text: Rustler's Rooste is a venerable Phoenix tradition.\n\nMany people have come here and had a great time.\n\nI last came here for an event with former students from my college, so my experience is probably atypical.\n\nOur event was part update on whats happening on campus, part memorial, and quite traditional.  We do it every year.  This was perhaps, the wrong venue for us.  We did not have the solemn atmosphere that the memorial part of the event demands, and the other groups around us were having so much fun that I could barely hear the speaker.\n\nNo wait staff were required for our group, so I can't tell what service might be like as a regular diner.  Our meal was a buffet style bbq chicken dinner, which I probably would avoid if I could. It was a bit overdone, to the point where it may have been better to skip the chick half and make do with the beans (bland), corn (waterlogged cobbettes), rolls (good for crumbs, but not much else), and the afterthought salad.\n\nIf I didn't know that much of my fee was going to scholarships, I'd think that I got ripped off.