Red Robin restaurants- Unlimited sweet potato fries

[JEDI]

but your really paying for them.
the prices for the burgers...

http://www.redrobin.com/menu

 

[Newell Steamer]

Sweet potato fries are like redhead women - they are either really wonderful (hot) or downright awful (ugly as sin); in in between.

And, even if Red Robin has the greatest sweet potato fries on the face of the planet, eating a trough worth will end in tragedy.

 

[Insomniator]

8-11 bucks for a giant burger with fries is a good price to me. A crappy burger king meal is 8 bucks these days.

If the sweet potato fries are good... I'm going to try it. I never liked RR before but I've been obsessed with sweet potato fries since I tried them at smash burger.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Hepatitis A

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/21/health/missouri-hepatitis-a/

 

[gorcorps]

Not any different than similar restaurants... Fridays, Chilis, etc are all in the same ballpark. Bottomless fries is just a way to get you to choose them over the others, and it's not really costing them that much extra.

 

[darkewaffle]

Sweet potatoes are awful

 

[brainhulk]

Truffle feta fries > sweat potato fries

 

[kranky]

First time I went to RR, my burger was on par with the worst school cafeteria burger I ever had. I wondered about the people who said RR had good burgers. Mine was dried out, tough, and on a stale bun - like it had been sitting under a heat lamp for hours.

Filled out the survey on their site about the experience - got a call the next day from the area manager, asked me some more details, and said he would send me a gift card to give them another try when it was convenient. The day after that, FedEx delivers a $20 gift card. FedEx!

Have been back a half-dozen times, no problems, and delicious burgers each time. I have no idea what happened that first time, but if I had not done the survey and been given a gift card, I would never have gone back. And never needed any more fries than I got initially. It's a decent sized portion.

 

[Anubis]

Hepatitis A

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/21/health/missouri-hepatitis-a/

aren't Hep A/B shots pretty mandatory now?

I got them before college and again when I started traveling internationally for work

 

[destrekor]

Sweet potatoes are awful

You're awful


Sweet potato fries are the divine answer to the peasantry known as normal potato fries.


It also helps that they are leagues better for you too, which makes it that much easier to tell yourself it's okay shoveling them into your mouth from the trough.
Which I would very much like the pleasure of doing.


Good ones don't need anything. OK ones can be made wonderful with a cinnamon brown sugar butter dip. Which, yes, totally ruins the health angle but fuck it all, it's such a wonderful treat.

Plain sweet potato fries are the only fries that I can truly enjoy "plain", nothing added or anything, simply straight from the kitchen. I'm sure they season them in some fashion but I can't pick out what they do.

 

[skimple]

You're all little piggies....

 

[destrekor]

First time I went to RR, my burger was on par with the worst school cafeteria burger I ever had. I wondered about the people who said RR had good burgers. Mine was dried out, tough, and on a stale bun - like it had been sitting under a heat lamp for hours.

Filled out the survey on their site about the experience - got a call the next day from the area manager, asked me some more details, and said he would send me a gift card to give them another try when it was convenient. The day after that, FedEx delivers a $20 gift card. FedEx!

Have been back a half-dozen times, no problems, and delicious burgers each time. I have no idea what happened that first time, but if I had not done the survey and been given a gift card, I would never have gone back. And never needed any more fries than I got initially. It's a decent sized portion.

I can eat at RR, but I've never been particularly impressed. For the meal and experience (beer, fries, eating with friends or whatever), it's on par with any number of other establishments (edible, not fancy, not priced out of its league), and I wouldn't turn down the idea of going to a RR. That said, I don't think it's ever been a personal suggestion of mine.


I gotta follow up with those surveys next time I'm not happy with an experience. I didn't expect the local GMs and whatnot would so rapidly get insights from the surveys. Good on that manager!

 

[Schfifty Five]

Haven't been to a RR in a few years, but when there was one near me, I remember how all the servers were forced to say "some pink or no pink" and every person would say "excuse me?" or "I'm sorry?" or "Say that again?". The servers were asking how you wanted your burger cooked but did it in such a way that no one really understood them. I hope they got rid of that.

