Lol.
Boomer oriented company chooses to stay in business for a few more years until boomers are all gone.
I went into a Cracker Barrel once. 90% elderly.
Who gives a shit about a logo??? Companies can do whatever the hell they want with their logos so shut up about it and start asking: WHERE’S THE EPSTEIN FILES???
Were it not for the whiny fucking losers and their incessant bitching and moaning over everything, I wouldn’t have know nor cared.
I still don’t care.
No bigger snowflake than a MAGAt.
I will continue to not care at all about it. Release the Epstein files.
I’m not conservative in the slightest and I thought the redesign was completely ass.
Yes, but did you go unhinged calling it “woke”? The logo was a poor fit and I could get behind it, but so many MAGAs losing it over calling a lame logo “woke”…
“woke”
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The whole restaurant is complete ass.
I am so sick of these whiny snow flake conservatives and their complete lack of self-awareness.
The reaction has been absurd, but their new logo was definitely awful.
It was fine, Jesus Christ
Kinda wish the public had a similar outrage when Fruit of the Loom modernized their logo in 2000, lol
I just wish they didn’t try to gaslight humanity into believing there was never a cornucopia
I’m more upset about Mr Pringle.
Lost not only his hair, but the twinkle in his eye, poor chap.
I don’t think that the old logo is great either, and the update did improve on technical aspects. You don’t want to have all that small text, for example. And generally, simpler logos are preferable.
But…their shtick is a rustic feel. Whatever you can say about the original logo, it did evoke that. I have a hard time seeing the new one doing that.
EDIT: I also think that this compares favorably to another controversial recent rebrand: Musk rebranding Twitter, which was generally seen as not a good idea; Twitter already had a strong brand identity. People weren’t happy and Musk went right ahead with it regardless. At Cracker Barrel, the initial response was “calm down, it’ll be okay”, but they were willing to second-guess themselves, even though I expect that there were people there who were invested in the rebrand.
EDIT2: They’d also done smaller, more incremental changes to the logo in the past, because the “Old Country Store” text had had its typeface changed at some point in the past.
EDIT3: Here’s a more-comprehensive history:
https://dwglogo.com/cracker-barrel-logo/
According to another site, the logo was 1977, not 1997. Which tracks with another article mentioning a marketing person coming up with the design in the 70s
I do find it amusing that the “classic” logo everyone is pining for is from the “ancient” year of 1997…
I think there’s a mistake, other sources say 1977 instead of 1997…
Tbf as weird as it sounds, ‘97 is vintage now
I hate you for pointing that out.
Counts on hands… Oh yeah, it’s over 10 years now isn’t it?
On the long drive to and from vacation last week I noticed the 2024-25 picture used a lot and I thought wait they already have a version without the other stuff and it looks fine so why the hell are they changing it again when its perfectly fine the way it is? My biggest complaint of the newest one was just that it featured no border. It already looked weird, but without that border, it just didn’t work at all.
How was it awful?
Could you tell me what the heck this yellow blob shape is supposed to be?
From a purely graphic design perspective, the classic logo is too busy and doesn’t scale well. The only thing it has going for it is the weirdness of the shape and the distinct color combination. It’s technically a really bad logo. You may not prefer the new logo but, technically, it’s a whole lot better. It’s far more adaptable to newer platforms while stilling being recognizable. Now, as far as being an effective representation of the brand and if that’s a corporate concern, I don’t know that I can comment on that.
In another post about this, someone posted a bunch of other fast food logos, and they all looked very much the same, especially in silhouette. They’re all just a same-y blend of mediocrity, whereas the existing logo was at least unique.
McDonald’s probably has the best and most distinctive logo out of anyone.
Who cares
Yellow blob is obviously a speech bubble.
Its not a speech bubble, its what the awful food will look like coming out on the other end of the tunnel
Lmfao
It’s somebody who sees the white guy and a barrel and said them two together.
The yellow blob is a pinto bean. :)
I thought it was some splooge.
The barrel ain’t just full of crackers
100%, right here.
Who gives a fuck? Let’s focus on the fascist takeover happening in every city in the country, and the billionaires almost completely winning the war on the populace.
Jesus, we’re allowed to think about other things every so often, it doesn’t have to be US politics 24/7
I mean, the headline literally talks about conservative snowflakes, it’s kind of related
Thank god! Now can we get back to the important issues? How’s that WAR ON CHRISTMAS going?
The war on Christmas CANNOT END until Christmas ceases its illegal occupation of November.
We are once again calling on the Claus regime to return to their side of the borders outlined in the Black Friday agreement.
November? I think you forgot to include September and October.
I’ve already fired my first salvo. By now I would have had at least three or four gifts already purchased and ready for the Christmas season. I haven’t even bothered. And I won’t. It’s going to be a lean Christmas and it’s going to hurt the capitalist assholes who are fucking up our country.
So the war on Christmas is odd on a theological and economic level. The secular (pagan?) Side is driven by corporations not the woke left. A fact often ignored by the evangelical right.
So what solution do they even want? A commercial with Jesus on the cross saying he thirts and having a Roman soldier pass him a chilled and refreshing coca cola?
Maybe a nativity where one of the wisemen is like and we got something for Joseph too and hand him a power saw?
Wtf
It started because Starbucks had a disposable cup without the words Christmas on it. It was a generic Holiday cup they used through Nov-early Jan. Suddenly we are under attack! Very stupid.
