Posted on 08/23/2025 1:41:28 PM PDT by libh8er
The embattled CEO of Cracker Barrel has been accused by workers of slashing working hours and reducing food quality, Daily Mail can exclusively reveal, as she faces calls for her resignation over a disastrous rebrand.
The chain debuted a new logo for the first time in 48 years earlier this week, sparking outrage among customers and wiping millions off the company stock price, which shed almost $100 million in market value on Thursday.
President and CEO Julie Masino, who earns $1 million a year, has become a target for those outraged over the change.
Staff have vented over what they describe as poor management at the highest level of the company by airing their grievances on the employment review site Glass Door.
A crew member in Minnesota posted: 'To the CEO Julie Masino, stop cutting our hours.
'We are making less pay for more work when we are understaffed because you suck at bringing this dead company from its grave.
'Stop lowering your food quality. No it is NOT a good idea to force your cooks to serve bacon that is over a day old. Bacon shouldn't be saved overnight, believe it or not.'
One worker, who claims they are an Associate Manager at a branch in South Carolina, posted: 'New leadership is driving the company down.
'There is now nothing that makes Cracker Barrel any different from every other below-average restaurant chain.'
A general manager at a restaurant in Maumee, Ohio, added: 'Poor management and untraditional employee relations all the way up to the corporate level.'
Daily Mail has approached the company for comment on the allegations made by the employees.
The new, simplified logo features just the text of the brand name in a rounded-off yellow hexagon after the firm ditched its legendary mascot Uncle Herschel.
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“President and CEO Julie Masino”
It would be hard to believe she didn’t have the go ahead from her Daddy’s, Blackrock and Vanguard.
It always amazes me that CEOs in these situations refuse to stand up and admit an error, but instead drag down the company - and the board lets them! How much $$ had Budweiser lost in the Bud Light debacle?
Especially Blackrock
you assume it is an error. i don’t
Only been there twice, most recent 20 years ago. All the food was over-salted and seemed like it was over-cooked three days before I arrived.
Companies are going to have to pay workers more. A lot more
Didn’t I read that CEO Julie Masino came from corporate Taco Bell? How long till she brings in the mystery meat mush, stretched with rice.
LOL! Your typical out-of-touch LIB nitwit CEO.
Hahahahahahaha!
It is always good entertainment to watch WOKE LIB nitwits fail!
They intend to INDOCTRINATE the
masses with the LGBTQ+ agendas
They don’t care
SaxxonWoods got it correct the other day
They get into these high-level
positions and then they begin
doing the work of their true
father (John 8:44) ...
That Old Serpent 🐍
Called the Devil and Satan
There is a very simple solution, honest at a LOCAL restaurant. We do.
A CEO has only one job; increase shareholder wealth.
Eat at a local restaurant! Stop changing my sentences!!
Ummm...ok?
Take the bacon from the night before, cut it up and use it on salads. No waste that way.
With restaurants, it's all about controlling costs. Regardless of how well a restaurant is liked, controlling costs and shrinkage/waste is big.
You don't do that by rebranding the company in a way that drives away the customers.
Could Blackrock & Vanguard have an anti-trust problem if someone decided to pursue it?
Blackrock’s CEO,, Fink is the new head of WEF and apparently recently said there should be no more single family home ownership. i.e. “you will have nothing because I own it all.” Of course he’s exempting himself from living in a Chinese style high rise.
“A CEO has only one job; increase shareholder wealth.”
Nope. Such statements are made by people who have never been a CEO.
Most all chain restaurants that use real food and try to sell it at affordable prices are struggling because of inflation. Junk fast food is where the profit is at now.
Yup—We know who her boss is.
Masino! Keep your hooves off of my Waffle House. Stay in your lane.
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