 

[Insomniator]

Haven't been to a RR in a few years, but when there was one near me, I remember how all the servers were forced to say "some pink or no pink" and every person would say "excuse me?" or "I'm sorry?" or "Say that again?". The servers were asking how you wanted your burger cooked but did it in such a way that no one really understood them. I hope they got rid of that.

Omg thats this place... I forgot... People are retarded for not understanding what that means, but that IS a stupid way to ask the question.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

RR has ok food but for some reason, both of the ones around here have really shitty drinks. The ice tea is always cloudy and tastes like soap. The sodas are way too sweet (like the syrup ratio is too high to water). It has been this way the last 4 or 5 times we tried them.

 

[dank69]

I remember they used to have a pot roast "burger" a long time ago that was lights out. They don't have it anymore.

 

[KeithTalent]

$10-$11 is expensive? :hmm:

KT

 

[Exterous]

$10-$11 is expensive? :hmm:

KT

It is for mediocre size and quality. But then this area seems a bit saturated with places you can get a better burger for the same or less

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

their unlimited fries is the best thing ever. of course i get a burger but i never really go there for the burgers. it's for the fries.

 

[purbeast0]

It is for mediocre size and quality. But then this area seems a bit saturated with places you can get a better burger for the same or less

tell me where you can get a burger for significantly cheaper than $10 that is a sit down restaurant with waiters serving you.

hell a meal at wendies or burger kind is like $9 now a days.

it's hilarious at all of the people on this forum who call things like chipotle and now this "expensive". this one is funnier though because it's a sit down restaurant with servers.

i bet many of the people saying this is "expensive" have never eaten at a fine dining restaurant. and no, fine dining does not mean chilli's or olive garden.

 

[hanoverphist]

RR has ok food but for some reason, both of the ones around here have really shitty drinks. The ice tea is always cloudy and tastes like soap. The sodas are way too sweet (like the syrup ratio is too high to water). It has been this way the last 4 or 5 times we tried them.

damn, i have the same issue with the RR in mesa. their tea sucks. and their margaritas are too small and bland. their burgers are hit-or-miss as well, sometimes they are good, others they are crap on a sponge. i also stopped going there recently,when they changed the menus and the prices went up over a buck for most things. their burgers are decent, but not 11 dollar decent. their fish is fairly good tho, i do like that. and their avo-cobb-o salad is good. and huge.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

i would that's a fair price for a burger. if you really want to get one cheap you'd have to go on a half priced burger night or happy hour.

 

[hanoverphist]

i bet many of the people saying this is "expensive" have never eaten at a fine dining restaurant. and no, fine dining does not mean chilli's or olive garden.

red robin is not fine dining. it is a bar that happens to serve food. i can go to any number of local places and get a really good burger for under 10 bucks that will rival any of these chain places.

also, 11 bucks for a burger and fries, then add the 1.49 for the sweet tater variety, then a drink for 2.50 is a far cry from a wendys meal for 9 bucks.

 

[IGemini]

I could go for that, too bad their DGB isn't on the options list. I'm always skeptical of that kind of labeling, but it's probably one of the best burgers I've had from any place.

Haven't been to a RR in a few years, but when there was one near me, I remember how all the servers were forced to say "some pink or no pink" and every person would say "excuse me?" or "I'm sorry?" or "Say that again?". The servers were asking how you wanted your burger cooked but did it in such a way that no one really understood them. I hope they got rid of that.

I was at RR maybe a month ago, they still do it. Stupid way to ask the question and limits the cooking option, sure, but not enough to discourage going.

 

[KeithTalent]

red robin is not fine dining. it is a bar that happens to serve food. i can go to any number of local places and get a really good burger for under 10 bucks that will rival any of these chain places.

also, 11 bucks for a burger and fries, then add the 1.49 for the sweet tater variety, then a drink for 2.50 is a far cry from a wendys meal for 9 bucks.

I can't, not around here anyway. There is a Japanese food cart nearby that does a delicious cheeseburger for ~$4.50 and that's about it. Everywhere else is around $12 minimum (excluding basic fast food places of course).

KT