Cracker Barrel soon to see some changes.

[jeffandnicole]

Now Perkins is following suit: https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/food/perkins-new-name-remodel/index.html

So they're changing their name from Perkins to Perkins. No one is going to read the entire name.

As far as changing their looks...nearly all restaurants do that on occasion. There's very few that haven't done it in the past 20 years.  And it's not that unusual. National hotel brands do it more often.