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Posted: 11/27/2022 3:33:41 PM EDT

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I never understood the appeal. Bland country food. Meh. The sandwiches/burgers were OK I guess.

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Chicken fried steak, the hasbrowns were good and so were the biscuits.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:35:23 PM EDT

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Tried it a year ago, it was worse than a TV dinner. Our food came out in 5 minutes so I’m pretty sure it’s all micro waived garbage.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:36:03 PM EDT

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I canceled them when they canceled the duck dynasty stuff from their store. GD has a short memory, or as many of said, conservatives are shit when we plan boycotts, nfl, mlb, hhh, nba

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:43:27 PM EDT

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Y'all full of shit, or perhaps your Cracker Barrel's just suck. Ones here in Utah are excellent. Only complaint is portions are a bit too much. I don't need 2200 calories for lunch.

Choose something that warms up well and take most of it home for later. That takes salads away unless wife and I share one.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:46:58 PM EDT

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Shoot out in the parking lot, police pelted with rocks, a few weeks ago in the Burlington store

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:48:29 PM EDT

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They fired brads wife

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She took all of the good recipes when she left

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:51:33 PM EDT

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Tried it a year ago, it was worse than a TV dinner. Our food came out in 5 minutes so I’m pretty sure it’s all micro waived garbage.

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No doubt. That's why when I'm dragged into one of these shit chain joints I generally order something that HAS to be made fresh and not just nuked and plated. Sandwich/burger/SOME fried items.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:54:37 PM EDT

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Went to one last night. Everything was delicious.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:56:07 PM EDT

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I think the food is alright. However, I think it’s company policy that the food must be lukewarm before it can be served.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:59:54 PM EDT

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What happened? Seems like quality is down and menu selection is slim. Well, except they added alcohol. Our local Cracker Barrel seems deserted.

I'm not impressed anymore.

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Covid killed mid range restaurants. I have been to a few favorites recently. The menus are slim. The food sucked. The service was bad.
Fast food has been almost as bad. Wendy's is an exception. Outback is an exception. The mom and pop diners seem ok.
A couple higher end places here are ggg gone.

Posted: 11/27/2022 4:03:26 PM EDT

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The one I would meet family at in Colorado went to shit during the china herp.

Was there a couple weeks ago and it has improved significantly due to better staffing.

Now employing a number senior citizens who've been force out of retirement due to xidenflation.

They have much better attitudes and work ethics.

Posted: 11/27/2022 4:24:58 PM EDT

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Cracker Barrel is a restaurant with a consistent menu and good enough reliable quality to stop at while traveling on the interstates throughout the country. I don't have time to yelp or trip advisor research for a restaurant at every three-stoplight town while on the way to take the kids to grandma's house twelve hours away.

God help them if Buccees gets into the sit down restaurant business.

That being said, they are nowhere near as good as they were pre-pandemic. I blame the extensive labor shortages afflicting most locales currently.

Posted: 11/27/2022 4:27:09 PM EDT

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Cracker Barrel is a restaurant with a consistent menu and good enough reliable quality to stop at while traveling on the interstates throughout the country. I don't have time to yelp or trip advisor research for a restaurant at every three-stoplight town while on the way to take the kids to grandma's house twelve hours away.

God help them if Buccees gets into the sit down restaurant business.

That being said, they are nowhere near as good as they were pre-pandemic. I blame the extensive labor shortages afflicting most locales currently.

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Buccees is our road meal stop now. Glad we're in the south.

Posted: 11/27/2022 4:32:01 PM EDT

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When driving down the highway on a long trip, there aren’t many places better than Cracker Barrel. I like them

Posted: 11/27/2022 5:20:58 PM EDT

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A lot of these “restaurants” went down hill during China Virus and they’re having trouble coming back from it.

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I’ve noticed this as well at Cracker Barrel. Just went last Monday on a trip home from the Cherokee casino. Very slow service. You could tell my food sat under the hot lamps for a while since the top of my gravy had a dried skim coating on the top.
I didn’t get my usual of chicken fried chicken smothered in gravy. Went for the meatloaf and was not impressed. But that chicken fried chicken was 1100 calories.

Posted: 11/27/2022 5:30:54 PM EDT

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Breakfast is the only decent part of the menu. But why wouldn't I just go to the local diner?

Posted: 11/27/2022 5:41:31 PM EDT

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Since COVID, the quality of food at ours has declined steeply. I don't like going there anymore and used to love it.

Posted: 11/27/2022 5:42:31 PM EDT

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She took all of the good recipes when she left

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They fired brads wife

She took all of the good recipes when she left

I forgot all about that.

Posted: 11/27/2022 5:47:48 PM EDT

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I don't know about the CB in your area but the one in Elkhart Ind. was busy as hell on Thanksgiving, over an hour wait time even with call ahead. Both my wife and I had the one serving turkey dinner which was all we wanted. We both knew what we were getting so no surprises. The food was good which is all we expected.

Posted: 11/27/2022 5:49:20 PM EDT

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It was never good. I would eat Applebees before Cracker Barrel.

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The last time we ate at Applebees was years ago. The meat was greasy and tasted funny, haven't eaten at one since.

Posted: 11/27/2022 5:55:14 PM EDT

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It was always gross.

Posted: 11/27/2022 6:22:36 PM EDT

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I rarely eat there, but I swear that every time I did, my meal was served lukewarm.

Posted: 11/27/2022 6:22:52 PM EDT

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Bland, Boring, Meh.

