Fox reported this morning (and last night) that one of the CB board members owns a DEI firm, and that might be where the notion to make all these changes started. Who knows?

(08-27-2025 05:09 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Fox reported this morning (and last night) that one of the CB board members owns a DEI firm, and that might be where the notion to make all these changes started. Who knows?

Maybe so, even after most of CB's investors said that the rebrand was a bad idea. Some people just have to learn the hard way though. (And even then, some won't learn at all. lol)

(08-27-2025 05:09 AM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  Okay, Andy. You've convinced me. I need to get Cracker Barrel another chance. I will do just that...someday.

Anyway, Fox News just showed that Cracker Barrel's stock just rose back to over $61 a share as of a couple minutes ago. (So before the opening bell today.) So if y'all bought when it was down, congrats. You made some money.

Well, it's a bit of a niche taste. Southern home cooking. Chicken and dumplings, sweet corn, green beans, cornbread. I grew up on it, but it's not everybody's cup of tea.

And except for breakfast, their food is average, at best.

Months ago, I noticed a few menu changes that didn't seem to fit in, but I didn't think anything more about it.

I wonder if they go ahead with the interior decor changes, or not. I'm not sure how far along they got. I know they started in May.

(08-25-2025 10:59 PM)bullet Wrote:  The old guy was Herschel, the founder. There was a Georgia fan say, it figures a chain based in Tennessee would try to cancel a guy named Herschel!

Herschel Walker in 1980:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nc2XsimM90

Allow me to rant for just a moment on Herschel Walkers NFL career.

Herschel Walker should have threatened to break Walter Paytons rushing record. He was one of the most underutilized players in NFL history for a multitude of reasons and situations.

He initially went to the USFL and ran for 5500 yards in just 3 seasons (INSANE!). When the USFL folded he ended up in Dallas and split time with Tony Dorsett for 2 years. Finally in 1988 he was the sole RB and ran for 1500 years on a 3-13 team (unheard of). Then Jerry Jones bought the Cowboys and the famous trade happened in 1989 that built the cowboys dynasty.

Here is where his misuse really began. Herschel was a power I formation RB and the vikes ran a single back system where they rotated RB's. It was not only the biggest heist in NFL history, it was strategically the dumbest on the field move of all time. He did not remotly fit their system, they were too stupid to change systems to fit him and to top it off he shared time with lesser RB's.

3 years later he was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles. This should have been a dream situation with him at RB and Randall Cunningham at QB, but the Eagles had one of the stupidest head coaches of all time, Rich Kotite. They started off doing it right and ran Herschel out of that power I in 1992 and went 4-0 including a big MNF 31-7 beatdown of the soon to be world champion Dallas Cowboys. For some inexplicable reason they began to abandon the strategy that got them off to a 4-0 as a power run team and morphed back into their old offense and Walkers touches became very inconsistent the rest of the year. They went 7-5 the rest of the way and got creamed in the playoffs by the Cowboys.

1992 was the end of Walkers time as a featured RB, from there he was a pro bowl caliber kick returner for 5 more years. But even as late as 1995 and 1996 you would see flashes of his abilities that were still there even well into his mid 30's.

The sad part is in 1989 he was almost traded to the Cleveland Browns who actually used a run first power ruining offense that Herschel likely would have had mutiple 2000 yard seasons in. But the Vikings offered all those draft picks as compensation if they players they dealt Dallas were cut so Jimmy Johnson jumped all over that retarded trade offer.

If he had went straight to the NFL instead of the USFL and landed on a decent team he very likely would have ended up with 18000+ rushing yards.

(08-27-2025 04:30 AM)TripleA Wrote:  Cracker Barrel scraps new logo design, keeps 'Old Timer' after listening to customers

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/cra...-customers

Hey BTF, Cracker Barrel is claiming they don't microwave their food. This quote at the end the above article:

Quote:Those values, the company said, are "hard work, family, and scratch-cooked food made with care."

Personally, I don't really care, but I have been a customer ever since they opened in the 60s, and I don't believe they microwave their food.

Also, if they do, they sure as hell take a long time to nuke it, even with nobody in the restaurant. Maybe some store manager did that somewhere, but I don't buy it as a normal practice. I nuke food all the time at home. I think I can tell the difference.

They sure as hell don't nuke their breakfast, lol.

