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)
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.