Thread 21552621

Here's your cracker barrel bro

It's over, cracker

>Cracker Barrel just discovered sleek, minimalist restaurant trend ten years late

Flyoverland is always depressingly late to the party.

>>21552621 (OP)
Not my cracker barrel.

Looks like something you'd find in a strip mall.

>>21552621 (OP)
so how does this work ivan? you start on /ck/ or some other board, and when you are an expert shitposting moron you graduate to /pol/?

What’s with companies making everything look lame and hipsterish

>>21552621 (OP)
Noice!

>>21552621 (OP)
>Let's copy what TGI Fridays did!
>Why are we losing money?
What ever happen to the expression, of not being broke don't fix it?

>>21552863
some people avoid cracker barrel because it looks outdated and tired. I avoid cracker barrel because the food is shit.

>>21552870
Honestly left looks like shit too.

Boomers are dying!
Quick! Update out restaurant aesthetic to look soulless. Thats what millennials love!

>>21552953
I've been on this planet for a generation more than all you tards have been alive. get over yourselves.

every FF place and restaurant revamps its style ever 10 to 20 years. I mean jack in the box was cringe looking in the 70's. taco bells looked like someone puked unicorn shit in the late 80's.

>>21552979
At least the Memphis unicorn puke was interesting and not sterile.

>>21552994
you know what happened when they changed taco bell to the ugly pastel shit? we went.

oh ok, I guess... yeah so give me a burritos supreme no beans and large pepsi.

no one I know in high school cared one little bit either way.

>>21552979
>every FF place and restaurant revamps its style ever 10 to 20 years. I mean jack in the box was cringe looking in the 70's. taco bells looked like someone puked unicorn shit in the late 80's.
You know the difference with this new """style"""?
There's nothing inviting about it. at all. It's industrial and utilitarian, almost brutalist.

Old designs said "come in and make yourself at home"
This new cubism sits your ass on a metal bar stool and says "hand over the money and get the fuck out"

and then they sit and wonder why they cant keep their customers

>>21553004
>almost brutalist.
no it isn't. it's a place that sells food. get over it.

I go somewhere because the food is good, not because it looks like a yard sale exploded.

cracker barrel has shit food. who cares what it looks like.

this is the worst ad i've ever seen

>>21553004
>Old designs said "come in and make yourself at home"
>This new cubism sits your ass on a metal bar stool and says "hand over the money and get the fuck out"

>>21552621 (OP)
It's cause of their dumb bitch CEO

>>21553009
>no it isn't. it's a place that sells food. get over it.
>I go somewhere because the food is good, not because it looks like a yard sale exploded.
Considering that the stock prices of most chain restaurants keep plummeting, it would seem like your personal opinion is in the minority.
Most people (like me) have stopped eating at establishments because they deliberately change their appearance to advertise that they don't want to do business with me.

>>21552953
i miss old wendys

>>21553037
>i miss old wendys
me too.
I heard stories that the curved windows in the sun room would concentrate the light like a magnefying glass and melt the tables.

>>21552953
All those places are still the same as today it's only in the city or newly developed parts of the town you are seeing the new more efficient designs spring up.

found out flickr has old photos that are nostalgiac

>>21552870
I miss my local fridays so much

>>21553043
There's an architect named Rafael Viñoly who has made five or six large buildings like that. The buildings act like death rays and melt cars and burn people and stuff. He just won't stop making shiny curved buildings. The temperature underneath this thing can be well above the boiling point of water.

>>21552870
My mom is a literal boomer. She's had spinal fusion surgery due to breaking one of her vertebral discs. She literally can't sit on a non-cushioned chair.

This makes me aware that when you walk into a restaurant and all they have are metal chairs, it's pretty much a repellent to anyone over the age of 50

>>21553033
Don't forget the mandatory 30% tip. Oh, and you need to wear a mask!

