i[Cracker Barrel Is Making A Major Change & Customers Are Freaking Out: 'This Ain't It'

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[–] 98 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That wasn’t Jesus in the parking lot, man.

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  • [–] 81 points 1 year ago (19 children)
  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Lmao they got rid of the cracker and the barrel

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The barrel is still there. The background is a barrel.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    What? How is this any « woke » even for the MAGA lunatics ??

    [edit]: Apparently the company had a diversity / non-discrimination campaign in recent years. It explains.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    They had a DEI/nondiscrimination campaign because of several high profile stories where restaurants were accused of racism (black diners being asked to move away from seats visible from the entrance, at least one black person being told "we don't serve your kind" or words to that effect.)

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Tbf the old logo is much better

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's following the modern trend of flat clean lines. I'm getting rather sick of it TBH

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I think so too. I don't see why they had to change the font, at least the C had character. Now it's the most boring plain forgettable font imaginable and black at that. It's like they didn't even try.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, it's less visually noisy, but that's it?

    This dude's willing to go to arms over this?

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  • It makes the size of the logo versus the text look like nothing but wasted space. Hell, versus the text portion, it looks like MORE extra space is used than the old logo, ony with zero charm or familiarity to show for it.

    If they wanted to re-brand as a truck-stop, merge with Love's, don't just rip-off their color-scheme minus the Heart.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago

    Another chapter in "Everything i do not like is woke"

    The new design is minimalistic slop, for sure. But why would i give a fuck about a companies logo. Honestly we should not even be reacting to this bait.

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  • [–] 110 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    Cracker Barrel Remodel - Old vs New

    I'm not an American and I've only seen this logo a couple of time but I'll be completely honest - this remodel fucking sucks.

    I despise minimalism and these transitions from oldschool cool to these post-modernist corporate garbage. And that's definitely one.

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  • [+] 11 points 1 year ago* (7 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They are getting rid of the old school Americana vibe they had.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don't get it because it's "old school Americana"^tm^. It's a fucking national company. If you really care about old school americana you would be visiting local diners that have been established for decades, not some incorporated theme park of a restaurant. I can't take anyone serious that's upset about this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    It’s all the kitschy stuff that gave it a sense if self and without that it’s a crappy chain diner.

    IDK if anyone should be apoplectic over this but I get why some feel a loss due to this change.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I guess it's even weirder for me because this is the only kind of group that would complain about something like this with all of the people in the scene going crazy over it. If Hot-topic changed it's store appearance, I wouldn't expect to see NOFX coming out making statements. Some people might gripe for nostalgia but they're still selling the same shit and the corporate stores were never the actual true spirit of the scene.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think some people look at their local chain diner the way some look at their local mom and pop restaurant and have nostalgic ties to that time/place. Not everyone lives in God’s Land, New Jersey, and has a plethora of actual diners to go to.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Suppose that could be the case. I live in an area which still has some mom and pop places (or at least are locally owned and operated) but that's being shortsighted in regards to the rest of the American states as I've traveled less in my older years.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    what that's why everyone is bitching about it? like THAT?? how is that "going woke"? i guess woke is when you sans-serif.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean it still has serifs its just losing the old guy, the barrel, the outline and the flourish on the K

    Honestly, I can see why an old guy with his hand in a barrel might be off putting for a restaurant theme

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If they had removed the old timer and the barrel but left the asymmetrical shape behind the text just as it was, then they might have been on to something.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

    I'm confused. The new logo is great, or it's shit, I don't care. But what does it have to do with wokeness? Did the old man sitting by the barrel start sucking dick on the billboard? Has he transitioned? Does the new logo secretly spell out black lives matter in invisible ink? It's just the name in a sort of blob? How is this political? What am I missing here?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Woke doesn't mean anything specific more, it just means "thing I don't like." So when somebody says they want to end wokeness, they mean they want to remove everything they don't personally approve of.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I've been messing with the idea of stealing this from them. Just call everything I don't like woke 🤷🏾‍♂️

    Racism is woke now. Misogyny is woke. Conservative Christianity is woke. Trump is woke. Just give them the whole word and confuse the hell out of everyone.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Perhaps he feels the original logo depicted a white cishet male, and thus the new one is erasure.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Come-on everybody knows that barrel is full of dildos pickled in anal lube.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The new logo is definitely worse, I'll give them that.

