Cracker Barrel is striving to shed shadow of bias cases
Restaurant has boosted outreach efforts to minority groups and students; it still faces one lawsuit.
It's been a little more than a year since Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., the icon of Southern comfort food that graces the nation's highways, settled a series of racial discrimination lawsuits, including one from the NAACP.
Dogged for six yearsby the accusations that eventually involved more than 100 plaintiffs - customers and employees - in multiple states, Cracker Barrel has been trying to improve its image and strengthen connections with African-American groups.
"We want to make sure our core values are front and center," said Derek Young, who was brought in during the midst of the lawsuits, in January 2003, to direct community outreach for Cracker Barrel.
Cracker Barrel has started leadership classes for high school students this year in conjunction with 100 Black Men of America where youths in five cities learn how to develop mission statements and write resumes, for example.
That and free Princeton Review classes for the ACT/SAT are part of a $120,000 commitment from the Lebanon-based restaurant company.
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