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[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 157 points 9 months ago

Real hours.

[-] Zorsith 125 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've always associated cracker barrel with "angry old white people who think black pepper is spicy" and their meaner variant, the post-church crowd. so... not particularly surprised?

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 53 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I’m more surprised they had any sort of DEI language to begin with (of course it was clearly just pandering, so).

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

All companies expressing any political meta is pandering.

Any adherence to a political meta isn't a testament of their values, it is a testament of their customers' values.

Companies want the money of their customers' and they will say or do anything they think will keep making them money.

If you think any company supports DEI or LGBTQ issues genuinely, I have a bridge to sell you.

[-] BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online 3 points 9 months ago

Right? I mean... It's right there in the name.

Crackers gonna cracker

[-] TheAlbatross 44 points 9 months ago

Dying restaurant flails wildly to try and recapture relevancy oozing away from it like blood from a stuck, bloated corpse.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I don't really think they were doing very well even before the poutrage over the logo.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

"Poutrage". Lol, I've gotta remember that one

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

I read it as poot-raj at first, thinking it was some borrowed French word I was unfamiliar with 😆

[-] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 37 points 9 months ago

Will also quietly remove Cracker Barrel from my restaurant possibilities. Okay, maybe not so quietly.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Why was it there to begin with?

[-] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 8 points 9 months ago

They have pretty good breakfast, but would only occasionally eat there.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 35 points 9 months ago

LOL, that corporate performative stuff never meant much as far as being "allies" to anyone.

[-] Entertainmeonly 18 points 9 months ago

No, but it sure is telling recinding those policies at this time.

[-] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 28 points 9 months ago

Aaaaand there it is.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

This has to be on the top 10 dumbest moral panics in history

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 8 months ago

conservative panics to be exact. just like with the tan suit panic, the djon mustard one, gay and satanic panic, plus aids panic.

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[-] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

You can't have Cracker Barrel without crackers.

[-] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Welp, not goin to cracker barrel ever again.

[-] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 15 points 9 months ago

Hey guys, people didn't like the logo change. Maybe we try to get MAGA people in here?

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Pretty sure the MAGA crowd was always their biggest user base. This smells more like ‘maybe if we double down, they’ll forget about the logo and come in more’.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

I still find it hilarious that people think the logo change was "woke".

What do words even mean any more?

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago

In reality: woke = having social empathy.
In their world: woke = whatever I don’t like.

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[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 3 points 9 months ago

Oh that's easy, woke is when uninspiring logo design

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[-] porksnort@slrpnk.net 11 points 9 months ago

Anyone who has ever worked in a kitchen or as a server knows that they are wall-to-wall queer-friendly. If Cracker Barrel has trouble now keeping things staffed (they will), this is why.

Kitchen people are often woke af because they have had to be to survive.

[-] rayyy@piefed.social 9 points 9 months ago

Look around a lot of businesses are grasping at straws. They are offering specials and discounts galore, unless it is beef, produce, electronics or foreign imports. The logo change was a cry of desperation. Unfortunately they will lose business no matter what now.

[-] kerrigan778 9 points 8 months ago

Just watch me as I continue to never go to a cracker barrel ever in my life because of how fucking irrelevant they are. I don't even know where the nearest one to me would be.

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Ah, I see going back to late 90's full blow racism. Looking forward to seeing nooses back as part of their decor then and how we'll they'll do with their only MAGA base.

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 8 points 9 months ago

Always appease the fascists and far-right nutjobs, then they will totally leave you alone once in power...

Oh, wait. They actually won't..

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Very funny. Clearly the issue was "woke" and not terrible marketing decisions, and this will fix everything

[-] londos@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Someone tell Dolly.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

another collaborator for the Hague

[-] IWW4@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 months ago

Why does anyone give a fuck about this shit restaurant…

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago
[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

It most certainly isn't near good

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

For me, it's because they're cool with travelers staying a night, and the food is good enough.

[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 5 points 9 months ago

This is exactly the kind of thing I’d expect from the people that ruined Brad's wife's life.

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[-] JusticeForPorygon 4 points 9 months ago

They had a DEI page?

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago
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[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Corporations shouldn’t be putting that stuff up anyway. They don’t need to act like person and present cultural values.

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