Top Investor Tried to Warn Cracker Barrell That Their Abandoning of Tradition in Favor of "The Modern Audience" Was "Folly"

I don't know much about Cracker Barrel. From what I gather, we're watching another corporation with a defined customer base deciding to abandon and spurn that dedicated customer base in pursuit of a newer, different, more diverse customer base.

This has been tried, and tried, and tried, and tried some more, and it fails every time.

Once the "old" customer base figures out that the corporation considers them Undesirable and Deplorable, and would rather go bankrupt than take their dirty traditionalist money, that corporation goes into a death spiral. They can't admit they were wrong, and even if they did, they'd have to admit that their error consisted of disrespecting and disliking the "old" customer base.

Cracker Barrel, I think, had a brand based around comfort food served in a friendly, kitschy style, with the walls covered with tchotchkies suggesting a country/farm-life vibe.

The New and Improved Cracker Barrel looks like the cafeteria at a hospital:

The old logo was indeed a throwback, hearkening back to the days when a corporate logo was actually a logo and not just a word or two in a "modern" font.

Cracker Barrel's top investor warned the Woke AWFL DEI CEO that she was throwing the brand away to make it yet another charmless uniculture/Marxist anti-culture gray wasteland, but the Woke AWFL DIE CEO decided to be the GirlBoss and tell him to pound sand.

Cracker Barrel's CEO dismissed warnings from a top investor who called the rebranding 'obvious folly'

Julie Felss Masino and board ignored Sardar Biglari's criticism of $700M transformation plan calling it 'obvious folly'

Cracker Barrel's rebrand sparks outrage as company's stock plunges

Cracker Barrel's slide into a rebranding debacle began with a phone call at 4:30 p.m. on May 16, 2024.
That day, Cracker Barrel's new CEO, Julie Felss Masino, got on the phone with investors and unveiled the details of a "strategic transformation plan" her board of directors had approved. The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."
Over the next months, Masino and her board of directors dismissed at least four warnings by a top investor, Sardar Biglari, that the rebranding was "obvious folly," filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal.
"Cracker Barrel is not a broken brand but it has a broken board," he wrote, in a scathing seven-page letter to shareholders.
He laid out his criticisms in a 120-page slide-deck presentation with the title, "CRACKER BARREL IS IN CRISIS," next to the company's longtime logo of an old man in overalls leaning on a barrel -- a logo that Masino would wipe out, unbeknownst to Biglari at the time.
While the dynamics of company executives pursuing politically correct, woke rebranding are now well-documented, a timeline of the last year-and-a-half behind-the-scenes at Cracker Barrel reveals a classic case of corporate myopia, ignoring caution and barreling forward with rigidity.
On the call in May 2024, Masino announced she'd hired a new "leading" branding agency to "refine and strengthen positioning to delight existing and new guests." The other pillars included "enhancing the menu," "evolving the store and guest experience," "winning in digital and off-premise" and "elevating the employee experience."
Biglari, a San Antonio, Texas, venture capitalist sometimes nicknamed "Big," didn't buy the corporate gobbledygook.

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Other investors also didn't react well to the news, the company's share price falling the next day to $48.98.
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A series of Cracker Barrel boards and senior executives dismissed him as a wayward "activist investor" with a suspect "ultimate agenda," and his criticism last year fell on deaf ears. Biglari has earned a reputation as a "bully" and "evil genius" with a "Type X" personality, driven by money. Early into his investment in Cracker Barrel, he created a website for his critiques: enhancecrackerbarrel.com. Cracker Barrel responded on a webpage devoted to investors.
The CEO and the board barreled ahead, hiring a new chief marketing officer, Sarah Moore, in July 2024 from MGM Resorts International, doubling down on expensive store remodelings and "refreshes."
Its 2024 annual report, released last September, included a "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion" section, featuring its seven "Business Resource Groups" for promoting "diverse members," Black leaders, "Hispanic and Latino culture," "LGBTQ+ Awareness," military veterans and women leaders.
Hauntingly, in the report, executives warned that "failure to achieve or sustain" its "strategic transformation plan" with the rebranding "could adversely affect our results." They also noted, "Unfavorable publicity could harm our business," as could "activist shareholders," like Biglari.
By Oct. 8, 2024, Biglari had had enough. In his blistering seven-page letter to shareholders, he warned them about the board's "obvious folly," greenlighting Masino and "her new transformation plan." He criticized the board's alleged dysfunction and mismanagement.
"Cracker Barrel is in perilous times," he wrote.
He laid out stark numbers. In 2011, Cracker Barrel reported $167 million in operating income on revenues of $2.4 billion. By 2023, after $1.4 billion in cumulative capital expenditures, operating income had fallen to $121 million, even as revenues climbed past $3.4 billion.
"...the problem lies not in the seating but in getting more people to sit in it," he warned, continuing, "We do not believe changing the furniture and altering the décor are going to change the Company's trajectory or solve the Company's underlying problem of declining traffic."
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After the CEO and board ignored his October 2024 warnings, Biglari responded with an even sharper two-page critique on Nov. 13, 2024. "If you had $100 in Cracker Barrel stock in January 2019, five years later it is worth about $30. Therefore, there is just $30 to go before the entire investment is lost," he wrote.
Instead of correcting the company's course, he alleged, board members circled the wagons around the management team. "They value collegiality over accountability," he wrote.
He described the "transformation" as a "mistake" of misguided executives falling into a "textbook trap of overspending on cosmetic remodeling."
He noted, a bit humorously, "The day Cracker Barrel opened," in 1969, "it was already old -- its theme derived from the 1920s. I am concerned that not only will the remodel not work but it could actually damage the brand further."

Cracker Barrel employee CONFIRMS their business is way down because of their woke CEO destroying their heritage

She says normally employees have at least 9 tables each, they are down to JUST 2, “So, as y'all can see, I work at Cracker Barrel as a waitress, and we're struggling”… pic.twitter.com/ZuQ7xZkiza
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) August 26, 2025

You cannot separate what has happened with Cracker Barrel from its efforts to curry favor with LGBTQ activists. In the 90s, the company was known for family values, famously requiring its staff to display "normal heterosexual values."

It would later take a hard turn from this,… pic.twitter.com/iSJltwTmRN
— Megan Basham (@megbasham) August 26, 2025

Here’s a 1 minute recap of the all ages Nashville Pride event that @CrackerBarrel sponsored. There were little kids at this event.

Cracker Barrel is screwed if they don’t reverse course EXTREMELY quickly.

Does this seem like something their customers want to be sponsoring? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/iFmwE9Vs98
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 26, 2025

The Woke CEO, who wears Progressive Politics Signalling Mega-Glasses and looks like a Queefier Marie Harf, says the "overwhelming majority" of people "appreciate" their hard-gay rebranding, implying that it's only a tiny minority of angry noise-makers who don't like it.

They tried this with Marvel, Star Wars, and Bud Light, too.

"Tiny minorities" don't cause brands to lose $121 million.

Customer’s Hate It: Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino says people love their new rebrand. Comments on X say otherwise! She’s taken a beloved Americana Brand and trashed it with DEI Wokism. Masino promised to “identify, recruit, and advance” hires by race and now the company… pic.twitter.com/LYy6kwW3ur
— John Cremeans (@JohnCremeansX) August 21, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:12 PM

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1 Of course he did.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2025 02:13 PM (u73oe)

2 Called em.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2025 02:13 PM (u73oe)

3 Cast off the white dudes over 50.

They don't know anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

4 Needs more trannies dildoing themselves....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 26, 2025 02:14 PM (jvJvP)

5 Keep your Dildos off my Grits!

Posted by: RODNEY at August 26, 2025 02:15 PM (aExPs)

6 remember "when e f hutton talks everyone listens"? i do, i worked there at one time, no idea what their new slogan was

Posted by: gnats local678 at August 26, 2025 02:16 PM (CWTWj)

7 I bet he was white and male, and so, therefore, not part of the future.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 26, 2025 02:16 PM (N1tpc)

8 What the dining public needed was mediocre meals in small portions served in a sterile storage facility.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 26, 2025 02:16 PM (rbvCR)

9 7 I bet he was white and male, and so, therefore, not part of the future.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 26, 2025 02:16 PM (N1tpc)

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The worst kind.

An admitted Trump supporter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:17 PM (GBKbO)

10 What the heck is "winning in digital and off-premise"?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 26, 2025 02:17 PM (63Dwl)

11 remember "it's not your father's oldsmobile"? my father had three of them and i liked them a lot

Posted by: gnats local678 at August 26, 2025 02:17 PM (CWTWj)

12 He laid out his criticisms in a 120-page slide-deck presentation

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WTAF????

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 26, 2025 02:17 PM (PzXaK)

13 It isn’t folly if the right short positions on the stock are in place is it?

Seems to be a recurring theme actually. Maybe this isn’t what’s going on. If only there were a federal commission, to look at exchange and securities jiggery-pokery though. Pity.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2025 02:18 PM (1cMxB)

14 Their biggest problem was in cutting food costs so much that the quality declined and people stopped eating there. Probably should’ve fixed that instead of rebranding.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2025 02:18 PM (u73oe)

15 Big seems like a sharp guy

sadly, even simple competence is too high a bar for today's executives and marketing/advertising agencies

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 02:18 PM (Pv3Rg)

16 Who knew?

Posted by: NASCAR at August 26, 2025 02:19 PM (wVcYX)

17 like a lot of dining concerns they seemed to have too many stores

cutting some loose and working to improve food quality and service would have been a better path forward

sometimes you just have to retrench a little

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 02:19 PM (Pv3Rg)

18 The 'new' Barrel looks like Dennys.

If I want Dennys, I'll go to Dennys.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 02:19 PM (mP0Kj)

19 Cracker Barrel be fuckeded. Yes, they had a "defined customer base," but that base was older and aging out. The allure of an "old country store" is all but poison to the younger generations.

CB also doesn't serve booze. That's not a concern for breakfast customers, but for a big portion of the dinner crowd (and again, especially younger customers) that's a deal-breaker. Plus, restaurants make a lot of money on booze.

CB was in deep shit before the rebrand. The rebrand was pure desperation. I suspect it's a dead cat bounce to try to lure in some loans/investment to keep the titanic afloat for a few more years -- and keep the fat executive salaries being paid -- as well as funnel money to marketing and other firms for nice kickbacks and because your cousin owns it.

CB is a carcass and the vultures are feeding.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

20 Ace...you nailed it.

"Charmless"

The perfect word for the world we now inhabit.

Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 02:20 PM (fV+MH)

21 The CEOs background was in fast food, Taco Bell and Starbucks. Who thought she could run a chain of full service restaurants?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2025 02:21 PM (u73oe)

22 What the heck is "winning in digital and off-premise"?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 26, 2025 02:17 PM (63Dwl)
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Online orders and deliveries?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

23 If you choose someone who looks like that to lead you into battle...you better hope your opponents aren't very formidable.

Posted by: Crusader at August 26, 2025 02:21 PM (TN0g+)

24 The new Cracker Barrel strategy seems to be, "If you have a niche, scratch it!"

Posted by: muldoon at August 26, 2025 02:21 PM (/iMjX)

25 It's not 'just' a remodel, rebranding or looking for a different clientele.

It's the wanton destruction of a symbol for a select demographic that's been demonized by the left for decades; southern, white nominally conservative.

Loyal patrons have dismissed the bitching about the food quality, the decor, the whole experience. They're pissed off because some leftist with an ax to grind has decided to take their establishment then like just the way it is and neuter it.

This is typical of the left. Fix a target. Demonize it. Take it over and remake it in their own image.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 02:21 PM (Q4IgG)

26
MBAs, marketing fags, DEI and girlbosses are death to businesses.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 26, 2025 02:22 PM (kkTda)

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28 >>Cracker Barrel be fuckeded. Yes, they had a "defined customer base," but that base was older and aging out. The allure of an "old country store" is all but poison to the younger generations.

It didn't help that they basically served Cafeteria Food at Restaurant Pricing.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2025 02:22 PM (Z1dZR)

29 Telling a woman she's wrong is misogynistic under any circumstance.
-DEI handbook

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 26, 2025 02:22 PM (Dv3i1)

30 Even before all of this, there wasn't any particular draw for me to go to Cracker Barrel. Take it or leave it...I could probably be persuaded to go but it wasn't something I'd actively seek out.

Now there are many reasons for me NOT to go and I would actively avoid it.

That isn't a good thing to have in an existing or prospective customer base.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 26, 2025 02:22 PM (PzXaK)

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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

32
CB also doesn't serve booze. That's not a concern for breakfast customers, but for a big portion of the dinner crowd (and again, especially younger customers) that's a deal-breaker.

I thought young people weren't drinking much these days?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 26, 2025 02:23 PM (63Dwl)

33 CB is a carcass and the vultures are feeding.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

The carcass is being poorly prepared and is tonight's dinner special.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 26, 2025 02:23 PM (jvJvP)

34 Telling a woman she's wrong is misogynistic under any circumstance.
-DEI handbook
Posted by: Chuck Martel

The biggest misogynist I know is my wife.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

35 remember "it's not your father's oldsmobile"? my father had three of them and i liked them a lot
Posted by: gnats local678 at August 26, 2025 02:17 PM (CWTWj)

And look at how well that brand is doing now!...

... oh.

(Hilariously, at the time it was shut down, it was the oldest surviving motor vehicle brand. Ooops!)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 26, 2025 02:23 PM (N1tpc)

36 Fix the food. Save the business.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2025 02:23 PM (wVcYX)

37 This is typical of the left. Fix a target. Demonize it. Take it over and remake it in their own image.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 02:21 PM (Q4IgG)
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Not once in the entire history of the world has this led to a better customer experience overall.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2025 02:24 PM (7fElN)

38 36 Fix the food. Save the business.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2025 02:23 PM (wVcYX)

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"But that's not flashy. I want something flashy. Blingy. I need to show off."
-the CEO

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)

39 Actually, Ace, I don't think I've ever been in a hospital cafeteria that had do- dads on the walls, but the CEO is a stupid leftist and deserves to be fired. Cracker Barrel looked much more interesting before. And if the older folks in a church booth at a 4-H/ agricultural fair In NJ were talking about this ( and they were, and it wasn't even the booth I was sitting at) this decision to destroy the unique character has a whole lot of people upset, and I haven't eaten at Cracker Barrel in many years - just because I'd have to travel about 40 minutes to get there- and no, I won't go back.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2025 02:24 PM (2GCMq)

40 I bet he was white and male, and so, therefore, not part of the future.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Dude was born in Iran, and his family fled the revolution. Which adds to the irony.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 26, 2025 02:24 PM (XvL8K)

41 no I disagree Elric they are not a "dead" concept at all. especially not now! Millies are having families right now.

they should YES have gone to a Third Watch type breakfast thru lunch (6am-4pm) thing. I think that would have done better.

families around me still went there for brunch/breakfast - that was their niche here.

OTHER locations (like off interstates) it was different. so they could have maybe split into "brunch experiences" and full breakfast/lunch/dinner ones at the interstate stops.

lots of options to keep it going sensibly. this is just off the top of my head and Im a design/storyboarding type CD not a copywriter/branding one - they'd have way better ideas.

be curious to see the breakdown of where they were failing the worst and doing the best ...

