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Death of American staple as CEO tanks her own company's stock by announcing they're 'not as relevant' anymore
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Posted on 05/23/2024 8:08:46 PM PDT by algore

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To: algore

Phony or not, Cracker Barrel’s appeal was a rightful and widespread nostalgia for an America that is fading fast. That anyone in charge of a company marketing nostalgia would insist that it needs to “evolve” simply means that she doesn’t understand her own product and has wandered off into ideological irrelevancies such as Pride Month. Failure is inevitable.


141 posted on 05/24/2024 9:45:31 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: pepsi_junkie
And it worked when she was caretaker for booming brands. Now with a troubled brand her inexperience is showing I think.

It worked when she was the figurehead and she had a white guy as the VP who ran the show behind the scenes.

142 posted on 05/24/2024 10:11:32 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: wally_bert

Ha.

People should clear out to make room for big cars out of respect.

That’s why we need signs “If you don’t like my driving then get off the sidewalks.”


143 posted on 05/24/2024 3:58:46 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: algore

The author and CEO are idiots.

I live in middle TN. Every Cracker Barrel is packed. Old, young, rednecks, blacks...

The biggest problem lately is lack of servers. Still enjoy the food.

On a road drive at our age we take our time. We stop at Cracker Barrel for lunch. Good food. Beats fast food.


144 posted on 05/24/2024 4:13:42 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: poinq

Then start your own since you know better.


145 posted on 05/24/2024 4:17:52 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Tess1

As the saying goes, go woke, go broke!

-SB


146 posted on 05/24/2024 5:28:12 PM PDT by Snowybear (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: Zhang Fei

I went there for the original old time recipes.
I don’t need arugula, brioche bread, aioli infused mayo etc.....

Ill take the chicken fried steak and mashed like the 1960’s recipe was.

Thank you,


147 posted on 05/27/2024 5:49:01 PM PDT by Moleman
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To: Lazamataz

well done my man!!!


148 posted on 05/27/2024 5:50:51 PM PDT by Moleman
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To: frank ballenger

My buddy had a 1974 hughe delta 88 which we were busted doing “donuts” in the snow (Parking lot of Sign of the Beefcarver) whiles 18 years old lol


149 posted on 05/27/2024 5:59:02 PM PDT by Moleman
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To: DoodleBob

She has been job hopping from chain to chain.

That is a waving red flag.

If she was so great the previous firms would have paid her whatever was necessary to keep her.


150 posted on 05/27/2024 6:13:30 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Moleman

An amazingly bad idea was allowing Oldsmobile and Pontiac to be destroyed in the downturn.
Someone later said there was so much frantic rushing to do something that at least Pontiac should have been saved as it “really wasn’t slumping that badly”.


151 posted on 05/27/2024 7:10:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Moleman

[I went there for the original old time recipes.
I don’t need arugula, brioche bread, aioli infused mayo etc.....

Ill take the chicken fried steak and mashed like the 1960’s recipe was.

Thank you,]


It’s not that no one goes there any more. Or even that people have abandoned it for hyper refined entres. Instead, customers are spreading their dining-out dollars among crowd-pleasing entres that include tacos, pad thais, phos, gyros, pizzas and tapas. Where Cracker Barrel might have gotten 50% of a family’s dining-out budget in world where it competed mostly with me-too joints serving similar food, it might be getting far less today. Its marketing budget has prevented it from sharing the fate of so many diners. But you can bet management is sweating. It doesn’t just compete with ethnic foods for wallet share - it also goes head-to-head with established chains like Waffle House, Denny’s and IHOP, and up-and-coming ones like Texas Roadhouse and Darden subsidiary Longhorn Steakhouse.


152 posted on 05/27/2024 8:13:12 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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