Posted on 08/26/2025 10:48:28 PM PDT by Morgana
I created CousinTs.com after they came for Aunt Jemima & Uncle Ben. If they can erase them, they’ll erase anybody. Not me. Not us.
Terrence is upset and is not holding back on Cracker Barrel. "we did not ask for this".
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I KNOW LOL!!!
Then Terrence says it in his video!!!
Let’s just take away everything that makes our product unique and distinctive. Brilliant move.
Ok, so you are the EVP of Marketing. You’ve got years of stagnant or declining sales. Your target customer base and demographic is aging and dying off. Your theme hasn’t changed in years. Your same store sales have not yet recovered from COVID. What do you do?
Market your brand.
Liquidate. Going woke is like flushing money down the toilet.
As Cracker Barrel and other examples show, tinkering with the core offerings and atmosphere beloved of regulars is a risky step. The better strategy is to execute better and refine what you already have. That take less in the way of big ideas but lots of hard work.
Ray Kroc, the obsessive, hard-working milk shake salesman who bought and built McDonald's into a restaurant empire was intensely focused on the details of everyday success and failure. For example, in the early days of McDonald's expansion, their French fries proved to be problematic and too often soggy and tasteless. On investigation, Kroc found that the key was buying the right kind of potatoes, drying them more than industry normal, and then keeping the moisture content and frying time within tight limits.
That kind of intense focus on operations is required to win in the restaurant business. DEI may help you feel good but is beside the point. And for Cracker Barrel, DEI and rebranding have been little short of suicidal.
just face it:
This cracka fav must be killed..
All this fuss over fast food on a plate... boggles my mind. Nobody goes to actual restaurants anymore. Most towns and waysides offer only franchised crap.
Not enough is said about the CEO’s not so hidden message that CB customers are old white racist red necks. This is the exact same mistake the Bud Lite gal made who wanted to move away from frat boys. The lesson is do not hire DEI AWFLs as CEO.
What annoys me is these ugly ‘women’ (BudLight destroyer is questionable) triumphantly clearcut what is preferred by many, thinking that what THEY create is what everyone MUST obey and will LOVE. Even worse are the people that allow this.
Just like destructive democrats. Screw your rights, THEY know what is best for you and you will EAT it or die trying.
After this, I certainly don’t trust what is going on Cracker Barrel’s plates. They have already shown the contempt they have for those who have kept the doors open.
They’ve reversed course and are keeping the old logo. No word on scrapping the remodels and they for damned sure are not ending their LGBT support.
According to Benny Johnson, Cracker Barrel has merely moved the dei stuff to a different url and it is all still in tact.
how about better food that doesnt taste like microwaved plastic?
stop making Food that leaves you as soon as you get up from the table?
Get a new head of housekeeping to degunk your floors which either grab your shoes or are as slippery as wet ice?
Get your dishes clean? Train your managers in better kitchen prep and cleaning ? Ever heard of pinesol?
Buc-ees is eating your breakfast, lunch and dinner and its not a fluke or locations. Its a 10x better product and atmosphere.
Nothing says “late to the party” better than putting up rainbow flags, just as the rest of the world is painting over their ridiculous crosswalks.
People are fed up with all of it, so, Crack Barrel decides it’s their future?
Another token female CEO makes her mark.
How old are you?
60+?
From what I’ve read, Cracker Barrel reports stated sales were not increased, and stagnant, maybe losing some money, but not bleeding out.
Improve the food and service. You already have a solid base of loyal customers, let’s not reinvent the wheel. And just to add another cliche, don’t try to squeeze blood from a turnip. Is the goal to make money and steadily remain in business or to dominate the market?
It’s like the movie wall Street, where Charlie Sheen has dreams of taking Blue Star Airlines up against the majors.Why?
Our country is run by a generation of participation award winners that had parents doing their homework and always did group projects and never had an individual thought. Rember the SOTU paddles those are your leaders.
Correct. The Paddles. Good Lord.
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