>>21553068
>This makes me aware that when you walk into a restaurant and all they have are metal chairs, it's pretty much a repellent to anyone over the age of 50
WTF I love the soulless thing now

>>21552953
the switch to nondescript grey cuboids has nothing to do with generational taste.
its because fast food franchising is designed to move in, suck up the money in the area, then move out so the buildings need to be able to be resold quickly. making them grey boxes means its very easy to move out and resell fast

>>21553033
fast food chains are losing money because they've raised prices and cut quality to keep their profits high. it has nothing to do with your imaginary "hateful architecture"
nobody cares if the fast food place is ugly if the food is decent and cheap

>>21552996
Nobody sits down and eats at a taco bell, so nobody gives a fuck what the interior looks like. Anything you order can be eaten in under a minute, so there's no point

>>21554033
Cracker Barrel isn't fast food you fucking mongoloid, it's a sit down restaurant

>>21552621 (OP)
there's a swastika in the flour sifters

>>21552621 (OP)
this is what happens when an entire generation of "creatives" is on SSRIs

>>21554030
It's actually Frankensteined into being easy to clean, cheaper to heat in winter and cool down on summer and cheap to manufacture and repair
It's the same logic they apply to food but applied to building

>>21554459
I don't see it

>>21552870
My boss is unironically a fan of changing things for the sake of changing things

>>21552621 (OP)
Why are they trying to make everything look like it's from Ikea?

>>21552863
You know how companies tend to be late to the party ?
They are in the millenial phase now

>>21552953
It’s all about real estate

>>21554699
yeah because it's a good habit to have in business. if you get complacent and stay stagnant, that's how you die.

>>21552822
>>21552863
It's private equity, they love minimalism because it costs less and anything with soul or character reminds them of how utterly soulless and morally bankrupt they are themselves. They don't care if it drives customers away, they just want to steal from the company's assets and then run it into the ground. Absolute parasites, everyone with a "business" degree should be flayed alive.

It's so if the location fails, the landowner can flip it into a Baskin Roberts or Lenscrafters without much renovation costs. Not hard to figure out

>>21555164
Would either of those businesses fail if they were in a building shaped like a former fast food place with a different paint job?

>>21555136
This is only true if you're a vampire, the businesses which actually survive for decades (or even centuries) are the ones which manage to attract a consistent customer base and then rarely change if ever. Constant growth is inherently unsustainable, you will reach the limits of your market inevitably and then the only place to go is down.

>>21555168
Yeah because no one wants to be in the former pizza hut. But I'm talking about the initial construction. If all you have is a basic cube and the cheapest made walls between rooms, it's easier to renovate. If you're constructing it for a nice at-home appeal, you're constructing it more like a house than an impermanent structure. And I would imagine that liability insurance increases for things like swing seats, wood planters, and so on. It's all corporate cost savings all the way down.

>>21555174
you don't understand
line MUST go up

>>21555174
staying agile doesn't mean constant growth. i should have figured you wouldn't understand. this is why you'll always have a boss.

>>21552878
I've never had either and I routinely conflate them with Waffle House, which is probably very unfair to Waffle House.

>>21555345
"Staying agile" is one thing, completely destroying the parts of your brand customers like in order to cut costs short term or follow a trend is another.

that looks like a burger king from 30 years ago

>>21552953
I am a 38 year old zoomer and I unironically love the newer design. I think it's hella sick

>>21552621 (OP)
Fuck cracker barrel, you can't access their website from outside the us.

>>21555128
>>21554030
It is purely because zoomers think the old appearances are outdated and they know millennial/genx people if they like the restaurant they will keep going there anyways. Sorry millennials, you're no longer the target demographic for foodslop.

>>21555668
Also brown people are afraid to go into Cracker Barrel because they associate old timey stuff with being racist ytppo, and the CEO knows boomers are about to be out the door and the future is beige.

The world we grew up in..... no longer exists

>>21553061
Based
Evil genius grindset.

