Cracker Barrel CEO Resigns After MAGA Meltdown

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The CEO of the southern-style casual restaurant chain Cracker Barrel is stepping down less than a year after major MAGA figures https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-loses-it-over-new-cracker-barrel-logo/" rel="">lost their minds over the company’s brief logo redesign.

The company unveiled a new logo last summer that eliminated its distinctive old man sitting by a barrel, a design choice that CEO Julie Felss Masino said was supposed to make the chain https://www.thedailybeast.com/cracker-barrel-ceo-explains-logo-change-that-drove-maga-nuts/" rel="">more visible on highway billboards.

But members of the MAGA-verse, including Donald Trump Jr., blamed the move on “soulless” corporate branding—and Masino’s supposedly woke ideology.

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