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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Why does anyone give a fuck about this shit restaurant…

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world -1 points 58 minutes ago (2 children)
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

It most certainly isn't near good

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

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 26 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Lol, I went to some chain and got the chicken Alfredo, the guy warns me it's a bit spicy. I tell him no worries, bring it on. The thing has like 6 flakes of red pepper on it. I figured he had to warn me bc some Karen complained.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They're doing this JUST to raise attention and get media coverage, as a dying brand that nobody cared about.

There are no more social consequences in the US, as long as you're making someone angry, you're getting attention and thus winning. That's what all of this is, and why all of our political strategies have to change.

The biggest thing you can do to stop corporations from gutting out every last avenue of communication and political action is to simply stop spending money on them. Stop getting doordash and takeout, learn to make your own food. Stop getting coffee and spending money on excesses like games and movies.

Start hoarding the wealth away from the liches and monsters who look at literally everything you do as a money-making opportunity. Dry up the flow of blood and they will start to starve and this will force them to take actions, to kick out their employees in the government and restructure management in desperate attempts to keep line going up.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 69 points 3 hours ago

Real hours.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

In Canada they just make cheese so this thread confused me at first

[–] porksnort@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 hours 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.

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Why was it there to begin with?

[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 3 points 56 minutes ago

They've got decent catfish, potatoes, biscuits with apple butter.

Haven't been in a couple years maybe, but it was good in a pinch & with a variety of food that you can get most people in a group to agree on.

[–] SuperSlueth@lemmyusa.com 4 points 2 hours ago

Those strawberry cheesecake pancakes are so good. I don't think I've tasted anything better.

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 hours ago
[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

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 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

What do words even mean any more?

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Smells more like "lets manufacture some kind of fake outrage to stir up conversation and get our brand name back out there" and of course the country's stupidest segment eats it up.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours 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.

They had a DEI page?

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

Gotta put the pointy hood back on, just so no one sees who you really are. /s