The Paradox of Cracker Barrel: A Case Study on Place and Placelessness
| Autor: | Caitlin Finlayson, Meredith Gregory |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Place making
History theming lcsh:TX901-946.5 Social geography Otelcilik Konaklama Spor ve Turizm Sense of place restaurants lcsh:G1-922 theming restaurants place-making Development Hospitality Leisure Sport and Tourism place-making Aesthetics Attachment behaviour Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Semiotics lcsh:Hospitality industry. Hotels clubs restaurants etc. Food service lcsh:Geography (General) |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 258-276 (2019) Volume: 7, Issue: 2 258-276 Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Research (AHTR) |
| ISSN: | 2148-7316 2147-9100 |
| Popis: | Cracker Barrel restaurants are a fixture across the interstate landscape of the United States. These sites cultivate a strong sense of place through careful theming, generating a distinct sense of rural America and nostalgia for home. At the same time, the uniformity of Cracker Barrel speaks to the notion of placelessness, the eradication of unique local features and homogenization of experience. Cracker Barrel is thus simultaneously placeless and placefull. This research explores this paradoxical notion by utilizing semiotic analyses in an analysis of user-generated Yelp! photos of Cracker Barrels across the country. It is clear from this analysis that the number and wide variety of artifacts vary surprisingly little from store to store. Together, this uniformity and intentional theming help successfully create a sense of place for Cracker Barrel stores as a rural American, 19th century “home-away-from-home.” |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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