What going on with Cracker Barrel ?

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Anonymous wrote:You know how to boost restaurant sales? Make good food and have great service. I used to go all the time after church but the food quality dropped off. Making it look like a Chip and Joanna suburban “farm” house does not persuade me.

+1. 10-15 years ago, their all day breakfast was great. Now the food is fried, greasy, mass produced inedible slop. And I say that as someone who done who grew up in the small town South eating biscuits and gravy.

What’s going on with CB? Their food has gone way downhill.

And, the people yapping about this will keep patronizing them. Many of these restaurants are in rural areas without other real options for brunch.

They're actually all located close to highway exits. They're like Ikeas. They're all very strategically located for easy access.

You see the ones off highways. They also locate in small rural areas. My Southern city getting one (not close to a highway) was a huge deal 30 years ago. 2 hour waits after church. But factories oddmshored and the town is literally dying.

The ones in remote locations are the exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_Barrel#Locations,_service,_and_decor

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What is a “ Cracker Barrel”  literally anyway? Is it literally named after a barrel of crackers?

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me the party that never cancels anything wants to cancel Cracker Barrel why?
because of the design? I don't understand it. I thought they never got offended.

DISTRACTION FROM EPSTEIN FILES!

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me the party that never cancels anything wants to cancel Cracker Barrel why?
because of the design? I don't understand it. I thought they never got offended.

DISTRACTION FROM EPSTEIN FILES!

I hear they operate a child trafficking ring from the CB basements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is a “ Cracker Barrel”  literally anyway? Is it literally named after a barrel of crackers?

Yes. A long long time ago country stores sold soda crackers (saltines) out of big barrels. And people would gather around the barrel of crackers to chit chat, like the office water cooler.

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Are you really letting a Cracker Barrel rebrand get you this worked up? Like, seriously? Constantly looking for trivial things to be outraged about must be exhausting. What an unfulfilling life.

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

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The menu doesn't look that bad, but it's been reported that the quality has dropped over the past five years.
I think now they have instant grits.

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Anonymous wrote:They are changing it to a minimalist aesthetic. It was already an inside joke among Black people that they had “Slavery Decor” but nobody actually cared that much and we still go every once in a while if we are traveling or something. People are getting upset about them scraping back that aesthetic.

Slavery decor?? It was a Tennessee themed country style store with country style food.

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I think it should be renamed to Barrel of Crack

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it should be renamed to Barrel of Crack

You would know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We know someone who works in corporate. They're also considering changing the name, in 2026, to either CB-Zone or CB's Place. They want something with a more modern feel.

Those are both stupid AF. Please tell your friend.

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Anonymous wrote:They are changing it to a minimalist aesthetic. It was already an inside joke among Black people that they had “Slavery Decor” but nobody actually cared that much and we still go every once in a while if we are traveling or something. People are getting upset about them scraping back that aesthetic.

WTF are you talking about? Do you know how insane you sound?

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Anonymous wrote:They are changing it to a minimalist aesthetic. It was already an inside joke among Black people that they had “Slavery Decor” but nobody actually cared that much and we still go every once in a while if we are traveling or something. People are getting upset about them scraping back that aesthetic.

Could you please explain what “slavery decor” is?

Because I’m imagining nooses, chains, an auction block, whips, etc….. and I’ve never seen any of that at a Cracker Barrel.


So, a little help?

If you don't understand, then you don't need to be part of the conversation.

DP - no, it's YOU who doesn't understand and is trying to force a completely fake narrative. There was no "slavery decor," whatever that's supposed to mean. Here's a picture of a typical CB, pre-change. It's just decorated to look like an old country store. Get over yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the controversy:



Online carnival barkers/professional grievance stokers are making a huge hissy fit.

Frankly, I am almost certain that the consultants who changed the logo did it on purpose to pick up the outraged eyeballs. All news is good news.

That’s a pretty dramatic change.


A lot of Cracker Barrel customers look like the guy on the logo. Cracker Barrel is basically telling them “this place isn’t for you anymore”.

Literally nobody looks like that guy, and if you do look like that guy you're some kind of southern museum cosplay actor, or about to drop dead from extreme old age.

My FIL looks pretty much exactly like that. So does every other old guy in Indian Mound, SC. White, black, they all look like that guy.


You should get out more. The DC bubble is making you look uninformed.

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We go to Cracker Barrel on road trips, and from the people out front enjoying the rocking chairs to the customers inside, they all more or less resemble the old guy on the logo - and that goes for the white AND black people (and everyone in between) who frequent CB. This CEO truly does not know her market. Or more plausibly, she doesn't care.