Cracker Barrel Nixes Store Remodel Plans After Controversy (1)

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. said it’s suspending store remodels as the restaurant chain continues to walk back planned changes such as a new logo that hurt the shares.

“If your restaurant hasn’t been remodeled, you don’t need to worry, it won’t be,” the company said in a statement Tuesday on its website. Cracker Barrel said it had tested a new store design in only four out of its 660 locations.

Cracker Barrel was criticized online after it unveiled a new logo that streamlined the font and removed an overalls-clad man known as Uncle Herschel. Critics accused the chain ...