Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - Life in America
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Just ate there last week. Mom wanted to go there for Mother’s Day. No arguments from me.
LOVE those chicken and dumplings!
There are quite good for sure🤗
Losing its southern charm every day!
Everything is.
It comes with the absolute destruction of American traditions as a whole.
After all these years, Cracker Barrel is still my favorite restaurant.
Great video! I’m happy to see a story that doesn’t end with a flameout, like Sears, Radio Shack, etc.
Thank you!
Well, Cracker Barrel isn’t as old as Sears or Radio Shack was when they flamed out. Give it another twenty years to see if they survive near the seventy-five year mark.
When our kids were growing up, our favorite Saturday morning activity was to fill up the minivan, and have breakfast at Cracker Barrel. Now they’re all gone, and after eight years of cancer, I have diabetes caused by the treatments and can’t eat the food there that I loved. I miss it every time I get driven by the same place we loved so much. Thanks for making these videos which bring back better days.
CB is by far my favorite place to eat! I LOVE just about everything they serve. My all-time favorite is the Chicken and Dumplins. I like the atmosphere as well. And I appreciate the Company's values - they align with mine.
Love their country stores. Stop at many along the I -75 when travelling. Some items on the menu can be hit or miss but generally I stick to their breakfast .
I love this place. Our favorite for a good down home breakfast. And the store is so much fun.
Great place to eat and just look at all the items inside each cracker barrel😀👍
I love southern food and this is a place to go. I live in Salt Lake City, Utah
Went to my first CRACKER BARREL in Williamsburg Virginia in 1991, and the food was great there. In 2003 a CRACKER BARREL opened up in my hometown of Trenton New Jersey in Hamilton Township and eat there frequently.
In all our family road trips into the South in the 70s and early 80s we never saw a Cracker Barrel. But then sometime in the 90s or 2000s we saw one and ate there. I loved it. I distinctly remember the peg games on the tables. We have one Cracker Barrel here in NJ that I know about, but I've never been there. It's way too far away to be worth going to without being in the area for something else. That chicken and dumplings sounds good, about now.🙂
Been there a few times. Good food, friendly service. Interesting atmosphere.
We eat there all the time. Never once had a bad experience or bad food. If you don't like old fashioned southern cooking...it wont be the place for you. It's not pretentious or trendy..it feels like your southern grandma cooked dinner for you
These are still around. I just had take-out from Cracker Barrel yesterday. It's delicious.
You can get breakfast any time. They make a mean sirloin steak dinner. On sundays they make a really great fried chicken dinner.
Good times. The front of the store is filled with games, collectibles, and retro candy.
2:45 That's exactly what it looks like inside a Cracker Barrel. I love it when it's a cold day and we get a seat near that huge fireplace. So toasty.
All you can eat biscuits? I've been going to CB for years and years and years. NEVER. Not once. Have I heard that phrase uttered.
I dined at Cracker Barrel in Florida and Arizona, loved it!
Never been to cracker barrel, will give it a try now. I have never found scratch for sale, been looked at and treated ruble when asking for it.
Cracker Barrel is a nice family resturant where you can get a complete balanced meals at resonable prices. They could elminate hydrogenated oils and preservatives and it would be more from scratch food. Still pretty great.
This and Po' Folks were favorites of mine. Unfortunately our Po Folks closed years ago.
I never ate at Po' Folks.
Po' Folks was great! I think they still exist in Florida.
@@Hevynly1 They do. One down the street from me in St Petersburg.
Dan Evans was a good and honorable man. His word, and his handshake were as good as gold. Unfortunately after he passed away, the company decided to go back on several promises he made in small towns to mom-and-pop family restaurants do not compete directly with them. Other than that transgression, it is a very good company. An interesting side note, you should look up the Casey Jones Country Store & Buffet in Jackson Tennessee. That is that is where Dan got the idea for the Cracker Barrel store. The Casey Jones store is like a Cracker Barrel on steroids. Truly impressive and worth checking out if you're in the area.
I love Cracker Barrel!
I love Cracker Barrel ❤️❤️
I love the History of The Cracker Barrel. 5:21 That looks like Briscoe Darlin from Andy Griffith show he just needs his jug and Banjo playing sons.
