{"id":7880,"date":"2025-10-27T00:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7880"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:55:15","slug":"cracker-barrel-ceo-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7880","title":{"rendered":"Cracker Barrel CEO Path"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Cracker Barrel Faces Backlash Over New Logo and Viral Claims<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A viral post falsely claimed that Cracker Barrel\u2019s CEO said, <em>\u201cMAGA doesn\u2019t have to eat here.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the company told <em>Newsweek<\/em> that its \u201cvalues haven\u2019t changed\u201d and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that the quote circulating online is not from any official source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The controversy erupted after the Southern-style restaurant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>unveiled its first logo redesign in nearly 50 years, part of a $700 million rebrand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new look, described as being \u201crooted even more closely to the iconic barrel shape,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>sparked backlash from some conservatives who labeled it a \u201cwoke rebrand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics like Rep. Byron Donalds posted, \u201cIt\u2019s time to Make Cracker Barrel Great Again,\u201d while others mocked the outrage online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cracker Barrel emphasized that \u201cUncle Herschel remains front and center\u201d and reaffirmed its focus on hospitality and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the uproar, the company maintains the update honors its heritage rather than changing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cracker Barrel Faces Backlash Over New Logo and Viral Claims A viral post falsely claimed that Cracker Barrel\u2019s CEO said, \u201cMAGA doesn\u2019t have to eat here.\u201d However, the company told Newsweek that its \u201cvalues haven\u2019t changed\u201d and that the quote circulating online is not from any official source. The controversy erupted after the Southern-style restaurant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7882,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7880\/revisions\/7882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}