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Here, Gizmodo. Let me fix that title for you.
"Almost half the upset tweets on the most bottidden platform (twitter) about Cracker Barrel were likely from bots."
Realistically, the upset was probably more about how the new logo came on all of a sudden, was very plain, and like how coca cola found out with new coke in the 1980s, it's not necessarily that people love cracker barrel. It's a part of their nostalgia they grew up with. They went with Grandma and Grandpa growing up. It was a special little stop on a family vacation to eat. They liked looking at the toys and candy in the gift shop and it was so weird and cool they had a store in the restaurant. It can be a company nightmare to screw with a logo that's been around for decades that could have memories attached to it.
Especially the new one is pretty lame.
Exactly. I've been to Cracker Barrel maybe 2 or 3 times. I think the food is decent, especially since I didn't grow up eating southern style food. I'm not really nostalgic for it, but will prefer stopping there over a fast food place if it's near where we're going to stop anyway on a road trip (i.e. to get gas).
The new logo sucks, and it looks like they ripped off Denny's. Likewise the interior redesign completely kills the soul of the place. Crack Barrel isn't a cool hunting lodge or something, it's a place to get home-style cooking (or what I imagine southern-style home cooking to be like) away from home, so it should feel like eating in a kitchen, not a lodge. The store is like the box of toys and puzzles and whatnot grandma and grandpa would have on the coffee table while food is getting finished up and really adds to the vibe.
I don't really care all that much about Cracker Barrel though. It's not a place I'd ever go out of my way to eat at, but it's still a decent option when I'm hungry and tired.