I do not think it is, or was, COVID. It is the high prices, bad food, and the impending recession.
Thats because seniors, most of them, are 100% capable of microwaving a prepackaged meal for a lot less money.
If anything it was their incessant enforcement of the stupid mask crap.
Both of these restaurants are CRAP and overpriced..
Cracker Barrel put out the rainbow rocking chairs to support LGBT and then said they would provide a gay employee for customers to have a dialog with. Uh, no thanks. I can just eat anywhere else forever.
Adding: We did not like Cracker Barrel at all. Olive Garden is okay, but rather expensive, and we heard icky things about their kitchens.
We prefer locally owned restaurants for sit down, not chains
In Iowa, they’re still showing up at Pizza Ranch, Culver’s, and the Urbandale Panera, uninterrupted.
I quit going because of the noise.
Negative.
More pissed at the rules of “social distancing” and restrictions to dine out.
Then add POTUS Potato causing world wide inflation with his handlers’ policies and they see no reason to go back to those that scammed them with their BS.
Seniors (on fixed income) and small biz and middle class most impacted.
Do the Dems care?
We used to eat and shop at our Cracker Barrel regularly util the food started becoming bad. We finally quit going at all. Then when we were out of state one time we saw one, and were excited to try it, but it was even worse than our local one. I may not ever eat there again, at any of them now.
Show me ANY Senior, other than those in Congress, who has extra money to spend on FOOD besides cooking at home!
It’s the ECONOMY, Stupid! It’s P*SS-POOR LEADERSHIP, Stupid! It’s Brandon, Stupid!
All super unhealthy processed garbage. This is why America is fat, folks. Quit eating this shyte.
We are seniors, and we go to Cracker Barrel occasionally. Probably no more or less often than before COVID. Maybe 3-4 times a year, at most. It is always quite busy, from our experience.
We don’t go to Olive Garden, and didn’t before COVID. I have maybe been once or twice in the past 20 years.
Looks like they’ve had repeated cycles of downturns...during 0blama and 0blama2 reigns.....
From 2012....
Olive Garden parent Darden suffers from bad specials, ‘Obamacare’(Failing CEO is Obama groupie...)
NY Times ^ | 12/4/12 | Tiffany Hsu
Posted on 12/4/2012, 12:15:56 PM by jimbo123
Darden Restaurants Inc. won’t be looking as good as expected next week when the restaurant company is set to release its second-quarter earnings, it said Tuesday.
The Olive Garden, Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse parent lowered its profit and revenue projections for the quarter ended Nov. 25, blaming sour promotions in its eateries, Superstorm Sandy, its purchase of the Yard House USA chain and even its efforts to mitigate the coming costs of healthcare reform, also known as “Obamacare.”
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965522/posts
It’s not that seniors have “lost their taste” for these restaurants. The fact is they no longer have the discretionary income for eating out every Friday night (or Sunday afternoon-—or whenever) that they did previously. It’s not Covid or a change in habits. It is simply an economic necessity.
After the lock-downs from the government’s ridiculous decrees from Covid, senior citizens would have loved to return to Bingo games followed by the trip to Cracker Barrel, or church followed by the evening at Waffle House with their friends. But, they can no longer afford that luxury. Those on fixed incomes are worried about saving the 25 or so bucks so they can pay the co-pay for the next doctor’s visit, or make sure they can pay the light bill, or buy a box of their favorite cereal plus some milk for the following week.
“Journalists” are so dam#ed clueless!
My uncle is almost 94 and drives himself to the Olive Garden for lunch every day, because they are good to him there.
Hey Cracker Barrel!
This also may be a clue!
“Cracker Barrel Slammed for ‘Woke’ Rainbow Rocking Chair Honoring Pride Month”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4184373/posts
Seniors are broke, but when they do have a few extra bucks to eat out, maybe they do not want to spend those bucks at a place that pushes rainbow “wokeness” at their customers.
Who does Cracker Barrel think is their core customer base? Soy boy pretend teen girl Mulvaney?
More rainbow rocking chairs on the porch at the Cracker joint would surely win back the oldsters.
Biden’s high gas prices have busted my budget.
Home, car and groceries take all this retired Cracker’s monthly income.
Dining out is history.
Thanks, Joe, for making each month a worry.
Newsome/Hochul 2024! Free abortions for all Men and Women and Things! No Borders! Peace in our Time!