8.23.25
“Robby Starbuck Exposes Cracker Barrel’s Direct Links to WOKISM”
From Donna Garner
[COMMENTS FROM DONNA GARNER: When multi-thousands of people across the U. S. first started lambasting Cracker Barrel recently, I thought perhaps the public had been given false information.
Not so…
Because of people such as ANTI-WOKE-CRUSADER Robby Starbuck, I now know that the management of Cracker Barrel for years has been making a concerted effort to push America into the LGBTQ agenda and into WOKISM.
Here is the link to Robby’s video in which he lays out the facts (and names names) about Cracker Barrel and their far-leftist agenda: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377293683112
He says Cracker Barrel’s sole intent is to drive the leftist agenda deeply into our culture.
Cracker Barrel’s management has even gone so far as to display rocking chairs with rainbow colors and LGBTQ+ insignia in their corporate office in Tennessee.
Robby Starbuck has been responsible for successfully “outing” the WOKE agenda in major companies such as John Deere, Target, and Harley-Davidson.
Please go to this website to learn more about Starbuck and the facts about Cracker Barrel and its harmful agenda:
The Robby Starbuck Show: https://robbystarbuck.com/about/
Robby Starbuck, a famous millennial music video director, says that the biggest blessings in his life are being the Christian husband of Landon Starbuck for 17 years and getting to be the proud father of four children.]
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8.23.25 – Fox News
“Conservative Activist Slams Cracker Barrel: Company Left Reeling After Logo Redesign”
By Rachel Wolf, Fox News
Excerpts from this article:
Anti-woke crusader Robby Starbuck released a devastating video takedown of Cracker Barrel's leadership, making the case that the restaurant's logo and decor change are the culmination of a years-long campaign to cater to the far Left and abandon the values of its middle-America customer base.
Starbuck, who has brought major companies including John Deere, Target, and Harley-Davidson to heel by exposing their woke policies, described Cracker Barrel’s logo makeover as going from "old American nostalgia" to something "cold, dead, lifeless and modern" in a 15-minute video.
He said that while the Cracker Barrel brand is often associated with American tradition, the company is "infested with left-wing activists who are more interested in safe spaces, pronouns and virtue signaling than they are in their customers."
In his video, Starbuck highlights Cracker Barrel’s support for LGBTQ+ organizations and events, such as Nashville Pride, River City Pride, and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
[Established in 1980, the Human Rights Campaign is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization within the United States. HRC has been backed heavily by Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign ]
He also noted that the company displayed rocking chairs with rainbow colors and LGBTQ+ insignia.
The company even went so far as to place one in its Tennessee corporate office.
Rocking chairs are practically synonymous with Cracker Barrel, with the restaurant’s long porches lined with them at locations nationwide.
Starbuck said:
"The fact that it's located there [Tennessee corporate office] is important to this story because what's happened here is a microcosm of the parasitic operating procedure of left-wing activists.
…No, it's much more important to them that they shove it down into your towns, into your kids' schools, and into your way of life.
So, sticking a pro-trans rocking chair into their headquarters in a predominantly conservative town is exactly the type of thing they revel in doing."
Starbuck then pointed to the company’s involvement with HRC [Human Rights Campaign] and participation in the Out and Equal Workplace Summit.
For the Out and Equal conference, Cracker Barrel made rocking chairs in every color of the rainbow, representing the LGBTQ+ flag.
Out and Equal even gave Cracker Barrel an award for having 2018’s top LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group (ERG).
The restaurant chain previously participated in HRC’s Corporate Equality Index, which measures "corporate policies, practices, and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer employees," according to the organization’s website.
A company’s score on the index is determined by how inclusive HRC judged it to be toward LGBTQ+ employees.
…Two Cracker Barrel employees are called out by name in Starbuck’s video, Steve Smotherman and Rachel CampBell.
Smotherman was the head of management training and development at Cracker Barrel for 15 years, Starbuck asserted, showing a screenshot that appeared to be from LinkedIn.
Smotherman, who eventually left Cracker Barrel for Out and Equal, serves on HRC's Business Advisory Council in Washington, D.C.
Starbuck describes Smotherman as "the archetype activist employee that fueled the rise of DEI in corporate America.”
He also slammed CampBell, a manager of training and development at Cracker Barrel, for publicly expressing excitement over the company’s rainbow pride rocking chairs.
"And it’s important to note all of this because these types of employees play a critical role in turning companies away from the values of their customers and moving the companies toward wokeness," Starbuck said.
Gilbert Dávila, a member of Cracker Barrel’s board of directors, was also referenced in Starbuck’s video.
Dávila, who joined Cracker Barrel’s board in 2020, has worked at several major companies, including Disney, Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble.
He’s [Gilbert Dávila] also the co-CEO of DMI Consulting, which looks to "infuse cultural relevance and creativity into every solution."
Starbuck asserted that Dávila, and others like him, are responsible for the "woke advertising push" seen over the last few years.
In the end, Starbuck emphasizes that the controversy around Cracker Barrel’s logo change is about more than the removal of a man in his chair leaning on a barrel…
Starbuck said:
"It's very, very important to understand that the Cracker Barrel story is not about a logo. It's not at all about a logo; it is about a country; it is our heritage; and it is a culture.
It’s about a power structure built to tell us that we are somehow backwards, embarrassing, or bigoted."
As Robby Starbuck sees it, the Cracker Barrel debacle is a win-win for conservatives, saying that to retain its customer base (1) the company will either have to double down and lose customers or (2) revert back to its 1977 logo.