Jackson Jambalaya

They're Covidiots. Good riddance.

Must be all those lazy millennials and zoomers not wanting to work for the shitty tips that boomers give, right? You drove up in a luxury SUV and you think 10% is enough?

Here’s a tip
😂 I can’t put enough spit in your to-go tea to thank you!

8:05 - you must be one of those entitled millennials who's unqualified to be a server and has never seen a tip north of 10%. I'm a boomer, my friends and family are boomers and none of us has left a tip of less than 20% in 20 years. After a while, maybe you should realize the problem is you, not us.

@8:05 AM, you must be one of those folks that think you're entitled to a 20% tip regardless of the quality of service. The amount of a wait person's tip should be commensurate with the level of service they provide. I guess that's a concept you don't understand.

Everybody on this thread sucks

Last time my wife and I went there no one was wearing a mask. Nobody cares. It's all performative and appeasement.

or just maybe they have had it with water, roads, crime…

i would be hard pressed to stay in jackson if i owned a business that needed clean water.

8:35 gets post of the week. But the bar was pretty low.

New looping mayor's message at Airport:
"No Shirt, No Shoes, No Water, No Service,
Welcome to Jackson."

Next-

I ate at a Cracker Barrel in the Fall of 2008. It was so "good" I haven't been to one since.

Only Crackers eat at Cracker Barrel.

Sales tax revenue is so overrated when you can just ask the State or Federal government for money. Same goes for water bill payments. If it's never your fault, it's never your responsibility.

9:22 All the more reason to go

I would like to see some evidence that 8:05 can calculate 10% of the total bill.

9:22 hasn’t been to the CB in Jackson

Seems like all the restaurants dependent on the Jackson non-water system would have to close. How are all these restaurants washing their dishes, pots and pans etc without potable water?

And I'm old enough to remember when the standard tip for good service was 10%. Then it just went up to 15% without anyone having voted on it. Now it has gone up to 20%, again, without the advice or consent of those expected to pay it.

Last time I was there this past March my son's shotgun was stolen out of my truck.

@10:07am - But I love eating with the celebrities!

New looping mayor's message at Airport:
"No Shirt, No Shoes, No Water, No Service, No Responsibility, No Governance, No Sense.
Welcome to Jackson."

There. Fixed it for ya.

Who cares? Anyone still eating food served in Jackson is an idiot asking for an intestinal parasite. They may have bottled water to drink, but are they taking the dishes to Rankin County to wash them? Don’t think so. And parasites will grow in filter media that has become overloaded with biological contamination such as Jackson. Yum yum!

Buying Cracker Barrel (CBRL) food is like buying naked stent calls, and planning to take delivery!

I haven’t been to that Cracker Barrel in a couple of years but liked it when I went. The problem is with the area. All the restaurants have closed on that corner as it and the county line road exit are a hub for the homeless and crime. There is no place in Jackson that is so special that I would put up with all the issues.

I drive by there several times a day. The business has been way off since the 2020 shutdown. Place used to be packed and it's not like it's expensive. Its been rare that I see a full parking lot there anymore.

CB is future home of water distribution site and parking for Richard’s garbage trucks in the most radical city on the planet. No water, no customers, no profit, no businesses, no more taxes paid to COJ! Dems just can’t connect the dots.

Thanks Lafumble fer your piss poor leadership!

This is the last straw! I'm going to go stay in my condo at Seaside for a month. You people need to fix this mess before I get back. I have had enough!!

No WA WA at Honkey Bucket?

"I ain't serving them Crackers."

"Messes up my other check."

"Tired of spitting in the Tater Casserole."

"Sick of making biscuits all the day long."

"If they wanted me here, they should have never arrested my Baby for car theft on the lot."

"Going to Florida with the Mayor. Put me down as sick for two weeks."

What other reasons?

11:53, your descriptions pretty much fit all of Jackson.

8:05 is way to stupid to be a server......

They'd get lost between the table & kitchen!!!

Dang it!! Now where am I going to buy my cloth checkered board set?!?!

I told some elder relatives there before Covid and the homeless were unpleasant, to put it mildly.
And not at all interested in a free meal. Cash only.

I have not been back. Food was always fine for a chain, but the car thefts and now water with all the other negatives are not at all worth the trip.

