OMG! It’s hard to screw up BBQ Chicken. But Rusty’s wins the prize for the worst BBQ Chicken I’ve ever had.
For our first visit to Rusty’s, my wife ordered the BBQ Chicken with a salad. A safe, simple order, right?
What Rusty’s calls BBQ Chicken is one chicken breast, sliced in half (to make it thin and quick to reheat), boiled in unsalted water (to remove all the flavor), refrigerated, then placed on the grill long enough to give it grill marks (but not long enough to heat it inside), and then slap a little cheap BBQ sauce on top before it is served.
After suffering through as much of this lukewarm, flavorless chicken as she could manage, she decided to eat the mixed greens salad.
If you’ve ever left lettuce in a plastic bag for a couple weeks and seen the slimy part that sticks to the inside of the bag, you know why her salad tasted awful. About 20% of the lettuce in her salad was like this, and, of course, stuck to the lettuce that had not yet spoiled. It was disgusting.
We brought these things to the attention of the manager. His response was to shrug his shoulders and say “Sorry”.
We visited Rusty’s in the middle of a Monday afternoon, so there were very few customers in the place. Yet, for some reason, it took 20 minutes for them to prepare our food.
So, for $15 at Rusty’s you get lousy food, slow service, and management that doesn’t give a damn.
If it wasn’t for the steady traffic of unsuspecting tourists, this place would have gone under years ago.
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