False claim that Cracker Barrel logo depicts slave whip goes viral. Cracker Barrel server given tip over $1,000. By ArLuther Lee. Updated Feb 10, 2021.

Initially, Cracker Barrel didn't have a set logo until 1977. Its signage was simply "Cracker Barrel Old Country Store," inscribed in yellow, Old Western-style font on a brown emblem.

CRACKER Barrel has been trending on Twitter this week after a post about the company sparked a social media frenzy. The country store and restaurant chain’s logo has been called into question… ...

The claim that the logo features a whip and that the chain was named after a barrel of whips went viral. Siobhan Ball Posted on February 9 2021 6:50 pm CST ...

Social media posts claim that Cracker Barrel’s name and logo allude to a slaveholder’s whip and the barrels used to store them. That isn’t true.