2A TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22 2020 Cracker Barrel has dis- covered that its diners want booze with their biscuits and gravy. For the first time in its 51-year history, the Southern- themed restaurant chain will serve alcohol in its restaurants, with to-go packages of mimosas also on the menu. The company started testing the idea at 20 locations in Florida in June, with beer, wine and hard cider. Originally the alcohol sales targeted the dinner crowd, but in a recent earnings call, Cracker Barrel president and CEO Sandra B. Co- chran said the mimosas were becoming with breakfast and lunch diners.
For a complete list of available offerings, visit crackerbarrel.com/mimo- sas. Customers will also have the option to order mimosa kits to-go at some locations in flavors that include the classic orange, and also strawberry and peach. The chain told CNN that the drink options will be added at 600 locations nationwide by the end of the fiscal year. Cracker Barrel has long refused to serve alcohol at its locations, but those initial test runs came dur- ing an effort to boost sales as restaurants struggle during the coronavirus pandemic. Cracker Barrel adding alcohol to menu for first time BY SHARON KENNEDY WYNNE Tampa Bay Times THE CHAIN TOLD CNN THAT THE DRINK OPTIONS WILL BE ADDED AT 600 LOCATIONS NATIONWIDE BY THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
DeGeneres vows in on-air apology Ellen DeGeneres used her opening monologue of the new season of her day- time talk show to address allegations of a toxic work environment, apologizing for things never should have know that in a position of privilege and power and I realize that with that comes responsi- bility, and I take responsi- bility for what happens at my she said in a video posted Monday. Ellen DeGeneres started its 18th season in Los Angeles with the host on stage for the first time in months after taping from DeGene- home during quaran- tine. There a studio audience but a virtual one, with faces beamed in on monitors put in the audi- ence seats. have had a lot of conversations over the last few weeks about the show, our workplace, and what we want for the she said. have made the necessary changes and today we are starting a new Three of the producers exited over the summer amid allegations of a dysfunctional work- place that harbored mis- behavior, including sexual misconduct and racially insensitive remarks.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Lawyers deny Meghan cooperated with authors Lawyers for a British newspaper publisher being sued for invasion of privacy by the duch*ess of Sussex argued Monday that she made personal information public by cooperating with the au- thors of a book about her relationship with Prince Harry. Her lawyers deny the claim. The former Meghan Markle is suing the pub- lisher of the Mail on Sun- day and the MailOnline website over five February 2019 articles that pub- lished portions of a hand- written letter she wrote to her estranged father, Tho- mas Markle, after her marriage to Harry in 2018. Meghan, 39, is seeking damages from publisher Associated Newspapers Ltd. for alleged misuse of private information, copy- right infringement and data protection breaches.
The publisher is contest- ing the claim. It argues that Meghan must have known the letter to her father would likely be- come public. Alexandra Marzec, a lawyer for Associated Newspapers, said Monday that Meghan had a media strategy that involved ing her friends as, effective- ly, PR to the in the months before she sent the letter to her father. ASSOCIATED PRESS Penn hopes for dialogue with show for young voters Politics has been more than a little shouty of late. Actor and activist Kal Penn would quietly like to change that.
we have the blessing or a curse of being able to yell at some- body on your phone on Twitter, which of course feels fantastic sometimes but necessarily do he says. Penn is hoping to do something by reaching millennial and Gen voters with a new half- hour TV show on Free- form, Penn Approves This He vows the six-episode series will be nonpartisan and include topics like the education and judicial systems, health care and the environment. ASSOCIATED PRESS PEOPLE CHRIS PIZZELLO File Ellen DeGeneres used the opening monologue of her daytime talk show to address allegations of a toxic work environment. Birthdays Baseball Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda is 93. Singer Debby Boone is 64.
Singer Joan Jett is 62. ASSOCIATED PRESS On this date Today in history In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of January 1, 1863. In 1975, Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel, but missed. In 1980, the Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.
In 1993, 47 people were killed when an Amtrak passenger train fell off a bridge and crashed into Big Bayou Canot near Mobile, Alabama. (A tugboat pilot lost in fog pushed a barge into the railroad bridge, knocking the tracks 38 inches out of line just minutes before the train arrived.) In 1999, actor George C. Scott died in Westlake Village, at age 71. ASSOCIATED PRESS really are as stupid as you kind of glance. Either she truly loves me in spite of my idiocy, or the world truly had run out of available men that year.
Ever since I was a kid, been fascinated by stormy weather. It could be genetic. When a thunderstorm would roll in back home, my dad would often grab his guitar and play on the open-air front porch with the occasional thunderclap providing percussion on Hank use sticks to make little rivers in the yard while wishing learn some Prince tunes. (Fortunately, he not sure want the image of him performing or Go and dancing across that rickety old porch stuck in my head for the rest of my life.) Today, when a severe weather alert, my wife runs and grabs the cat and tells me, careful out She knows be outside until the situation calms down. When the TV weather folks breathlessly say, is a dangerous situation! Take cover what I hear is get your camera and run Lately, hurricanes are getting a lot of attention because they now hit the U.S.
every 20 min- utes or so. sure it has noth- ing to do with the fact that sea temperatures are so high that shrimpers are now hauling in already-boiled shrimp, or as I call them. like to pull a Jim Cantore and show up on the Gulf Coast to await the next major hurri- cane probably named Pi Kap- pa Phi. By now. I can talk on a microphone, I can get hit in the head with a flying road sign and I can say things like to you, Dr.
Rick I could be the next Jim Cantore. Not to mention already got the Cantore hair. All three of them. boots. not much for freezing to death, so let someone else cover the blizzards, but I get plenty excited every four or five years when we get an inch of snow around here.
I also feel a little guilty for getting excited as I watch hurri- canes and tornadoes. Folks die in these storms. I spent more than a week in Lee County, Alabama, after last mas- sive tornado and met a lot of folks who lost loved ones their homes. It was a real trage- dy. I felt especially bad about the events of March 3, 2019, because my wife and I were sitting on the balcony of a cruise ship bound for the Caribbean under beautiful blue skies.
I had no idea what was happening in Alabama until we returned. seen a few tornadoes, but nothing like that. Most of the tornadoes seen probably When a hurricane or blizzard looming, The Weather Channel ratings skyrocket. No one wants to see anyone killed, lose their home or be buried by an avalanche, but weather events excite some people. Guilty as charged.
Yep, a weather junkie. When I see storm chasers fol- lowing tornadoes in the Mid- west or pointing at a blown-off roof somewhere on the coast, I get a little jealous. I would love to be in their shoes or wet EF-0s, EF-1s or E.F. Huttons were just enough to provide a little adrenaline rush. seen a handful of waterspouts at the coast, including one that drop- ped right next to our car while we were atop the way-too-high Sidney Lanier Bridge in Bruns- wick, prompting my wife to provide helpful instructions from the passenger seat in the form of terrified, somewhat indecipherable screaming.
She known I exactly panic in that situation. The very first time she visited me in Columbus nearly 10 years ago, we saw a tornado on the horizon coming toward the river. are we gonna she asked in a mere mild panic. gonna follow She looked at me with those big brown eyes the same way she does today, a sort of COMMENTARY Bad weather on the way? be outside BY CHRIS JOHNSON Correspondent CUSTOMER SERVICE Call our customer service center at1-888-323-1222 or use our website at www.ledger-enquirer.com/customer-service to manage your account. ABOUT THE PAPER Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (USPS 124-540) is published Sunday-Friday by Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, 945 Broadway, Columbus, GA 31901.
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