Free Texas Roadhouse Ribs

A few months ago, I learned something interesting about Texas Roadhouse. Have you ever noticed that the server will often ask if you’ve been there before? Apparently, if you say no, they bring you a free half-rack of ribs. A former coworker had heard this from a friend and tried it. Sure enough, he got free ribs. Unfortunately, I couldn’t really try it myself because we go to Texas Roadhouse quite a bit and we’re recognized by the majority of the servers. However, the next time I was there I asked our server about it and she confirmed that yes, new customers receive a half-rack of ribs.

 

Fast forward to this past weekend. We were out of town visiting my wife’s mother and decided to go to the local Texas Roadhouse. Since I had never been there before I figured it would be a prime opportunity to score some free ribs. When the server asked us if we had been there before I explained that my wife and I were visiting from out of town. I told her we had never been to a Texas Roadhouse, but we were told it was really good. She promised to make sure our first visit was special. At this point, my mouth began watering over the prospect of some free ribs! What I didn’t know was that Karma was in full effect and didn’t appreciate my lie.

 

The server comes back not with free ribs, but with a free bag of peanuts and a free side of green beans. Peanuts and green beans??? Hell, I could’ve gotten the damn peanuts out of one of the buckets and put them in a bag myself. As for the green beans…well, I don’t think I need to say much about that. The rest of the meal continued to go downhill. My mother-in-law’s salad bowl had dried, crusty cheese on it, the server brought the wrong drinks, and we didn’t get some of our sides. I asked for the manager and told her what was going on. They brought my mother-in-law another salad, brought us the right drinks, and eventually brought us all our food. When they brought us the check, they had charged us full price. Karma was obviously still against me, but I’ve never been one to be controlled by Karma and still felt cheated over the ribs. I asked for the manager again and asked why they didn’t at least knock off the cost of the sides. She said she didn’t see why she should have to do that since she caught and corrected the mistakes. I pointed out that she didn’t catch anything and that it was pointed out to her. I made it quite clear that I was far from satisfied, so she went and got another manager who was her boss. By the time I was done with this manager, I not only received many apologies, but I also got our steaks for free! The manager even gave my mother-in-law her card and told her she would personally take care of her the next time she came in.

 

The moral of this story is…free food is good!