How about LGBTQ rocking chairs? "Conservative Activist Drops Damning Receipts Exposing the Full Extent of Disgusting Woke Rot at Cracker Barrel in Brutal Takedown of the Company".
Related Not exactly news: "Business Schools Are Embracing Left-Wing Activism".
Business education’s embrace of social activism is another example of an institution abandoning its core mission. Just as many journalism schools now emphasize advocacy over objectivity and law schools prioritize social justice over legal reasoning, business schools are redefining their purpose from understanding markets to changing society.
This is a category error. Business schools exist to research and teach the principles of successful commercial organization. When they become instruments of social transformation, they abandon their comparative advantage—their expertise in market processes—for areas where their competence is questionable and their legitimacy suspect.
I take issue with the assertion that we're talking about a "category error". It seems to me like a purposeful shift away from the principles of commercial organization along free enterprise lines toward WEF-style new order bureaucratic management, or what I would call "top-down" socialism (which all forms of socialism turn out to be, in truth, those outside of the elite governing class be damned).
I wonder, is their embrace of social activism by choice, or leftist bullying?
ReplyDeleteI saw a picture of the CEO, and it's no wonder that Cracker Barrel is deep in DEI. She's the long lost twin of our current Governor General.
ReplyDeleteI never really liked it, but I grew up in a town of with really good Italian, Greek and German food, chain restaurants did not stand a chance, except for Friendly's. I never understood that. It was like a diner but too clean.
ReplyDeleteI also did not like their cheeses, my father made me a cheese snob. He always had the finest selection of the stinkiest cheeses.
When I was growing up in Cary, NC - mind you, we're talking about more than fifty years ago - I recollect very few chain restaurants. There was a Hardee's, and the service was as bad then as it is now. And there was a Dairy Queen and a HoJo's; the latter served the best hot dogs I ever had in my life. The other eateries were all locally-owned one-offs. As you can imagine, it's a completely different picture now.
DeleteWhen my two best friends and I would occasionally imbibe a little too freely of alcoholic beverages on a Saturday night, we would drive down the road to Raleigh late Sunday morning, to a McDonald's maybe six or seven miles away (McDonald's fries are wonderful hangover medicine). I also recollect once eating at a restaurant in Raleigh - a Your House - which was open 24 hours a day (the chain closed down back in 2019). It was well past midnight, and I scarfed down a good-sized hamburger with fries. Somehow, I still felt peckish, and so I followed that meal up with a stack of pancakes and some sausages. More food than I ever ate at one sitting, before or since. Not entirely sure how I managed to fit behind the steering wheel of my car on that occasion.
My town had, as I recall, 4 24 hour diners.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing like a greasy cheeseburger deluxe with (brown) gravy on the fries or bacon and eggs after last call.
Mmm mmm.