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When your whole schtick is nostalgia, but all the folks who remember the things you reference are now dead or otherwise unable to come to your restaurants, you either need to change your schtick, or you need to tap into the nostalgia of a younger generation. There aren’t as many Amos & Andy and Howdy Doody fans on the highways these days.
Or just be happy with the niche. Not everything needs to be global.
But its niche is disappearing, so it either finds a new niche, or it goes out of business. Its niche was always “middle-aged people’s childhood memories,” but how many of today’s middle-aged people grew up listening to radio shows and watching old men sitting around cracker barrels?
Hell, I AM middle-aged, and one of my grandfathers was a sharecropper who eventually started his own corner store, so I SHOULD be exactly their demographic… but my childhood memories are of Charlie’s Angels, Radio Shack computers and Run DMC. Their niche is almost nonexistent now.
That’s a weird way of saying your grandpa never took you to Cracker Barrel.
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Am middle aged too, grew up on nerdy old shit. Don't forget to stock up on Blue Anthracite coal and Chesterfields!
Radium water or nothing! They'll take it away over my dead body!!
Cracker Barrel was never global. It has always been a strictly US phenomenon.
I would totally make it a point to frequent a steampunk themed Cracker Barrel.
If there are, they're probably driving the wrong way on the highway.