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 02:24 PM (Pv3Rg)

42 The new Cracker Barrel is what Hell would look like if Martha Stewart designed it.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 26, 2025 02:24 PM (08omt)

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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 26, 2025 02:24 PM (kkTda)

44 Raaaaaa

Posted by: The Slow Newsday Mugato at August 26, 2025 02:25 PM (jc0TO)

45 The closest I’ve ever been to a Cracker Barrel was Po’ Folks and the last one of those around here closed thirty years ago.

They have a Cracker Barrel near me, but I’ve never wanted to try. I’ve heard the food isn’t that great, and if I wanted southern food it’s all around me.

I think they changed decor just to save some cash.
It’s gotta be expensive buying all of those Americana antiques, signs, and knick-knacks to fill the walls up on every location.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 02:25 PM (6ydKt)

46 Dude was born in Iran, and his family fled the revolution. Which adds to the irony.

oh that's cool

I like him even more now

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 02:25 PM (Pv3Rg)

47 The menu at Cracker Barrel could have been "Gordon Ramsey'd" and that would have helped--perhaps a few less items and a smidge more spice/taste. Have a low end and some upper end items and sustainable pricing.

The tranny angle was pure stupidity. She should have been canned the moment that occurred.

Cracker Barrel was never right for alcohol sales--that would have been off-brand for them.

Posted by: Crusader at August 26, 2025 02:25 PM (TN0g+)

48
The biggest misogynist I know is my wife.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate each other.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 26, 2025 02:26 PM (kkTda)

49 Cracker Barrel be fuckeded. Yes, they had a "defined customer base," but that base was older and aging out. The allure of an "old country store" is all but poison to the younger generations.

CB also doesn't serve booze. That's not a concern for breakfast customers, but for a big portion of the dinner crowd (and again, especially younger customers) that's a deal-breaker. Plus, restaurants make a lot of money on booze.

CB was in deep shit before the rebrand. The rebrand was pure desperation. I suspect it's a dead cat bounce to try to lure in some loans/investment to keep the titanic afloat for a few more years -- and keep the fat executive salaries being paid -- as well as funnel money to marketing and other firms for nice kickbacks and because your cousin owns it.

CB is a carcass and the vultures are feeding.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

The younger generation drinks far less than the previous generations.

Food for thought.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 26, 2025 02:26 PM (N1tpc)

50 In fairness, that pic of the remodeled interior may just be a demo. There are pics online of actual remodeled stores, and they are much nicer. Sorta like the old CB but sleeker and less cluttered.

I've only been to CB once in my life (it was OK but nothing special), but it appears from online photos that there is quite a bit of decor variation from store to store.

It's not a franchise with very strict design elements.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

51 That "new" decor is right out of any motel's Free Breakfast area. Depressing. Progressives cannot create, only copy and/or destroy.

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 26, 2025 02:26 PM (2sMLA)

52 Snot noses in my outfit are changing industry standards because. "It's two different things says I", "We want consistancy", "But its two different things". Backcharges are imminent.

Posted by: Sports Illustrated PR team at August 26, 2025 02:26 PM (s9EN2)

53 Where do corporations find the incompetents to fill their boards? I understand the Peter Principle, and I've read Parkinson's Law, but nowadays things seem to have gone far beyond older analyses. Who was it who opined that the best way to understand was to assume it was run by a cabal of its enemies.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 26, 2025 02:26 PM (s0JqF)

54 The Democrat Party just PASSED a resolution that condemns President Trump's historic first 6 months.

I expect that Trump with his media team will issue a thing saying everything he has done.in six months.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2025 02:26 PM (2GCMq)

55 I went to CB once and had a grilled cheese and tomato soup.

It was pretty gross to be honest.

Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 02:27 PM (fV+MH)

56 1. Destroy the brand
2. Gaslight the customers
3. ???
4. Profit!

Posted by: Shit products + poor wages * DEI = C suite bonus! at August 26, 2025 02:27 PM (TbWk/)

57 Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

Industry is in decline... still WAY down from pre Covid, due to higher prices. Stated income 'increases' are not even close to inflation.

I used to eat out a couple times a week... now if I get anything out of the house, its fast food.

Add in Delivery... and sit down restaurants dare dying.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 02:27 PM (mP0Kj)

58 Here�s a 1 minute recap of the all ages Nashville Pride event that @CrackerBarrel sponsored. There were little kids at this event.

Its funny, there is a cohort of women who will argue that dressing like a slutty nurse is offensive even just with their husband at home...but a guy dressing like a slutty nurse at a "pride" event is just wholesome all ages entertainment

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 02:27 PM (sKqQm)

59 Karens can only destroy. They cant build. Hire your CEO carefully.

Posted by: Simple advice at August 26, 2025 02:27 PM (uag/E)

60 "Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate each other.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"

This is so great.

Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 02:28 PM (fV+MH)

61 I don't know what a touch point is, but if a woke Karen is involved, it can't be a good thing.

Posted by: Minuteman at August 26, 2025 02:28 PM (47/pr)

62 Industry is in decline... still WAY down from pre Covid, due to higher prices. Stated income 'increases' are not even close to inflation.

I work with a bunch of leftists that were happy to get a 4% raising during Biden hyperflation but are now mad at getting 3% under Trump's 2% or so inflation rate...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 02:28 PM (sKqQm)

63 54 The Democrat Party just PASSED a resolution that condemns President Trump's historic first 6 months.

I expect that Trump with his media team will issue a thing saying everything he has done.in six months.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2025 02:26 PM (2GCMq)

Loved Gov. DeSantis quip that he had a secret Governator Cheat Code...

All he had to do was do the opposite of California...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 02:28 PM (mP0Kj)

64 "...looks like a Queefier Marie Harf,"

Instant classic Ace!

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 26, 2025 02:28 PM (144I4)

65 10 What the heck is "winning in digital and off-premise

I am not sure what they were going with, but this would normally mean they would be harnessing technology to grow brand, recognition and sales, but also would mean their technology infrastructure would be scalable to business growth (pos systems, accounting, sales, etc) and secure. Off premise would normally refer to something like data storage - owning it or using an Amazon system where you don’t own it and limit financial investment.

Posted by: Piper at August 26, 2025 02:28 PM (p4NUW)

66 "Queefier Marie Harf..."

Good heavens, Ace. That's one of the brutal descriptives I've heard from you in years--and that's saying a lot. Completely warranted, but man that's harsh.

Posted by: T-Lo at August 26, 2025 02:28 PM (gIVSr)

67 This is just so...Star Wars.

Disney acquires the brand.

Disney wants to expand the appeal of the brand to a new audience.

Hence it rejects the thing that made the brand popular, and adds things they think will make the new audience like them

The old audience leaves - Disney makes excuses and insults them out the door.

The new audience never shows up.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 26, 2025 02:29 PM (D1vbu)

68 >>I used to eat out a couple times a week... now if I get anything out of the house, its fast food.

As a single man who does the whole IF thing, I have found the cost is essentially the same for dining out or preparing food at home.

I have found that higher quality food from local eateries costs roughly the same as Fast Food these days. Or, at least close enough that it is patently insane to eat FF of any kind, these days.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2025 02:29 PM (Z1dZR)

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Posted by: WisRich at August 26, 2025 02:29 PM (G0vdT)

70 65 10 What the heck is "winning in digital and off-premise

online orders

and "popups," or appearances/partnerships at larger venues and events

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 02:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

71 65 10 What the heck is "winning in digital and off-premise

Retarded corpo-speak

Posted by: Like all corpo jargon at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (TbWk/)

72 57 Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

Industry is in decline... still WAY down from pre Covid, due to higher prices. Stated income 'increases' are not even close to inflation.

I used to eat out a couple times a week... now if I get anything out of the house, its fast food.

Add in Delivery... and sit down restaurants dare dying.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 02:27 PM (mP0Kj)

This. When it's all said and done 1/3 of precoid restaurants will be closed minimum. And if your menu can't be shoved into a box and shipped via door dash you won't make it.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (OA79/)

73 I fully expect to be in Martha Stewart purgatory in the next life.

Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (fV+MH)

74 CB also doesn't serve booze. That's not a concern for breakfast customers, but for a big portion of the dinner crowd (and again, especially younger customers) that's a deal-breaker. Plus, restaurants make a lot of money on booze.

CB was in deep shit before the rebrand. The rebrand was pure desperation. I suspect it's a dead cat bounce to try to lure in some loans/investment to keep the titanic afloat for a few more years -- and keep the fat executive salaries being paid -- as well as funnel money to marketing and other firms for nice kickbacks and because your cousin owns it.

CB is a carcass and the vultures are feeding.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

The younger generation drinks far less than the previous generations.

Food for thought.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 26, 2025 02:26 PM (N1tpc)
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The youngest generations, yes. Or so they say. I have my doubts. The 45+ demo is drinking more. Supposedly.

But regardless, a very high percentage of dinner customers wants at least wine or beer, and it's a big profit center. A restaurant that doesn't serve booze is at a very significant competitive disadvantage.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

75 I have found that higher quality food from local eateries costs roughly the same as Fast Food these days. Or, at least close enough that it is patently insane to eat FF of any kind, these days.

Getting dinner from McDs costs a bit more then getting a similiar meal at one of the local subshops.

You don't have to call ahead with McDs but the quality is also much lower

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (sKqQm)

76 The logo rebrand was just lazy.

I get they wanted to simplify and modernize the thing but it would have been easy to incorporate the Uncle character into the new logo, even if you’re just using a stylized closeup of his head within the background of the logo, similar to what KFC did with Colonel Sanders.

Bad ideas all around when you’re already losing customers.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (6ydKt)

77 I went to CB once and had a grilled cheese and tomato soup.

It was pretty gross to be honest.
Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 02:27 PM (fV+MH)

Why does anyone PAY for grilled cheese!??!

It's like $.25 to make but they charge you $10. At least get some meat!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (N1tpc)

78 69 Dems: We are very, very angry with you and we will write you a letter telling you how angry we are.
Posted by: WisRich at August 26, 2025 02:29 PM (G0vdT)

=======

I just want the party to implode when they fail to win the House in 2026.

It would entertain me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

79 Per the journalists: "Biglari has earned a reputation as a 'bully' and 'evil genius' with a 'Type X' personality, driven by money."

No idea what a Type X personality is supposed to bue. But, complaining that a *career investor* is "driven by money", is kind of like complaining that a doctor is "driven by medicine".

Of course, med school's have been DEI'd now, too...

Posted by: KLA at August 26, 2025 02:31 PM (R1Eqe)

80 1. Destroy the brand
2. Gaslight the customers
3. ???
4. Profit!
Posted by: Shit products + poor wages * DEI = C suite bonus! at August 26, 2025 02:27 PM (TbWk/)
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That's genius!

Posted by: Underpants Gnome Cartel at August 26, 2025 02:31 PM (7fElN)

81 Taylor Swift announces engagement to boyfriend Travis Kelce

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 02:31 PM (RHGPo)

82 Are there any chains at Cracker Barrel's price point that are doing well?

Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 02:31 PM (rJ48h)

83 The thing I've observed - this isa clear sign the CEO is a malignant narcissist. And that Cracker Barrell never appealed to HER. She's re-making it as she would like to see it. All the people who "love it" are her, and her alone.

Thing is, Cracker barrel had a well-known brand and identity. Changing it makes it...what? IHOP with a gift shop?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 26, 2025 02:31 PM (D1vbu)

84 Biglari has earned a reputation as a "bully" and "evil genius" with a "Type X" personality, driven by money. Early into his investment in Cracker Barrel, he created a website for his critiques:...

In other words he doesn't care about woke at all, just the bottom line. If woke made money he'd be for it.
They should listen to a guy like that if they're in business to make money.
That they don't says everything

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 26, 2025 02:31 PM (Hx0tZ)

85 But regardless, a very high percentage of dinner customers wants at least wine or beer, and it's a big profit center. A restaurant that doesn't serve booze is at a very significant competitive disadvantage.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

Standard model is to break even on the food and make the profit on the drinks.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 26, 2025 02:32 PM (PzXaK)

86 Why does anyone PAY for grilled cheese!??!

It's like $.25 to make but they charge you $10. At least get some meat!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (N1tpc)

As an adult meal? concur... but getting my kids to eat something from the menu so 'I' could eat out?

Winnah.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 02:32 PM (mP0Kj)

87 Hello, remember me?

Posted by: Black-eyed Pea Restaurants at August 26, 2025 02:32 PM (wVcYX)

88 83 The thing I've observed - this isa clear sign the CEO is a malignant narcissist. And that Cracker Barrell never appealed to HER. She's re-making it as she would like to see it. All the people who "love it" are her, and her alone.

solipsism

a common feminine foible

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 02:32 PM (Pv3Rg)

89 Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

Industry is in decline... still WAY down from pre Covid, due to higher prices. Stated income 'increases' are not even close to inflation.

I used to eat out a couple times a week... now if I get anything out of the house, its fast food.

Add in Delivery... and sit down restaurants dare dying.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 02:27 PM (mP0Kj)
____

I too used to eat out all the time, and for a while was going to all the fancy places. I was a "foodie" for a while. Then I sorta got bored with that. Then covid hit and ended it. By the time the places opened up, I had lost all interest.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

90 Her only goal is to kill the company, making some big bucks while doing it is just gravy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 02:32 PM (0U5gm)

91 It will all be worth it if instead of rooster and hen salt and pepper shakers I can get His and His placemats.

Posted by: Remarkably Unremarkable at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (Jw2qQ)

92
"But that's not flashy. I want something flashy. Blingy. I need to show off."
-the CEO

"If I can sodomize the redneck rural cousin-humpers at the same time, I call that a win."

-also the CEO

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (y9nCu)

93 He laid out his criticisms in a 120-page slide-deck presentation
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So he's read a movie review.

Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (2bFN5)

94 So speaking of the old logo, what's up with the shape that's around "Cracker Barrel". Is that a bean? Kidney? Peanut? Fetus laying on it's back? What is it?

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (144I4)

95 The CEO is being told by butt kissers that everything is wonderful. For years feminists complained about incompetent male CEOs being propped up by yes men. So great ladies you're just as stupid!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (rRoxM)

96 Are there any chains at Cracker Barrel's price point that are doing well?
Posted by: mr tmz
_______

Bob Evans?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (XvL8K)

97
I work with a bunch of leftists that were happy to get a 4% raising during Biden hyperflation but are now mad at getting 3% under Trump's 2% or so inflation rate...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 02:28 PM (sKqQm

Gonna be a long time before post covid$19.99 per pound rib eyes feels like the $8.99 a pound precovid rib eye.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (OA79/)

98 you go to restaurants like this bc you're with the fam or in a larger group at a youth sports tournament

which is, in fact, a lot of people esp Millies right now

you can cheaply eat there for breakfast before the hockey games start

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (Pv3Rg)

99 Seems to be a recurring theme actually. Maybe this isn’t what’s going on. If only there were a federal commission, to look at exchange and securities jiggery-pokery though. Pity.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2025 02:18 PM (1cMxB)\

Hey, Elizabeth will get to it, she just has to file some futures contracts and she will be good to go

Posted by: Kindltot at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (rbvCR)

100 I mentioned this before, but the very worst thing that one can do is to make people associate deviant sexual practices with the serving of food.