That was interesting how the name came about. I love Cracker Barrel especially their pancakes.
My mother could never remember their name. She always called it The Cornbucket.
Oh, that's cute!!
I’ve been to a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia and in California. What a difference! The food in Georgia was delicious, but the one in California where I live was no better then a Denny’s or I-Hop.
Hi candace
There's a reason why old people love to go to Cracker Barrel as compared to other restaurants. I won't tell you what it is, but think hard and figure it out.
When Cracker Barrel first came to the Columbus OH market around 1990, we would eat at one close to us about once a week. Always had good food but I feel the brand has gone down a bit over the decades. The first Christmas season at the local site , they had the best cinnamon rolls (not overly sweet) & then the next holiday season, they changed it to biscuits with a cinnamon topping. I asked the server what happened to the cinnamon rolls from last year & she said the biscuits were more cost effective. Wish they still had their beef stew, 14 day aged ribeye (so tender) & the baked potato done in bags & put in rosin water were the best (there were some safety issues that caused the change). Also, when the menu used to say the vanilla bean ice cream was made exclusively for Cracker Barrel, there were specks of vanilla bean but now it seems more generic. Overall, it still has pretty tasty food.
I like this channel, it’s like other similar channels that cover companies such as company man but covers old timey stuff.
I bet baby boomers love this channel lol.
I’ve never eaten at Cracker Barrel by the way.
Wish they had more in California, great food and fun
should have made mention of the lawsuit between cracker barrel and Kraft
Oh really?
I didn't know that.
Love these stores always eat there when visiting the USA. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I worked at Cracker Barrel for a couple years in the mid '90's when I was going to school!.. (North of Atlanta and during the Olympics) .. I worked the gift shop and Cashier.. I loved working there.. Loved to come to work that first day when they would light up the big fireplace in the late fall.. Smelt like home! This single mother/college student was fed well those years and loved every bite!.. You hear people who have worked at restaurants tell you "Oh.. I would not eat there!".. after they had seen their practices..but.. I still go to that exact Cracker Barrel and eat all the time.. still love the smell of that fireplace and love roaming the gift shop.. The menu changes slightly as you travel north to more adapt to that region.. but it was funny as we would have people come come in and want to sample "a grit" or one fried okra!.. LOL.. I also met a lot of celebrities as Cracker Barrel would feed them for free.. Mostly touring musicians.. Great years.. Fond memories!.. Thank you so much for honoring them and I love your channel!.. Thank you for all you do!
I got pretty good at that peg game!
there's one in the city i live, i will have to try their fried chicken
Their food is good but I feel way too claustrophobic in their tightly packed restaurants. I prefer a booth when eating out.
Seriously…their fried chicken is the best.
I like the 'vibe' of these stores, but their food is not that great. Also, I miss the old ways. I would pay good money to go into a theme restaurant where the kitchen staff was all dressed up like Mammy from Gone With the Wind, and the waitresses all dressed like Prissy, and the food was good ol' Southern style: Grits and eggs, or Red Eye Gravy. Lunch was: a tall glass of fresh cold milk and some cornbread soaking in it. Dinner was Pork Chops on the bone with Mashed potatoes or Liver and Onions. Chicken and homemade dumplings (you know the kind of food women used to make at home before they abandoned their roles of housewife so they could go serve some other man a Mc Donald's sandwich. Go Figure.
Love their bacon and hash browns
I don’t think the chicken fried steak is real. But I do enjoy there is vintage candy plus I bought a cast iron skillet from them.
I Love 💓
Henderson,Ky needs help it has to be the worst one I have eaten at I've been eating at Cracker Barrel for 45 years please send them HELP !!!!!
Our family likes Cracker Barrel. I hope them continued success.
reminds me of uncle morts in jasper alabama in the early 1960"s
Worked for them for years. When Dan ran the company it was a great place to work. Unfortunately that is no longer true. Good food though.
Thank you for this accurate and timely video! I just retired from Cracker Barrel this past Friday after 19 years and I can tell you that it is a great company with tremendous employees and wonderful guests. I'm going to miss it but will still stop by for the delicious food and fun gift shopping, now as a guest!
