Under the guise of "hurr durr, I'm so stupid I'm going to make all the wrong decisions and the company will fail" Cracker Barrel is intentionally being destroyed. Not for ideological reasons, although that may be the icing on the cake, but for money.
You may remember Yahoo and how Google employee Marissa Mayer was made CEO and immediately started making radical changes. Everyone one of her decisions was a disaster. Yahoo went from near peer to Goggle to being irrelevant. But Marissa isn't stupid, these weren't mistakes, she profited from this destruction. She's now a literal billionaire.
Same thing is happening with Cracker Barrel. Julie Felss Masino isn't a stupid ideologue. She's intentionally tanking the company. Either to lower stock prices so she and her buddies can buy more shares at a discount, or completely torpedoing the company so it can be sold off in parts to it's competitors (owned by her buddies)
Somebody is going to have to explain this to me. The new logo is fine, not great, but fine. They will probably sell merchandise with the old logo on it in the shop and make a shit ton of money. Now they have the option to open locations without having to include the store.
The food is as mediocre as ever...
I think what you're missing is that CB had two things going for it. Nostalgia and mediocre food. Much like McDonalds, it doesnt matter if you're in NJ, FL, WI or CA you know what to expect from the food. It'll always just be fine. There are many other places that have that, so that's very secondary.
The nostalgia was unique as far as chains go. This is the part they changed. The main reason people went was because they wanted to look at the antiques and have that nice homey vibe instead of a sterile corporate feel.
This would be like if Mr Beast rebranded as a guy who just sits around livestreaming video games. Sure he'd probably be ok at it, but his whole brand is about the crazy stunts. Why would anyone watch him over the 100s of other streamers then?
They will erase all memory of white people.
By 2030, they will get rid of the red-haired girl on Wendy's logo.
Little Debbie Cakes will be gone too. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/15-discontinued-little-debbie-snacks-195040489.html
Show me a brand that features a white person, I will show you a logo will disappear in 4 years.
The kids in school today are being taught to hate white people. Any image of a white person is a turn off.
Michelin. A White man made of… black tires? I think his name is Bibetto or something.
Bibendum
What a ridiculous statement. Your persecution setting is set way to high.
I always hated CB overpriced gift shop selling Chinese made junk to dumb consumers.
Good riddance.
glad to say i don't care. I haven't eaten there for many years.
cracker barrel can go out of business and i still won't care.
Same. I ordered an additional egg for my uncle herschel’s breakfast in 2016, which comes with two eggs, meat, stewed apples, a biscuit, and hashbrown casserole at $5.39.
They charged me $4.49 for the additional egg. I told my cashier, there must be some mistake.
They said, no, no mistake. That was the price for an a la carte egg.
Why my server (who was a 4 star aproned general) didnt say “hey buddy just get a who ‘nother breakfast for only a dollar more and we’ll put the rest of that in a to-go box” and i would’ve tipped an additional few dollars… because that’s bullshit.
If you are a server even pretending to be looking out for me i’ll tip you 50%. Sometimes 100%, if the meal is great, around $10 and the server was nice to me, i’ll drop a $20 and leave. It’s not about the money, it’s about service. Experience. Hospitality.
I didn’t go back. Again this was 2016, when a commercial kitchen wholesale package of THREE DOZEN large grade A eggs was about $4.