This Chick-fil-A controversy was reminiscent of one that occurred involving Cracker Barrel restaurants in the 1990s. In that case, Cracker Barrel’s policy banned gay employees. Citing “traditional American values,” the policy targeted employee and job applicants “whose sexual preference fails to demonstrate normal heterosexual values which have been the foundation of our society.” One manager was Quoted as telling a dismissed employee that “the policy is aimed at effeminate men, and waitresses.” In the face of public protests, the company later rescinded the policy, explaining that “our recent position on employment of homosexuals… may have been a well-intentioned overreaction to the perceived values of our customers and their comfort levels with these individuals.”