    Just typical corporate mediocrity.

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Wtf does « gave my life to Christ » means in that situation? Did mf get baptized in the parking lot??

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    i think he gave a life altering blowjob in that parking lot

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Only Baptists baptize, and it's literally dunking your whole body into water. We had a huge tub behind the pulpit, it was about three feet deep and 12'x8'. I can't imagine that happening in a Cracker Barrel parking lot, unless it's one of those pool-in-a-pickup-truck-bed situations.

    "Giving your life to Christ" is basically what it sounds like. An often emotional moment in which you make a personal commitment to the Biblical idea of Christ and his teachings. Think of it like an epiphany.

    Edit: my bad guys, I got the terminology wrong about which sect of bigots have wet tshirt contests.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Only Baptists baptize

    Uh, can you clarify what you mean by this?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Only Baptists baptize

    No, absolutely not. Baptism is arguably the most important sacrament for all christian churches! Where I'm from, the catholique baptism is typically done for babies by gently pouring water on their forehead. Ofc it's less spectacular than the "full immersion" baptism by the Baptists (also used by the pentcotalists as well btw).

    But anyway, none of that make sense to be done in a parking lot. Reading the other comments, I like the idea that the dude got suddenly touched by grace after eating a gross fish meal at Cracker Barrel!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Baptisms aren't just a Baptist thing, though they generally put more weight behind it than most other denominations that do it. At least from what I've seen.

    I was Pentecostal growing up, and a few times a year- generally around Christmas and Easter- they'd do an open baptism and anyone who wanted could get dunked. I went to one church without that big tub behind the pulpit you're talking about- they'd do it in the river nearby. Cold as hell in the winter.

    Basically every brand of Christianity that I'm aware of has some form of baptism, though the exact way it's done varies a lot.

    Matthew 28:19 is, "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit"

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    This isn't "woke", this is the corporate trend of oversimplifing logos no matter how much people liked the old ones.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I mean aside from it basically being in the name and having never seen a non pink person there... ever, there's these

    2004... https://sanfordheisler.com/case/discrimination-harassment/cracker-barrel-race-discrimination-class-action/

    https://aaregistry.org/story/restaurant-chain-admits-racism/

    2025... https://aflegal.org/press-release/america-first-legal-calls-for-federal-and-state-investigations-into-cracker-barrel-over-unlawful-and-discriminatory-employment-practices/

    But like I said it's in the name dude. If you don't look like a cracker they'll put you over a barrel.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)
  • in the 90s there was a Denny's near me. When you were just in the door, in front of the counter, if you looked up, there was a swastika drawn on one of the ceiling tiles. It was, reportedly, there for like 4 months. Thing is, you basically would have to work there, or do this in a way the employees would definitely see. So they were cool with it.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It’s not just the logo, they’re remodeling the inside to be more “modern”. The kitschy americana vibe was the only reason people go there.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    According to people I know who worked in the kitchen there, the correct reason to go to cracker barrel is actually their biscuits and gravy.
    The cheapest way for them to make 'em is from scratch. Everything else is premade bags and mixes, but the biscuits and gravy are made fresh a few times a day.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Cool story, bro. Where are the Epstein files?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Conservatives crying buckets of tears over a corporation's new logo is my kink.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have no idea if this actually matters but, as a former printer, the new logo is easier and cheaper to produce. The print plates will be cheaper and the lack of thin lines mean it will be more durable too. The wide open spaces mean that the alignment between the brown and orange doesn't need to be perfect anynore (less waste).

    It might be a terrible design for a logo (I don't know, not my area) but it's a good design for printing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I mean yeah, but as a consumer I don't want to look at a bunch of bland logos with no detail everywhere I go. It's boring. I don't care how hard they are to print. People have been printing complicated shit for decades. Figure it out. (Not you figure it out, them figure it out).

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I remember getting on my knees for Jesus in the cracker barrel parking lot.

    Life made so much more sense once his warm love filled me.

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