Posted on 12/22/2013 10:58:36 AM PST by RoosterRedux
“We were flat out wrong."
That’s the message Cracker Barrel is sending to enraged customers after the restaurant chain removed Duck Dynasty items from its stores over fears it might offend people.
“Our intent was to avoid offending but that’s just what we’ve done,” Cracker Barrel said in a statement posted on its Facebook page. “You told us we made a mistake. And, you weren’t shy about it. You wrote, you called and you took to social media to express your thoughts and feelings.”
One of those customers was Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. He said his family has eaten in nearly every Cracker Barrel in the country.
“Cracker Barrel must be off their rocker,” he said in a statement to Fox News. “For Cracker Barrel to take the bait of an organization like GLAAD, which has led the attack on Phil Robertson, they are betraying the values of the vast majority of their customers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Cracker Barrel needs to inform A&E that it was wrong. Maybe it also needs to have a sign out front. If you support GLAAD eat elsewhere. We at Cracker Barrel are a family oriented business. ( See I must be deluded after all).
I agree. I WILL eat there again now. But, boy oh boy if they had not come
to their senses I would not have!
Uh, 100% - 2% = 98%................and your the CEO of this company?!
Affirmative action maybe?
All that Cracka Barrel execs are saying now through clenched teeth is,
“The people have spoken.....the bastards!!”
If they remove their Anti-Christian bigots and make sizable donations to Christian Charities, then I might return to Cracked Barrel
Make them pay for being wrong. It will help to stop others.
Nor JC Penny.
All they had to do regarding this situation is what they were doing the day before Phil said what he said.
While there was a famous Frenchman that said, “You, sir, may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you,” Cracker Barrel went looking for it.
I don’t want this to sound sexist, but marketing departments, especially marcom, used to be run by men. Now that most are staffed and headed by women, somewhere we now see some sort of right not to be offended.
When men were in charge, they ignored it. They used to be able to do that.
That’s the thing about women, they can forgive, but they never forget, and most have no idea what the difference is between the two.
They attempted to use this as a publicity stunt and it backfired. That is all that happened. I’m done with the place.
Packer Barrel to Quacker Barrel in just two days.
They did awhile back. Not nearly as sincere as Cracker Barrell, but did so just the same.
A tale of two companies. Cracker Barrel vs Chic fil a.
One chose wisely. One chose poorly.
Thank you for the validation. I manage a business and I cannot imagine my company doing something like this.
Of course, I work for a God-Fearing, family-run company and that ALONE makes a WORLD of difference as to how we conduct business. :)
If you wonder how CB could have made a decision that irritated its customers, look no further than the business schools that most managers attend. Every, and I mean EVERY, business school in the US emphasizes diversity as a core topic and the textbooks in management courses ALL present diversity such that the leftist point of view is presented as the normal, necessary point of view. You can bet that tolerance of Christianity is not advocated. In general, the writing in textbooks is vague in discussing the need to embrace diversity but the photographs in the books clarify what is meant.
New management trainees at a company like CB think that demographic diversity is a top goal. Those same trainees cringe at the thought of the values and culture of most of their customers.
It takes a lot to admit when you’re wrong and apologize.
The apology doesn’t change the fact that their first impulse was to stand with the queers. I can find someplace else to eat.
CB went through a 7 year lawsuit by the federal government over their ostensibly racist and sexist policies, settling in 2006 for $2M. Which of course cost them much more in profits than legal fees and settlement amount.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable that they’re a little gunshy.
Marketing departments and advertising departments are gay gay gay. And then there are the women.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.