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OLD COUNTRY STORE


Dan W. Evins opened the first Cracker Barrel Old Country Store in 1969 in Tennessee
Even then the corn bread was made from scratch. They hand roll biscuits and make our mashed potatoes and gravy from scratch all day long in each restaurant. They slow roast their beef for 18 hours, dip and bread the Sunday Homestyle Chicken by hand. Cracker Barrel's menu is based on traditional Southern cuisine, with appearance and decor designed to resemble an old-fashioned general store.

Updated November 2024
Posted October 2024

Cracker Barrel Outside
Cracker Barrel Patio
Cracker Barrel Rocking Chairs

Cracker Barrel Entrance
Cracker Barrel Store Candy

Cracker Barrel Wait to be Seated
Wait to be Seated

Cracker Barrel Inside
Cracker Barrel Inside Seating

Cracker Barrel Triangle Peg Game

BREAKFAST: SERVED ALL DAY

Cracker Barrel Classics Menu
Breakfast Menu
  • Classics
  • Build Your Own
Cracker Barrel Sunrise Menu
Breakfast Menu
  • Sunrise Specials
  • Barrel Bites

Cracker Barrel Griddle Menu
Breakfast Menu
  • Griddle
  • Hearty
Cracker Barrel Breakfast Sides Menu
Breakfast Menu
  • Coffee / Mimosas
  • Sides

LUNCH / DINNER: SERVED AFTER 11AM

Cracker Barrel Appetizers Menu
Barrel Bite Appetizers
  • Biscuit Beignets
  • White Cheddar Cheese Bites
  • Country Fried Pickles
  • Loaded Hashbrown Casserole Tots
  • House Salad
  • Veggie Soup
  • Soup of the Day

Cracker Barrel Daily Dish Menu
Daily Dish Menu
  • Monday Chicken n' Rice
  • Tuesday Southern Fried Chicken
  • Wednesday Broccoli Cheddar Chicken
  • Thursday Turkey n' Dressing
  • Friday Fish Fry
  • Saturday Southern BBQ Ribs
  • Sunday Pot Roast

Cracker Barrel Samplers Menu
Cracker Barrel Menu
  • Fried Chicken
  • Samplers
  • Favorites
Cracker Barrel Classics Menu
Cracker Barrel Menu
  • Classics
  • Suppers
  • Sides

Cracker Barrel Lunch Menu
Cracker Barrel Menu
  • Weekday Lunch
  • Salads
  • Sandwiches
  • Breakfast All Day
Cracker Barrel Early Dinner Menu
Cracker Barrel Menu
  • Early Dinner
  • Beverages
  • Mimosas
  • Cocktails

Cracker Barrel Take Home Meals
$6 Take Home Meals
You can get a separate to go meal to microwave at home later.
  • Blueberry French Toast Bake
  • Grilled Chicken and Mashed Potatoes
  • Chicken and Mac & Cheese
  • Meatloaf and Mac & Cheese


Cracker Barrel Silverware
Cracker Barrel Salt and Pepper

Cracker Barrel Heinz 57 Sauce
Cracker Barrel Trappey's Hot Peppers in Vinegar
Cracker Barrel Tobasco
Cracker Barrel Cholula

Cracker Barrel Water
Cracker Barrel Ice Water
Cracker Barrel Water Glass

Cracker Barrel Granny Smith Apple Tea
Granny Smith Apple Tea

Cracker Barrel Buttermilk Biscuits
Buttermilk Biscuits
  • Hand-Rolled

Cracker Barrel Buttermilk Biscuits
Cracker Barrel Buttermilk Biscuits

Cracker Barrel Dickenson's Grape
Cracker Barrel Dickenson's Grape Jam
Cracker Barrel Dickenson's Blackberry
Cracker Barrel Dickenson's Blackberry Preserves

Cracker Barrel Dickenson's Strawberry
Cracker Barrel Dickenson's Strawberry Preserve
Cracker Barrel Dinner Bell Creamery Butter
Cracker Barrel Dinner Bell Creamery Salted Butter

Cracker Barrel Cornbread Muffins
Cornbread Muffins

Cracker Barrel Cornbread Muffins
Cracker Barrel Cornbread Muffins

Cracker Barrel Loaded Hashbrown Casserole
Loaded Hashbrown Casserole
  • Shredded Potatoes
  • Colby Cheese
  • Chopped Onions
  • Seasoning Blend
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Bacon Pieces
Cracker Barrel Loaded Hashbrown Casserole

