Where to park overnight?
A lot of people can’t afford to eat out because of the cost, or travel in their car to even dine out along the way. I know I can’t. We have no Cracker Barrels near us. I live in the Mohawk Valley of NY State. The closest Cracker Barrel is over an hour away, north of here. When I visit my niece this summer in Cape Vincent, I will have to check to see if that one is still open, or if the one outside of Watertown is still there.
We quit eating there after they emphasized their rainbow colored rocking chairs during Pride Month. They basically lost my support at that time. The only time that I go there now is to shop for women’s clothes. (Surprisingly, hey are one of the best places for that.)
Grew up in the south, never once considered Cracker Barrel good southern cooking.
Trying to compete with Chili’s, TGI Fridays, and Applebees as bars that serve food.
Daily Mail has some fetish with Cracker Barrel. They wrote another hit piece yesterday. https://freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/4239758/posts
Alas, this article is as inaccurate as was the prior one. I don’t own stock nor do I work for them. But I believe in accuracy.
If people could read a stock chart, read an article, and a calendar, and stop obsessing about her eyeglasses and other physical traits, they’d see that the recent stock drop has to do with the announcement that they’re cutting the dividend bigly on May 16, after the markets were closed.
Furthermore, the totality of the CEO’s comment is “Cracker Barrel is an iconic brand, but even iconic brands have to evolve,” Masino told investors, per NRN. “We know from our research that despite high levels of consumer affinity, we’re just not as relevant as we once were. We need to address these dynamics by refreshing and refining the brand and reflecting this in all of the ways we interact with our guests. We will take what is known and be loved about our differentiated brand and build upon it so that it’s more relevant to today’s and tomorrow’s guests.” In other words, she didn’t just blurt out an idiotic statement without thinking.
I’m positive now if people could just research how management preps for calls, they’d recognize this is a crafted statement as part of a message. It may have missed the mark, but she didn’t just blurt it out.
In addition, the company annoyed customers with the LGBT announcements in June 2023. Ms Masin was hired in July 2023. Do I think they’ll repeat it in 2024? Probably, but you can’t pin the 2023 actions on her.
Finally, the investors are also concerned because the company announced a plan without a ton of details. That will weigh on a stock as well, but not as much as a massive dividend cut.
They have the best tasting cheese.
Pretty sure the city in S. Carolina is “Columbia.” Not Colombia.
About a week ago I saw an article on here about some illegal from “Columbia” - meaning Colombia, the country in South America. I think it was put out by some law enforcement agency. They spelled it that way at least twice in the item.
I guess it’s more difficult to keep track of that stuff than I think it is.
Once inside, the food is mostly bland with little seasoning. No alcoholic beverages on the menu (at least back in the day when I went).
After you eat, you have to walk through a ticky-tacky gift shop to pay your bill.
It was just an odd place all around.
New CEO was former Taco Bell lead. If that's her playbook, get ready for higher prices and lower quality.
The one nearest me is always busy. They have a pretty good fish Friday.
Cracker Barrel is like most restaurants. It has good days and bad days. Certain times of the day are better than others.
No it isn’t the finest Southern cooking but it stays busy.
I know it was THE place to go after morning services on Sunday.
But they decided to chase the rainbow.
If you tell people that you do not want them as customers they do tend to go away.
Just the way it is.
Cracker (isn’t that racist?) Barrel is good. We eat there whenever we go on trips.
I used to stop at one (Richmond IN) as a halfway point in an 18 hour road trip. They had a great haddock dinner for a great price but many other things were too over salted (esp. chicken pot pie).
Now you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Cracker Barrel, so the days of it being a somewhat special place to go are long gone. The rocking chairs are plastic that looks like wood, the food sucks (could plausibly be plastic, too, depending on location), and the store is filled with cheap, mass-produced trinkets from China.
Cracker Barrel says it will open two more lcoations this year. It is not clear if it will shut any more.
Last year it shut three other stores in Oregon.
So it didn't do well in California and Oregon. There's problem with crime in Columbia, SC.
Breakfast is good at Cracker Barrel. It's a winning formula at Waffle House.
So they need to return to their roots.
The 3 closures in Oregon last year were all in the Portland area and were due to the soft on crime gubmint doing nothing to protect them, so they had to hire private security for themselves. And now the LAST one in the state (5+ hours away), has closed. (smh)
Long ago I quit eating the JUNK FOOD at Cracker Barrel and moved up to McDonald’s, as McDonald’s is at least willing to tell me the ingredients and nutrient numbers in their food - good luck getting that from any joint that serves ‘home-cooked’ style food, which is pure crap.
I could never solve that wooden triangle puzzle with the golf tees sticking out of it.
I knew they were in trouble when they stopped selling ribeye steaks ... pre-pandemic.