I think the anger over saying ‘happy holidays’ instead of ‘merry christmas’ predated that, because christians have found a way to get outraged over everything for a looong time. I was pretty happy just this week that dobson died, because focus on the family underpinned a lot of those sentiments that passed through the american christian sects.
I thirt
I just want people to start complaining about “x-mas” again so I can explain very slowly what the Greek letter Chi is.
Good luck with that. The explaining part, I mean.
I’ve had xtians hound me on various forums for using their own abbreviation, LOL. Even after explaining it to them, they’d still get worked up into a poutrage, deny what I told them, which was obviously true, and, at least on Denver Post forums, run to the mods to try to get me banned and/or my posts taken down.
I’ve never seen people freak out so hard over a LOGO change. Jesus, it’s not like they changed the typeface to Comic Sans or Papyrus or some shit!
Nothing wrong with Comic Sans. It’s highly readable for many people.
Jaguar cars: am I a joke to you?
Jaguar was less about the logo and more about that whole marketing campaign. It was like they were doing a cologne commercial and left out the car completely. The logo change was the least of it.
When we did finally see the car, it looked like an AI generated concept, not an actual car. :(
Because everything in the United States has been turned into “us vs them” crap.
It was really shit rebrand though
Bunch of snowflakes wanting their safe space
This is what happens when the media no longer does news but goes begging for clicks with rage bait. All it does is incentivize stupidity and lack of nuance. This country just keeps getting stupider and it’s only going to get worse the way they’re destroying the education system.
Complained about the redesign, isn’t Conservative How dare you insult me like this? I am an American and I will not stand for being called a Nazi.
Was it really conservative backlash? I don’t think anyone liked it, lol.
The general reaction may have been negative, but the conservatives went unhinged accusing the new logo of being “woke”
The news sells better and is more engaging when you put it is conservative backslash instead of just overall negative reaction
Especially on this platform
Non-conservatives give a shit about cracker barrel?
I gotta meet up with the old people in my family somewhere. I’m not having them in my house are you crazy
Have you tried literally anywhere else? Every few years my wife convinces me to try it again and it’s always the worst. Are there really no local breakfast places around?
Some people out there are really reluctant to branch out and try anything different. There’s a million places around me selling the same food but better, but some people just want to go to cracker barrel.
Old people especially, but also some people with, for example, autism, ARFID, etc. can be really picky about where they’ll eat, and sometimes it’s just not worth the aggravation of trying to get them to try something new.
Hell, I have some friends who aren’t even particularly picky who can be reluctant to try out new places. Restaurants aren’t cheap, I can understand being reluctant to spend money on food you’re not sure you’re going to like.
Restaurants aren’t cheap, I can understand being reluctant to spend money on food you’re not sure you’re going to like.
That and sometimes you have to go to the same restaurant a few times until you find the dishes that are good there…
I don’t know. I don’t eat there often, but pretty much everything they make is good. I can’t even think of another place that makes chicken and dumplings… For that style of food, I would always take a higher end one off restaurant in the Carolina. But for something ubiquitous, it is pretty much the only option, and it isn’t as expensive as Shatley Springs or something.
Fortunately, I’ve got a few good diners to choose from
Honestly, I would have tried it again more recently if it weren’t for the fact that they don’t seem to have any interest in accommodating vegetarians at all. Also, I think a few of them closed in Denver area.
LOL, that’s been the only reason I’ve ever set foot in one. People who were very much older in my extended family liked the place…and so for whatever reason, I kind of thought of the place like Grange halls - something the older bunch have an affinity for, but I don’t quite understand how it fits into my life in the here and now. :/
People talked about here a lot, I had never even heard of it before
Uhhh, there’s a shit ton of Cracker Barrels in NY, going to Cracker Barrel for family meet ups and shit was a staple in my family and made precious childhood memories for me, and we’re black as hell. Plenty of non conservatives love CB. There’s a shit ton black people makes jokes online rn about missing the “segregation” vibes of CB.
I will never forget their Coca-Cola fudge cake.
I’m a Leftist Progressive living in North Carolina, and I like Cracker Barrel
Nope
I think I went there twice before they shut down here. I mean, it wasn’t AWFUL. I’d rather eat at a local place though.
https://www.pignpancake.com/our-story.html
I only learned about it when I saw headlines about the backlash that was costing them millions.
My first reaction after figuring out it was not the Onion was…are they still in business? I honestly didn’t know they were still operating. I looked on the map in the Denver area and the one I thought was in Littleton/Lakewood area either is a figment of my imagination, or they closed.
Just from a design perspective, there was too much wasted space
Yes. It was.
[Other Party]’s general population is totally upset about something [Our Party] thinks is good or even doesn’t give a fuck about!
We must be reactionary over the most trivial stupid shit and bicker and deflect from [List of Enormous Issues and Catastrophes], and create a new issue for everyone to point fingers about!
/s
Personally, I think it looks terrible and I’m a die-hard lefty/socialist/liberal whatever you wanna call me. I don’t eat there and don’t give a fuck about them, but this media attention over this “controversy” has pushed me to form an opinion on something I wouldn’t otherwise care about — and honestly if conservatives hate it, then fuck, I agree with them for once because it looks fuckin’ soulless and terrible lol.
Called it. They new coke’d that shit.
