Most people think of Cracker Barrel when it comes to their Southern style country cooking and country store, but as of late the restaurant chain is mostly being known as the cold-hearted MONSTERS who fired some guy named Brad’s wife. Confused? If so, then welcome to the internet!
Earlier this week, a screenshot from Cracker Barrel’s Facebook page went viral of a man named Bradley Reid Byrd, who posted Tuesday asking why the restaurant had fired his wife. Having not received sufficient explanation from the particular location his wife worked at, he decided to take this fight corporate.
Although the provenance of Brad’s grievances remains murky, another screenshot floating around the internet suggests that he initially took his fight to ‘the Barrel back in late February.
While it remains unclear when exactly Brad’s wife was fired and from which Cracker Barrel location, these details remain insignificant because the internet is pissed and demanding #JusticeForBradsWife. Since the screenshots went viral, hundreds — maybe thousands — of people started piling on Cracker Barrel’s social media wanting answers.
And here is such a sampling of the @ replies on one of Cracker Barrel’s recent tweets:
The whole thing got so out of hand that someone even started a Change.org petition for Brad’s wife. How Cracker Barrel will reclaim their social media back after this is anybody’s guess, but the company would probably do well to just keep its head down and wait for the whole thing to blow over. And maybe send their social media manager on an all expenses paid vacation to Aruba — or at least a bottle or five of Xanax.