By AJ
Jul 16, 2021
Miranda Joy Willmore and her band have been touring around the U.S. working toward the goal of recording an EP, but they haven’t been signed yet. She’s also been working at Cracker Barrel for about 20 years.
Earlier this summer, a TikTok video of Miranda singing “Happy Birthday” to a customer went viral. She was invited to be on TODAY, where she thought she was going to sing to a TODAY colleague. However, she got the surprise of a lifetime instead.
Hoda and Jenna revealed the good news to Miranda that her employer is sending her and her band to Nashville to record an album. Cracker Barrel is even going to finance the studio recording.
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A follow-up video the next day confirmed that the photo was still there.
On the day after that, another video showed that a Cracker Barrel employee found the framed picture and said they “might take it home.” The customer who left behind the picture replied: “Love it!”
On April 12, another diner posted a TikTok video of a framed photo going up at one of the restaurants.
On May 5, a TikTok user named @cowibrand put up another photo in a Cracker Barrel. They even dressed for the part in overalls and altered the picture to make it black and white.
This all might seem familiar to some readers who remembered seeing a 2018 video of a similar occurrence at a McDonald’s. An idea to hang a large picture at the fast food restaurant was a bit of a prank, but it was also partially about diversity. It ended up earning the pair pictured in the photograph $50,000, courtesy of Ellen DeGeneres and McDonald’s.