Ruby Tuesday chain. It used this acquisition to launch other casual dining concepts, such as L&N Seafood Grill, Silver Spoon Café, Mozzarella's, and Tia's Tex-Mex. It also acquired three other food-contract firms. By the mid-1990s, the new restaurant concepts — particularly Ruby Tuesday — were doing far better than the original cafeteria chain, as customers' expectations and tastes had changed. Because of this, Morrison's decided to split the company into three new firms: Morrison's Fresh Cooking, the cafeteria chain; Ruby Tuesday, Inc., which also included the other casual dining concepts; and Morrison Health Care, which took over the food contracts for hospitals (the educational and business contracts had been previously sold to a competitor). Morrison Health Care is now part of Compass Group. In 1998, Morrison's Fresh Cooking — unable to withstand the loss in popularity of cafeterias in general — sold out to Piccadilly Cafeterias. Piccadilly has since closed numerous former Morrison's locations outside of Florida and Georgia. Piccadilly — which went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in 2012 and has reduced its footprint to 41 locations as of February 2019 — maintains one location branded as a Morrison's Cafeteria in the former chain's hometown of Mobile. External links Morrison's company history, from International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. 11., St. James Press, 1995; posted at FundingUniverse.com References Companies based in Mobile, Alabama Restaurants established in 1920 Defunct restaurant chains in the United States Cafeteria-style restaurants Companies disestablished in 1998 1920 establishments in Alabama 1998 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)