>>21555103
Oh so companies still think minimalism is cool and not pretentious and boring

>>21555668
>>21555671
Neither of those demographics want to eat "bland ypipo food" or buy kitschy Americana, unless CB is also massively revamping their menu and gift shop they're not getting zoomers or brown people to eat there. Also this is a time when everyone is looking to cut costs, dropping a "nostalgic" restaurant because they made their aesthetic as bland as their food is not a hard choice to make for the average millennial.

>>21555692
Is there supposed to be something hidden in the ice cubes?

>>21555607
>38 year old zoomer

>>21553068
Hell, I'm not even old yet and all these places with wood benches/chairs are hard as fuck on the ass. Literally designed to increase turnover and be anti-human.

>>21555136
Changing things for improvement is good, just changing things blindly is a net negative. Corpo tards don't get the former, so they just roll the dice and hope they don't fall into the latter by accident.

>>21555155
Based

>>21555155
The infinite money glitch of private equity is they buyout a company, deliberately mismanage it into the ground, and shortsell the fuck out of it on the side.

Thus they gain the bulk of their money by harvesting the corpses of the companies they're paid to look after.

In theory, they're supposed to "streamline" the company to make it profitable and successful again.... but that never fucking happens.

Once private equity has a controlling stake, it's all fucking over.

They want Cracker Barrel to fail.... and it will with strategies like this.

>>21555960
Sears, Kmart, Circuit City, Radio Shack, Borders, Chi-Chi's, Chucky Cheese, Red Lobster, Gamestop.... and many, many, others. It's all the same fucking story.

These companies *could* have adapted with the times and changed their business model for success.... but that's not what private equity wanted. They wanted to run them into the ground.

In theory these private equity guys are supposed to be granted large stockholdings, in order to give them a vested interest in the companies success... but they counterbalance that with puts and selling short. It's easier to make a company fail than to make it succeed.

They're literally feasting upon the dying corpse of America. Drinking its blood.

And day by day private equity gobbles up shares in anything and everything. Once they have a controlling share, they run everything into the ground. They're also purchasing all the real estate to make prices as high as possible and make us a nation of renters.

This is what happens when the government works in the interest of their financial backers and not the common man. The government is supposed to protect us from the wealthy steamrolling our society.

>>21555982
These people are smart enough to make their own successful businesses, I don't get why they need to tear other ones down.

I feel it's too complicated to make illegal, but if conservatives are upset about Cracker Barrel changing, and the left is upset about the businesses they like getting ruined, a bill to make this practice illegal should have bipartisan support.

>>21552996
Because you and your shitty high school are a bunch of FAGS

>>21556049
Look up Dodge v Ford. This is the world we live in, where if you don't have a net worth in the billions, you exist to be siphoned and discarded, and companies that mean well LEGALLY AREN'T ALLOWED to do good things for their customer base if it hurts their bottom line.

>>21555982
>▶>>21556049
>>>21555960
>Sears, Kmart, Circuit City, Radio Shack, Borders, Chi-Chi's, Chucky Cheese, Red Lobster, Gamestop.... and many, many, others. It's all the same fucking story.
>These companies *could* have adapted with the times and changed their business model for success.... but that's not what private equity wanted. They wanted to run them into the ground.
>>21555982

Change the nonsense smear 'private equity' to commie via HR infiltrators and you're right, commie infiltrator. You're worse than a NAZI.

>>21556164
it's telling you have no argument other than namecalling like a woman

>>21556164
What the fuck are you on about?

It seems like your post is just a bunch of 4chan buzzwords. Like a very stupid poorly programmed robot trying to emulate the way 4channers talk.

If I thought you were capable of it, I'd like to have you expound upon what you said.... but I know it's just gonna be more of the same.

IF you're a human and not a poorly programmed bot with no regard for making sense; you're clealry a fundamentalist Christian Trump voter..

You know how I know? Because no one is dumber than those idiots. All they do is parrot the latest "two legs good, four legs better" party line of the day with no regard for logical consisntency or even consistency with what they were parroting yesterday.

