A lawsuit against the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain alleging racism throughout the entire chain.

I smell a rat here, of the Sumatran variety, and a blatant shakedown. Something like this happened at Denny's, and as I remember, Denny's caved.

The rat is this:

If anyone on this board can tell me a plausible mechanism for transmitting a deliberate pattern and policy of racism from the central offices to a chain of hundreds of restaurants around the nation, I would love to hear it.

Did a letter go out from the company president, saying "seat all the blacks in back?" Maybe an e-mail? And on receiving these instructions, not one local manager blew the whistle, and waved the incriminating instructions at newsmen? Maybe the racist mental patterns were transmitted by a giant antenna on top of the home office directly into the minds of the hundreds of employees across the nation?

This is total horseshit from top to bottom, and it's embarrasing that the news people haven't called them on this. I hope this company fights harder than Denny's did.