Ruby Tuesday

Ruby Tuesday's Florida stores average +0.12 high-priority violations per routine inspection relative to their county baseline (95% interval -0.14 to +0.40), above the county baseline. Rank 12 of 16 casual-dining brands, counted from furthest below the baseline.

+0.12vs county baseline, 95% interval -0.14 to +0.40

1.10 vs 0.98raw high-priority violations per routine inspection vs the baseline its stores face

31stores in 21 counties, 152 routine inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26

The food: where these dishes come from

Ruby Tuesday is known for salad bar. The stories are about the dishes, not the brand, and live on PlateTales.

By fiscal year

Relative to the county baseline, first visits of routine inspections. Open circle and * = fiscal year in progress (data as of 2026-11-09). Hover a point for n.

Most-cited violation codes

Citations per 100 routine inspections, Ruby Tuesday vs all Florida inspections, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26 (n = 152). Descriptions are DBPR's.
Code	DBPR description	Ruby Tuesday	Florida	Ratio
36	Floors properly constructed, clean, drained, coved	92.1	39.9	2.31x
22	Food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils clean	75.0	43.6	1.72x
03	Food Out of Temperature	44.1	35.0	1.26x
14	Food contact surfaces designed, constructed, maintained, installed, located	44.1	46.9	0.94x
23	Non-food contact surfaces clean	36.8	23.6	1.56x

Outcomes

25.0% vs 19.6%routine inspections that needed a callback visit, vs all Florida (raw)

0.66% vs 1.01%routine inspections ending in an emergency order recommendation, vs all Florida (raw)

45%of 31 stores with 2+ inspections score below their county baseline after shrinkage toward the brand mean

Emergency closures

No Ruby Tuesday store appears in DBPR's weekly closure extracts (2025-12-29 to 2026-11-06).

Other casual-dining brands

Ranked casual-dining brands, FY2023-24 to FY2025-26.
Rank	Brand	vs county	95% interval	Stores
1	Chuck E. Cheese	-0.69	-0.86 to -0.53	59
2	Olive Garden	-0.48	-0.57 to -0.39	80
3	Buffalo Wild Wings	-0.36	-0.49 to -0.24	62
4	Chili's	-0.34	-0.43 to -0.25	139
5	Hooters	-0.27	-0.42 to -0.12	48
6	LongHorn Steakhouse	-0.23	-0.35 to -0.11	81
7	Applebee's	-0.19	-0.31 to -0.07	88
8	Sonny's BBQ	-0.12	-0.28 to +0.04	65
9	Outback Steakhouse	-0.08	-0.23 to +0.06	101
10	Texas Roadhouse	-0.08	-0.26 to +0.11	47
11	Red Lobster	+0.07	-0.14 to +0.30	56
12	Ruby Tuesday	+0.12	-0.14 to +0.40	31
13	Bonefish Grill	+0.19	-0.04 to +0.45	49
14	Carrabba's Italian Grill	+0.30	+0.16 to +0.45	68
15	Beef 'O' Brady's	+0.48	+0.30 to +0.67	88
16	Miller's Ale House	+0.78	+0.55 to +1.03	68

Look up a single Ruby Tuesday location

Store-level matching: a store counts for Ruby Tuesday when its DBPR business name matches the reviewed aliases in InspectLens's brand list. Co-branded units (for example KFC with Taco Bell) are not counted for either brand.