...has been the salad bar. People who like that sort of thing can't get it in most restaurants. They also provided, at one time, diet friendly meals. Do they still do that?

"I think it would be a good idea."
-Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

I'm surprised they didnt use 9/11 as an excuse.

Be looking for a Federal bailout. Lamar doesn't want to lose a business partner.

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So a company in financial straits is going to get out of trouble by focusing on the lodge? This is a zoning grab, plain and simple. Because the college got into a long term lease with RT, doesn't mean it will last the entire term. Look to see this building rezoned so it's value will increase - as if to make it more profitable for a sale.

Are there any guarantees with this re-zone? RT has opened up their facilities to public before. Remember Ruby T's? How long did that last?

I guess Wilkinson Pike at the location isn't dangerous enough, we need to increase the number of out of town guests who have had a few at the restaurant on this road.

It has always pissed me off that MC leased Morningside Inn to RT. RT did remodel and redo the gardens, for which I am grateful, but MC could have dome that as well.

RT going down is big news for Maryville. Just think if the restaurant goes under. Suddenly vacant buildings in downtown.

In my opinion, RT deserves what is happening. Classic example of corporate types being out of contact with its customers.

Wow FarmerJohn, wow.

I am not a fan of large corporations, but they do supply employment to a large percentage of the population. For that reason, I am always saddened to hear that a business of any size is having trouble. If RT goes down there will be more than 500 people at the corporate level and over 40,000 people that work in the restaurants that will find themselves unemployed. How could I feel good about something like that?

As for the Lodge, have you actually been to there lately? It is stunning. RT spent milllions repairing it. There is no way that MC could put the resources into it that RT has. They would be remiss to do so when there are so many buildings that students actually use that are in various states of disrepair. For goodness sake, the front of the international house is practically falling off the building, the dorms above the Proffitt dining hall smell vaguely of sewage and often the A/C doesn't work, and then there is the work needed at the Cooper Athletic building...

I find it scary that the Lodge and the land around it is zoned residential in the first place. Why not make the area a Conservation Zone?

To think that MC would beg of the county taxpayers for money when so many things on campus are in such a state is the real hypocrisy taking place here.

Why would they want such a large "new" building to maintain when they can't even maintain what they've got?

I think we all know why. There's a lot of ROCK in a civics center.

As for the Lodge and Ruby Tuesdays, I hate to see someone lose there job also but think about it.................these people who lose their jobs at RT won't have to "lose" their uniforms. They can just wear them to their new jobs at TGI Fridays or Bennigans or Chilis or Applebees or (etc).

These places are all the same right? Since the food is all the same, I just thought....................

"Effective management always means asking the right question."
-Robert Heller

Maybe Sandy needs to start asking "the right question" instead of spending so much of his time developing the "Three Sisters" with Jim and Lamar. He evidentally has other ambitions at this point in his life that doesn't involve the restaraunt business but does involve his new buddies in the GOP.