Talk:Cracker Barrel

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[edit] Request for external link addition

  • I would like to make a formal request to add http://www.celtickane.com/programming/code/cracker.php to the external links section of this page. It is my own website, so I wouldn't like to add it myself, but I would prefer that someone else review the website, and make the decision to add it. The link is to a program that shows the reader how to win at the cracker barrel game -- the peg game that is at each table at the Cracker Barrel. --Sugarskane 03:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] No Reference

As Much as I don't like bush and his cronies, the passage about contributing illegal campaign funds has no source, and therefore is just blatant Bush-bashing, and I am going to delete it. Stevo D 18:37, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name Origin

The section on name origin is copied word-for-word from the link given (to http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0204/dictionary_men.asp). This section needs to be rewritten. Edgr 12:35, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the section, it's a copyright infringement. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bias

This article is full of folksy talk obviously added by the company to try to invoke some sort of nostalgia in potential customers. While it may be factual, the ways in which it's been worded are equivalent to advertising and it should be re-written.

[edit] Can someone post more information about the stores themselves?

i understand the racial discrimination content is very important but more information about the stores and the company itself would be useful

[edit] Employees per store

Employees Approx. 150 per store
150??? There can't possibly be more than 20-25 people working any given shift. -76.4.49.201 06:21, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

There can easily be 150 employees per store. I used to work at a restaurant that wasn't even half the size of Cracker Barrel and we had about 50-75 employees. Think of it this way. On any given evening during dinner hours, you'll have about 10-15 servers, at least, since they can only handle a handful of tables at a time without dragging too much. Let's say you have seven cooks and three dishwashers. There's ten more. Three managers (they'll never go below two during busy hours). Five hostesses. Four people at the cash registers. Two people restocking the store. Four bussers/people to keep the restaurant clean. We've got 38-43 people. In one shift. They have at least two shifts. Most employees are part time and/or don't work every day so they have to have extra people to account for that. Just because you can only see a handful of employees at a time, it doesn't mean that's all the restaurant has. --pIrish 14:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Source

Here is source for the second paragraph in the controversy section. http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=14783&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm

[edit] Vegetarian Options

The article implies there are not vegetarian options, but my wife is a vegetarian and when she goes to cracker barrel she gets the vegetable plate. She does have to be slightly careful because some of the vegetables are cooked in meat juices, but I think it is worth mentioning. Source: http://www.crackerbarrel.com/menu-vegsides.cfm?doc_id=901 Marsman57

[edit] Anti-Gay Policies

Anti-gay policy actually was issued in 1991 after a customer complaint. Does not mention that 11 were fired and as many as 20 were believed to have been fired under the policy. All is quite amazing for a large modern day American company that is other than a church From the Advicate: Cheryl Summerville worked as a backup cook at a Douglasville, Ga., Cracker Barrel restaurant for nearly three years. And though she says she never made a point of coming out to her coworkers, she didn't hide her sexual orientation either. In fact, she says, she often spoke of her life partner, Sandra Riley, at work, and nobody seemed to mind. Actually, she says, her colleagues regularly asked how Sandra was doing. So Summerville says she was stunned when she learned that Cracker Barrel had issued a memo stating that people who did not demonstrate "normal heterosexual values" could not work for the company. Though she says her immediate manager did not want to fire her, a district manager did. The reason for termination on her separation papers read, "Employee is gay."