(NEXSTAR) — Cracker Barrel’s latest makes an attempt to introduce a brand new emblem didn’t go over so properly with its most vocal critics, prompting the corporate to revert again to the outdated emblem on Tuesday.
A few different latest modifications to the Cracker Barrel web site, nonetheless, have largely gone below the radar.
White Home claims credit score after Cracker Barrel reverts emblem
As reported Thursday by shops together with The Advocate and CNN, Cracker Barrel’s web site seems to have eliminated a “Pride page” referencing the corporate’s LGBTQ+ Alliance and its staff’ participation in previous Pleasure parades in Nashville, in keeping with a web-based archive of the positioning. There was additionally a web page outlining the corporate’s variety and inclusion efforts, which is now not energetic.
“We are increasing our focus on leadership development and mentorship programs to better identify, recruit and advance strong, racially and ethnically diverse talent,” the webpage had learn, in keeping with the archived model.
Each webpages had been energetic for a number of years, the Wayback Machine, an web archival device, suggests.
On one other web page touting the corporate’s “culture of belonging,” Cracker Barrel additionally seems to have eliminated a listing of employee-led enterprise useful resource teams providing alternatives to Black, Hispanic, LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent staff, amongst different teams. It was unclear if these useful resource teams or alliances had been nonetheless energetic, regardless of their data being faraway from the positioning.
A consultant for Cracker Barrel was not instantly out there to touch upon the web site’s modifications or after they came about.
In an announcement to CNN, a spokesperson for Cracker Barrel mentioned the corporate “recently” eliminated “out-of-date content” from the positioning. Concerning the enterprise useful resource teams, Cracker Barrel mentioned it made modifications to “focus all sponsorships or events on our corporate giving initiatives: addressing food insecurity, supporting community needs through food, and reducing food waste.”
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Most of the parts faraway from the Cracker Barrel website — speak of DEI, and LGBTQ+-inclusive language — have been targets of criticism from conservative politicians and media. President Donald Trump, notably, has made efforts to roll again protections for the LGBTQ+ group and take away recognition and rights for transgender people. He has additionally put strain on companies to drop their DEI initiatives, and threatened to withhold funds from schools that maintained their DEI applications.
Maybe not surprisingly, Trump additionally joined critics of the extra minimal Cracker Barrel emblem in calling for the return of the outdated one. The White Home later took credit score when Cracker Barrel finally scrapped the brand new emblem and embraced the older one.