This isn't an oversight, it is malfeasance.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (0U5gm)

101 I used to eat out a couple times a week... now if I get anything out of the house, its fast food.

Add in Delivery... and sit down restaurants dare dying.
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Food quality and service has noticably declined in the last 5 years.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (Dv3i1)

102 Choice 1: Pay $X and spend 30 minutes making food at home, and 15 minutes cleaning up

Choice 2: Pay $5X and spend 30 minutes driving to a restaurant, 30 minutes waiting for my food, and 30 minutes driving home but with no clean up

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (sKqQm)

103 Winnah.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 02:32 PM (mP0Kj)

Heh.

"Sure, we got four microwaved dino shaped chicken nuggets. That's $16."

"What?!"

"It'll make your kid shut up for a couple minutes. "

"Take my money. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (06Hmj)

104 "The Woke CEO, who wears Progressive Politics Signalling Mega-Glasses and looks like a Queefier Marie Harf,". - ace

She looks like Dana Carvey as Garth.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (2J/Lj)

105 The Denny's in Monterey, California had a bar.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

106 93 So he's read a movie review.
Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (2bFN5)

=======

Have you read Mark's 16 page review of Ronin?

https://is.gd/ZRAJit

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)

107 The thing I've observed - this isa clear sign the CEO is a malignant narcissist. And that Cracker Barrell never appealed to HER. She's re-making it as she would like to see it. All the people who "love it" are her, and her alone.

In other words the typical modern American AWFL.

Posted by: It only matters if I like it! at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (TbWk/)

108 My late wife and i went to CB occasionally if we happened to be near one - they're not very close by. They've been dead to me since they ran a "pride" themed ad. i hope they lose everything.

Posted by: DenverGregg at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (/l6IL)

109 96 Are there any chains at Cracker Barrel's price point that are doing well?
Posted by: mr tmz
_______

Bob Evans?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (XvL8K)

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Good question - I was in one a few months back and it was me and another two tables, on a Friday night. Only one waiter for the entire place.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 26, 2025 02:35 PM (PzXaK)

110 The youngest generations, yes. Or so they say. I have my doubts. The 45+ demo is drinking more. Supposedly.
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Wait until they get older. They will make up for lost time....

Posted by: Simple advice at August 26, 2025 02:35 PM (uag/E)

111 50
It's not a franchise with very strict design elements.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August

This is because all those things hanging were actual antiques, so no 2 stores would be alike.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but this is a restaurant environment. All of those things on the walls would be…gross. There could have been a way to update, which is something all restaurants do, but not quite so dramatically. Maybe keep the majority of the stuff on the walls, but behind shadow boxes, and not in such a sterile and linear way as the model invokes (and is frankly lazy design). The exterior upgrades to the restaurant is probably the more egregious part- that looks exactly like the exterior of Chipotle and Starbucks. They could have refreshed and modernized in a far more subtle way, to include the logo, but leave the country store vibe going. With the money saved, they could have focused on back to basics menu with quality improvements.

Posted by: Piper at August 26, 2025 02:35 PM (p4NUW)

112 But regardless, a very high percentage of dinner customers wants at least wine or beer, and it's a big profit center. A restaurant that doesn't serve booze is at a very significant competitive disadvantage.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

Standard model is to break even on the food and make the profit on the drinks.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 26, 2025 02:32 PM (PzXaK)
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Correct. Plus, the more food you serve, the more drinks you drink. That's why bars serve small plates. They are not making any money on the plates, and are probably losing it. But having food keeps people there longer, and drinking more. The profit margins on booze are insane.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:35 PM (iFTx/)

113 It didn't help that they basically served Cafeteria Food at Restaurant Pricing.
Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2025 02:22 PM

I like institutional food. I never complained about the lasagna made with cheddar cheese and the mysterious red grease we had in school.

Posted by: toby928 at August 26, 2025 02:35 PM (jc0TO)

114
The new Cracker Barrel decor looks like it was designed for some weird "Mommy" and "Cleanliness" Obsessed S&M Haunt where you can pick your own paddle off the wall for "Mommy" to spank you with.

Oh...and you get a PB&J with a glass of milk afterwards.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 02:35 PM (iJfKG)

115 Are there any chains at Cracker Barrel's price point that are doing well?
Posted by: mr tmz

Chilis near me is always busy and the food is ok.

Got the death flu there once though...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 02:35 PM (sKqQm)

116 they turned Cracker Barrel into Crate and Barrel

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at August 26, 2025 02:35 PM (V6W16)

117 55 I went to CB once and had a grilled cheese and tomato soup.

It was pretty gross to be honest.
Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 02:27 PM (fV+MH)

Which is saying something because I don’t know how you screw up tomato soup and grilled cheese and less you’re trying really hard.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 02:36 PM (6ydKt)

118 Cracker Barrel was never right for alcohol sales--that would have been off-brand for them.
Posted by: Crusader

Um, Hello!!!

Posted by: Moonshine at August 26, 2025 02:36 PM (w9Wax)

119 It would entertain me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE WATCHING OLD RIDLEY SCOTT MOVIES, LIKE THE GLADIATOR AND, IN PARTICULAR, ONE OTHER, ENTERTAINS HIM, TOO!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at August 26, 2025 02:37 PM (0sNs1)

120 If you want to see cluttered decor, go to the Mangy Moose restaurant in Teton Village. That's the whole schtick. It works! I eat there every time I'm in the Jackson Hole.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

121 CB also doesn't serve booze. That's not a concern for breakfast customers,

************

This Isn't The America I Grew Up In - a limerick

Dear Lord, preserve us and protect us
We've arrived at a cultural nexus
I doon't want to live no more
If there's a restaurant or a store
Where I can't order whiskey with breakfast

Posted by: muldoon at August 26, 2025 02:37 PM (/iMjX)

122 Choice 2: Pay $5X and spend 30 minutes driving to a restaurant, 30 minutes waiting for my food, and 30 minutes driving home but with no clean up
Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (sKqQm)

And have a handy excuse to do nothing for an hour and a half and take your mind off the cavalcade of unceasing quotidian bullshit that has to be waded through.

Not great for three meals a day. But perfect on a Holy Shit It's Only Wednesday.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 02:37 PM (06Hmj)

123 Why does anyone PAY for grilled cheese!??!

It's like $.25 to make but they charge you $10. At least get some meat!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Let's talk about onion rings. Probably less than a nickel's worth of onion and breading in a serving. I have made them at home, though. The cost is in the labor. I now gladly pay for someone to make them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 02:37 PM (0U5gm)

124
Julie Felss Masino and Sarah Moore are no doubt busy sissoring and giggling over their sick burn over the male capitalists.

Posted by: Auspex at August 26, 2025 02:37 PM (Y8DZL)

125

Hire Rachel Genteel and announce the restaurant is now known as "CRAZY-ASS CRACKER BARREl" or for pride month "CRAZY ASS-CRACKER Barrel!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2025 02:38 PM (x0n13)

126 76 The logo rebrand was just lazy.

I get they wanted to simplify and modernize the thing but it would have been easy to incorporate the Uncle character into the new logo, even if you’re just using a stylized closeup of his head within the background of the logo, similar to what KFC did with Colonel Sanders.

Bad ideas all around when you’re already losing customers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (6ydKt)

In her mind that guy on the logo is her crazy maga spouting uncle at Thanksgiving. He had to go.

She should show real balls and put rupaul on the barrel singing show tunes.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 02:38 PM (OA79/)

127 Which is saying something because I don’t know how you screw up tomato soup and grilled cheese and less you’re trying really hard.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Greasey grilled cheeze wiz on stale white bread and canned soup devoid of tomato taste would do it.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 02:38 PM (ctrM5)

128 And have a handy excuse to do nothing for an hour and a half and take your mind off the cavalcade of unceasing quotidian bullshit that has to be waded through.

I've got a bunch of hobbies I could spent basically all the time in the world on so that's not a problem for me...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 02:39 PM (sKqQm)

129 "strategic transformation plan" her board of directors had approved. The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."
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The mating dance of corporate jargon by the CEO. Let me know when those pillars and touchpoints equal more profits.

Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 02:39 PM (2bFN5)

130 I have been in Cracker Barrel’s, but it’s been a long time. I tend to avoid most chains for food, you can only eat so much Sysco stuff.

Posted by: Piper at August 26, 2025 02:39 PM (p4NUW)

131 I have found that higher quality food from local eateries costs roughly the same as Fast Food these days. Or, at least close enough that it is patently insane to eat FF of any kind, these days.

Getting dinner from McDs costs a bit more then getting a similiar meal at one of the local subshops.

You don't have to call ahead with McDs but the quality is also much lower
Posted by: 18-1

Inflation like we've had causes costs to compress. When employee wages go up, and transportation costs go up, and energy costs go up, that's the same dollar increase whether you're shipping and cooking and serving a ton of dry-aged wagyu filet or a ton of Mac-n-Don's extruded beef-like patties. You can only cut so much cost out of the actual product.

Posted by: mikeski at August 26, 2025 02:39 PM (DgGvY)

132 That dummy should have spent some of the money to get rhinoplasty.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 02:39 PM (NtVYv)

133 I miss Rainforest Cafe. That was a fun place to go with my son when he was little.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

134 CB also doesn't serve booze.

Too bad there wasn’t any way to introduce booze and to keep the kitschy old-school vibe. Sadly, kids aren’t into vintage drinks these days. Nobody gets an old-fashioned nowadays.

Do I need /sarc? (Interestingly, like Cracker Barrell, the old-fashioned was old when it was born.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 26, 2025 02:39 PM (EXyHK)

135
I wonder if Top Investor dumped his shares before the New! Improved! CB! rollout.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 26, 2025 02:39 PM (cPNCv)

136 That explains why the Steak N Shake X account has been dogging Cracker Barrel. Biglari is a major shareholder if not out right majority shareholder of Steak N Shake. Those X posts have been pretty funny, and now it fits together. I wouldn't be surprised if he took over the X account just post about how dumb Cracker Barrel is.

Posted by: mishdog at August 26, 2025 02:39 PM (GmQA7)

137
OUT: Cracker Barrel
IN: Cracked Barrel

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 26, 2025 02:40 PM (wtvvX)

138 "I like institutional food. I never complained about the lasagna made with cheddar cheese and the mysterious red grease we had in school.
Posted by: toby928 "

I loved the little bit of salad with the greatest dressing ever.

Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 02:40 PM (fV+MH)

139 I've only eaten at Cracker Barrel a couple of times. For those who haven't eaten there, imagine standard country diner food, then corporatize it to make it bland and basic. That's Cracker Barrel food.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2025 02:40 PM (lIio7)

140 I fully expect to be in Martha Stewart purgatory in the next life.
Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (fV+MH)

About 25 years ago I bought a partial set of Martha Stewart dishes at a garage sale, and in the following 15 years managed to break all but one plate, and one cup.
The cup is in the cat food kibble bin for quick measuring, and I just broke the last plate yesterday.
The end of an era. I am fully invested in mis-matched Corelle.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 26, 2025 02:40 PM (rbvCR)

141 Have you read Mark's 16 page review of Ronin?

https://is.gd/ZRAJit
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)
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Not yet! Bookmarked for later!

Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 02:40 PM (2bFN5)

142 The damned MAGAs won't eat the food!

Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 26, 2025 02:40 PM (wVcYX)

143
Girls who wear "smart girl glasses" ... aren't.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 02:40 PM (xG4kz)

144 "I think they changed decor just to save some cash.
It’s gotta be expensive buying all of those Americana antiques, signs, and knick-knacks to fill the walls up on every location"

It's all mass produced junk. It's like what you find a bunch of other theme restaurants.

Posted by: Tollhouse at August 26, 2025 02:40 PM (BY3rW)

145 Thing is, Cracker barrel had a well-known brand and identity. Changing it makes it...what? IHOP with a gift shop?
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 26, 2025 02:31 PM (D1vbu)

Here in Central Calif, we had Cracker Barrel, Black Eye Pea, and Black Bear Dinner... who were essentially clones all going after the same diminishing market. All 'Country' Food, with Country aesthetics.... essentially Southern Country aimed at Whites and Blacks.

Prob here? That is a diminishing % of the population base... and the customer base that might support that demographic, aging native born Americans, can't afford to eat out due to living on fixed incomes after a bout of high inflation.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 02:41 PM (mP0Kj)

146 Cartoonist Steve Kelly on Cracker Barrel CEO:

https://tinyurl.com/ycxdzb65

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2025 02:41 PM (2GCMq)

147 If you called it a whisky mojito people would start ordering it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 02:41 PM (06Hmj)

148 E F Hutton
Founded 1904; 121 years ago (original firm);
1988 (acquired by Shearson Lehman Brothers to form Shearson Lehman Hutton);
2012 (revived as EF Hutton America, Inc.);
2021 (revived as EF Hutton, rebranding for Kingswood Capital Markets)
Founder Edward Francis Hutton
Fate 2012 (revived);
2019; 6 years ago (suspended operations);
2021 (revived as new name for Kingswood Capital Markets)

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 02:41 PM (RHGPo)

149 The biggest misogynist I know is my wife.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

Hubbymayhem and I were talking about this CEO this morning. I said, " put a woman in charge and she will fuck it up in neon every time" Hubbymayhem told me that the feminazis would beat me senseless if they heard me say that. I said good luck. I could use the exercise.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 26, 2025 02:41 PM (2J/Lj)

150 The new decor looks like they sent an intern to IKEA to grab some stuff

Posted by: Not quite as big balls at August 26, 2025 02:41 PM (LZYPJ)

151 Cracker Barrel is racist !

Posted by: Crackers everywhere Union #150 at August 26, 2025 02:41 PM (VE6XX)

152 I often wonder about these sorts of things whether the people at the top, like this hyphenated bitch, take these jobs because they hate traditional companies and deliberately want to tank them. It seems to fit a pattern, does it not?

And what the fuck does this CEO care? She's getting paid, even if the company crashes. She can walk away and say my work here is done.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 26, 2025 02:41 PM (MZ+PY)

153 141 Have you read Mark's 16 page review of Ronin?

https://is.gd/ZRAJit
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (GBKbO)
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Not yet! Bookmarked for later!
Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 02:40 PM (2bFN5)

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Spoiler:

He doesn't like it.

...

...

He loves it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

154 Girls who wear "smart girl glasses" ... aren't.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 02:40 PM (xG4kz)

Smart Girls get lasik.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (06Hmj)

155
I am fully invested in mis-matched Corelle.
Posted by: Kindltot

Borosilicate glass FTW!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (xG4kz)

156 Previous thread comment:

You know, if these lunatics want to have there TDS primal scream in private, great. Knock yourself out. Alas, they do it publicly too. It's all cosplaying revolutionary. Meh

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (sAmhv)

157 "new chief marketing officer, Sarah Moore"

I'm sensing a pattern here...

Posted by: Jay in PA at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (9mw3J)

158 That Old Cracker Barrel / Remodeled Cracker Barrel photo(s) is deceptive. If you look to the left in the remodeled photo, the store area (as shown in the first photo) is out there. Instead they are showing the dining area.

I'm all for chastising the woke nonsense...but do it honestly please.

Posted by: Orson at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (dIske)

159 wait. so, are you guys are saying that blockbuster video went out of business?