Cracker Barrel does not microwave their food. If you want a comparison, middling hotel’s like Hampton Inn use the microwave, or boil, their “free breakfasts” because they do not have a kitchen with a ventahood. Cracker Barrel doesn’t invest tens of thousands for restaurant equipment to turn around & serve microwaved food.

You're wrong Mensa, but you should be used to that.

Cracker Barrel caved. Will these woke mf-ers ever learn?

I like CB and we have one less than 5 mins from our house, but we don’t even go there all that much. If we go get breakfast on the weekend, we usually hit Waffle House or The Hut in Somerville. That’s a pretty good little place. Maybe once a year we drive all the way to Bryant’s, but like everywhere else in Memphis, that area has gotten sketchy. All in all though if I want my favorite breakfast, I go to my grandmas. She’s 92 and can still hold her own in the kitchen. I know I don’t have much longer to enjoy that so I try to do as much as I can although she’d cook for me everyday if I’d let her.


Glad to see that CB caved. Just to put another group of woke losers in their place

(08-26-2025 12:37 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Trump is kind of a dumbarse.


Hail Trump.

He says some pretty dumb things but he isn't stupid, not by any stretch of the imagination. Ivy League educated multibillionaires are rarely ever dumb. Not tommie level dumb anyway.

(08-26-2025 02:59 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  They are spending 700million for this mess.

And no telling how much more to put it all back like it was. If I'm a board member she would have been voted out yesterday.

(08-26-2025 04:15 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  In all fairness, everybody squid knows are stupid, so he has no depth perception.

(08-27-2025 07:30 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 02:59 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:  They are spending 700million for this mess.

And no telling how much more to put it all back like it was. If I'm a board member she would have been voted out yesterday.

Well, the board members probably approved her plan. No way the CEO did all that on her own.

(08-26-2025 04:21 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 04:14 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 04:09 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 04:06 PM)Redbanksdog Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 03:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  They can spin the story just fine. Fire the CEO, state how she moved them in a direction not aligned with corporate values and go back to the old ways.

People are dumb enough to believe the CEO acted alone with NOOOOOOO board member input....

I don't think that will work. There are some stupid people in the world that might believe what you just said but I think most people aren't stupid

yes they are.

You think there are more stupid people ?

you been around in this country? Yea, most are ******* stupid.

I don't know about most. I'm in contact with some pretty bright people daily across the whole city. But you aren't far off because I see people do stupid crap every day, especially when they are driving. That seems to bring out the stupid with a quickness.

(08-26-2025 04:24 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 02:20 PM)Eldonabe Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 12:38 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 12:37 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Trump is kind of a dumbarse.


Hail Trump.

Not dumb. Highly narcissistic.

He is a text book, classic case of narcissism; yet he is still better than anything the Dems can muster up. Sad really....

How many rich successful people don’t have a case of narcissism. The difference I get with Trump is he’s affable and likable. Even those that don’t agree with him politically like him.

Personally most rich people I’ve met are asses.

What I've found out about people in positions of power is their affability increases once they've reached the top. It's the middle and lower managers you have to watch out for. They are still doing everything they can to climb the ladder, including walking all up someone's back to get there. Those at the top have far less worry because they are already there. The only worry for most is staying there which is often far easier than getting there in the first place.

(08-26-2025 04:29 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 04:26 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 04:24 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 02:20 PM)Eldonabe Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 12:38 PM)TripleA Wrote:  Not dumb. Highly narcissistic.

He is a text book, classic case of narcissism; yet he is still better than anything the Dems can muster up. Sad really....

How many rich successful people don’t have a case of narcissism. The difference I get with Trump is he’s affable and likable. Even those that don’t agree with him politically like him.

Personally most rich people I’ve met are asses.

agree, just look at the executive team at Cracker Barrell. I haven't met an executive that still thought like a common man.

I knew one…. Kent Taylor of Texas Roadhouse. A genuine nice guy.

I have two very dear elderly friends, both retired, both very wealthy. One is a well respected retired attorney who just turned 84 on the 24th. He retired last year. He built a distillery and then once it was complete he sold it for millions. That's on top of the millions he'd already made lawyering and farming almost 3000 acres in West TN and Eastern AR. I would lay down my life for that man. He is a man of class and distinction with an affinity for what he calls "normal folks" who is as genuine as anyone I've ever known.

