The Refreshment Port at EPCOT is expected to reopen with a new name and updated concept. The quick-service location, positioned near the Canada Pavilion along the World Showcase promenade, will be known as “La Poutinerie.” The description says that the spot will be "a...
In recent reports highlighted by the Wall Street Journal and Restaurant Business, researchers claim to have found that “social media bots” or fake social media accounts were responsible for the backlash against the Cracker Barrel rebrand.
A bill introduced last month by State Representative Sean Patrick Brennan (D-Parma) would require Ohio amusement parks to provide real-time notifications of ride closures. Brennan says the Real-Time Ride Status Notification Act is intended to protect consumers and improve transparency at theme parks, particularly Cedar Point and Kings Island, the state’s largest amusement venues.
Disney Cruise Line quietly wrapped up a surprising promotion this week, one that slashed fares by an eye-catching 40% for select voyages. The booking window closed on September 25, 2025, just days after it opened, and many observers are left asking: why would Disney, long known for holding the line on premium pricing, offer such a steep cut?
On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, Cracker Barrel released its fourth-quarter earnings, reporting a 2.9% revenue decline compared to the same quarter last year and an 8% drop in guest traffic since the attempted rollout of a new streamlined logo in August.
Walt Disney Co. has filed a patent that, if realized, could change how animatronic characters’ faces are displayed in its theme parks. The technology would combine projection systems, sensors, and real‑time rendering to make animatronic faces more responsive.
“Fire The CEO” is the battle cry from Steak ‘n Shake against Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino, so much so that they’ve displayed it prominently on a Nashville billboard in a logo style mocking the attempted Cracker Barrel logo rebrand.
Cracker Barrel posted a video today that showed workers tearing down new “modern” signage to put the classic Uncle Herschel sign back in its place. But the audience is letting Cracker Barrel and its CEO know that this problem never should’ve happened in the first place.
Cracker Barrel is not just undoing its mistake — it’s doubling down on tradition. After one of the most infamous rebrands in recent corporate memory, the family restaurant chain is working overtime to win back the trust of its customers. The new “All the More” campaign is designed to remind America why Cracker Barrel became a roadside icon in the first place: hearty food, rocking chairs, and a taste of old-fashioned comfort.
Amid mounting constraints in its land-based assets, The Walt Disney Company is increasingly emphasizing cruise operations as a scalable alternative. While theme‑park growth faces limitations—such as high operating costs, competition from rivals like Universal’s Epic Universe, and infrastructure saturation—Disney Cruise Line (DCL) has emerged for the company as a viable avenue for expansion.
As of late August 2025, the Rivers of America at Magic Kingdom has been completely drained, clearing the way for removal of the riverboat track and advancing construction of the new Piston Peak National Park land.
Cracker Barrel’s three-year transformation plan, budgeted at $600–$700 million in capital spending, was always going to be a moonshot. Set against a market capitalization that hovered around $1.2–$1.3 billion in late August 2025, the company effectively wagered roughly half of its equity value on a turnaround executed in full public view. That scale alone made the program a very risky endeavor even before the brand-identity backlash of the past week.
SO…as you’ve no doubt heard by now, the new Six Flags (post-merger with Cedar Fair) has had management shuffles and financial losses and is in the process of combining, re-organizing, and, inevitably, closing some of their parks where the two brands basically “over-serve” a given region of the country. All that was to be expected.
But what’s come out that I find fascinating is something that wasn’t popularly noted in news coverage, at least what I saw, but IS being mentioned as almost an afterthought now when it should be the leading fact in many of these closure stories.