Cracker Barrel Steak n' Egg Hashbrown Casserole
Steak n' Egg Hashbrown Casserole
  • Shredded Potatoes
  • Colby Cheese
  • Chopped Onions
  • Seasoning Blend
  • Salt
  • pepper
  • Sirloin Steak Tips
  • Farm-Fresh Scrambled Eggs
  • Fried Onions
  • Green Onions
  • Diced Tomatoes
Cracker Barrel Steak n' Egg Hashbrown Casserole

Cracker Barrel Bacon Mac n' Cheese
Bacon Mac n' Cheese
  • Creamy Mac n' Cheese
  • Crispy Bacon Bites
  • Parsley
  • Green Onions
  • Parmesan Cheese

Cracker Barrel Pancake Tacos
Pancake Tacos
  • Buttermilk Pancakes
  • Thick-Sliced Bacon
  • Over-Hard Fried Eggs
  • Shredded Colby Cheese
  • Pure Natural Syrup
Cracker Barrel Pancake Taco

Cracker Barrel Hashbrown Casserole Shepherd's Pie
Hashbrown Casserole Shepherd's Pie
  • Slow-Simmered Pot Roast
  • Homestyle Gravy
  • Carrots
  • Peas
  • Onions
  • Celery
  • Mashed Potatoes
  • Griddled Hashbrown Casserole Crust
  • Sour Cream
Cracker Barrel Hashbrown Casserole Shepherd's Pie

Cracker Barrel Loaded Mashed Potatoes
Loaded Mashed Potatoes
  • Mashed Potatoes
  • Hint Of Margarine
  • Black Pepper
  • Salt
  • Bacon Pieces
  • Colby Cheese
  • Green Onions

Cracker Barrel Saturday Southern BBQ Ribs
Saturday Southern BBQ Ribs
  • Slow Cooked Saint Louis-Style Ribs
  • Tangy n' Sweet Brown Sugar BBQ Sauce

Cracker Barrel Grandpa's Country Fried Breakfast
Grandpa's Country Fried Breakfast
  • Country Fried Steak
  • Farm Fresh Eggs
  • Sawmill Gravy
  • Breakfast Side
  • Biscuits n' Gravy

Cracker Barrel Classics Sampler
Classics Sampler
  • Made-from-Scratch Meatloaf
  • Chicken n' Dumplins
  • Sugar Cured Ham
  • Mac n' Cheese
  • Corn
  • Buttermilk Biscuits

Cracker Barrel Thursday Turkey n' Dressing
Thursday Turkey n' Dressing
  • Turkey
  • Dressing
  • Turkey Gravy
  • Turnip Greens
Cracker Barrel Thursday Turkey

Cracker Barrel Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake
Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake
  • Made with Real Coca-Cola
Cracker Barrel Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake

Cracker Barrel Peach Cobbler
Peach Cobbler



Cracker Barrel Ox Yoke and Horseshoe
Ox Yoke and Horseshoe over the front door

Cracker Barrel Decor Firewood
Cracker Barrel Fireplace
Fireplace

Cracker Barrel

WIKIPEDIACracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.
American chain of restaurant and gift stores with a Southern country theme. The company's headquarters are in Lebanon, Tennessee, where Cracker Barrel was founded by Dan Evins in 1969. Their early locations were positioned near Interstate Highway exits in the Southeastern and Midwestern United States, but expanded across the country during the 1990s and 2000s. As of August 10, 2023, the company operates 660 stores in 45 states.

Cracker Barrel's menu is based on traditional Southern cuisine, with appearance and decor designed to resemble an old-fashioned general store. Each location features a front porch lined with wooden rocking chairs, a stone fireplace, and decorative artifacts from the local area. Cracker Barrel partners with country music performers. It engages in charitable activities, such as its assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina and injured war veterans.

As a Southern-themed chain, Cracker Barrel serves traditional Southern comfort food often described as "down-home" country cooking. Breakfast is served all day, and there are two menus: one for breakfast, the other for lunch and dinner. Since the first restaurant opened, the menu has featured Southern specialties, including biscuits, fried chicken, and catfish; seasonal and regional menu items were added during the 1980s and 1990s.

The gift shops sell gifts including simple toys representative of the 1950s and 1960s, toy vehicles, puzzles, and woodcrafts. Also sold are country music CDs, DVDs of early classic television, cookbooks, baking mixes, kitchen novelty decor, and early classic brands of candy and snack foods.

