Thread 21553271

Instant sensation. On brand. Great publicity.
This wasn't hard folks..

That dosen't sound bad

>>21553271 (OP)
Get your shitty insincere politics off my board faggot

>>21553271 (OP)
This sounds cool but does this guy know what "modernism" is? Why is this getting buzzworded by people that don't know what it means?

>>21553271 (OP)
people don’t want to run restaurants they just want to be the center of attention.

Sysco doesn't give restaurants free potatoes

>>21553424
>what "modernism" is?
Jews

>>21553584
That's also not what modernism is. You're thinking of Judaism.

>>21553298
>>21553424
Fiddle on friday nights is probably the best idea. The plaid and long skirts for a free potato should also be on fridays only. The 3+ children with both parents discount is a good idea but to me it kinda comes off as a little weird, can't exactly put my finger on it as to why but yea. American history night could be neat but I have no idea how it'd really fit in. I'd personally make the prizes simple things like a $5 gift card, free soda or candy in the gift shop, a t shirt, stuff like that.

>>21553271 (OP)
How do you prove a family is a family?

>>21553999
You take blood tests at the door

>>21553271 (OP)
>we won

No they didn't. lol
This Cracker Barrel logo nonsense is pathetic. No one made anywhere near this much noise when they changed all the sports teams from their offensive names. Why is this taking root??

>>21553658
These "trad" families don't really exist. No one wants some rural ignorant "hoe down" like fucking Hee Haw. No one likes the "fiddle". In classy society it's a *violin*.
This stuff is laughable. Just a way for rightwingers on social media to express how "folksy" they are.

I hate those fucking assholes. Join the 21st century FFS.

>>21553271 (OP)
All of this gimmicky shit isn't going to get people in the door, you need to fish where the fish are. Go to county fairs with new items, give out coupons there. Actually engage with people like the whole restaurant schtick is supposed to be

If I were in charge of Cracker Barrel and had to answer to investors to deliver better returns than other investment opportunities I would do exactly what she did. Get the fuck out of the space of actually having to deal with customers, convert your roadside/interstate exit property into more broadly leasable space for other goyslop brands then make a managed decline & exit to deliver investors a payday.

Aging clientele, very difficult to negotiate with Sysco or US Foods these days, the cutesy stores are a pain in the ass to keep up and most of the customer base interested in this experience will go somewhere ACTUALLY local with ACTUAL character.

So just burn it to the ground and let it become a Chipotle in 3 years. Of course you cant literally do that across all locations, that’s insurance fraud, but this is the next best thing.

>>21554009
not at all related to your post but it bugs the hell out of me that the guy in your pic is used as a standin for "retarded ruraloid"
that guy spent his life working on sustainable farming practices and soil restoration projects so people in the future will still have a way to grow crops. yes he has the affect of some country bumpkin but he wasn't stupid or anything like that.

How about you just focus on good food?

>>21554009
based. these people who wish to go back to 1890 can suck a big fat dick

>>21554058
>sustainable farming practices and soil restoration
this sounds awfully progressive are you sure he's one of us

>people aren't coming in as much
>"i know let's lower the quality of the food and make it look like every dime a dozen hipster cafe, that'll reel people in"

How about making the food good again? That would have been a start.

>>21553999
That's really fucking easy. You just let any party with two adults and 2 kids under 18 be counted as a "family" so that people will grab their friends and come over to game the system in their view. In reality, the money you make getting 2-3 more butts into seats will be greater than what you'd lose for the deals you put in place. Make it the explicit policy that "you can choose your family, even if it's just for a meal."
The guy in OP's screencap wants to make it a political virtue signal, my way is the non-retarded way that won't piss off a bunch of people needlessly. Pissing off a bunch of people needlessly is how they got into this mess to begin with. He just wants them pissing off the side he hates when the real answer is just appealing to more people WITHOUT pissing others off unnecessarily.

>>21553271 (OP)
I wear thick rimmed glasses, and I don't want to be associated with any social or political movement. What should I be wearing instead?

>>21554254
balorama's, because clint eastwood wore them

>>21554256
but how will i see when it's dark

>>21554265
not my problem

>>21554265
Your fusion nvg setup, of course.

…

You DO have one, right?

>>21554164
>one of us
says the guy on the wrong board

>>21553271 (OP)
>fiddle
Im a sample size of one but I specifically avoid a local restuarant I like on Friday nights because they started doing live blues music and I fucking hate the blues

>>21554008
I think it got mind virused at like an AIDS 1980s power level. As far as I can tell, its a racist image and now we got rid of it. But because anything that appears to affect White people has to be quelled because "muh we have such a narrow amount of stuff and its all going away" even if the other stuff was all other races stuff but who cares right?