Posted by: guy whats' always behind the times at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (EFZgU)

160 What this town needs is a good $5 footlong.

Posted by: Jussie S. in Chicago at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (0sNs1)

161 I expect a flaming skull... Taylor Swift is engaged

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (VE6XX)

162 They should really go all-in and just rename the joint The Barrel.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (wtvvX)

163 Zerohedge has an image of the old guy in the logo replaced with President Trump.

Lol

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 26, 2025 02:43 PM (jvJvP)

164 The "top investor" (Sardar Biglari) has ulterior motives in saying what he's saying. He's positioning this for a takeover. The shareholder letter is SoP for that. He's a major player in other restaurant chains.

That doesn't mean he's wrong. He's right. But I suspect his motivation is not to get the company to fly right, but to take over the board and install his own people. Then probably sell it all off.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:43 PM (iFTx/)

165 Julie Felss Masino and Sarah Moore are no doubt busy sissoring and giggling over their sick burn over the male capitalists.
Posted by: Auspex
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And then the shareholder lawsuits started.

The DEI epoch is ending in lawsuits, incompetence, and massive destruction of corporate equity.

We are entering into a much colder business climate for upper class twits with no skills in management, finances, customer service, and marketing but a strong sense of victimhood.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 02:43 PM (ctrM5)

166 I like institutional food. I never complained about the lasagna made with cheddar cheese and the mysterious red grease we had in school.

Max Miller, on his Tasting History youtube channel, has covered a few of these dishes a school cafeteria cookbook put out by the government. Looks like cafeteria pizza and sloppy joes, from a search on “school” on his web site.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 26, 2025 02:43 PM (EXyHK)

167 165 And then the shareholder lawsuits started.

The DEI epoch is ending in lawsuits, incompetence, and massive destruction of corporate equity.

We are entering into a much colder business climate for upper class twits with no skills in management, finances, customer service, and marketing but a strong sense of victimhood.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 02:43 PM (ctrM5)

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I've been waiting for these shareholder lawsuits to start for more than a decade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

168 I cannot wait for Gay Pride Night at "White" Cracker Barrel with Condoms hanging on the walls instead of pictures.

Posted by: Jackson at August 26, 2025 02:43 PM (ast/7)

169 Honestly, there isn't a chain eatery that I regularly eat at. The places with decent food, acceptable atmosphere, and good value for money are all family run places with one or maybe two locations.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 02:43 PM (0U5gm)

170 Was doing some punch listing and who comes by with his entourage, why Jaime Dimon that's who.

Some say Mary actually runs the joint, but ol' Jaime has quite the detail.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (G9tAN)

171 I miss Rainforest Cafe. That was a fun place to go with my son when he was little.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:39 PM (77rzZ)

Kids love that place

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (NtVYv)

172 > The new decor looks like they sent an intern to IKEA to grab some stuff

It's that country farmhouse kitchen look that was popular for about three years, ten years ago. They really overestimated how long that look would be popular.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (lIio7)

173 Spoiler:

He doesn't like it.
...
...

He loves it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
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LOL. I like the movie. And the movie reviews.

Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (2bFN5)

174 Virtually none of the 'Antique' signs in CB were not reproductions.

But, I do agree...those types of collections displayed like that do not lead to frequent or easy cleaning.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (Z1dZR)

175 That doesn't mean he's wrong. He's right. But I suspect his motivation is not to get the company to fly right, but to take over the board and install his own people. Then probably sell it all off.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

The Board needs to go. One of their board members is a self dealing DEI type with his own DEI advisory firm. And others are of the same ilk.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (ctrM5)

176 Cracker Barrel specialized in what I've been jokingly calling "Old People Food"

There is nothing wrong with "Old People Food"

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (RHGPo)

177 People are missing the point.

It's not about what Cracker Barrel served or how it was decorated.

It's what it represented to a certain demographic that the left hates.

Recall the absolute meltdown when the NFL went woke. When Jaguar, Bud Light, Target, etc. all went woke. People who shopped or bought or watched those "brands" had them stripped and remade in the left's woke image.

And they were not happy about it. Some of those brands never recovered. Are permanently tainted.

The CEO was warned, multiple times, she was fucking up and she ignored the warnings to put her woke stamp of approval on something that didn't need fixing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (Q4IgG)

178 wait. so, are you guys are saying that blockbuster video went out of business?
Posted by: guy whats' always behind the times at August 26, 2025 02:42 PM

At least we'll always have Sambos.

Posted by: toby928 at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (jc0TO)

179 You will be shocked to know that the chief marketing officer has a bunch of girl boss picture poses where she has her arms crossed, al-a Rick Wilson.

She's also a "LeaderMom"!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (9mw3J)

180 Masino announced she'd hired a new "leading" branding agency to "refine and strengthen positioning to delight existing and new guests." The other pillars included "enhancing the menu," "evolving the store and guest experience," "winning in digital and off-premise" and "elevating the employee experience."
===

That right there is the problem. MBA, woke, business plan. Doomed to fail by not clearly stating concise goals.

I was partners in a successful high end seafood restaurant. The lead partner often said, "Just because you eat at restaurants doesn't mean you know how to run one." That made a lot of sense to me.

Providing good food.
Giving the customer choice.
Good service.

But also:

Making sound leasing decisions and negotiations.
Same for purveyor and their products, pricing, and service.
Employee relations to get the best people.

Miss Woke Smart Glasses doesn't have any of those.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (17s+e)

181
I said good luck. I could use the exercise.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

And then you cracked your knuckles. Each one. Individually.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (xG4kz)

182 Girls who wear "smart girl glasses" ... aren't.
___

No one makes passes at girls in smart glasses.

Posted by: Old Saying at August 26, 2025 02:45 PM (Dv3i1)

183 I expect a flaming skull... Taylor Swift is engaged

Posted by: It's me donna

I have yet to hear any of her songs, unless inadvertently in an elevator.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 02:45 PM (0U5gm)

184 The only chain I visit is Red Robin.

Pretty good burger. I go for the Tavern Double

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 02:45 PM (NtVYv)

185 Has anyone been spreadsheeting the loss of shareholder value resulting from going woke for each company?

Posted by: geewhiz at August 26, 2025 02:45 PM (V87Oy)

186 > I miss Rainforest Cafe. That was a fun place to go with my son when he was little.

I saw one on my recent trip to FL and the Caribbean.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2025 02:45 PM (lIio7)

187 Traditional: Roll out the barrel

DEI: Roll out the crackers.

Posted by: muldoon at August 26, 2025 02:45 PM (/iMjX)

188 If you’re a southern comfort food restaurant, you’d better have great biscuit. They don’t.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2025 02:45 PM (u73oe)

189 No one makes passes at girls in smart glasses.
Posted by: Old Saying at August 26, 2025 02:45 PM (Dv3i1)

Au contraire mon frere

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (NtVYv)

190 No, I take that back. Someone sent me a video of screaming goats, and told me it was one of her songs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (0U5gm)

191 105 The Denny's in Monterey, California had a bar.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

If memory serves, El Cajon had a Dennys with a bar.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (mP0Kj)

192 Heard Trump say this morning that the CEO should just make an announcement that it was all a big mistake, and revert.
Said they got a jillion dollars of free advertising. If that don't help it, nothing will.

Posted by: MkY at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (+Pp+Q)

193
"elevating the employee experience."

And having fewer tables to serve does that, how?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (xG4kz)

194 Starbuckin', man.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (WvZaB)

195 171 Are there some Rainforest Cafes still in business, Hatari? I thought the whole chain had gone under.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

196 Hubbymayhem and I were talking about this CEO this morning. I said, " put a woman in charge and she will fuck it up in neon every time" Hubbymayhem told me that the feminazis would beat me senseless if they heard me say that. I said good luck. I could use the exercise.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 26, 2025 02:41 PM (2J/Lj)

That's totally not true! In fact, I...uh...wait...

Posted by: Carly Fiorina at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (TbWk/)

197 I expect a flaming skull... Taylor Swift is engaged
Posted by: It's me donna

Is it Comey?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (r8fJD)

198 That day, Cracker Barrel's new CEO, Julie Felss Masino, got on the phone with investors and unveiled the details of a "strategic transformation plan" her board of directors had approved. The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."

(Buzzword) Bingo! with the free square. What do I win?

Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (KVjsJ)

199 I understand that people don't like the food, but we all understand that the food not being good is just part of the problem. It's the deliberate tanking of something that this awful CEO considers too kitschy Southern/Western whatever. She's a leftist elitist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (2GCMq)

200 Boothes just scream comfort.
And just how interesting is the timeline of rolling pins?

Posted by: DaveA at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (FhXTo)

201
If a corporation is looking for a CEO, they should also check for goofy looking eye glasses.

Posted by: YIKES! at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (OgWfa)

202 People are missing the point.

It's not about what Cracker Barrel served or how it was decorated.

It's what it represented to a certain demographic that the left hates.

Recall the absolute meltdown when the NFL went woke. When Jaguar, Bud Light, Target, etc. all went woke. People who shopped or bought or watched those "brands" had them stripped and remade in the left's woke image.

And they were not happy about it. Some of those brands never recovered. Are permanently tainted.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

More to the point, it wasn't about changing the brands, it was about destroying American culture via brands.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (0U5gm)

203 "winning in digital and off-premise"

----

Another one of these corporate speak phrases with zero meaning.

These people talk in dumb platitudes all day.

Posted by: Jay in PA at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (9mw3J)

204 It didn't help that they basically served Cafeteria Food at Restaurant Pricing.
Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2025 02:22 PM (Z1dZR)

Haven't been in a CB since before the enfuckening. I did not consider them terribly expensive. Sort of a decent place to get a sit-down meal of comfort food when on the road. No reason to go there now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (0ASg7)

205
I expect a flaming skull... Taylor Swift is engaged

Posted by: It's me donna

In what? Self-reflection?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 02:48 PM (xG4kz)

206 Any dumpy chrome and formica clad diner run by a Greek or a Turk has better American food than the typical American food chain restaurant.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 02:48 PM (06Hmj)

207 Are there some Rainforest Cafes still in business, Hatari? I thought the whole chain had gone under.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)
___

They're opening one in NYC, so they must still exist. I think there's still one in Atlantic City too.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

208
He laid out his criticisms in a 120-page slide-deck presentation

I didn't know he went to West Point.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 26, 2025 02:48 PM (y9nCu)

209 177 People are missing the point.

It's not about what Cracker Barrel served or how it was decorated.

It's what it represented to a certain demographic that the left hates.

Recall the absolute meltdown when the NFL went woke. When Jaguar, Bud Light, Target, etc. all went woke. People who shopped or bought or watched those "brands" had them stripped and remade in the left's woke image.

And they were not happy about it. Some of those brands never recovered. Are permanently tainted.

The CEO was warned, multiple times, she was fucking up and she ignored the warnings to put her woke stamp of approval on something that didn't need fixing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (Q4IgG)
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I tend to agree with this. There are a lot that just cannot understand that anything that resembles Front Porch America can be a good thing.

Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 02:48 PM (2bFN5)

210 198 That day, Cracker Barrel's new CEO, Julie Felss Masino, got on the phone with investors and unveiled the details of a "strategic transformation plan" her board of directors had approved. The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."

(Buzzword) Bingo! with the free square. What do I win?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (KVjsJ)

I'm surprised she didn't work in a mention of a differentiated value proposition.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 26, 2025 02:48 PM (PzXaK)

211 The only chain I visit is Red Robin.

Pretty good burger. I go for the Tavern Double

I've gone a dozen times in the last twenty years. The food has gone downhill in quality. My go to burger was the Whiskey River.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2025 02:48 PM (lIio7)

212 I'm sure that a clueless elitist leftist male could do an equally bad job.as the CEO of CB.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2025 02:48 PM (2GCMq)

213 94 So speaking of the old logo, what's up with the shape that's around "Cracker Barrel". Is that a bean? Kidney? Peanut? Fetus laying on it's back? What is it?
Posted by: haffhowershower at August 26, 2025 02:33 PM (144I4)

If you look at the pre-2015 logo, you can see the background was much closer to the logo which explains the little horn on the top above the K.

I think the original design was meant to evoke an old hand-made wooden sign that you’d see on a general store and it evolved over iterations of the logo.

https://1000logos.net/cracker-barrel-logo/

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 02:49 PM (6ydKt)

214 to "refine and strengthen festive little hats to delight existing and new guests."

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 26, 2025 02:49 PM (b/z/s)

215 Sorry to get all sexist, but women shouldn’t be in charge of shit. Especially a affluent, middle-aged white women.

Let’s be honest, the CEO wouldn’t be caught dead at a Cracker Barrel. She has no business completely changing everything to suit her hag friends.

Posted by: Maroon at August 26, 2025 02:49 PM (3WyAb)

216
Have they Salmond Cakes?

Have they Hopping John?

Have they Sausage Biscuits and Gravy?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 02:49 PM (xG4kz)

217 I see Tulsi dropped quite the bomb during today's Cabinet Meeting. She claims they have found more burn bags full of documents that highlight the corruption in the 2020 election.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 26, 2025 02:49 PM (viF8m)

218 More to the point, it wasn't about changing the brands, it was about destroying American culture via brands.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

And CEO will be rewarded with golden parachute or in buyout. Win-win for the left.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 26, 2025 02:49 PM (Dv3i1)

219 I've been waiting for these shareholder lawsuits to start for more than a decade.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
============
DEI had legal cover from the courts in organizations until just recently.

It doesn't anymore if it affects shareholder value and discriminates against whites. I think the desperate attempts of the Dems to reinflate the DEI industry simply focus attention on the crooks like Lisa Cook, Fani Willis, Leticia, Stacey Abrams, and so on that have ridden the DEI horse to fame and fortune.

AWFLs are widely called Karens, etc. which is draining their moral authority just like their Prohibitionist Carrie Nations did before them.

So expect employment discrimination and various shareholder lawsuits to become more prevalent and some of that incoming flak is getting ready to be aimed at State Street, Vanguard, and Blackrock as they are the biggest pot of money to be sued.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (ctrM5)

220 Obviously this woman didn't read the room....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (VE6XX)

221
And they were not happy about it. Some of those brands never recovered. Are permanently tainted.

The CEO was warned, multiple times, she was fucking up and she ignored the warnings to put her woke stamp of approval on something that didn't need fixing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (Q4IgG)

It's pretty clear that going woke impairs shareholder value. Still waiting for a class action suit of some kind.

But I guess investors just hold on hoping that this all passes or Bob Eiger dies or something to stem the woke blood bath.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (OA79/)

222 It’s gotta be expensive buying all of those Americana antiques, signs, and knick-knacks to fill the walls up on every location.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 02:25 PM (6ydKt)

Many of those antiques, especially the enamel signs, are modern copies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (0ASg7)

223 Only Sydney Sweeney Can Save Cracker Barrel Now!

Posted by: ShainS -- Only Sydney Sweeney Can Save Cracker Barrel Now! at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (2hxk1)

224 198 That day, Cracker Barrel's new CEO, Julie Felss Masino, got on the phone with investors and unveiled the details of a "strategic transformation plan" her board of directors had approved. The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."

(Buzzword) Bingo! with the free square. What do I win?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (KVjsJ)

I'm surprised she didn't work in a mention of a differentiated value proposition.

Posted by: WitchDoktor
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Needs more "SYNERGY." I got to have more synergy!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (17s+e)

225 I'm sure that a clueless elitist leftist male could do an equally bad job.as the CEO of CB.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I think the CEO of Jaguar is looking for work.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (0U5gm)

226 If I owned a restaurant (which I don't and haven't) and the economy as whole gave me a setback (which the coof did), I'd be willing to do loss leaders to get the old crowd back, and maybe some new faces, too.
I'd also do "Whole Foods. No preservatives or ingredients you can't pronounce."

