My husband runs a restaurant and he thinks the management was complete overkill. And his restaurant is a hellava lot better than the awful Cracker Barrel.
I’m not defending Cracker Barrell per se - I am more saying the headline is misleading in how incomplete it is - for blatant emotional reasons - and a lot of Freepers bit on it.
The headline COULD have been “Cracker Barrell Fires Thief After 5 Warnings” - for instance. That would have been over the top in the other direction.