Get bent, lower primate. Human beings are talking.

>>21555155
>They don't care if it drives customers away, they just want to steal from the company's assets and then run it into the ground
100% this.
Investors can cry to the bank and the govt for bailouts when things go bad.
A lot of them run businesses into bankruptcy on purpose so they can milk the profits, or for cheeky insider-trading shit like
>hey we're renovating
>well i "just so happen" to know a company that can specialise in that
>get $10mil quote for a job that costs $5mil
>keep the difference for themselves
>shit goes bad
>big daddy bank help my investments went under cuz of MAGA
>"no worries, here's $10mil to recoup your losses"
>sends it all to an off-shore tax haven and doesnt pay a cent of tax on any of it

>>21552863
Most shit in most countries has been overtly run by Property Developers for like 20-30 years now.
If you connect the dots long enough everything that's causing problems in society eventually comes back to Property Developers trying to flip land/buildings for a quick buck.
In some countries, even calling them that can land you in court for defamation because calling them a "Property Developer" is considered slanderous.

Its so bad that you even look up politicians, governors and mayors and nearly all of them were either Property Developers themselves or their wives/husbands just so happen to be one.
They're all in it to pass laws to make shit easier for them to profit off.
>t. I live in a small country town where a house & land will set you back 1.2~3.2mil. My job where I work the 1/2 acre block is worth 35mil. My job's landlord doesnt fix shit cuz if the building collapses insurance company will give him a new one and he can flip the whole lot for $70mil prob more.

>>21556049
>I don't get why they need to tear other ones down.
Because number must always go higher at any cost, even if it destroys your business.

>>21555155
partially true

>>21556384
>4channers
You really don’t belong here.

>>21556106
This case explains a lot about Ford’s books.

>>21552621 (OP)
The boomers are gonna be really angry.

>>21555625
Blame GDPR

>>21554455
it's still cheap shitty food.

>>21555714
after I read that article it caused me to look for subliminal shit hidden in ads for years... spoiler, I never found any.

>>21556065
>someone thinks the the food I hork down is not that exciting. DAMAGE CONTROL!

>>21556164
>These companies *could* have adapted with the times and changed their business model for success
radio shack failed because it kept trying to keep up with the times, and also because it's base of hobbyist electronics was dying out and young people are mostly retards now.

>>21552863
>>21552822
>>21552621 (OP)
the real reason, for the logo change at least, is cell phones. Everything is designed to be readable on a cellphone screen now.

>>21553033
well your an idiot because restaurants are about food not hanging shitty old antiques on the wall, and this is from someone who likes shitty old antiques. I could not care less about your bullshit soul/soulless dick sucking. some of the best places I ever ate had no decoration or special anything at all. some people put their soul in the food not the fucking decor shit stain.

>>21555352
waffle house was a place we used as a meeting place when picking people up to ride share back to college, no one except hookers and their johns actually want to eat there.

>>21557238
also printer ink costs. intricate logos consume more ink. capitalist model gravitates towards perfecting misery.

>>21555982
>Sears
killed by the internet
>Kmart
killed by walmart who out cheaped them
>Circuit City
killed by high prices
>Radio Shack
killed by high prices, trying too hard, and no one doing electronics anymore
>Chucky Cheese
killed by cell phones, shitty pizza, and console gaming.
>Red Lobster
mismanagement
>Gamestop
steam

>>21556049
It’s more profitable to be a parasite that hops from host to host
>>21555960
>>21555982
>>21556106
Glad there’s at least one person here who knows what’s happening.
Also a touch of >>21555103

>>21555128
No, you’re about 20 years out of date. None of these companies own their buildings, they sell and then lease them out. Hotels do this as well and are the most prominent example of the change in how franchise businesses operate in this sense.

>>21557195
>GDPR blocks access to worthless corpo sites that are just giant advertisements and exist only to harvest your data
and that's a good thing