The other is a retired radiologist who owned one of the first imaging centers in Memphis. He installed the first MRI machine in Memphis at Park Avenue Diagnostics and ran that business for years making a ton of money. He sold that and went into trucking. Then he went into the adult entertainment business and bought a strip club or two in Memphis. He's been a source of inspiration for me as long as I've known him. He's a regular joe who grew up in the mountains of East TN with an abusive father in a bad part of that region. The stories he tells about his relatives in that area back when it was pretty lawless will curl your toes. Oh, and he taught me everything I know about shooting pool, he and his twin brother were well known in the sport. He's basically now a one eyed fat man who can shoot from anywhere on the table and make it anywhere on the table AND make it look easy.

I would take a bullet for either of those men. There's are probably not your typical rich guy stories though.

(08-26-2025 04:42 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 12:18 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  They were microwaving frozen premade food long before Covid.

Cracker Barrel does not microwave their food.
There may be frozen pre-breaded items like okra or catfish filets, or frozen prepared mac n cheese, but neither would go in a microwave.

Made from scratch and it still hasn't been good for at least a decade if not longer. If I want breakfast I still love Waffle House. Remember all the CK's around town? Those were the best.

(08-27-2025 07:19 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Cracker Barrel caved. Will these woke mf-ers ever learn?

Not much different than socialism....

Each one that tries it, think they will be the ones to do it right this time.....


Bud Light - nope
Target - nope
CB - nope

(08-27-2025 07:28 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  I like CB and we have one less than 5 mins from our house, but we don’t even go there all that much. If we go get breakfast on the weekend, we usually hit Waffle House or The Hut in Somerville. That’s a pretty good little place. Maybe once a year we drive all the way to Bryant’s, but like everywhere else in Memphis, that area has gotten sketchy. All in all though if I want my favorite breakfast, I go to my grandmas. She’s 92 and can still hold her own in the kitchen. I know I don’t have much longer to enjoy that so I try to do as much as I can although she’d cook for me everyday if I’d let her.


Glad to see that CB caved. Just to put another group of woke losers in their place

Oh the Hut. Had many meals there growing up in Somerville. There used to be a little diner that was nascar themed that had a great breakfast. Can't remember the name of it for the life of me.

(08-26-2025 05:01 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 04:38 PM)fsquid Wrote:  I watched something on one of the financial networks about Texas Roadhouse and their explosive growth since COVID. Was a fascinating story. I'm not a steakhouse guy, so know nothing about them but they are killing Outback and Longhorn.

Kent’s brother Brian was my best friend in school. Kent got a full ride track scholarship to UNC. Brian was like me. He worked and went to school.

In 1991 or 92, Brian asked me if I had 5K and wanted to buy into a restaurant his brother was starting. The restaurant would have a Rocky Mountain ski lodge vibe. It would be called Buckheads. I didn’t have the money. Raising 3 kids at the time. Money was tight.

To make a long story short, Kent finally got his money and started Buckheads. It was a big success.

In 1993 Kent and the same group of guys took the money they made from Buckheads and started Texas Roadhouse in the Greentree Mall in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The rest as they say is history. Every time I go into Texas Roadhouse I think about what could have been.

We lost Brian to cancer a few years ago. Kent committed suicide a couple of years after having complications from the Covid vaccine.

Damn it man. How tragic to live ones life in pursuit of a dream or dreams, fulfill them, and then be cut down before you get to reap the full rewards. When I think in those terms I'm kind of glad I never tried too hard to be one of those guys. My stress level is close to zero, having all that money and being responsible for the safety and happiness of hundreds or thousands of employees could surely take a toll.

(08-27-2025 08:02 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 04:42 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(08-26-2025 12:18 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  They were microwaving frozen premade food long before Covid.

Cracker Barrel does not microwave their food.
There may be frozen pre-breaded items like okra or catfish filets, or frozen prepared mac n cheese, but neither would go in a microwave.

Made from scratch and it still hasn't been good for at least a decade if not longer. If I want breakfast I still love Waffle House. Remember all the CK's around town? Those were the best.

The issue for them is labor. When you are “from scratch” you’re only as good the the kitchen; and most restaurants saw a mass exodus of kitchen personnel during the pandemic & those people found better paying jobs in other industries & never returned. Kitchen staff had been underpaid for years, and Covid exposed it.