After what was billed as a temporary closure, Ruby Tuesday in Brewer is closed for good.
The restaurant at 5 Walton Drive in Brewer had been closed for several months, but the company’s website indicated that was only temporary. The status has since been updated to “permanently closed.”
The national bar-and-grill chain closed its Presque Isle restaurant earlier this month, leaving a Waterville restaurant as the last Ruby Tuesday location in Maine.
Ruby Tuesday was founded in 1972 in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew to about 945 restaurants at its peak around 2009. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020 and closed 185 restaurants, emerging with just over 200 locations around the country, mostly in the eastern U.S.
Maine once had 10 Ruby Tuesday restaurants. The corporation closed sites in Bangor, Biddeford and South Portland in 2016. Other locations in Augusta, Auburn, Topsham and Westbrook were closed over the last decade.