Posted by: MkY at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (+Pp+Q)

227 hiring a new chief marketing officer, Sarah Moore, in July 2024 from MGM Resorts International

Sarah, maybe you should add Resort Fees and charge for parking. That might help bring in new customers.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (KVjsJ)

228 It’s gotta be expensive buying all of those Americana antiques, signs, and knick-knacks to fill the walls up on every location.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 02:25 PM (6ydKt)

Many of those antiques, especially the enamel signs, are modern copies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (0ASg7)

Plus China offers a volume discount.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (PzXaK)

229 198 That day, Cracker Barrel's new CEO, Julie Felss Masino, got on the phone with investors and unveiled the details of a "strategic transformation plan" her board of directors had approved. The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."

(Buzzword) Bingo! with the free square. What do I win?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (KVjsJ)

I'm surprised she didn't work in a mention of a differentiated value proposition.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 26, 2025 02:48 PM (PzXaK)

Resulting in synergistic growth via a disruptor profile.

Posted by: LASue at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (lCppi)

230 Another one of these corporate speak phrases with zero meaning.

These people talk in dumb platitudes all day.
Posted by: Jay in PA at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM (9mw3J)

I was raised on that kind of shit which is probably why I hate it to the degree I do today. It's useless shit passed off as deep wisdom. They can all go work smarter and harder at fucking themselves.

Posted by: Fuck your core competencies at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (TbWk/)

231 Taylor Swift announces engagement to boyfriend Travis Kelce

... James Comey's heart is broken

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (RHGPo)

232 223 Only Sydney Sweeney Can Save Cracker Barrel Now!
Posted by: ShainS -- Only Sydney Sweeney Can Save Cracker Barrel Now! at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (2hxk1)

=======

I'm sure there are other 5-foot tall, D-cup chicks they could hire.

Sweeney doesn't have to be the face of every brand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

233 I thought I was pretty well up to speed on this Cracker Barrel business.

It is worse than I thought.

The only business harder than grocery stores is the restaurant business.

You have zero margin to despoil good will and appeal. Once it's gone, it's massively hard to get it back.

Go read the follow-ups on all these restaurant rescue shows--even with all the celebrity, the re-launch, the new decor, fixing the menu and all that?
Almost all of them still close.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (T4D6/)

234 They're opening one in NYC, so they must still exist. I think there's still one in Atlantic City too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Good to hear. The one in Tyson's Corner Mall closed, so I figured the whole chain was defunct.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (77rzZ)

235 217 I see Tulsi dropped quite the bomb during today's Cabinet Meeting. She claims they have found more burn bags full of documents that highlight the corruption in the 2020 election.
Posted by: JackStraw
=========
I think that a lot of these documents have been rat holed where bureaucrats squirreled them away.

Knowledge is power and as a result bureaucrats never quite get around to destroying useful kompromat on others.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 02:52 PM (ctrM5)

236 I rate Cracker Barrel a Strong Buy!

Posted by: Jim Cramer at August 26, 2025 02:52 PM (PiwSw)

237 212 I'm sure that a clueless elitist leftist male could do an equally bad job.as the CEO of CB.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2025 02:48 PM (2GCMq)

I agree.

Posted by: The Heinerschied at August 26, 2025 02:52 PM (OA79/)

238 [pi]That day, Cracker Barrel's new CEO, Julie Felss Masino, got on the phone with investors and unveiled the details of a "strategic transformation plan" her board of directors had approved. The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."

(Buzzword) Bingo! with the free square. What do I win?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM

She should have involved the stakeholders.

Posted by: toby928 at August 26, 2025 02:52 PM (jc0TO)

239 Only Sydney Sweeney Can Save Cracker Barrel Now!
Posted by: ShainS -- Only Sydney Sweeney Can Save Cracker Barrel Now! at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (2hxk1)

=======

I'm sure there are other 5-foot tall, D-cup chicks they could hire.

Sweeney doesn't have to be the face of every brand.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)
_________

"Call me!"

-- Dylan Mulvanry

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 02:52 PM (iFTx/)

240 The plan is to get rid of the customers who remember when Cracker Barrel food and service were good.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 26, 2025 02:52 PM (wBaIH)

241 I think that a lot of these documents have been rat holed where bureaucrats squirreled them away.

Knowledge is power and as a result bureaucrats never quite get around to destroying useful kompromat on others.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 02:52 PM (ctrM5)

Or a whistleblower type put them there....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2025 02:52 PM (VE6XX)

242 184 The only chain I visit is Red Robin.

Pretty good burger. I go for the Tavern Double
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 02:45 PM (NtVYv)

No Red Robin’s here, but I’ve had Freddy’s Steakburgers a few times recently and I love their fries and Prime Rib burger.

The custard is good, too.

I wish we had Steak n’ Shakes here.
I’ve heard good things.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (6ydKt)

243 Bet the designer of the new Cracker Barrel restaurant look shops at Williams-Sonoma. It's got a definite "Temu Williams-Sonoma" vibe.

Posted by: Splunge at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (d03xA)

244 171 Are there some Rainforest Cafes still in business, Hatari? I thought the whole chain had gone under.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

There are still some going.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (NtVYv)

245 I was in a Cracker Barrel once, and I think it was just to use the bathroom. My impression was that there was a lot of dust .

Posted by: LASue at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (lCppi)

246 235 I think that a lot of these documents have been rat holed where bureaucrats squirreled them away.

Knowledge is power and as a result bureaucrats never quite get around to destroying useful kompromat on others.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 02:52 PM (ctrM5)

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The "burn bag" is a great line to use, but it's also standard practice for intelligence in hard copy format. They don't shred documents. They burn them.

A burn bag full of documents that are still backed up electronically doesn't mean a whole lot.

I don't know if these findings of burn bags mean anything, but their discovery doesn't necessarily mean something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

247 "winning in digital and off-premise"

What does that even mean?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (w+hdv)

248 CB can try the Burger King Proud Whopper campaign: "...the burger was the same on the inside, regardless of the wrapper's design... In 2022, another campaign featured Whoppers with two top buns or two bottom buns to symbolize LGBTQ+ identity, a different initiative that also coincided with Pride month."

A sausage link between two pieces of country-fried steak slathered in gravy.

Posted by: fly gal at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (6CtMt)

249 I think the CEO of Jaguar is looking for work.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (0U5gm)

Fucker got a massive golden parachute I'm sure. They all do.

Posted by: Failing upwards at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (TbWk/)

250 President Donald Trump announced that current Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has uncovered bags of hidden documents related to corruption in the 2020 election.

“And you’ve also found many bags of information. I think they call them burn bags. They’re supposed to be burned, and they didn’t get burned, having to do with how corrupt the 2020 election was."

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 02:54 PM (RHGPo)

251 "A Queefier Marie Harf"

This is stunningly beautiful. And spot on. I am such a fan of Mr. of Spades' cruelty.

Posted by: Appycay at August 26, 2025 02:54 PM (EdYR/)

252 Best fast food I've had is Culvers.

Makes you wonder how McDs and its ilk stay in business

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 02:54 PM (sKqQm)

253 If you're ever up around Central PA you have the option of checking out what Cracker Barrel aspired to be. Shady Maple Smorgasbord is run by Mennonites, and is loaded up with PA Dutch offerings across the board.

Bring a shovel.

Posted by: Orson at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (dIske)

254 Tulsi Gabbard:
“Mr. President, I will be the first to brief you once we have that information collected. But you’re right, we are finding documents literally tucked away in the back of safes in random offices in these bags and in other areas, which again speaks to the intent of those who are trying to hide the truth from the American people and trying to cover up the politicization that was led by people like John Brennan and James Clapper and others that have caused really immeasurable harm to the American people and to our country.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (RHGPo)

255 We used to have a couple of Jolly Tigers. A cafe that had bars. It was a Dennys that you could get drunk at and then have your 2:00am breakfast. They were not bad.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (17s+e)

256 225 I'm sure that a clueless elitist leftist male could do an equally bad job.as the CEO of CB.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Leftist straight males in management tend not to glorify what they are doing as quasi religious. They tend to slink away in shame.

The DEI religious zealot simply doubles down because they have never had consequences applied to their appalling incompetence and arrogance.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (ctrM5)

257
And they were not happy about it. Some of those brands never recovered. Are permanently tainted.

Hola!

-- Strohs Bohemian Beer

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (xG4kz)

258 Smart Girls get lasik.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 02:42

I can't do Lasik. My corneas are too thin. The only damn thin thing on me keeps me wearing glasses.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (2J/Lj)

259 @RNCResearch
·
1h
The Democrat Party just PASSED a resolution that condemns President Trump's historic first 6 months.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: ask again later at August 26, 2025 02:22 PM (AOsQT)

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"We're resisting. Please donate."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes

Act now if you want to prevent the collapse of our murder and rape rates!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (L/fGl)

260 Only Sydney Sweeney Can Save Cracker Barrel Now!
Posted by: ShainS -- Only Sydney Sweeney Can Save Cracker Barrel Now! at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (2hxk1)

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I'm sure there are other 5-foot tall, D-cup chicks they could hire.

Sweeney doesn't have to be the face of every brand.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

Hooters girls have entered the chat.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (N39Ws)

261 Please pray for my mom and my family. She's in the ICU with pneumonia, and this could be her last day here.

Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.

Posted by: Axeman at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (4ydXZ)

262 I've been waiting for these shareholder lawsuits to start for more than a decade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes[/i[

Spoiler: They ain't happening. The shareholders that are angry bail, and the shares get snapped up by the folks all-in. Other than institutional investors, this neatly contains the damage.

What I would not mind is if this winds up being like the end of the dinosaurs, where the huge megacorps stupid their way into extinction, leaving the way open for smaller outfits to pop up in their place, be they small regional outfits or local mom-and-pop joints.

No idea if it would happen that way, but a body can dream.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (OUMaO)

263 247 "winning in digital and off-premise"

What does that even mean?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (w+hdv)

Analog and on-premise are LOSERS!

Posted by: NPC MBA QED at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (PiwSw)

264 Many of those antiques, especially the enamel signs, are modern copies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 02:50 PM (0ASg7)

Plus China offers a volume discount.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (PzXaK)

Even then that’s a lot of money hanging on the walls.

They could probably cut a few hundred workers whose only job was to purchase and distribute the stuff.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (6ydKt)

265 I wish we had Steak n’ Shakes here.
I’ve heard good things.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
_________

It's the original smashburger. But they're so thin you have to get at least a double.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (XvL8K)

266
Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.
Posted by: Axeman at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (4ydXZ)

So sorry.. Will add her to my prayers

Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2025 02:56 PM (VE6XX)

267 Is it possible for a corporation to just have progressive, inclusive policies without all the woke shenanigans?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 26, 2025 02:56 PM (cFTPD)

268 I went to cracker barrel once years ago; it was just mid; kind of place i would stop if i was driving by and was starving.

I'm a sucker for that kind of decor; i like the general store vibe. Maybe a refreshed menu and a non s*x weirdo ad campaign might have helped them a little.

But given how expensive going out has gotten and how slowly my salary has gone up, i'm very choosy about where i eat now.

Restaurants with pride signs and transvestites fondling each other and CEO's with stupid woke glasses; yeah, i'd rather burn my money and starve than give them one f**king red cent.

Posted by: Nelly at August 26, 2025 02:56 PM (Bm3Co)

269 171 Are there some Rainforest Cafes still in business, Hatari? I thought the whole chain had gone under.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

There are still some going.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (NtVYv)

Looks like its part of Landry's now

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 02:56 PM (NtVYv)

270 Please pray for my mom and my family. She's in the ICU with pneumonia, and this could be her last day here.

Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.
Posted by: Axeman at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM

On it.

Posted by: toby928 at August 26, 2025 02:56 PM (jc0TO)

271 238 [pi]That day, Cracker Barrel's new CEO, Julie Felss Masino, got on the phone with investors and unveiled the details of a "strategic transformation plan" her board of directors had approved. The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."

(Buzzword) Bingo! with the free square. What do I win?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM

She should have involved the stakeholders

Some one should have taken them five pillars and smothered this rebrand til it stopped moving

Posted by: Crack whore barrel at August 26, 2025 02:56 PM (HcoTw)

272 > The new decor looks like they sent an intern to IKEA to grab some stuff

It's that country farmhouse kitchen look that was popular for about three years, ten years ago. They really overestimated how long that look would be popular.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (lIio7)

We'll just sell the excess stuff to the Wedding Barn venues.

Posted by: Cracker Barrel at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (wVcYX)

273 The left's march through the institutions continues unabated. Anything they perceive as important or treasured by normals is a target. It doesn't matter what "it" is. They've seen fit to ruin sports, retail, automotive, energy, music, theater, and so on. If there's something the nominal right enjoys, or uses, or whatever the left will find something wrong with it and work overtime to destroy it.

This culture war, or whatever you want to call it has been one sided for far too long.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (Q4IgG)

274 Fucking halfwits.

Take the shit no one is ever supposed to know, put it in a bag labeled "no one is ever supposed to know any of this", then put it in a fucking broom closet and leave.

I could believe this was internal sabotage by outgoing employees disgusted with the organization. But i can also easily believe that they really are this stupid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (06Hmj)

275 >>A burn bag full of documents that are still backed up electronically doesn't mean a whole lot.

There have been multiple reports of the intel community using all sort of nefarious tactics to hide information filed electronically to keep it hidden from people like IGs and even FOIA requests.

What is even less meaningful than hidden bags full of documents is electronic documents that are impossible to access.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (viF8m)

276 The "burn bag" is a great line to use, but it's also standard practice for intelligence in hard copy format. They don't shred documents. They burn them.

A burn bag full of documents that are still backed up electronically doesn't mean a whole lot.

I don't know if these findings of burn bags mean anything, but their discovery doesn't necessarily mean something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (GBKbO)

If they didn't mean to burn them or hide them they would be in file cabinets or storage boxes with instutionally approved destruction dates on them, no.

Random burn bags hidden in unmarked rooms?

Same same I guess.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (OA79/)

277 MODERN AUDIENCES

Posted by: ... at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (xDjOp)

278 Please pray for my mom and my family. She's in the ICU with pneumonia, and this could be her last day here.

Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.
Posted by: Axeman at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (4ydXZ)

Sorry to hear that man.

Posted by: hang in there at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (TbWk/)

279 “And you’ve also found many bags of information. I think they call them burn bags. They’re supposed to be burned, and they didn’t get burned, having to do with how corrupt the 2020 election was."
Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 02:54 PM (RHGPo)
_________________________

And, you don't put anything in a burn bag unless it is already pulped or shredded...unless of course you were instructed to do so my someone, and didn't want to be the fall guy accused of disposing of evidence without a proper paper trail.

Posted by: Orson at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (dIske)

280 Best fast food I've had is Culvers.

Makes you wonder how McDs and its ilk stay in business
Posted by: 18-1
_________

Hands down, the best fast food fish.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (XvL8K)

281 Posted by: The Heinerschied at August 26, 2025 02:52 PM (OA79/)

Whatever you say, Ms Marketing Director. Leftist men at companies always make wise corporate decisions.Uhh. Huh Executives at Anheuser Busch some of whom I assume were male said they had no idea about the decision about Mulvaney Some of them don't seem to have been quite on the ball

But yes, she was a leftist dope as well,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (2GCMq)

282 The PowerPoint Ranger Creed

This is my PowerPoint. There are many like it but mine is 97. My PowerPoint is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life. My PowerPoint without me is useless. Without my PowerPoint, I am useless.

