RUBY TUESDAY INC
S-8, 1996-05-03
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 3, 1996.
                                                                 
                                         Registration No. 33-

                  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                     Washington, D.C. 20549

                           FORM S-8
                   REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
                   THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                       RUBY TUESDAY, INC.
          (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

                      GEORGIA                   63-0475239
         (State or Other Jurisdiction of     (I.R.S. Employer
          Incorporation or Organization)      Identification No.)

           4721 MORRISON DRIVE, MOBILE, ALABAMA    36625                    
       (Address of Principal Executive Offices)    (Zip Code)

               1993 NON-EXECUTIVE STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN                          
                      (Full Title of the Plan)
                        Pfilip G. Hunt, Esq.
                         Ruby Tuesday, Inc. 
                 4721 Morrison Drive, Mobile, Alabama 36625
                   (Name and Address of Agent for Service)

                           (334) 344-3000                                     
       (Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service)
                              Copy to:
                        Gabriel Dumitrescu, Esq.
                    Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy
                        191 Peachtree Street, N.E.
                            Sixteenth Floor
                         Atlanta, Georgia 30303

                       CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE                        
                           Proposed      Proposed
Title of                   Maximum       Maximum
Securities     Amount      Offering      Aggregate       Amount of
to be           to be      Price Per     Offering       Registration 
Registered    Registered   Share         Price             Fee     

Common Stock,  1,000,000   $20.41(2)     $20,410,000(3)  $7,037.98
$0.01 par      shares(1)
value  


Series A Junior
Participating    1,000,000
Preferred Stock    rights
Purchase Rights(4) 

(1)  Representing shares of the Registrant's common stock, $.01 par
value (the "Common Stock") that may be issued and sold by the
Registrant in connection with the Registrant's 1993 Non-Executive
Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (the "Plan").  This Registration
Statement also covers such indeterminable number of additional
shares as may become issuable to prevent dilution in the event of
stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions pursuant to
the terms of the Plan.  Pursuant to a separate Registration
Statement on Form S-8 (Reg. No. 33-70490), as amended, the
Registrant previously registered 500,000 shares of Common Stock not
included in the above figure (as adjusted for historical stock
splits and a reverse stock split) subject to issuance under the
Plan.
(2)  The average of the high and low prices of the Registrant's
Common Stock as reported by the New York Stock Exchange on May 1,
1996.
(3)  The aggregate offering price is calculated solely for the
purpose of determining the registration fee pursuant to Rule
457(h)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(4)  The Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock Purchase
Rights (the "Rights") are attached to the shares of Common Stock
being registered hereby and will be issued for no additional
consideration.  Therefore, no additional registration fee is
required for the registration of the Rights.

Incorporation by reference of contents of Registration Statement on
Form S-8(File No. 33-70490).

     The contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed
by the Registrant on October 18, 1993, as amended by the Post-
Effective Amendment No. 1 to such Form S-8 filed by the Registrant
on April 29, 1996 (File No. 33-70490) relating to the Plan are
hereby incorporated by reference pursuant to General Instruction E
to Form S-8.


Item 8.  Exhibits.

The following opinions and consents are filed with this
Registration Statement.

Exhibit
Number  Description

5     Opinion of counsel with respect to the securities being registered.

23.1  Consent of counsel (included in Exhibit 5).

23.2  Consent of independent auditors.  

24    Power of Attorney (see signature pages to this Registration Statement).


                            SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Mobile,
Alabama, on the 27th day of March, 1996.

                                  RUBY TUESDAY, INC.


                                  By:/s/ Samuel E. Beall, III 
                                         Samuel E. Beall, III,
                                         Chairman of the Board and
                                         Chief Executive Officer



                       POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Samuel E. Beall, III and
Pfilip G. Hunt, and either of them, as his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any
and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to
file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises,
as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact
and agents, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.


     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities indicated on the date indicated.

Signature    Title  Date
/s/ Samuel E. Beall, III    Chief Executive Officer           March 27, 1996
Samuel E. Beall, III        and Chairman of the Board
                            (Principal Executive Officer)


/s/ J. Russell Mothershed   Senior Vice President, Finance    March27, 1996
J. Russell Mothershed       (Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ Arthur R. Outlaw        Vice Chairman of                  March 27, 1996
Arthur R. Outlaw            the Board


/s/ Claire L. Arnold        Director                          March 27, 1996
Claire L. Arnold


/s/ John B. McKinnon        Director                           March 27, 1996
John B. McKinnon


/s/ Dr. Benjamin F. Payton  Director                           March 27, 1996
Dr. Benjamin F. Payton


/s/ Dr. Donald Ratajczak    Director                           March 27, 1996
Dr. Donald Ratajczak


/s/ Dolph W. von Arx        Director                           March 27, 1996
Dolph W. von Arx


                            EXHIBIT INDEX



Exhibit                                                               Page  
Number     Description                                                   Number

5      Opinion of counsel with respect to the securities being registered.

23.1   Consent of counsel (included in Exhibit 5).

23.2   Consent of independent auditors.  

24     Power of Attorney (see signature pages to this Registration Statement).

 





                           May 3, 1996




Ruby Tuesday, Inc.
4721 Morrison Drive
Mobile, Alabama  36609

     Re:  Registration Statement on Form S-8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     We have served as counsel for Ruby Tuesday, Inc., a Georgia
corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the registration
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to a
Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement")
of an aggregate of 1,000,000 shares (the "Shares") of common
stock, $.01 par value, of the Company, to be offered and sold by
the Company pursuant to its 1993 Non-Executive Stock Incentive
Plan (the "Plan").

     We have examined and are familiar with originals or copies
(certified, photostatic or otherwise identified to our
satisfaction) of such documents, corporate records and other
instruments relating to the incorporation of the Company and the
adoption of the Plan as we have deemed necessary and advisable.

     In all such examinations, we have assumed the genuineness of
all signatures on all originals and copies of documents we have
examined, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as
originals and the conformity to original documents of all
certified, conformed or photostatic copies.  As to questions of
fact material and relevant to our opinion, we have relied upon
certificates or representations of Company officials and of
appropriate state, local and federal officials.

     We express no opinion as to matters under or involving laws
other than the laws of the State of Georgia. 

     Based upon and subject to the foregoing and having regard
for such legal considerations as we have deemed relevant, it is
our opinion that:

     1.   The Shares have been duly authorized; and

     2.   Upon the issuance and delivery of the Shares upon
          receipt of lawful consideration therefor pursuant to
          the Plan, such Shares will be validly issued, fully
          paid and non-assessable.

     We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5
to the Registration Statement.

                                   Very truly yours,



                          POWELL, GOLDSTEIN, FRAZER & MURPHY




           Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, Independent Auditors


We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration
Statement (Form S-8 No. 33         ) pertaining to the 1993 Non-
Executive Stock Incentive Plan of our reports dated August 31,
1995, with respect to the consolidated financial statements of
Ruby Tuesday, Inc. (formerly Morrison Restaurants Inc.)
incorporated by reference in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for
the year ended June 3, 1995 and the related financial statement
schedule included therein, filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.



                                 /s/Ernst & Young, LLP
                                    Ernst & Young, LLP


Birmingham, Alabama
April 29, 1996


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