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TXRH dining room solo?

December 01, 2025 01:43AM
I had a shop set up and the guest won't be able to make it. As far as I can tell there is nothing in the guidelines that prevents a solo dining room visit (and personally I'd rather dine solo than eat at the bar anyway). Has anyone done this?
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December 01, 2025 02:07AM
I do it all the time. No problems.
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December 01, 2025 02:17AM
Me too. It's easier with no distractions IMO.
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December 01, 2025 04:26AM
I have always dined solo at these shops.
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December 01, 2025 05:35PM
Should be easy to stay under budget!
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December 01, 2025 08:25PM
It’s easy but weird IMO to make us get an appetizer and an entree with one side being a salad. It’s a lot of food for one person. When you dine solo MSC shouldn’t require an app if an entree is required, JMO. And I don’t think an app is required for the bar shop.
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December 01, 2025 10:56PM
I dine solo all the time, and I always end up going home with enough for two more meals. I flat out say that I treat myself to a dine-out once a month, and can never decide what to get, so I over-order and bring the leftovers home so I don't have to worry about lunch for a couple days.
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December 02, 2025 05:11AM
There have been a few IHOP shops where the required order was an enormous amount of food for one person. I just laugh when I order and say "I guess I'll be taking home leftovers!"
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December 04, 2025 01:15AM
I did such place prior pandemic and later carry out only. I see a lots of requirements has been changed. The timing is now "open till an hour before closed". And they did not specify the second person in you party. So it can be done alone.

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December 05, 2025 07:52PM
There’s something about the TR dinner rolls that backs me up. Maybe they have a ton of gluten in them, idk. I’m not gluten sensitive, and hopefully neither are the pair of crows who end up eating them. I much prefer Cattle Country/Black Angus, esp. in HI, where the beef came from grass fed cows on the Big Island. Best steak I’ve ever had. Their bread and salad are much better as well.
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December 06, 2025 12:32AM
I do solo all the time- i can get the biggest steak that way. and i spend it all.
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December 10, 2025 03:42PM
I definitely prefer the at-the-bar shops, but I have no problem flying solo if dining room is all that is available.

Been a mostly Road Kill guy on shops, but I will be switching to the Filet Medallions moving forward, with the intent of taking at least one of them home.

As a diabetic, I have to watch it on the rolls with honey butter. I will slather up a couple of them when they are first delivered and save them for my dessert. They do not travel well.

Have synthesizers, will travel...
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December 10, 2025 08:01PM
The only issue with my solo dining room shop is that, although I was seated at a booth, things were so slow the bartender was serving all the tables in that section. (There was not a single bar patron at this time.) The check had the dreaded "PM Bar" on it. Happily the bartender was wearing a name tag (never an issue at TXRH). The narrative I made repeated references to where I was seated (ie. "The manager stopped by my table and also visited the guests at the adjacent table") and the shop was approved without issue.
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December 11, 2025 06:42PM
Doing one tonight. The guidelines for table service clearly say solo is allowed. Max four at the table.
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December 14, 2025 06:05PM
What I object to is that the appetizer requirement was added without any additional compensation. Previously, it was easy to do the shop within the reimbursement and still get a nice steak. Now I go over it each time. It’s only a few bucks and I can live with it, but it is annoying.
Btw, I don’t get the cheap option (the chili) as some suggest, because I don’t like it, and some locations don’t have it, anyway.
I just eat a little of the appetizer and get a box, telling them that my family likes me to bring some home.
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December 14, 2025 06:59PM
Even with the additional required purchase, these are so simple that I consider them well worth doing for the food for that reimbursement.
@unclebobg wrote:

What I object to is that the appetizer requirement was added without any additional compensation. Previously, it was easy to do the shop within the reimbursement and still get a nice steak. Now I go over it each time. It’s only a few bucks and I can live with it, but it is annoying.
Btw, I don’t get the cheap option (the chili) as some suggest, because I don’t like it, and some locations don’t have it, anyway.
I just eat a little of the appetizer and get a box, telling them that my family likes me to bring some home.
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December 17, 2025 04:18PM
How could you realistically complain? Here is what I had at TRH last week.
Large pineapple Juice….3.39
Twisted Mozzarella appetizer….8.99
Grilled Shrimp 9-pc dinner includes salad and side (sweet potato)….17.99
Generous helpings of hot dinner buns…0.00
Total $32.88+15% tip = $32.88
This was plenty of delicious food to fill my stomach, and it was 36% UNDER maximum reimbursement.
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December 17, 2025 04:25PM
Good for you.
If I’m taking a no-fee job at Texas Roadhouse, I’m getting a steak. A good one.
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December 17, 2025 09:15PM
@AZwolfman the math is not mathing...wouldn't that be $37.81?

It is not worth it for me to dine solo at TXR nor is it worth it to not maximize the reimbursement. I would rather go $10 over and treat my family than to go alone and work for no pay and get reimbursed for more food than I can eat.
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December 17, 2025 11:00PM
@AZwolfman gets paid to do TXRH in Nevada. It's not a no-fee shop in the state of Nevada.

I still would not be leaving $ unused though. I would try to get as close to $45 or $50 as possible. That chili so darn good, i would get a bowl or a couple of cups of that. I don't need the rolls. I've been looked at funny before when I tell the person, I don't want the rolls.

I don't remember exactly now. Do they not reimburse a bigger tip? Or is 15% max? It has been a couple of months now. I would think @AZwolfman could have been a little more generous on the tip, but maybe the service was not deserving.
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