They need to remodel their food.
Never have set foot in one. That or cotton patch.
I prefer the old way.
I like the old much better. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Places to eat used to be fun and whimsical.
Now they feel dull and soulless.
I really don’t understand the need for places to look as boring as possible. There used to be a seafood place near me that looked like a boat , a few years ago they replaced it a boring grey cube.
They are lying when they said people liked it or they only asked people in stupid cities like san fran, that is horrible. I will not go to a Cracker Barrel decorated like that.
More detheming. All the service industry is doing it.
OH, NO! Photo A; Homey, warm, comfortable and friendly in all directions. Wanting to pull up a chair and chat with new friends. Sounds of laughter in the air. Another Tequila Sunrise, please. I like seeing the rifle over the hearth.
Photo B: STERILE, Clinical, scrutinized, pushed away, ostracized. Unfriendly and basically unknown. Cannot wait to leave and not look back! Sounds of cutlery similar to a surgically prepped room. I need a Tums. What happened to that rifle?
If Cracker Barrel is determined to give up their Old Look, I will bet some clever retailer is going to adopt it for themselves.
the ceo has ocd
Wasn’t this about the same time their CEO criticized their customers. Sort of like many churches, let’s sing the songs the people not coming want to hear.
Looks a lot easier to dust now...
My. How bland.
Brought to us by the same fools who pulled Duck Drynasty products.
The Machine Shed in Rockford, IL, is a much better implementation of the “old” Cracker Barrel motif.
They’ve turned it into HGTV-cutesy-vanilla hell.
Are you kidding me? This has got to be a joke right? Right?
These “flair” type restaurants all seem to follow the same life cycle, and what’s happening to Cracker Barrel is the final phase. Note that it’s not the terminal phase, because the restaurant doesn’t die. Instead it lives on as a zombie version of its old self.
I’ve eaten in Cracker Barrels from Miami to Flagstaff, including the ones around the home office in Lebanon, TN and used to love them. However, The ones we’ve stopped in recently have been filthy and the food not as well prepared. I filed a complaint last year with the corporate office about how filthy the one here in Jacksonville, NC is, and they offered me a free dessert. A remodel might be overdue.