Aaaaand there it is.
Look around a lot of businesses are grasping at straws. They are offering specials and discounts galore, unless it is beef, produce, electronics or foreign imports. The logo change was a cry of desperation. Unfortunately they will lose business no matter what now.
The logo change was just an innocuous act of corporate blandness to simplify it. Then people freaked out because somehow a guy leaning on a barrel deeply touched them.
He must be a Republican Senator with all that touching.
He was touching a barrel, not a child.
…wait, maybe the barrel was very young and asking for it? Damn them young sexy curvy barrels!!
a guy leaning on a barrel deeply touched them.
Must have been their turn in the barrel.
Pussies.
Hey guys, people didn’t like the logo change. Maybe we try to get MAGA people in here?
Pretty sure the MAGA crowd was always their biggest user base. This smells more like ‘maybe if we double down, they’ll forget about the logo and come in more’.
I still find it hilarious that people think the logo change was “woke”.
What do words even mean any more?
Oh that’s easy, woke is when uninspiring logo design
In reality: woke = having social empathy.
In their world: woke = whatever I don’t like.
Smells more like “lets manufacture some kind of fake outrage to stir up conversation and get our brand name back out there” and of course the country’s stupidest segment eats it up.
Real
hours.Dying restaurant flails wildly to try and recapture relevancy oozing away from it like blood from a stuck, bloated corpse.
Yeah, I don’t really think they were doing very well even before the poutrage over the logo.
“Poutrage”. Lol, I’ve gotta remember that one
I read it as poot-raj at first, thinking it was some borrowed French word I was unfamiliar with 😆
Will also quietly remove Cracker Barrel from my restaurant possibilities. Okay, maybe not so quietly.
Why was it there to begin with?
Those strawberry cheesecake pancakes are so good. I don’t think I’ve tasted anything better.
When you’re traveling and you just need to hop off 95 for some food, It’s better and cleaner than Wendy’s, McDonald’s and Burger King.
Face it, the semi-fast food and fast food landscape isn’t the treat it once was.
They’ve got decent catfish, potatoes, biscuits with apple butter.
Haven’t been in a couple years maybe, but it was good in a pinch & with a variety of food that you can get most people in a group to agree on.
Last time I was there they didn’t even have butter. Some margarine crap. And no maple syrup either. Just some crappy high fructose flavored watery stuff.
Just awful. I am surprised you found anything edible.
They have pretty good breakfast, but would only occasionally eat there.
I can’t abide a breakfast that doesn’t have butter or maple syrup. And they have neither.
They’re doing this JUST to raise attention and get media coverage, as a dying brand that nobody cared about.
There are no more social consequences in the US, as long as you’re making someone angry, you’re getting attention and thus winning. That’s what all of this is, and why all of our political strategies have to change.
The biggest thing you can do to stop corporations from gutting out every last avenue of communication and political action is to simply stop spending money on them. Stop getting doordash and takeout, learn to make your own food. Stop getting coffee and spending money on excesses like games and movies.
Start hoarding the wealth away from the liches and monsters who look at literally everything you do as a money-making opportunity. Dry up the flow of blood and they will start to starve and this will force them to take actions, to kick out their employees in the government and restructure management in desperate attempts to keep line going up.
100% this. From the marketing move they were never going to do, to the reversal and shift in “values”. They were just doing the New Coke gambit to drum up business.
Other things to do, stop paying for streaming services and check out books and DVDs from your local library. Cancel expensive cell plans (since they are, unfortunately partially needed today), and switch to the cheapest MVNO that works. Downgrade home Internet to the minimum tolerable. Don’t upgrade phone, car, tablet, whatever as long as one can hold out. Cancel services like Amazon prime and impulse buy less.
Find local businesses to shop at rather than corporate chains (which can be difficult, so just a little at a time.)
Pay off debts, save, live free. Let the corpos wither.
Pay off debts, save, live free. Let the corpos wither.
Seriously, I am relieved every time I don’t get pushback on this… and it’s shocking just how much people hate this message, but we HAVE to start living within our means. We have to stop relying on debt and borrowing from tomorrow, it’s why all of this is so very bad. We fell for the magic, we believed the hype and dazzle and wanted the shiny, good thing now and every time they dangle a new good thing, we want that instead.
Rise above instincts. Return to community, to sports and walking and libraries and hiking and not sharing ANY of it on goddamn social media! Your “unique, rustic lifestyle free from debt” should not be someone’s advertising campaign!
In Canada they just make cheese so this thread confused me at first
Why does anyone give a fuck about this shit restaurant…
Because the food is good.
No it isnt
Yes it is. All this talk about Cracker Barrel lately is making me hungry. I think I’ll eat dinner there tonight.
Even after they kowtowed to the right?
Don’t even joke like it wasn’t universally disliked, I didn’t care about the logo change, it’s plain and boring in comparison but idrc. I eat there sometimes as the food is good.
You’re falling for the propaganda that Trump made it happen or it was somehow against wokeness.
You’re falling for the propaganda that Trump made it happen or it was somehow against wokeness.
No. I’m strictly speaking about their actions. The only people who got upset by the logo change are snowflakes.
You’re specifically saying the company cow towed to the right, when in fact it was universally disliked, it’s just that right wing people cared way more and complained much louder.
It most certainly isn’t near good
For me, it’s because they’re cool with travelers staying a night, and the food is good enough.
This has to be on the top 10 dumbest moral panics in history
Not even close I will bet!
conservative panics to be exact. just like with the tan suit panic, the djon mustard one, gay and satanic panic, plus aids panic.
Corporations shouldn’t be putting that stuff up anyway. They don’t need to act like person and present cultural values.
You can’t have Cracker Barrel without crackers.
Someone tell Dolly.
Welp, not goin to cracker barrel ever again.
