What going on with Cracker Barrel ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Journal did a podcast Cracker Barrel. It’s available on Spotify. The whole thing was egged on by an activist investor. Once again, MAGA are puppets of the rich.

The investor was right. He was warning the board about this for years. He had a quote in his slide deck, about running away from any restaurant that is doing a remodel.

[Anonymous]

The CEO didn't like the customer base and is embarrassed by the offerings.
The changes are similar to when McDonalds introduced Arch Deluxe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get woke, go broke.

Cracker Barrel found that out the hard way.

How is removing the man and barrel woke? The old guy would have still been on the menus. Or is it really the barrel? Are MAGAs identifying with barrels?

[Anonymous]

Is there any more news on a name change?

[Anonymous]

Thankfully this woke new logo went up in smoke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thankfully this woke new logo went up in smoke.

Thank goodness we evaded that erosion of our cultural heritage!
If we don’t have our giant crappy interstate road signs looming over us reminding us of a hokey interpretation of a past that never actually existed then who are we as a people?
Crisis averted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get woke, go broke.

Cracker Barrel found that out the hard way.

How is removing the man and barrel woke? The old guy would have still been on the menus. Or is it really the barrel? Are MAGAs identifying with barrels?

What would have been woke is removing the word “Cracker”.

And maybe adding rainbows.

[Anonymous]

I've only been to Cracker Barrel a handful of times in my life. It's not really a place where my family would go except to stop on road trips to use the bathroom and get drinks and snacks at the general store there. But I think people are upset because this is another sterilization of a restaurant that people have a lot of nostalgia for. Kind of like how McDonald's went from a happy place with McDonaldland playgrounds outside to the brutalist architectural nightmare it's become. When you screw with people's childhood memories you screw with people's perceptions about their world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thankfully this woke new logo went up in smoke.

Thank goodness we evaded that erosion of our cultural heritage!
If we don’t have our giant crappy interstate road signs looming over us reminding us of a hokey interpretation of a past that never actually existed then who are we as a people?
Crisis averted.

What past never existed for you? Old Tennessee country style with rocking chairs and antique decorative items?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get woke, go broke.

Cracker Barrel found that out the hard way.

How is removing the man and barrel woke? The old guy would have still been on the menus. Or is it really the barrel? Are MAGAs identifying with barrels?

Drill, baby, drill. It never occurred to me that was why the Left wanted to get rid of the logo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get woke, go broke.

Cracker Barrel found that out the hard way.

The went broke, then went woke.

This corporate cleanup crew wouldn't be in charge if the restaurant was making a profit. Now they'll have their bit of press, then PE will sell the parts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thankfully this woke new logo went up in smoke.

Thank goodness we evaded that erosion of our cultural heritage!
If we don’t have our giant crappy interstate road signs looming over us reminding us of a hokey interpretation of a past that never actually existed then who are we as a people?
Crisis averted.

What past never existed for you? Old Tennessee country style with rocking chairs and antique decorative items?

Very real, just let your daughter sit on his lap. Old guy with rocking chair, is definitely a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thankfully this woke new logo went up in smoke.

Thank goodness we evaded that erosion of our cultural heritage!
If we don’t have our giant crappy interstate road signs looming over us reminding us of a hokey interpretation of a past that never actually existed then who are we as a people?
Crisis averted.

What past never existed for you? Old Tennessee country style with rocking chairs and antique decorative items?

Very real, just let your daughter sit on his lap. Old guy with rocking chair, is definitely a thing.

[Anonymous]

Y’all are still talking about this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've only been to Cracker Barrel a handful of times in my life. It's not really a place where my family would go except to stop on road trips to use the bathroom and get drinks and snacks at the general store there. But I think people are upset because this is another sterilization of a restaurant that people have a lot of nostalgia for. Kind of like how McDonald's went from a happy place with McDonaldland playgrounds outside to the brutalist architectural nightmare it's become. When you screw with people's childhood memories you screw with people's perceptions about their world.

My SIL decorates her children’s room in majority beige, begrudgingly digs out a pastel every now and then. McDonald’s is following what Millenials wanted.