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This Is Why Cracker Barrel Is So Successful
Mashed ^ | 2/3/23 | Eve Vawter

Posted on 08/23/2025 8:34:01 AM PDT by DallasBiff

The first Cracker Barrel opened in 1969 in Lebanon, Tennessee, complete with gas pumps, a concept founder Dan W. Evins hoped would help expand his family's oil business and better serve tourists who were traveling down the interstates and highways. Eventually, all the gas pumps were phased out and the restaurant focused on what it had become known for: down-home country cooking with a southern flair. And it's been a success ever since.

Fans are very passionate about Cracker Barrel. They've won the "Best Family Dining" restaurant award time and again, and people make comments on Yelp like, "Great home environment, outstanding daily deals! [...] First and foremost, amazing customer service. They really act and treat you like family. Everyone is always friendly, always accommodating. The food is home cooking delicious!"

The restaurant serves up menu items that appeal to both adults and children, and even the pickiest eaters. It serves breakfast all day long, which is always a plus. It looks like the inside of your grandma's house if your grandma was some old-fashioned Southern lady who lived on a farm and when she wasn't making you biscuits she was out antiquing. They are famous for their hospitality. And that's not all... there are plenty of other reasons Cracker Barrel has been so successful for the last 50 years.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: budlight; crackerbarrel; dei; juliefelssmasino; liberals

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To: discostu

Amazing how sales dropped when they went from a family style restaurant and store to a bar that served food.


41 posted on 08/23/2025 10:15:50 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: GOPJ

Two of my local favorite restaurants (not chains) have servers often wearing MAGA attire.

Needless to say the food and service are excellent.


42 posted on 08/23/2025 10:30:47 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: stanne

About 5 years ago Chick-Fil-A stopped giving to conservative Christian groups like Athletes-in-Action and the Salvation Army. Instead they gave to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Later, they backed off when the backlash came — but continued to support LGBTQ causes.


43 posted on 08/23/2025 10:32:25 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: Responsibility2nd
Two of my local favorite restaurants (not chains) have servers often wearing MAGA attire.

That would be so cool - I'm jealous. Thanks for sharing.

44 posted on 08/23/2025 10:41:25 AM PDT by GOPJ (Superman joined ICE - - Lex Luthor drinks Bud light, drives a Jaguar and is a registered democrat)
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To: ponygirl

Julie needs her a$$ fired since she lacks vision.


45 posted on 08/23/2025 10:55:49 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: DallasBiff

They changed a storefront picture and that’s the end of them? Dunkin did the same and nothing happened.


46 posted on 08/23/2025 10:58:52 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Bad eggs almost killed my husband....became allergic because of it.


47 posted on 08/23/2025 11:31:07 AM PDT by chalkfarmer (I)
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To: libh8er
Cracker Barrel's CEO, Julie Felss Masino:

In other times--not guilty.

48 posted on 08/23/2025 11:52:17 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: DallasBiff

There was this, a couple of decades ago:

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2004/May/04_crt_288.htm


49 posted on 08/23/2025 11:54:39 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Starboard; FreedomForce; MinorityRepublican

In what way do you all think she “looks DEI”? What does that mean? I don’t see it. She just looks like a businesswoman to me.

I don’t like these latest changes. But I stopped buying meals at CB when it went downhill and the prices went too high. Why is everyone else losing their mind over this restaurant now?


50 posted on 08/23/2025 12:17:36 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: wardaddy

What’s Mrs. Rib’s take on all this, having worked there during their growth years?


51 posted on 08/23/2025 12:19:11 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Money is a shared suspension of disbelief without real backing.)
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To: Tired of Taxes
She just looks like a businesswoman to me.

She'll get there on merit. Or built the business herself. Maybe inherited it herself.

That's not the case here so it's DEI.

52 posted on 08/23/2025 12:19:14 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Starboard

I’ve never seen anyone that looks like her eating at a Cracker Barrel so its hard to understand the company going with someone who is visually the epitome of a DEI liberal. They must not care about their stock price.

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That’s what is coming out of colleges and those are the people chosen to manage corporations.

I understand it perfectly.


53 posted on 08/23/2025 12:56:27 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: jonrick46

In other times—not guilty.

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She’s a dime a dozen “lay up” for any man who considers himself a player.

But there are many worse options out there, especially with too much alcohol involved.


54 posted on 08/23/2025 1:07:42 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: DallasBiff

Was successful. Soon to be dumped in the trash can of Liberal women disasters. They cant govern or run companies. Different story with conservative women.


55 posted on 08/23/2025 1:34:23 PM PDT by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: FreedomForce

CB isn’t Taco Bell, thats also a chicken place and a taco place.
Bring back the Bell Burger…..


56 posted on 08/23/2025 1:56:49 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: 9422WMR
Bring back the Bell Burger…..

And the enchirito.

57 posted on 08/23/2025 1:58:39 PM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: jonrick46

“ In other times—not guilty.”
If she had a mustache with those glasses its Groucho Marx!!!


58 posted on 08/23/2025 1:59:26 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Allegra

Those food choices got me through high school!!


59 posted on 08/23/2025 2:01:42 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: DallasBiff

This Is Why Cracker Barrel Is So Successful


Because some people like eating terrible food and low prices?


60 posted on 08/23/2025 2:55:13 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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