Cracker Barrel was founded in 1969 by Dan Evins, a representative for Shell Oil, who developed the restaurant and gift store concept initially as a plan to improve gasoline sales. Designed to resemble the traditional country store that he remembered from his childhood, with a name chosen to give it a Southern country theme, Cracker Barrel was intended to attract the interest of highway travelers. The name comes from the barrels of soda crackers that could be found for sale in small-town stores across the American South in the early 1900s; people would stand around the barrels chatting and catching up, similar in purpose to contemporary office water coolers.

  • The first restaurant was built close to Interstate 40, in Lebanon, Tennessee. It opened on September 19, 1969, serving Southern cuisine including biscuits, grits, country ham, and turnip greens.
  • Evins incorporated Cracker Barrel in February 1970, and soon opened more locations.
  • In the early 1970s, the firm leased land on gasoline station sites near interstate highways to build restaurants. These early locations all featured gas pumps on-site; during gasoline shortages in the mid to late 1970s, the firm began to build restaurants without pumps.
  • Cracker Barrel became a publicly traded company in 1981 to raise funds for further expansion. It floated more than half a million shares, raising $10.6 million. Following the initial public offering, Cracker Barrel grew at a rate of around 20 percent per year.
  • By 1987, the company had become a chain of more than 50 units in eight states, with annual net sales of almost $81 million.
  • The company grew consistently through the 1980s and 1990s, attaining a $1 billion market value by 1992.
  • In 1993, their revenue was nearly twice that of any other family restaurant.
  • In 1994, It expanded into new markets through the establishment of more traditional Cracker Barrel locations, the majority of them outside the South.
  • Cracker Barrel did not close any locations until 1995, when a location on in Memphis, Tennessee was closed due to it no longer meeting the company's standards.
  • By September 1997, Cracker Barrel had 314 restaurants, and aimed to increase the number of stores by approximately 50 per year over the following five years. Cracker Barrel's president, Ron Magruder, stated that the chain was concentrating on strengthening its core theme, offering traditional foods and retail in a country store setting, with good service and country music.
  • The number of combined restaurants and stores owned by Cracker Barrel increased between 1997 and 2000, to more than 420 locations.
  • By 2011, Cracker Barrel had opened more than 600 restaurants in 42 states.
  • The company has since begun expansion to the West Coast: in 2017, their first store in the region opened in Tualatin, Oregon, and their first store in California was opened the next year in Victorville.
  • In 2019 Cracker Barrel purchased Maple Street Biscuit Company for $36 million cash.
  • Cracker Barrel partnered with DoorDash in 2020, it was their first partnership with a delivery service.
  • Cracker Barrel permanently added alcohol to its menu for the first time in September 2020.

The locations are themed around the idea of a traditional Southern U.S. general store. Items used to decorate each store are authentic artifacts, including everyday objects from the early 1900s and after. Each location's exterior features a front porch lined with wooden rocking chairs, while the interiors all include five common decorations: a shotgun, a cookstove, a deer head, a telephone, and a traffic light. Every table has a wooden peg solitaire game. The decor at each location also includes artifacts related to the local history of the area, such as antique household tools, old calendars and posters, and antique photographs.

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Checkerboard
Cracker Barrel Checkerboard

Cracker Barrel Rest Rooms Traffic Light
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Cracker Barrel Rest Rooms Traffic Light
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Cracker Barrel Rest Rooms Traffic Light
Traffic Light

Cracker Barrel Decor Sausage Press
Sausage Press
Cracker Barrel Decor Hand Water Pump
Hand Water Pump

Cracker Barrel Decor Music
Cracker Barrel Decor Pickaxe

Cracker Barrel Decor Shoes
Cracker Barrel Decor Sports

Cracker Barrel Decor Laundry
Cracker Barrel Decor Games

Cracker Barrel Vintage Drink Coco-Cola
Cracker Barrel Decor Vintage Coke
Cracker Barrel Decor Coca-Cola
Cracker Barrel Decor Vintage Coca-Cola

Cracker Barrel Barrel
Cracker Barrel Barrel Lid

Cracker Barrel Inside Country Store
Cracker Barrel Inside the Store

Cracker Barrel Pay at Register
Pay the Check at the Registers inside the Store
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Cracker Barrel Coffee Mug

Old Country Store