I must format my slides true. I must brief them better than the other staff sections who are trying to out brief me. I must brief the impact on the CINC before he asks me.

My PowerPoint and myself know that what counts in this war is not the information. We know that it is the number of slides, the colors of the highlights, and the format of the bullets that counts.

My PowerPoint is human, even as I am, because it is my life. Thus I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its fonts, its accessories, its
formats, and its colors.

I will keep my PowerPoint slides current and ready to brief. We will become part of each other.

Before God I swear this creed. My PowerPoint and myself are defenders of my country. We are the masters of our subject. We are the saviors of my career. So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but peace (and the next exercise)!
Rangers Lead the Way!!

Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (0sNs1)

283 If you go look up the official picture of the CEO, and I don't know why you should, her head is tilted a little to the side. Of course it is. Every damn portrait I see of AWFLs and low-T woke males has that same wretched head tilt.

I don't understand why they all do that. Was there a memo?

Posted by: Splunge at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (d03xA)

284 Well, at least she drilled down, peeled the onion, and got her fuckin paradigm shift.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2025 02:58 PM (u73oe)

285 They had to rebrand since Cracker Barrel is now a secret Dem Boomer clubhouse. No one will ever find them there.

The challenge is "biscuits/gravy."

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 26, 2025 02:58 PM (qwx/I)

286 What they're trying to escape from is the very word "Cracker" in their name. In Ye Olde Dayes it was an anti-white slang term that was basically the reverse of the N-word. It fell out of fashion for many decades (from the '60s to the 2020s), but in the last few years it has made a huge comeback. If you watch enough of those "bodycam" videos, about 90% of black arrestees now spout curses, insults and vitriol at any cop they encounter, and the tirade almost always involves the word "cracker," meaning "disgusting low0class ignorant white person," e.g. "Get your cracker-ass hands off mez1 I can't breathe, you jive-ass cracker!"

So the new CEO, probably aware of this, is taking the first steps of removing any cultural references to "crackers" and "barrels" in their logo and branding, in preparation for the next step of changing the name entirely. I guarantee it. Probably to something like "Generic Food Corp., Inc."

Posted by: zombie at August 26, 2025 02:58 PM (pMi6S)

287 I hope they don't ever "redesign" Silver Diner.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:58 PM (77rzZ)

288 The CEO strikes me as someone who was embarrassed to tell her friends where she worked and decided to do something about it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 26, 2025 02:58 PM (KbCG3)

289 267 Is it possible for a corporation to just have progressive, inclusive policies without all the woke shenanigans?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 26, 2025 02:56 PM (cFTPD)

Have you ever seen a heterosexual male working at a Chik-fil-a?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 02:58 PM (06Hmj)

290 I should note, the corporate gobbly-gook is Grade A refined bullshit to completely obscure any actual understanding.

It's middle-management "I ain't done shit my entire life" wordsmithing.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (T4D6/)

291 Kamala, the gift that keeps on giving!

Jonathan Turley@JonathanTurley
Axios reported that in the “first six months of 2025,” the DNC has spent over $15 million on Harris’s debts. At the same time, Politico reports that the DNC only raised $15 million in comparison to the RNC having $80 million “on hand.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (L/fGl)

292
As best I can recollect, Cracker Barrel was a favorite haunt of my former in-laws (parents of my first wife), so it has been nearly thirty years since I last darkened their door.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (xG4kz)

293 Please pray for my mom and my family. She's in the ICU with pneumonia, and this could be her last day here.

Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.
Posted by: Axeman at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (4ydXZ)

So sorry to hear this, Axeman. Prayers.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (N39Ws)

294 Choice 2: Pay $5X and spend 30 minutes driving to a restaurant, 30 minutes waiting for my food, and 30 minutes driving home but with no clean up
——-/

You left out getting a 3 week debilitating if not life threatening dose of e. Coli.

A lot more common than is reported, I’d wager

Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (Ku6QQ)

295 276 If they didn't mean to burn them or hide them they would be in file cabinets or storage boxes with instutionally approved destruction dates on them, no.

Random burn bags hidden in unmarked rooms?

Same same I guess.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (OA79/)

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Again, there's no telling how much is backed up electronically. It seems bad, but it's apparently just standard practice. If they need print copies of classified documents, they print them out and then burn them when finished.

Just because a burn bag has been discovered in an "unmarked room", whatever that is, doesn't mean it's full of original documents with no backup.

I'll withhold my squeeing about getting the bad guys for now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

296 Please pray for my mom and my family. She's in the ICU with pneumonia, and this could be her last day here.

Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.
Posted by: Axeman at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (4ydXZ)

Prayers sent, for her and for you.

Posted by: LASue at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (lCppi)

297 The CEO in sure is thinking "LGBT+ are stakeholders in CB". Another code word for socialist bs from the World Economic Forum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (rRoxM)

298 272 > The new decor looks like they sent an intern to IKEA to grab some stuff

It's that country farmhouse kitchen look that was popular for about three years, ten years ago. They really overestimated how long that look would be popular.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (lIio7)

We'll just sell the excess stuff to the Wedding Barn venues.
Posted by: Cracker Barrel at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (wVcYX)

Everything in new CB looks like it could be thrown away easily and then the homoginized interior style ready for the next occupant after the fire sale.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (OA79/)

299 Now at Cracker Barrel:

Green Dildos and Ham!

Posted by: Darth Doodah at August 26, 2025 03:00 PM (Vu7A1)

300 Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.
Posted by: Axeman at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM

Done.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 03:00 PM (77rzZ)

301 247 "winning in digital and off-premise"

What does that even mean?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (w+hdv)

Takeout, ordering online and through the app, I believe.

Which means the heavily decorated stores are brining in bits but they are doing a lot of Uber Eats orders, apparently.

I don’t know how that math works out though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 03:00 PM (6ydKt)

302 > I can't do Lasik. My corneas are too thin. The only damn thin thing on me keeps me wearing glasses.

There's a cornea replacement surgery. Maybe that's an option for you.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 26, 2025 03:00 PM (lIio7)

303 Prayers sent, for her and for you.
Posted by: LASue at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (lCppi)

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2025 03:00 PM (2GCMq)

304 Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.

Posted by: Fuddruckers at August 26, 2025 03:00 PM (wVcYX)

305 Have you ever seen a heterosexual male working at a Chik-fil-a?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 02:58 PM (06Hmj)

Uh, yeah. Not sure where you're going with this.

Posted by: Scratching my head slightly at August 26, 2025 03:01 PM (TbWk/)

306 "They value collegiality over accountability," he wrote.

Isn't that a fancy way of saying "liberal women"?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 26, 2025 03:01 PM (2ocoG)

307 *bringing in butts

On the iPad today and it’s making it’s presence known.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 03:01 PM (6ydKt)

308 Are there some Rainforest Cafes still in business, Hatari? I thought the whole chain had gone under.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

There are still some going.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 02:53 PM (NtVYv)

There's one at the Mall of America in Minneapolis. Soon to be named the Guban Cafe.

https://tinyurl.com/56ncjz2h

Posted by: haffhowershower at August 26, 2025 03:01 PM (144I4)

309 299 Now at Cracker Barrel:

Green Dildos and Ham!
Posted by: Darth Doodah at August 26, 2025 03:00 PM (Vu7A1)

Wait until you see the version of the peg games at each table.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 26, 2025 03:01 PM (N39Ws)

310 297 The CEO in sure is thinking "LGBT+ are stakeholders in CB". Another code word for socialist bs from the World Economic Forum
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (rRoxM)

Stakeholders otherwise known as people with no stock ownership nor work at the place but want to have a say in how it's run cause everything should reflect their sensibilities.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 03:02 PM (OA79/)

311 Sweeney doesn't have to be the face of every brand.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM

Is it her face they hire her for?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: J. Random Moron at August 26, 2025 03:02 PM (0sNs1)

312 A burn bag full of documents that are still backed up electronically doesn't mean a whole lot.

I don't know if these findings of burn bags mean anything, but their discovery doesn't necessarily mean something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think the higher ups have been doing the FBI Sentinel database trick with literally hiding the digital data in plain sight. With Dems, we keep seeing this pop up in fraudulent voter registration files via inserting characters and so on, reclassifying data inappropriately, etc. Paper copies allow one to retrieve the hidden data once you know it exists.

If you wanted to save kompromat without facing obstruction charges, etc., what safer place than a communal agency burn bag secured area.

For a period of time, I spent a lot of time with really big databases to do research (FEC and elections data) and my waning days in USAF (dealing with unit readiness databases).

There many tricks to hide inconvenient electronic data that can easily be glossed over as incompetence rather than intentional. But the paper documents are always a way to cookie crumb your way back into those hidden areas of a database.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 03:02 PM (ctrM5)

313
That day, Cracker Barrel's new CEO, Julie Felss Masino, got on the phone with investors and unveiled the details of a "strategic transformation plan" her board of directors had approved. The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."

(Buzzword) Bingo! with the free square. What do I win?

Posted by: Chuck C at August 26, 2025 02:47 PM

so close

the judges were expecting "paradigm" and "synergy"

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 26, 2025 03:02 PM (tljrc)

314 The head tilt is the "I'm kind and understanding and honestly listening to your needs" pose. The male equivalent is the open mouthed, wided eye grin which is supposed to express "hey kids! I'm the fun uncle who also loves playing Dragon Age!".

Posted by: gKWVE at August 26, 2025 03:03 PM (gKWVE)

315 They're opening one in NYC, so they must still exist. I think there's still one in Atlantic City too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Good to hear. The one in Tyson's Corner Mall closed, so I figured the whole chain was defunct.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 02:51 PM (77rzZ)
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Kids like them. I think they're OK. It's a gimmick ... but a good one.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

316 Wait until you see the version of the peg games at each table.

Fun fact: they did change the peg game. It no longer says you're a moron if you lose, everyone gets a trophy.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 26, 2025 03:03 PM (2ocoG)

317 Uh, yeah. Not sure where you're going with this.
Posted by: Scratching my head slightly at August 26, 2025 03:01 PM (TbWk/)

Really? Weird.

Anyway, my point was that this eeeevil fascist boogyman company is perfectly progressive and modern and inclusive without vomiting rainbows on everything and sponsoring perverted freak shows for the children of retards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 03:03 PM (06Hmj)

318 Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

Secretary Marco Rubio: "This is the most meaningful Labor Day of my life... as someone with four jobs"

Incredible

https://tinyurl.com/4dutr2xt

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2025 03:03 PM (NpAcC)

319 the judges were expecting "paradigm" and "synergy"

No love for ISO-9000?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 26, 2025 03:04 PM (2ocoG)

320 Isn't that a fancy way of saying "liberal women"?
Posted by: Ian S.

They are all college mal educated leftists is what it is saying. The men are of soy and genderfluid and the women are of AWFL persuasion with power glasses chic. And the same tastes as their colorless upper middle class upbringing.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 03:04 PM (ctrM5)

321 I gave up on Chic Fil A.
Every time I drive by one both of the drive-thru lanes are full along with the parking lot.

I think their food was better way back when you could only get it inside the mall.

I can’t tell you how many times I ate Chic Fil A nugget samples they were giving out every time I went shopping.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 03:04 PM (6ydKt)

322 I think the higher ups have been doing the FBI Sentinel database trick with literally hiding the digital data in plain sight. With Dems, we keep seeing this pop up in fraudulent voter registration files via inserting characters and so on, reclassifying data inappropriately, etc. Paper copies allow one to retrieve the hidden data once you know it exists.

If you wanted to save kompromat without facing obstruction charges, etc., what safer place than a communal agency burn bag secured area.

For a period of time, I spent a lot of time with really big databases to do research (FEC and elections data) and my waning days in USAF (dealing with unit readiness databases).

There many tricks to hide inconvenient electronic data that can easily be glossed over as incompetence rather than intentional. But the paper documents are always a way to cookie crumb your way back into those hidden areas of a database.
Posted by: whig
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So storing them in the trunk of a Buick is not a good idea.

Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 03:04 PM (2bFN5)

323 I never liked these trash heap walls.

It was interesting back in the 70s when it first started, but it is so phony -- instant "character." Instant heritage emulating an old store that has been in same place for generations by having a bunch of old queers who turned their obsession with garage sales and antique stores into a decorating business.

I don't remember their food, but for all restaurants, the problem is never the decor, and it will not be fixed with decor.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 26, 2025 03:04 PM (lMd1l)

324
Just because a burn bag has been discovered in an "unmarked room", whatever that is, doesn't mean it's full of original documents with no backup.

I'll withhold my squeeing about getting the bad guys for now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 02:59 PM (GBKbO)

Still why a burn bag with no destruction date on it. In theory there could be classified intell in them. Just laying around? Kinda wierd.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 03:04 PM (OA79/)

325 I think the phrase "obvious folly" is wonderful, and I plan to use it whenever I can find an opportunity. It packs so much polite but dismissive viciousness into two words.

Posted by: Splunge at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (d03xA)

326 Toro! Toro! To....

https://t.co/ZxsXp7z1Yx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (428dN)

327 The fact that CB celebrated its rebrand with a pop-up in NYC shows that they're clueless.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (rJ48h)

328 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (c711F)

329 If you go look up the official picture of the CEO, and I don't know why you should, her head is tilted a little to the side. Of course it is. Every damn portrait I see of AWFLs and low-T woke males has that same wretched head tilt.

I don't understand why they all do that. Was there a memo?
Posted by: Splunge at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (d03xA)

Insolence sells!

Posted by: Bill Ayres' Mugshot at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (wVcYX)

330
The new decor looks like they sent an intern to IKEA to grab some stuff
Posted by: Not quite as big balls

"What is this shit?"

-- legacy CB customer holds up a piece of merchandise labeled "Aarnenbluggenfargaen"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (xG4kz)

331 Prayers up for you Axeman.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 26, 2025 03:06 PM (qwx/I)

332 So storing them in the trunk of a Buick is not a good idea.
Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 03:04 PM

A garage with a Corvette worked for me.

Posted by: J. Robinette Biden at August 26, 2025 03:06 PM (0sNs1)

333 'Absolute mayhem': 2-year-old enjoying lunch with family gets mowed down and killed, family sues over 'dangerous' restaurant design

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Not quite as ridiculous as it sounds. I thought it was a drive by shooting or something. It was a traffic accident in which a car crashed into the restaurant.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 03:06 PM (L/fGl)

334 No love for ISO-9000?
Posted by: Ian S.

!!!!!!!
Slowly I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch!

(I go into a rage at the mention of that POS boondogle make work for asshole consultants fortress Europe crap)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 26, 2025 03:06 PM (lMd1l)

335 NoVA has a diner franchise called 'Bob and Ediths'. Its a solid diner. 24/7 too. Its good diner food. I go occasionally. Might go tonight.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 26, 2025 03:06 PM (sAmhv)

336 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (c711F)

—————-

Pecan Log for the win!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 26, 2025 03:06 PM (u73oe)

337 Anyway, my point was that this eeeevil fascist boogyman company is perfectly progressive and modern and inclusive without vomiting rainbows on everything and sponsoring perverted freak shows for the children of retards.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 03:03 PM (06Hmj)

Wouldn't the point be better made in referring to seeing a homosexual male working at a Chik-fil-a? In that they still maintain certain standards but include anyone who's a good employee regardless of whatever grievance group they belong too.

