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re: Cracker Barrel caves
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:01 pm to thejuiceisloose
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:01 pm to thejuiceisloose
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Breaking News: Middle age white men take a moment from losing their shite over Taylor Swift getting engaged to go BACK to losing their shite over the Cracker Barrel logo
obsessed!
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Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:03 pm to RougeDawg
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Now put everything back like it was. The menu, the service, the antiques.
Plus get rid of their DEI policy!!!
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:05 pm to RetiredSaintsLsuFan
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:05 pm to thejuiceisloose
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Breaking News: Middle age white men take a moment from losing their shite over Taylor Swift getting engaged to go BACK to losing their shite over the Cracker Barrel logo
Omg! You are so brave.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:09 pm to rich4pres
juiceisloose won’t be satisfied until they swap out the country gentleman for a half-naked tranny.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:09 pm to stout
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As a franchise owner of a McDonald's or Pizza Hut do you think that person cares if the building needs to be sold one day or would he rather bank on his location being successful and never need to be sold?
The franchise owner has very little, if any, say in the design of the building in those situations.
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drab buildings of fast food places now has nothing to do with woke and is just a business decision to keep the building marketable if they have to close a store and its a really stupid talking point.
This is hilarious.
This post was edited on 8/26/25 at 7:10 pm
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:09 pm to thejuiceisloose
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Breaking News: Middle age white men take a moment from losing their shite over Taylor Swift getting engaged to go BACK to losing their shite over the Cracker Barrel logo
What’s it like being so enlightened?
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:12 pm to Bayou
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Anyone with a 1/2 ounce of business classes will tell you damage has been done already. Think before you blink.
If they’re smart, they’ll do what they can to mitigate the damage.
1. Focus on improving food quality and service. Be like Chik-fil-a with a gift shop.
2 simplify the menu and focus on making the dishes people go to Cracker Barrel for in the first place.
3. Find some well known and respected celebrity, preferably one who has no political baggage, to spearhead a new marketing campaign about how Cracker Barrel is going back to its roots.
They do those things, they’ll be able to turn it around. Where they went wrong is they thought their customer base is “dying off”, that’s wrong. It’s not dying off, it that (1) the quality has fallen off and (2) the steps Cracker Barrel has taken alienated a substantial portion of their customer base while failing to entice this mythical “new” customer base.
The Cracker Barrel customer base isn’t dying off. The kids being taken to Cracker Barrel today by their parents and grandparents will be the parents of tomorrow taking their kids. They’ll remember being a kid and getting excited over the toys and candy in the gift shop. Playing the games at the table. And they’ll want their kids to experience that as well. That’s the key to success for Cracker Barrel and why they were stupid for throwing away a brand they’d spent the last 50 years building up.
Bring back the quality, bring back the atmosphere, and customers will return.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:15 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
This is lHOB all over again.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:18 pm to Darth_Vader
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simplify the menu and focus on making the dishes people go to Cracker Barrel for in the first place.
Honestly, for me, the only thing they need on the menu is the 4 veggie plate. Dumplings (or pintos), collards, fried okra and apples for desert.....
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:19 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:19 pm to Darth_Vader
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Where they went wrong is they thought their customer base is “dying off”, that’s wrong. It’s not dying off, it that (1) the quality has fallen off and (2) the steps Cracker Barrel has taken alienated a substantial portion of their customer base while failing to entice this mythical “new” customer base.
Yep. Bad food combined with bad service is the number one reason restaurants fail. Then they poured salt on it.
Idiots!
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:20 pm to thejuiceisloose
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Breaking News: Middle age white men take a moment from losing their shite over Taylor Swift getting engaged to go BACK to losing their shite over the Cracker Barrel logo
I am probably pretty far from what you had in your head when writing this, and I promise you, I would have likely never stepped in a Cracker Barrel again (maybe once, to see) if the logo changed permanently - and more importantly (and maybe up in the air?), the aesthetic of their restaurant changed.
There is so much core nostalgia that I associate with Cracker Barrel that any attempt to pivot to something more "modern and minimalist" would have soured my brand loyalty forever.
There are a lot of brands and services which I do not hold to the same standard - because they were never trying to sell me what Cracker Barrel does.
This post was edited on 8/26/25 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:21 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:I have been waiting patiently for someone to make this point
The Cracker Barrel customer base isn’t dying off. The kids being taken to Cracker Barrel today by their parents and grandparents will be the parents of tomorrow taking their kids. They’ll remember being a kid and getting excited over the toys and candy in the gift shop. Playing the games at the t
CB base is seniors, families, and travelers. They will always be with us.
Maybe this will finally kill that stupid dying off argument
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:24 pm to Lonnie Utah
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Honestly, for me, the only thing they need on the menu is the 4 veggie plate. Dumplings (or pintos), collards, fried okra and apples for desert.....
Things like that is where they need to focus. Their brand is old-school rural Southern cuisine and atmosphere. Their menu should reflect that.
And this may not be popular here, but I think it’s a mistake for them to serve alcohol. Again, it’s not part of their original brand. No one is going to Cracker Barrel for a beer. But there are plenty of their core customers who turned off by there being alcohol on the menu. And I say that as I sit here drinking a beer myself.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:26 pm to loogaroo
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Yep. Bad food combined with bad service is the number one reason restaurants fail. Then they poured salt on it.
And instead of addressing the problem they tried to make it into a slightly rural version of Applebee’s
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:29 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
LOL. All the usual pissed off liberals in this thread 
Trump was right again
Trump was right again
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:31 pm to LSURussian
Food sucks, coffee's ok.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:31 pm to Darth_Vader
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And this may not be popular here, but I think it’s a mistake for them to serve alcohol. Again, it’s not part of their original brand. No one is going to Cracker Barrel for a beer. But there are plenty of their core customers who turned off by there being alcohol on the menu. And I say that as I sit here drinking a beer myself.
I agree. It was so ridiculous seeing mimosa flights with diverse folks plastered all over the menus and table stands. Every person I was with the last time I went all saw the big sign by the hostess stand was thinking what the frick?
Posted on 8/26/25 at 7:31 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
The people who sell these corporate rebrands are basically conmen IMO.
They convince these executives that a rebrand will turn around a business that's stuck in a rut.
But the vast, vast majority of the time the rebrand only makes things worse. It doesn't bring in new customers and it alienates the old ones.
They convince these executives that a rebrand will turn around a business that's stuck in a rut.
But the vast, vast majority of the time the rebrand only makes things worse. It doesn't bring in new customers and it alienates the old ones.
This post was edited on 8/26/25 at 7:54 pm
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