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  1. A good article in Barrons this week advised ,”Cracker Barrel gets hammered…….do NOT buy the dip”.

    Woke CEO’s can work for some products; Tim Cook (Apple), Zucker-dick (Meta), Sundar Pichai (Google), mostly because they have a monopoly and their products span all demographics. But an iconoclastic Southern restaurant with deep traditional roots in the community? Be careful.

    This was an explanation, not a mea culpa, and it fell flat. A smarter approach would be ,”In an attempt to stay relevant, we made a really stupid mistake and changed the logo. Our heart was in the right place, but we forgot what matters, the satisfaction of our customers. As proof that we heard you and value your input, Uncle Herschel is coming back. Everything that you love about CB will stay the same, you can count on it”.

    TBH, I wish they had CB ‘s in California. I’ve never been to one. Old-style cooking with larger portions is right up my alley.

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  3. The reaction to the re-brand, or new logo, ought tell anyone paying attention how deep the general public’s hatred of all things woke runs. The biggest disaster foisted in this nation by the leftist racketeer influenced criminal organization referred to as the demorat party is the politicization of almost every aspect of our social intercourse. That politicization is such that it -deliberately- creates mass polarization. See above, and, look around. Leftists consider themselves to be intrinsically superior to non leftists, have for decades. Not for any reason supported by evidence but simply as a belief system, thus they cannot be reasoned with on the subject. The actual communists have gotten firmly entrenched in the demorat party and as one can easily observe, are wielding heavy influence and power within that disgusting agglomeration of AWFLs, their cucks, the old hippie mendicants through board room buffoons, academics and entertainment estupidos with megaphones, big mouths and empty heads. And, of course, the useful idiots that litter our society like drifts of fallen autumnal leaves. Opposition, vigorous and firm, without relent or abeyance now and into the future is required from all who wish to live in a state of at least partial freedom.

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  8. The food is maybe a B-, on good days a solid B. One-of-a-kind restaurants and diners generally have better food. I get it that the atmosphere is something a lot of people like, but I have a warning. After your sit down but before you order, take a big sniff or two. Personally, I find the odor from the gift shop, what with 22,000 scented candles and 15,000 bars of perfumed soap mixed with 27 different potpourri mixtures makes me want to gag if I have to smell it with my chicken fried steak.

    If the ventilation’s right, all’s well. If the ventilation’s wrong, you might want to up anchor and sail away.

    p.s. Woke suxxx. CB screwed the pooch this time, and it may be their last woke whimper. I’ll be very surprised if they ever get much of a prog/woke clientele.

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  9. With this CB “Bud Light” debacle, I wonder if Marie Calander’s could make a comeback?

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  11. The media is in full spin mode saying she did not understand the customer base. Maybe that has a little truth to it, but what is absolutely and unequivocally obvious to me is the utter contempt the rotten See You Next Tuesday has for the Cracker Barrel customer base.

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  12. Was in Kentucky years back visiting cousins and decided to treat them to breakfast.
    Everybody spoke highly of the Cracker Barrel so we drove to Horse Cave (Kentucky) and ate.
    Found the food underwhelming and the grits……Yuck! Resembled chunky wallpaper paste. Cousins said you need lots of butter so I added a few pats of butter.
    Buttery chunky wallpaper paste.

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  14. Many years ago I represented several former employees of Cracker Barrel on unemployment claims which were contested on the grounds that the employees were fired for misconduct. One was a waitress who saw two customers fighting—one went out to his car to get a gun. She warned all the customers and called 911 and the customer with the gun was arrested. Cracker Barrel fired the waitress for “frightening customers.” Another waitress saw her tip stolen off of a table by customer. She politely asked the customer if she knew that was her tip. The thief complained to the manager who fired her on the spot. My state has a law that if your cash register comes up short, your employer can deduct that amount from your wages. Cracker Barrel’s additional policy was that if cash register was over with MORE money in it at the end of the day then they deducted that from the cashiers’ wages too because the cashiers “were stealing from the customers”. Throughout the busiest times of the day, managers would throw rolls of quarters in the registers so the cashiers would have change and never documented this. Cashiers would regularly have $20, $40 or $60 dollars deducted daily depending on how many rolls of quarters got added to their tills—money Cracker Barrel just pocketed. Cashiers would quit because they weren’t making any money and Cracker Barrel would contest unemployment benefits due to “voluntary termination.” I fought and won every unemployment benefit appeal. I will never eat at Cracker Barrel because of how they treated their employees and their food tastes like Satan’s Crotch Fried in Wessen Oil.

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  16. Chicken-ass response from CB. They claim “Uncle Hershel” is not going anywhere, but they took away his image form the sign. That’s saying: Hershel ain’t here anymore, folks.

    I’m tellin’ ya, Marketing people are slut-worms.

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  20. We used to be regulars at a chain called The Black Bear, I think they are just on the West Coast. A few years back, right around COVID, they went downhill fast, new menu, way higher prices, and underwhelming food.

    The key is to find some mom and pop joint in your area, become regulars and tell your friends, this is the best way to keep them in business.

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  24. My little town had the best Mom & Pop diner. It was the place all the veterans gathered to swap stories, the wait staff knew all the regulars (I was one), and the food was very good.

    Covid killed them. Once they were able to open back up, they still had to seat every other table for distancing. Then, they were able to go back to normal, but they just couldn’t survive after losing so much money during the shutdown. It’s now a car wash.

    I miss their food, the ambiance, and the owners love for their customers.

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  29. Back in the mid 70’s Sambo’s had coffee for .25 cents with free refills. I know because one Tuesday night after a church bible study I went out with a bunch of friends and drank 20 cups of coffee that night. I was buzzed all night and up at least every half hr. having to pee. I was also about 23 at the time and I have never done that ever again. That’s probably why I very rarely drink coffee any more except when I go out to breakfast at a local diner once a month or so.

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  33. @Diff Tim

    Sambo wasn’t a black kid (AKA Negro) at all. As far as I can tell, he was Asian Indian. He made the tigers run around him and turned them into butter.

    The Brit overlords of India called the natives “black-faced wogs” or something similar.

    Tigers do not live in Africa, unless in zoos.

    The people who attacked Sambo’s were uneducated boobs.

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