Posted by: Just trying to follow the line of reasoning at August 26, 2025 03:06 PM (TbWk/)

338 285 They had to rebrand since Cracker Barrel is now a secret Dem Boomer clubhouse. No one will ever find them there.

The challenge is "biscuits/gravy."
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 26, 2025 02:58 PM (qwx/I)

So should we stop inviting them to pickleball?

Posted by: tankdemon at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM (VSht7)

339 I don't know how Friendly's will stay in business after that Satanic SNL skit. Someone probably should have said something.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM (qwx/I)

340 There's a cornea replacement surgery. Maybe that's an option for you.

Implantable contacts are also a thing. Kind of like cataract surgery except they don't remove the natural lens.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM (ICDhR)

341
Cracker Barrel could fail solely on their so called "dumplings". A dumpling is a soft pillowy drop dumpling, not those flat noodle type things they try and pass off as a dumpling.

The dumpling shall rise again!

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM (IifOV)

342 Speaking of rich CEO retards ....

Mark your calendars! The replacement for the Ferrari SF0 (code-named F173M) is expected to be announced on September 9. Expect about 1,025 horsepower and base price around $700k with actual orders going out well over $1M.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

343 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?
Posted by: pudinhead

When my wife and I took our 25th anniversary trip in 2023, we stopped at one on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

344 In 2009 my family and I were moving from CA to NY via auto and stopped at a CB somewhere in the Midwest for lunch. We had never been to one but it was really good and we enjoyed the atmosphere of country warmth, and the very good down home food. Problem was the carb load was so intense that we soon had to find a hotel from being too tired to drive anymore.

Whatever happened to if it 'aint broke, don't fix it.

Posted by: Cheri at August 26, 2025 03:08 PM (oiNtH)

345 No tears for me?

Posted by: Bob's Big Boy at August 26, 2025 03:08 PM (0sNs1)

346 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?

Posted by: pudinhead

I heard from somebody that there is one left somewhere.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 03:08 PM (0U5gm)

347 Axeman- if you're still here, here is a nice prayer by John Henry Newman:

O Lord, support us all the day long of this troublous life, until the shadows lengthen and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done. Then in your mercy, grant us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last. Amen.

— (John Henry Newman, 1801-90)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2025 03:08 PM (2GCMq)

348 CEO, and I don't know why you should, her head is tilted a little to the side. Of course it is. Every damn portrait I see of AWFLs and low-T woke males has that same wretched head tilt.

I don't understand why they all do that. Was there a memo?
Posted by: Splunge at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (d03xA)

Insolence sells!
Posted by: Bill Ayres' Mugshot at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (wVcYX)weird.

The defiant girl statue look on wall street.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 03:08 PM (OA79/)

349 Please pray for my mom and my family. She's in the ICU with pneumonia, and this could be her last day here.

Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.
Posted by: Axeman
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Prayers up and hugs to you and yours.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (7HoOO)

350 Just because a burn bag has been discovered in an "unmarked room", whatever that is, doesn't mean it's full of original documents with no backup.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

I agree, but the point is you either burn or file. Stuff in burn bags that is kept hidden away is sus because it appears they did not want to destroy (felony) but did not want it easily accessible.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (lMd1l)

351 So storing them in the trunk of a Buick is not a good idea.
Posted by: scampydog
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It is a lot easier to manipulate, hide, or destroy bits than paper. And seemingly by accident if you must (if your remember Killary's ridiculous incompetence excuses on her homebaked server).

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (ctrM5)

352 335 NoVA has a diner franchise called 'Bob and Ediths'. Its a solid diner. 24/7 too. Its good diner food. I go occasionally. Might go tonight.
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Yep. Have one caddy corner to Huntington Metro. Its not bad.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (c711F)

353 329 If you go look up the official picture of the CEO, and I don't know why you should, her head is tilted a little to the side. Of course it is. Every damn portrait I see of AWFLs and low-T woke males has that same wretched head tilt.

I don't understand why they all do that. Was there a memo?
Posted by: Splunge at August 26, 2025 02:57 PM (d03xA)

Insolence sells!
Posted by: Bill Ayres' Mugshot at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (wVcYX)

Whoever the photographer is for their corporate website makes them do it, in conjunction with their PR people. They'll have 2 or 3 required poses that they use so all the pictures are standardized. It's fake and ghey but it's how they roll.

Posted by: Fake. Ghey. Homogenized. Corpo America at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (TbWk/)

354 Stucky's was the shit.

It was like they were in a personal feud of honor with Perkins for who could aggressively shove more delicious looking baked goods into your face when you walked in.

Oh you wanted lunch? Wrong answer, bitch, you eatin' half a cake today!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (06Hmj)

355 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (c711F)

I remember Sherrie Stuckey from high school. mmmm

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (NtVYv)

356 Mark your calendars! The replacement for the Ferrari SF0 (code-named F173M) is expected to be announced on September 9. Expect about 1,025 horsepower and base price around $700k with actual orders going out well over $1M.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)
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I don't think I could afford the Hot Wheels version of that car...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (7fElN)

357 Mark your calendars! The replacement for the Ferrari SF0 (code-named F173M) is expected to be announced on September 9. Expect about 1,025 horsepower and base price around $700k with actual orders going out well over $1M.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM

Can you get one in Lotus Green?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (0sNs1)

358 Please pray for my mom and my family. She's in the ICU with pneumonia, and this could be her last day here.

Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.
Posted by: Axeman at August 26, 2025 02:55 PM (4ydXZ)

May she recover from this.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (nK4uM)

359 CEO dismissed warnings from a top investor

A top individual investor, I'm sure, but when Blackrock, Vanguard, JP Morgan, and State Street tell their installed puppet to dance, their puppet dances!

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (GsIhi)

360 Every time I drive by one both of the drive-thru lanes are full along with the parking lot.

The secret is that the lanes are full, but they move very regularly, far moreso than any other chain restuarant. You'll frequently be through a full lane with your food at CFA faster than if you were second or third in line at McDonalds.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (2ocoG)

361 349 Please pray for my mom and my family. She's in the ICU with pneumonia, and this could be her last day here.

Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.
Posted by: Axeman
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I am so sorry. Prayers for her, and for you.

Posted by: Piper at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (p4NUW)

362
They had to rebrand since Cracker Barrel is now a secret Dem Boomer clubhouse. No one will ever find them there.

The challenge is "biscuits/gravy."
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

LOL!

This place is the best!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (xG4kz)

363 Posted by: screaming in digital at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (7HoOO)

Hey, SiD! How're you doing?

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)

364 341
Cracker Barrel could fail solely on their so called "dumplings". A dumpling is a soft pillowy drop dumpling, not those flat noodle type things they try and pass off as a dumpling.

The dumpling shall rise again!
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM (IifOV)

This. Give me big dumplings not limp noodles.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (OA79/)

365 No love for ISO-9000?
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Slowly I turned. Step by step. Inch by inch!

ISO-9000 -> "we make the same mistakes every time but it's OK because we have it in writing."

Posted by: Oddbob at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (ICDhR)

366 327 The fact that CB celebrated its rebrand with a pop-up in NYC shows that they're clueless.
Posted by: mr tmz
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No, it shows the people that they want to impress are in the financial districts of NYC, not the customers of Cracker Barrel.

Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM (ctrM5)

367 Axeman, prayer up. Stay strong.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM (c711F)

368 Has anyone noticed these corporations' approach is the same as the Dem party? Abandon base by moving far left and then wonder why they lose money/elections. Hopefully corporations get the message but the Dems don't and continue to be stupid.

Posted by: Lex at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM (l5xX+)

369 >>Cracker Barrel be fuckeded. Yes, they had a "defined customer base," but that base was older and aging out. The allure of an "old country store" is all but poison to the younger generations.>>

I don't know about that. Teenagers as far as I know, still love a lot of things with gravy all over it.

Posted by: Cheri at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM (oiNtH)

370 346 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?

Posted by: pudinhead
I heard from somebody that there is one left somewhere.
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I have an indian beaded belt from a Stuckey's somewhere in the south - got it 53 years ago!!

Posted by: beckster at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM (NLtte)

371 Mark your calendars! The replacement for the Ferrari SF90 (code-named F173M) is expected to be announced on September 9. Expect about 1,025 horsepower and base price around $700k with actual orders going out well over $1M.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)
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I don't think I could afford the Hot Wheels version of that car...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (7fElN)
________

It'll be a bag of shit. The SF90 was a bag of shit. So you don't want one anyway.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM (iFTx/)

372 Cracker Barrel could pick up the mantle of the titty-based dining experience now that Hooters is no longer.

Instead of showing the bosom, they could show off the crack of the ass.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM (qwx/I)

373
Can you get one in Lotus Green?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (0sNs1)

This place.

Posted by: Piper at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM (p4NUW)

374 not those flat noodle type things they try and pass off as a dumpling.

The dumpling shall rise again!
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM (IifOV)

The flat noodly dumpling is more of a Dutchey thing, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM (06Hmj)

375 Mark your calendars! The replacement for the Ferrari SF0 (code-named F173M) is expected to be announced on September 9. Expect about 1,025 horsepower and base price around $700k with actual orders going out well over $1M.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

Moo Moo will order 7, one for each day of the week. Jwest will order two, one for his commute to the restaurant and one for weekend cruising.

Posted by: Taking the píss out of toffs at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM (TbWk/)

376 This. Give me big dumplings not limp noodles.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (OA79/)

Posted by: that's what SHE said at August 26, 2025 03:12 PM (5xuJ/)

377 Fun fact: they did change the peg game. It no longer says you're a moron if you lose, everyone gets a trophy.

this is true? see now THIS pisses me off!

why the HELL would you eff up the peg game?!?!

also on the lasik/implanted lenses/etc convo - I'm not MM but I also have a thin lens and high myopia ergo could not have lasik. I would have had to have a PRK.

which scared me. then like two girls in my dept had lasik's thet were screwed up (from two different places) and had to have "repairs"

when you have poor enough eyesight, and yet are correctable to 20/20 thankfully, you don't mess with surgeries etc if you don't have to.

terrifyingly close to blindness already, don't need to screw around here

I'd do the drop thing tho, after it's been out a few years and no bad side effects. I kind of LIKE that it's temporary.

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 03:12 PM (Pv3Rg)

378 Instead of showing the bosom, they could show off the crack of the ass.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 26, 2025 03:11 PM
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Let's not give Ackbar any ideas.

Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 03:12 PM (2bFN5)

379 No tears for me?
Posted by: Bob's Big Boy at August 26, 2025 03:08 PM (0sNs1)

Come and sit by me. Shakey's Pizza will be stopping by soon.

Posted by: Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour at August 26, 2025 03:12 PM (wVcYX)

380
Does anyone remember Stuckey's?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM

there's an old stuckey's 'bout 100 miles west of here

it's now a pron / dildo ~~store~~ emporium

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 26, 2025 03:12 PM (tljrc)

381 I heard from somebody that there is one left somewhere.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Yes. Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 03:13 PM (77rzZ)

382 "The end of an era. I am fully invested in mis-matched Corelle.
Posted by: Kindltot "

lol

Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 03:13 PM (fV+MH)

383 "The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."

... Let's pushdown on that

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 03:13 PM (RHGPo)

384 Mark your calendars! The replacement for the Ferrari SF0 (code-named F173M) is expected to be announced on September 9. Expect about 1,025 horsepower and base price around $700k with actual orders going out well over $1M.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 03:07 PM

Can you get one in Lotus Green?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM (0sNs1)
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I think they call it Verde British Green, but otherwise yes. And they'll paint it any color you want ... for a price.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

385 I can't hear "pillars" without thinking of goathumpers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 03:14 PM (06Hmj)

386 There's a new peg game you say?

Posted by: that bald beta in the earlier thread at August 26, 2025 03:14 PM (gKWVE)

387 I heard from somebody that there is one left somewhere.

There’s something that calls itself a Stuckey‘s on I-40 near Springfield. I think it’s just a corner of a trio of more modern fast food chains.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 26, 2025 03:14 PM (EXyHK)

388 I have an indian beaded belt from a Stuckey's somewhere in the south - got it 53 years ago!!
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Yeah, the 5 n Dime shopping was fun for kids.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 26, 2025 03:14 PM (c711F)

389 It's not a Crack House. It's a Crack Home.

(HT The Onion when it was funny).

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 26, 2025 03:14 PM (qwx/I)

390 360 Every time I drive by one both of the drive-thru lanes are full along with the parking lot.

The secret is that the lanes are full, but they move very regularly, far moreso than any other chain restuarant. You'll frequently be through a full lane with your food at CFA faster than if you were second or third in line at McDonalds

You gots to get the app. Order before you go. Some have a dedicated lane for app orders. CFA has it going on

Posted by: Crack whore barrel at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (HcoTw)

391 386 There's a new peg game you say?
___

Why, yes! Yes there is!

Posted by: Cracker Barrel Pride Day at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (Dv3i1)

392 383 "The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."

... Let's pushdown on that
Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 03:13 PM (RHGPo)

Drill down and do a deep dive for that low-hanging fruit.

Posted by: Sounds...ghey at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (TbWk/)

393 76 The logo rebrand was just lazy.

I get they wanted to simplify and modernize the thing but it would have been easy to incorporate the Uncle character into the new logo, even if you’re just using a stylized closeup of his head within the background of the logo, similar to what KFC did with Colonel Sanders.

Bad ideas all around when you’re already losing customers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 02:30 PM (6ydKt)

Late to the party, but I came here to say pretty much this. That logo rebrand would not have gotten past initial review from me (four-decade Graphic Designer/Art Director/Print Production pro).

Yes, the core clientele is starting to drop off, but there was no need to do the total rebrand. But it is endemic in my industry — the neotenate queefers took over a long time ago. I just focus on my little slice of the ad world and watch it all go to Hell....

Posted by: goozer at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (V1MWf)

394 I like big dumplings and I cannot lie.

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (wVcYX)

395 Tara Yazdi has some nice pillars.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (77rzZ)

396 When I was in we never burned anything, it was pulped. Nasty job too.

Posted by: Tollhouse at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (BY3rW)

397 Haven't read through the comments, and haven't been to a Cracker Barrel in 20 years since there ain't none up here.

The draw of Cracker Barrel was consistently good food in solid portions in a homey setting. No matter which CB you hit, you were getting good country fried steak, good biscuits, good gravy, good mac n' cheese, good cobbler, etc. If you didn't want to risk eating at a diner, CB was your alternative and you'd never go away disappointed.

I'd almost always prefer a little mom n' pop place by myself, but when you have a family, it's easier to go where you know what it is. And if you had a hankering for grilled sourdough, you had your spot.

I get that most restaurants are struggling now with food prices, a struggling economy and the fact that young people are apparently too fucking nervous or lazy to eat out. But maybe making yourself into the same thing as everyone else ain't the way to fix it.

