction from corporate not to tell other employees about the closure “until the last possible moment.”
One employee said the chain used to transfer employees if a location closed, but that isn’t possible anymore because other locations are also struggling.
Casual dining concepts without a heavy off-premise presence in particular have experienced significant challenges since the onset of the novel coronavirus, and Ruby Tuesday is no different.