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Cracker Barrel Is Dead, And Its Stupid Woke CEO Killed It With Gay Nonsense
The Federalist ^ | August 21, 2025 | Sean Davis

Posted on 08/21/2025 4:33:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Cracker Barrel is done. Woke executives killed it, wrapped the corpse in a rainbow flag, and then made it do a little puppet show in New York City for the entertainment of all their woke little friends.

Cracker Barrel’s new logo — and its miserable attempt to reinvent itself — is obviously a complete disaster, whether in terms of customer backlash or the company’s stock price.

But the real reason Cracker Barrel has been struggling is that its service and food quality nosedived after Covid, and instead of fixing that, the company and its woke executives decided to go full Bud Light and taste the rainbow and dare its customers to object.

They stopped bringing you biscuits and cornbread as a matter of course, then they shrunk them. The food started to taste and look reheated instead of freshly prepared, and the service got slower and sloppier. Everyone who’s been a loyal customer over the years has experienced this. It’s undeniable.

Those are admittedly tricky problems to fix, especially given how service quality everywhere has sucked after Covid. It’s hard to find wait staff and cooks who always show up when they’re supposed to and take pride in their work.

Cracker Barrel executives refused to address those problems — problems that any customer would’ve pointed out had they bothered to ask. Instead, the executives went all-in on woke alphabet BS: DEI this, BLM that, LGBT whatever.

Because that’s what people want at an old country diner: gay race communism shoved in their faces.

The stupid rebrand in which executives stripped every last bit of charm and character from the company and its restaurants and stores was just the latest in a long line of attempts to set money on fire by breaking what didn’t need to be fixed and refusing to...

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1 posted on 08/21/2025 4:33:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Instead, the executives went all-in on woke alphabet BS: DEI this, BLM that, LGBT whatever.

Because that's what people want at an old country diner: gay race communism shoved in their faces.

Well said!

2 posted on 08/21/2025 4:38:15 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The problem with American business schools is that they only teach about profits. So thats what American executives focus on.

They dont teach about think business in a globalist way, meaning the entire system. How reheating products, for example to save on production, but also affects how customers might react to something that seems stalish.


3 posted on 08/21/2025 4:38:40 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I didn’t realize the chain had cast its tent towards Sodom.

Too bad for them.


4 posted on 08/21/2025 4:42:55 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Generally, I’ve had good experiences at CB. But I haven’t been there in a while.


5 posted on 08/21/2025 4:44:19 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All they had to do was improve the food back to where it used to be.


6 posted on 08/21/2025 4:46:08 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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The problem with American business schools is that they only teach about profits. So thats what American executives focus on.


It would be nice to have some recent business school attendees tell us what their experience has been like.


7 posted on 08/21/2025 4:47:05 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Go woke, go broke.


8 posted on 08/21/2025 4:48:58 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Even before Covid they started using commissary to make some dishes that they reheated.

But not breakfast. You can’t reheat eggs or hash browns. Or toast. Biscuits maybe but they tasted fresh to me.

Bacon, not sure. Sausage patty or link, probably.

Chicken and dumplings, veggies and mac n cheese again probably.


9 posted on 08/21/2025 4:50:06 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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Those are admittedly tricky problems to fix, especially given how service quality everywhere has sucked after Covid.

Better pay at Chick-fil-A and In-N-Out plus superior company culture. So it can be done.

10 posted on 08/21/2025 4:51:03 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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There seems to be no business strategy for making a profit while hating America.


11 posted on 08/21/2025 4:52:14 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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DID I DO THAT?

Yes, in part, you were hired by some morons on the BOD to fix it.

AND YOU HAVE FAILED. LIBERTARDS WEARING CLOWN GLASSES MOST ALWAYS FAIL!

12 posted on 08/21/2025 4:52:26 PM PDT by DAC21
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Cracker Barrel’s Karen-looking - is CEO the right term? - was on a liberal program saying the feedback from customers and the work force was 100% positive.

Yeah, sure right.....I don’t think so.


13 posted on 08/21/2025 4:53:30 PM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: DAC21

That schnoz makes her look like Groucho Marx.


14 posted on 08/21/2025 4:54:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Fledermaus
They use bagged scrambled eggs, pre cooked sausage patties...
Biscuit gravy is bagged.
Fried chicken is frozen ...on and on.
They went the way of convenience, instead of home cooking recipes they started with.
15 posted on 08/21/2025 4:55:42 PM PDT by sausageseller (If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. M, Thatcher)
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4335963/posts

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16 posted on 08/21/2025 4:56:16 PM PDT by deport
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To: marktwain

Business school dogma:
Nothing should be made in the USA
American workers are overpaid and hard to deal with
Keep wages low by importing labor
Try to figure out how little you can pay workers and still get them to come to work.


17 posted on 08/21/2025 4:56:33 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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There seems to be no business strategy for making a profit while hating America.


Yeah, the “I hate my phucking country and everything it stands for so I’m gonna have a Bud Lite and eat dinner at Crackhead Barrel” doesn’t seem to be a very wide appealing marketing message.


18 posted on 08/21/2025 4:56:37 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: DAC21

Ha ha ha, if Urkel was a white female.


19 posted on 08/21/2025 4:57:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They started with the new logo and then went downhill from there.


20 posted on 08/21/2025 5:03:17 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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