Posted by: The_Hoser at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (f4jia)

398 What's funny is that I jokingly told my wife for years if CB ever goes under, I wanted to know what they planned to do with all the cool antique stuff on the walls.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 26, 2025 03:16 PM (CwhoI)

399 Stuckey's looks like its still in business. Hundreds of locations.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 03:16 PM (rJ48h)

400 Pray that the Lord will give her a peaceful passing.
Posted by: Axeman

Losing your mom is hard.

May the peace and love of Christ be with you all.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 26, 2025 03:16 PM (W2Pud)

401 383 "The first of "five pillars" in the plan would be "refining" and "evolving the brand across all touchpoints."

... Let's pushdown on that
Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 03:13 PM (RHGPo)

Drill down and do a deep dive for that low-hanging fruit.
Posted by: Sounds...ghey at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (TbWk/)

Then backfill to tie in cross-channel leverage.

Posted by: It's On at August 26, 2025 03:17 PM (wVcYX)

402 I was surprised to read that there are still around 400 Godfather's Pizza locations open. Love their pizza, but that's a competitive field.

Posted by: Crusader at August 26, 2025 03:17 PM (TN0g+)

403 We didn't have any CBs on the Left Coast until about 2014 when they finally opened one in Victorville, in the high desert north of L. A. along busy I-15 the main road to Las Vegas. Prior to that, CB was the first stop I'd make when traveling out of state.

Now.....I thimk we be done with CB unless they change course and especially bring the old man and his barrel back.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 26, 2025 03:17 PM (QGaXH)

404 comment not found

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

405 ?This is typical of the left. Fix a target. Demonize it. Take it over and remake it in their own image."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 02:21 PM (Q4IgG)

Don't disagree, but every small town has at least one or more diners serving comfort food. C.B. competes with off-Interstate travelers. The "rebrand" makes them indistinguishable from the zillion other similar chains.

Posted by: RS at August 26, 2025 03:17 PM (rk5vz)

406 ... Let's pushdown on that
Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 03:13 PM (RHGPo)

Drill down and do a deep dive for that low-hanging fruit.
Posted by: Sounds...ghey at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (TbWk/)

Then backfill to tie in cross-channel leverage.
Posted by: It's On at August 26, 2025 03:17 PM (wVcYX)

This all sounds like a Beck song.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 03:17 PM (06Hmj)

407 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?
Posted by: pudinhead

Only 10 miles ahead!
........
Only 8 miles ahead!
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Only 6 miles ahead!
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etc. etc.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 26, 2025 03:18 PM (w9Wax)

408 399 Stuckey's looks like its still in business. Hundreds of locations.
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Me and my brothers when we were kids joked that it was called Stuckey's because your feet stuck to the floor.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 26, 2025 03:18 PM (Dv3i1)

409 You don't see Waffle House going along with all this homo DEI save Mother Earth and the whales stuff. Nosiree. You go in, order your patty melt and everything will be fine. Just keep the Glock under your shirt tail unless you need it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 26, 2025 03:18 PM (gm9Sb)

410 So that's what he's up to.

Genius Trump Enacts Plan To Dumb Down Chinese Population By Inviting Them To Attend American Universities

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 03:19 PM (L/fGl)

411 What did CB do with the guns they took down off the walls?

Posted by: fd at August 26, 2025 03:19 PM (vFG9F)

412 408 399 Stuckey's looks like its still in business. Hundreds of locations.
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Me and my brothers when we were kids joked that it was called Stuckey's because your feet stuck to the floor.

It's because the place wasn't kept clean

Posted by: Big Ben R at August 26, 2025 03:19 PM (HcoTw)

413 I've been hearing that food and service quality have with been declining over the past few years. Maybe look into that before spending a million dollars on enblandening all your locations. Hell, the best part of a trip to Cracker Barrel was wandering around the country store section of the place while waiting for a table or after finishing your meal. Getting rid of that experience and the restaurant is just a middling diner.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 26, 2025 03:20 PM (VSht7)

414 Hey, SiD! How're you doing?
Posted by: Bulg
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I'm well. How about you?

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 26, 2025 03:20 PM (7HoOO)

415 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?
Posted by: pudinhead

Only 10 miles ahead!
........
Only 8 miles ahead!
........
Only 6 miles ahead!
........
Pecans

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 03:20 PM (RHGPo)

416 At least we'll always have Sambos.
Posted by: toby928 at August 26, 2025 02:44 PM (jc0TO)

*whistles* *kicks dirt*

Posted by: Sambo's at August 26, 2025 03:20 PM (6CtMt)

417 404 comment not found
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

Golf clap.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 26, 2025 03:21 PM (VSht7)

418 328 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?
Posted by: pudinhead at August 26, 2025 03:05 PM (c711F)

You mean?

https://stuckeys.com/

I’m not sure if they have any physical stores left.

There was one near Sumerton, SC off of I-95 for the longest time but I don’t think it’s open anymore.

You can still buy the pecan logs, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 03:21 PM (6ydKt)

419 Steak n Shake was in pretty bad shape even before Covid. But they survived that and are starting to turn it around. Note that they didn't have to resort to trannies or cultural sterilization to do it.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 26, 2025 03:21 PM (CwhoI)

420 411 What did CB do with the guns they took down off the walls?
Posted by: fd at August 26, 2025 03:19 PM (vFG9F)

Tragic boating accident.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 26, 2025 03:21 PM (VSht7)

421 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?
Posted by: pudinhead

Only 10 miles ahead!
........
Only 8 miles ahead!
........
Only 6 miles ahead!
........
Pecans
Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 03:20 PM (RHGPo)

Those are rookie numbers. Gotta get those numbers up!

Posted by: Buc-ees at August 26, 2025 03:22 PM (wVcYX)

422 415 Does anyone remember Stuckey's?
Posted by: pudinhead

Only 10 miles ahead!
........
Only 8 miles ahead!
........
Only 6 miles ahead!
........
Pecans
Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 03:20 PM (RHGPo)

I've punished my pancreas with a few of their pecan logs in my time.

Posted by: Delicious and destructive at August 26, 2025 03:22 PM (TbWk/)

423 354 Stucky's was the shit.

It was like they were in a personal feud of honor with Perkins for who could aggressively shove more delicious looking baked goods into your face when you walked in.

Oh you wanted lunch? Wrong answer, bitch, you eatin' half a cake today!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 03:09 PM (06Hmj)
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Stuckey's had/has these things called Pecan Log Rolls. It's about the size of a candy bar and is nougat covered in pecans and tiny maraschino cherries. I'm pretty sure the old guy that started Stuckey's was a pecan farmer down in Georgia.

They were/are good.

Posted by: Orson at August 26, 2025 03:22 PM (dIske)

424 419 Steak n Shake has gone back to beef tallow for the French fries.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 26, 2025 03:22 PM (gm9Sb)

425
Steak n Shake was in pretty bad shape even before Covid. But they survived that and are starting to turn it around. Note that they didn't have to resort to trannies or cultural sterilization to do it.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 26, 2025 03:21 PM

two words: beef tallow

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 26, 2025 03:22 PM (tljrc)

426 You gots to get the app. Order before you go. Some have a dedicated lane for app orders. CFA has it going on

Posted by: Crack whore barrel

I don't do apps. If I have to give away my personal data to patronize a shop, I just find somewhere else to spend my money.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 03:22 PM (0U5gm)

427 The last Po Folks restaurant ceased operations in July 2001

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 03:23 PM (RHGPo)

428 I'm old enough to remember when I went to Cracker Barrel and, before waiting 40 minutes to be seated, the hostess would ask, "Smoking or Non-Smoking?"

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 26, 2025 03:23 PM (BHrzb)

429 Stuckey's was started in a town about 50 miles south of here, Eastman GA, yes, by a pecan farmer.

Posted by: fd at August 26, 2025 03:24 PM (vFG9F)

430 This. Give me big dumplings not limp noodles.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 26, 2025 03:10 PM

If I had a, how you say, nickel for every time I've heard this, I could retire.

Posted by: Paolo at August 26, 2025 03:24 PM (0sNs1)

431 Masino's folly. Finally. Someone else.

Posted by: Seward at August 26, 2025 03:24 PM (HcoTw)

432 I was surprised to read that there are still around 400 Godfather's Pizza locations open. Love their pizza, but that's a competitive field.
Posted by: Crusader

I got a personal invitation from a favorite pizzeria the other day. They said they haven't seen me for over 30 days. Get thee behind me, Satan!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 03:24 PM (L/fGl)

433 I don't do apps. If I have to give away my personal data to patronize a shop, I just find somewhere else to spend my money.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 03:22 PM (0U5gm)

This!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 03:24 PM (qqgHw)

434 She's just leveraging her key competencies with a deep dive into the synergy of bacon and eggs.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 26, 2025 03:25 PM (XeU6L)

435 I'm well. How about you?
Posted by: screaming in digital

OK. Dealing with various health issues.

Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

436 We loved Stuckey’s!
We even had some travel Stuckey’s game.
It was a unique design, like Holiday Inn’s used to be in the 70’s. One used to be able to tell a brand from the road when traveling. Now it’s big gray boxes all over.

Prayers for you and your family Axeman during this tough time.

Posted by: Paisley at August 26, 2025 03:25 PM (/2pqF)

437 Stuckey's had/has these things called Pecan Log Rolls. It's about the size of a candy bar and is nougat covered in pecans and tiny maraschino cherries. I'm pretty sure the old guy that started Stuckey's was a pecan farmer down in Georgia.

They were/are good.
Posted by: Orson at August 26, 2025 03:22 PM (dIske)

Like the WWII era Purple Heart medals, Stuckey's Pecan Log Rolls were made in tremendous quantities and warehoused. What you're finding today have been in storage for 50 years.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2025 03:25 PM (wVcYX)

438 CB also doesn't serve booze. That's not a concern for breakfast customers, but for a big portion of the dinner crowd (and again, especially younger customers) that's a deal-breaker. Plus, restaurants make a lot of money on booze.

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They serve mimosas

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 26, 2025 03:25 PM (VG8VO)

439
Cracker Barrel does have booze now. It's the first thing the witch changed when she was hired.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 26, 2025 03:25 PM (3ek7K)

440 "I like big dumplings and I cannot lie.
Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot"

God I miss gravy.

Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 03:26 PM (fV+MH)

441 When I was a kid in Southern California we had Chicken Delight delivery. It was a treat that we would beg our parents for and the chicken and BBQ ribs were great with all of the fixin's. The delivery guy would wear a white and red uniform with a hat with a rubber chicken on top. We thought hat was pretty cool. Ah, the good old days.

Posted by: Cheri at August 26, 2025 03:26 PM (oiNtH)

442 The last Po Folks restaurant ceased operations in July 2001

Posted by: SMOD

I remember eating a huge plate of fried gizzards there years ago. My jaw ached for three days afterward.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 03:27 PM (0U5gm)

443 The PowerPoint Ranger Creed
Posted by: J Random Moron

Nicely done!

It is by PowerPoint alone that I set my plan in motion. It is by the code of Gates that the bullet points acquire synergies, the pillars acquire buzzwords, the buzzwords become a warning. It is by PowerPoint alone I set my plan in motion.

Posted by: mikeski at August 26, 2025 03:27 PM (DgGvY)

444 426 433 So you would buy a pack of batteries at Radio Shack and they would want your phone number. And blood type. Number of kidneys. Age of children and their health. Outstanding non secured debt. But it was just to make sure you got their flyer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 26, 2025 03:28 PM (gm9Sb)

445 Tara Yazdi

Moo.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 26, 2025 03:28 PM (ctJ5/)

446 Nood

Posted by: tankdemon at August 26, 2025 03:28 PM (VSht7)

447 Cracker Barrel does have booze now. It's the first thing the witch changed when she was hired.
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Being buzzed was the only way she could stand being inside one of the restaurants = really, really bad hire for CEO.

Posted by: Crusader at August 26, 2025 03:28 PM (TN0g+)

448 >>God I miss gravy.
Posted by: eleven at August 26, 2025 03:26 PM (fV+MH)

I have been craving Biscuits and Gravy for well over a year now.

I refuse to give in as I can get fat, FAST, if I give in to my cravings for Biscuits and Gravy.

Posted by: garrett at August 26, 2025 03:28 PM (Z1dZR)

449 Nood Fani.

Posted by: scampydog at August 26, 2025 03:28 PM (2bFN5)

450 Sardar Biglari, obviously some redneck Klansman white trash.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 26, 2025 03:29 PM (BHrzb)

451 Then: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
Now: Cracker Barrel Fake and Gay

Posted by: wth at August 26, 2025 03:29 PM (v0R5T)

452 I don't do apps. If I have to give away my personal data to patronize a shop, I just find somewhere else to spend my money.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 03:22 PM (0U5gm)
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Just scan the QR code!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 26, 2025 03:29 PM (XeU6L)

453 441 When I was a kid in Southern California we had Chicken Delight delivery.

Posted by: Cheri

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"Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delight!"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 26, 2025 03:29 PM (lMd1l)

454 "Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delight!"
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

That was it!

Posted by: Cheri at August 26, 2025 03:30 PM (oiNtH)

455 Lotus Green:

HTML color code #004225
RGB: 0, 66, 37
HSL: 153.64deg, 100.00%, 12.94%

Running it on a Ferrari: Priceless.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 26, 2025 03:30 PM (0sNs1)

456 Nood. Return of Awestruck and Rex DeQuimm

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 26, 2025 03:30 PM (wBaIH)

457 393 Late to the party, but I came here to say pretty much this. That logo rebrand would not have gotten past initial review from me (four-decade Graphic Designer/Art Director/Print Production pro).

Yes, the core clientele is starting to drop off, but there was no need to do the total rebrand. But it is endemic in my industry — the neotenate queefers took over a long time ago. I just focus on my little slice of the ad world and watch it all go to Hell....
Posted by: goozer at August 26, 2025 03:15 PM (V1MWf)

I would love to see the thumbnails & revisions on the new logo.

I’m sure somebody on the team incorporated the Uncle but it was obviously shot down.

Whoever it was that produced such a logo is probably feeling a little smug right now,

“If you’d only listened to me, we wouldn’t be a meme right now,”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 03:30 PM (6ydKt)

458 Axeman, prayers up for you and for your mother.

Posted by: Wenda at August 26, 2025 03:32 PM (sz3LH)

459 was surprised to read that there are still around 400 Godfather's Pizza locations open. Love their pizza, but that's a competitive field.
Posted by: Crusader

Our local Huck's convenience store has Godfathers pizza.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 26, 2025 03:33 PM (2J/Lj)

460 I wish we had Steak n’ Shakes here.
I’ve heard good things.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
_________

It's the original smashburger. But they're so thin you have to get at least a double.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

French fries fried I beef tallow.

Posted by: Tuna at August 26, 2025 03:38 PM (lJ0H4)

461 This song is a cover of a famous tune. The band Cracker Barrel has decided to cover "Our Bankruptcy Blues" originally done by Po' Folks (Paradoxically, after their manager embezzled all their money, they were called just 'Folks)

Posted by: catman at August 26, 2025 04:00 PM (3Kepb)

462 Sardar is of course correct in the above quotations. Sardar's own speciality lies in managing the bottom line destructively, extracting ALL of the value out of a long standing, beloved company. Then, watching the lion's share of said company's units get closed, fleece morons into buying franchise shares of the barely functioning remaining units. Sardar is a thieving scumbag but he at least knows that you take the money out before you burn the building to the ground.

Posted by: Zhytamyr at August 26, 2025 04:23 PM (cXVOB)

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