What going on with Cracker Barrel ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They were doing horribly because the food and service weren't the same. Lots of millennials like me had a tradition of Cracker Barrel for road trips and would have kept it up for nostalgia reasons with their own kids but the place is awful now. No basket of biscuits, painfully slow service and the food tastes frozen. I gave them a few chances and it wasn't worth the 60-90 minutes extra to our driving time anymore.

We ate there twice this summer on road trips, and they brought us biscuits, service was fast, and the food tasted the same as always.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They changed their logo, like every company does from time to time.

Release the Epstein files.

Are you ok?

Are you a bot or a child? Because you’re posting this all over the forum and it’s dumb.

And "Release the Epstein files" all over this forum isn't childish and dumb?
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They were doing horribly because the food and service weren't the same. Lots of millennials like me had a tradition of Cracker Barrel for road trips and would have kept it up for nostalgia reasons with their own kids but the place is awful now. No basket of biscuits, painfully slow service and the food tastes frozen. I gave them a few chances and it wasn't worth the 60-90 minutes extra to our driving time anymore.

We ate there twice this summer on road trips, and they brought us biscuits, service was fast, and the food tasted the same as always.

+1
Frankly, I love eating there. We only go if we're on a road trip and need a place to eat and it's always been highly satisfying with good service. We love the big breakfasts - at any time of day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They changed their logo, like every company does from time to time.

Release the Epstein files.

+1 And this could just be a bad rebrand, those have existed since time immemorial without having anything to do with politics or “wokeness.” Why does Donald Trump Jr., who’s probably never set foot in the place, have to weigh in on this exactly?

[Anonymous]

when you do something that tells your remaining customers that you wish people that looked like them - the guy on the logo - that you’d sorta wish they’d just disappear like the guy on the logo?

When did that happen? Is the guy on the logo in the room with you now?

[Anonymous]

WTAF

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WTAF

Hard hitting serious journalism right here.

[Anonymous]

This Cracker Barrel thing is such a weird hill to die on. I can’t imagine being that invested in the logo of a crappy restaurant. It’s so odd to be so afraid of change and anti-progress (although I would not call a branding change process, MAGA is so afraid of progress in so many other areas).

[Anonymous]

I don’t think anyone on DCUM actually eats there voluntarily. Only when they are visiting elderly family members in far flung locations. I have not eaten there in at least a decade and the last time I ate there was when my grandparents took me there for breakfast. I had no idea there are 4 of these restaurants in the DC metro area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I figure Cracker Barrel will eventually diminish as Bob Evans restaurants have and before that, Stuckey’s.

I’ve never heard of either of those. Corporations update their stuff all the time. KFC changed their name. Dunkin’ Donuts is now just Dunkin’s. The logo is simple, easy to read. The old logo should have been left in the last century.

[Anonymous]

Why it's the Uneeda Biscuit made the trouble
Uneeda, Uneeda put the crackers in a package, in a package
The Uneeda Biscuit in an air-tight sanitary package made the Cracker Barrel obsolete, obsolete

[Anonymous]

Tom Siestema reviewed chain restaurants in 2017 and said Cracker Barrel was the best:

1. Cracker Barrel

Grade: A

Especially after eating a lot of food that tasted as if it came from a factory rather than a kitchen, it was clear: No other chain restaurant in my months-long survey comes as close to home cooking as this operation. If the chicken dumplings are a little doughy and the corn bread muffins prove a tad salty, just about everything else that crossed my lips in this barn-size dining room dressed with lanterns and license plates is something I’d be happy to try again. Seconds, please, of the tasty meatloaf streaked with vegetables, tender roast beef with peppery brown gravy, and lemony, skin-on trout fillets, a weekly special. You don’t have to eat rich here; a side of fruit brims with fresh pineapple, blackberries and blueberries, although the not-too-sweet pecan pie is worth the detour from any diet.

The all-American food is only part of Cracker Barrel’s charm. To reach the restaurant proper, you cross a porch set with rocking chairs (they’re for sale) and pass through a folksy retail store peddling candy, regional sodas, clothing, toys and Gwen Stefani’s Christmas release. Country music and a crackling fire — you read that right, the restaurant comes with a hearth — right any wrong you may have suffered that day, and the service couldn’t be more personable. Is the welcome mat out for everyone? An unfortunate history of corporate racism and discrimination has been addressed in recent years with inclusive declarations on the company’s website. An imbiber’s regret: no wine or beer to enjoy with my meals. Soda glasses are refilled without your having to ask, requests are met with “yes, sir” or “ma’am,” and should staff members see you struggling with a bag of leftovers, they rush over to help. Yes, I take what I can’t finish home with me. And every bite of those thin, well-seasoned pork chops, part of a “country boy” platter with fried apples and cheesy hash browns, makes me think of my grandmother — a feat matched by no other chain in my survey.

[Anonymous]

This is all just fake outrage about fake woke-ism that they cannot define.

[Anonymous]

Seems to me that CB is doing what every chain restaurant is doing - going for a minimalistic aesthetic void of any personality. Not that I enjoyed their aesthetic before, aside from the porch with rocking chairs. But it makes me sad that every restaurant just wants to be a gray box right now.

Anywho, haven’t been there in decades, but if conservatives are PO’d that they scrubbed a redneck mascot from their logo, I will be giving them some business this weekend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tom Siestema reviewed chain restaurants in 2017 and said Cracker Barrel was the best:

1. Cracker Barrel

Grade: A

Especially after eating a lot of food that tasted as if it came from a factory rather than a kitchen, it was clear: No other chain restaurant in my months-long survey comes as close to home cooking as this operation. If the chicken dumplings are a little doughy and the corn bread muffins prove a tad salty, just about everything else that crossed my lips in this barn-size dining room dressed with lanterns and license plates is something I’d be happy to try again. Seconds, please, of the tasty meatloaf streaked with vegetables, tender roast beef with peppery brown gravy, and lemony, skin-on trout fillets, a weekly special. You don’t have to eat rich here; a side of fruit brims with fresh pineapple, blackberries and blueberries, although the not-too-sweet pecan pie is worth the detour from any diet.

The all-American food is only part of Cracker Barrel’s charm. To reach the restaurant proper, you cross a porch set with rocking chairs (they’re for sale) and pass through a folksy retail store peddling candy, regional sodas, clothing, toys and Gwen Stefani’s Christmas release. Country music and a crackling fire — you read that right, the restaurant comes with a hearth — right any wrong you may have suffered that day, and the service couldn’t be more personable. Is the welcome mat out for everyone? An unfortunate history of corporate racism and discrimination has been addressed in recent years with inclusive declarations on the company’s website. An imbiber’s regret: no wine or beer to enjoy with my meals. Soda glasses are refilled without your having to ask, requests are met with “yes, sir” or “ma’am,” and should staff members see you struggling with a bag of leftovers, they rush over to help. Yes, I take what I can’t finish home with me. And every bite of those thin, well-seasoned pork chops, part of a “country boy” platter with fried apples and cheesy hash browns, makes me think of my grandmother — a feat matched by no other chain in my survey.

All that and hardened arteries.