Goodbye Cracker Barrell. You must go the way of Outback and Twin Peaks. The last decent strip of interstate highway through the most radical city is done. Dump hotels with violence, prostitution and drugs remain. From Mercedes of Jackson to buy-here pay-here easy credit junk car lots. Yes, Jackson is fallen. Third world. A giant, dangerous, degenerate slum of feral illegitimates unbound by any rule of law, impoverished and filthy. Just like they like it.

I went to CB a few months ago after fasting for a medical procedure. Couldn’t wait for their breakfast which is always great. Only a few cars were in the parking lot and I knew something was wrong. When we sat down the waitress informed us that they couldn’t make coffee due to the boil water notice. The staff looked incredibly sad. Breakfast without coffee isn’t breakfast so we left.This was not the staffs fault or the business just poor leadership in Jackson. BTW: I’m also a boomer and tip at least 20% for good service .Ask a waiter at any top end restaurant who is the best tippers and who is the worst.

Too many other safer breakfast type options closer to where people work.

I-55 frontage is terrible. Homeless people, hotels with drugs and prostitution, etc. One small area around Highland Village is okay. You are not safe at Banner Hall.

When Jackson can't support a Hooters or Twin Peaks...

That area has one-stop shopping:

Hookers
Drugs
Stolen guns
Fences
Hit men
Low water pressure
Non-potable water
Professional Beggars (who demand money, not food)

What could go wrong?

2:10 is unfortunately correct, and it is a bad look for the state's capital. Don't stop with the water plant, Mississippi, take the whole town over from these degenerates!

Well 8:05.....

That is why I always tip 20% or more, because I'm sure your mom & dad figure
that since you're 33 yrs old, its time you move away from home!

@ 2:10 You nailed it !

I like Cracker Barrel. Been to this location many times, people always nice. I hope they can reopen.

@2:49 It's been a decade since I passed thru Jackson. Don't tempt me with a good time!!!

Im a breakfast guy. Bring my lunch. I usually head straight to Broad St(ALWAYS GOOD) but every now and then I will throw in Primos(Always good) Waffle House..because it’s the HOUSE and waffles are great. Would include Cracker Barrel from time to time, also. Different items there are a welcome change. Also the deli at Corner Market in Maywood is a quick and tasty early repast. Bagel? Try The Beagle. OR STAY AT HOME AND EAT CORN FLAKES IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SUPPORT LOCAL FOLKS!

Listen to 4:58 guys.

How dare you have an opinion?
If you have expectations and don't want to blindly support the new local administration (or restaurants)...stay home/get lost!

That is basically what the leaders of Jackson said to NE Jxn property owners when crime spiraled, streets were in disrepair and taxes increased regularly.

I listened and left.

Enjoy the folks that stayed, 4:58.

Your crowd told us to shut up or leave, so we did.

@2:48
“Too many other safer breakfast type options closer to where people work.

I-55 frontage is terrible. Homeless people, hotels with drugs and prostitution, etc. One small area around Highland Village is okay. You are not safe at Banner Hall.”

Wrong. Highland Village is NOT safe! Don’t be confused. Car theft, car break ins, homeless are always pandering around the parking lot from frontage road. Near Char has almost daily car issues like windows being broken out and theft. Most locally
owned businesses in HV are just waiting out their lease before they move out. Stay out of Jxn and that includes HV. Also…. Maywood mart is a crime infested ghost town. So many empty stores. Unbelievable how the mayor has allowed a once great city to implode.

Last time I ate at that CB was last fall.
I didn’t realize they served booze there.
I had never saw that at any CB before.
So, I had a sip…

Echo all the sentiments of Jackson's current state.

(Biz owner in Jxn going on 40+ years...still here - but just bidding time)

It's like the Twilight Zone.... TOTALLY TOTALLY SUX!

Well, if a great breakfast place opens up somewhere strategic, business should be booming! Oh - wait, questionable water until further notice...dangit!

Good God, Jackson is literally a swirling toilet bowl.

2:10

Well said.

I began boycotting Cracker Barrel several years ago because I find their name "cracker" highly offense and racist. Not really, the food sucked.

Looks like Cracker Barrel Jackson closed for good. No signs reopening.