>>21553271 (OP)
>Black history month
Only black people allowed inside
>Single women with children get a discount on the children menu item and alcoholic drinks
>Salad bar with dressing fountain
>Seniors discount on weekends

>>21553271 (OP)
Burgers sperging out over pants commercials and Cracker Barrels. I love this country. Normies getting butthurt over trivial shit and trying to put their own partisan political spin on it never fails to be funny.

>>21554313
Who has stated it was a "racist image"? The politically-obsessed people are forcing this to be some sort of "wokeness" type thing when it's nothing more than like Federal Express becoming FedEx or Kentucky Fried Chicken moving to KFC.
No one gave a fuck about Cracker Barrel a month ago and that's WHY they're rebranding.

>No!! You're destroying MY CULTURE! We wanted to bitch about Land O' Lakes but we couldn't. This is libtard elitists trampling this puritan white heritage we all still embrace!! The sky is falling!!

>>21554195
Far too reasonable a suggestion. There's less outrage to be had which means fewer "clicks". Everything is about clicks and views and the almighty "algorithm"; that magical math which chooses what you see.

What a bunch of pointless fucking nonsense. I hate social media and the smartphone internet age. I preferred when the mouthbreathers had no voice no interest in anything outside their stupid, sad little lives.

>>21554058
Yeah, I'm guilty as well of painting the other side in a less than respectable light. I have no disrespect for farmers. The ones who actually do soil restoration and understand science are obviously not drooling retard MAGAfags. Sometimes an image gets more eyes on a post.

>>21554340
I didn't mean any offense to you, personally. I assume nobody knows who that guy is beyond the meme, and the difference between how the meme presents him and the real person is so stark I can't help but comment when I see people post it

>>21554009
95% of the trad fags on the internet (well, here) are larping. i mean, you can just tell how they write that there's no way in hell they're married. the 5% who aren't have wives that need a fuckin horse trailer to be moved around, and kids who will grow up to absolutely resent them

>>21553271 (OP)
RETURN TO TRADITION

>>21554329
its like all twitter, dude. corporations STILL haven't figured out that twitter users don't represent most of the population
the vast majority of the population doesn't give a flying fuck. i bet nobody in this thread has been to a cracker barrel in the past decade, at least
i know i haven't since i was a kid

>>21553271 (OP)
Just let me get the turkey dinner on any other day, but Thursday.

>>21553271 (OP)
>destroy your revenue stream by giving everyone 20% off
>destroy your revenue stream by costing yourself $1.50 by giving people free potato
>destroy your revenue stream by giving military and first responder discounts
>waste $50k per year at each store to hire a fiddler
>spend even more money on quiz prizes and more staff to run them
>make your input costs even higher by switching to beef tallow frying for no reason
How quickly would this moron run the company into the ground? I'm not sure it'd last even 6 months.

>>21554008
It's not about the logo, it's about the interior and food changes. But you knew that before you made your disingenuous reductive post.

>>21554533
>>destroy your revenue stream by giving everyone 20% off
Make it on special occasions
>>destroy your revenue stream by costing yourself $1.50 by giving people free potato
Someone suggested just on fridays, I think that's fine
>>destroy your revenue stream by giving military and first responder discounts
You should see how they act when they don't get their special discounts
>>waste $50k per year at each store to hire a fiddler
Differentiation
>>spend even more money on quiz prizes and more staff to run them
I agree that's stupid, it doesn't fit and nobody wants to watch someone else's kid autistically rambling about the civil war
>>make your input costs even higher by switching to beef tallow frying for no reason
That wasn't in the tweet so I can only assume you made it up

>>21554559
>Make it on special occasions
Now no-one shows up any time except the special occasions. Good job!
>Someone suggested just on fridays, I think that's fine
That's still cutting profit on your busiest night.
The tallow thing was in another tweet. It's also yet another maga dogwhistle culture war so you can expect that anyone conservative talking about food will use this talking point going forward.

>>21554559
>>21554533
The trivia thing is ironically the most reasonable thing to do on that list, sports bars and breweries will just have an employee do them from a question bank once a week and it takes maybe 3 hours total if you drag it out. They use it to drum up business in the middle of the week from people who are into that sort of thing. Those types of people tend to be very loyal customers if trivia is on the table, and it's for the trivia not the alcohol. The biggest issue with that as suggested in the OP screencap is limiting it specifically to american history. You need to broaden it out. There's plenty of topics adjacent to this sort of thing that boomers would enjoy.
Hiring someone who can play a fiddle(this is not an easy instrument) is a much harder swing than having a random employee read trivia questions for half their shift Wednesday night. Attempting to hire fiddlers en masse is a fucking stupid move.
Giving out free potatoes should be on slow weekday nights, not Friday.
Giving discounts to first responders and military is a good idea for PR and loyalty, just don't give out too much shit and ensure that what you gain outweighs what you lose.

Some of the screencap's ideas are workable with substantial changes, others are just dogshit culture war nonsense.