

Nah, Cracker Barrel almost certainly wanted the redesign because that particular sector has been moving trying to avoid the whole “You can tell this used to be a Pizza Hut,” thing for a while.
They want to be able to just open up a store anywhere with minimal investment. Then if their store is super generic it’s real easy to offload the real estate if that location doesn’t work out. It’s easier for another firm to buy the real estate if they don’t have to spend a bunch of money making the former Cracker Barrel not look like a Cracker Barrel.
My partner has face blindness, mine is one of a handful of faces that she recognizes on their own because I have a facial feature that’s distinctive enough that she recognizes it. So I am a frequent character in her dreams. Luckily she’s not the type to get mad at me for something I did in her dreams.