Posted: 11/27/2022 6:23:32 PM EDT

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the two McDonalds around here have never allowed in-store dining since, just drive-thru and pickup service... the gal at the window at one of them was telling me the owner is considering going that way forever because of all the vibrancy that buy's a single fry then just hangs out as a group starting shit.. not worth the trouble

come to think of it the Taco Time doesn't allow in-store dining yet either.. I'm afraid that bullshit may have changed our society forever in various ways..

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It takes significantly less staff to run a drive through, and it's self regulationg.

Most people drive on when they see a full drive through, and people can't order until the cars ahead have their food.

Open the dining room and you have 30 pissed off customers waiting for food and starting fights.
Plus cleaning tables, restrooms, emptying trash, filling tea containers, etc.

Posted: 11/27/2022 6:26:31 PM EDT

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I was always gross.

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Sorry to hear that.

Posted: 11/27/2022 6:29:57 PM EDT

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CB quality has gone to shit since covid.

I suspect its the cost of goods and shitty labor pool.

Having said that, on an RV travel day, we'll pull into a CB mainly because of the ease of RV parking. Lately, we both have only gotten salads and they are "meh" at best. The non-salad meals have really gone to shit and the service is royally retarded.

We'd be better off pulling into a CB and fixing our own lunch.

Posted: 11/27/2022 6:30:22 PM EDT

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When driving down the highway on a long trip, there aren’t many places better than Cracker Barrel. I like them

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You know what you're going to get, the bathroom is clean, you can distract the kids for 20 minutes in the store while you wait or afterwards to stretch their legs, etc.
And if you're with your picky-as-fuck in-laws, they're not going to bitch too much.

Kharn

Posted: 11/27/2022 6:31:17 PM EDT

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I’ve never been there.

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Posted: 11/27/2022 6:56:47 PM EDT

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I ate in one a few weeks ago,
everything, including the pot roast,
was perfect.

Posted: 11/27/2022 7:05:24 PM EDT

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People go to that 1960 restaurant? Dayummmm

Posted: 11/27/2022 7:08:22 PM EDT

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Sorry to hear that.

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I was always gross.

Sorry to hear that.

Missed a "t"

Posted: 11/27/2022 7:09:14 PM EDT

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You know what you're going to get, the bathroom is clean, you can distract the kids for 20 minutes in the store while you wait or afterwards to stretch their legs, etc.
And if you're with your picky-as-fuck in-laws, they're not going to bitch too much.

Kharn

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Ate in one last night, things have gone downhill but what hasn't . They try to hold a price point so something has to give . We cut them a lot of slack .

Posted: 11/27/2022 7:21:01 PM EDT

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This is why I don’t go anymore. I only eat at locally owned stores.

Plenty of reasons at their website to not frequent them. Hope they go bankrupt.

https://www.crackerbarrel.com/careers/diversity-and-inclusion

Posted: 11/27/2022 7:23:29 PM EDT

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The one in Scottsburg Indiana is better than the one in Sellersburg.

Posted: 11/27/2022 7:44:57 PM EDT

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welcome to 5 years ago

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Ever since they fired Brad’s wife on her birthday? Is that when it started going downhill?

Posted: 11/27/2022 8:48:55 PM EDT

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slow AF, mediocre to bad food, I gave up long ago. Had to send undercooked chicken back once and that was it for me.

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:02:09 PM EDT

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What happened? Seems like quality is down and menu selection is slim. Well, except they added alcohol. Our local Cracker Barrel seems deserted.

I'm not impressed anymore.

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Our local CB is doing more business than they can seat, food is great every time I go, ( only three restaurants in the town worth eating at - they are one of them), and service is just fine. The menu did diminish for the plandemic, but recently expanded back to the original plus some.

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:03:03 PM EDT

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Old People Food.

Worst thing about catering to the elders is that the food has to be bland and unseasoned with low sodium.

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Don't hate my senior citizens discount

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:10:59 PM EDT

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CRACKER BARGLE

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:13:28 PM EDT

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Never cared for the place , but my dad liked it. Last time we stopped at one it just seemed very “ Walmartish”.

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:16:17 PM EDT

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That place started going downhill as soon as they fired Brad's wife

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:24:46 PM EDT

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What happened? Seems like quality is down and menu selection is slim. Well, except they added alcohol. Our local Cracker Barrel seems deserted.

I'm not impressed anymore.

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I ate at Cracker Barrel about 3 hours ago, for the first time in 5 years and it was pretty good, if not a bit slow.

They were hit pretty hard this weekend past and had a 3.5 hour wait on TG day, shutting the doors on new customers.

$29.00 for two people with iced teas and two orders of biscuits isn't a bad deal for Miami.

Chris

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:27:10 PM EDT

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They've never been the same since they fired Brad's wife

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:29:44 PM EDT

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Local diner/mom & pop places are better than industrial food.

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:32:33 PM EDT

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Does it not suck now? Always seemed like a shitty version of the regular food I eat.

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:33:32 PM EDT

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Eh, breakfast is always good. Everything else is quite bland.

Posted: 11/27/2022 9:35:53 PM EDT

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Covid killed chicken livers off their menu. I really liked them I can't find them up north.

Posted: 11/27/2022 10:02:02 PM EDT

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The one near me is an hour wait minimum to get into on the weekends, especially before noon. Clean restaurant, well stocked gift area, good coffee, hardworking waitstaff.

I’m in the middle of a clear liquid diet and now I’m craving Cracker Barrel breakfast.