My wife while we dating suggested we stop at Cracker Barrel for breakfast back in the early ninties. The breakfast was delicious and the service was great. However the waitress kept on filling up my coffee cup so I kept drinking it. Not being a big coffee drinker the caffeine hit me like a ton of bricks. My future wife just thought it was the funniest thing that I was so wired. I asked her to drive....
🤣❤️🥂nice story
Cute
That's funny but that's what I love about that place "unlimited coffee". Unlike I-HOP :-(
It's nice to see one of these stories where the chain continues to succeed instead of getting bought out or fading away. Congrats to the Cracker Barrel family. They've done good and I hope they continue to do well.
Hey there Bob that’s true and I agree with that , there sure have done a great job 🤗, Good afternoon to you
Restaurant bk
It's sad not seeing them around in some states, honestly
Chicken fried steak with hashbrown casserole green beans and biscuits followed by an apple dumpling. That's my go to lunch after Sunday morning church service.
Well gee wiz, thanks a lot! Now I'm hungry. I could go for some fried catfish, hash brown casserole, fried apples, and buttermilk biscuits. Ahhh! Now I'm really hungry!
@@gregggoss2210 ME too. But they close about 8 here, I think.
I get the Hamburger Steak with extra gravy & that amazing hashbrown casserole also
Mine is the meatloaf with mashed potatoes and brown gravy with the fried okra and mac@cheese and sweet tea
If I knew that was waiting, I might actually go to church
I love Cracker Barrels. They are good whichever state..Great food, friendly,clean, cozy decor 😍
Sometimes consistency is best.
I agree but as far as taste goes Fishkill's, NY. may be the best out of all of them, so far. They do something to there ham that makes it taste so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cracker Barrel fed me for more than 20 years on the road as a salesman in VA, TN, KY, WV, and NC. Never a bad meal !
Thanks to all the CB cooks and friendly waitresses!
I'd never been to one until I moved to AZ, but no gas ⛽ there. Don't live in AZ anymore. Pretty good food.
Your lucky then cause I’m in NC and I haven’t had a good meal in a good number of years now. I used to go weekly but the food and service started dropping off so I started going monthly and it never got any better so I gave up and figured I’d give someone who cared my money so I hadn’t been in over a year until this February and only reason I went then is because a buddy of mine gave me a Cracker Barrel gift card and like a fool, I used part of it for a dinner and it reminded me real quick as to why I don’t go anymore!! There’s still some money left on that card but it will never be enough to get me to go back! They’ve burnt their bridge and between the restaurant and the gift shop, I bet I used to spend $6-$8k a year there but evidently that’s not enough to get decent food, and I’m not picky at all!! This chain has fallen off the cliff!!
@@1982MCI Do you work for a competitor LOL! :) Like IHOP
Good afternoon Mike , That’s nice to hear Mike 🤗
@@jerrysullivan8424 hahahah that’s hilarious Jerry and Good afternoon to you
I have never had a bad meal at a cracker barrel. Please never change. I can always count on cracker barrel for a good meal.
Well its turned cheap. Mostly commercial grade food. But a Cool gift shop.
I enjoy a great meal at CB as well!
My husband and I like their food, never had a bad meal.
Never had a bad meal yet! I feel the same way, hope they never change!
@@jkt0924 Us too, we have to drive quite a ways to get to one but it's worth it.
I worked at a BBQ restaurant in Lebanon, TN many years ago. Dan Evans' sister came through almost every day. She told me that the "old man" on the sign is their real-life Uncle Herschel. You can find "Uncle Herschel's Favorite" on the breakfast menu. I met Dan Evans a couple times as well and he was very kind and friendly.
Oh okay then that explains the Ol' Timer's breakfast probably.
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Cracker Barrel’s are so cool...they let Rvers park for the night as a rest stop, and their food is really delicious
The one in Erie pa is always busy. Always wondered where they got their decor from . They have a great fried chicken dinner .
@Gerard Kowalski(open): My wife and her family hail from Erie, and we can attest to that; every time we make a trip to that location, it's a-hummin'!
I went to a Cracker Barrel store and restaurant of upper Peach St near I 90 here in Erie PA. That was several years ago too.
Even though I live a fair distance from a Cracker Barrel I will go again soon. The last time I went to one was back when a friend and I went many years ago. She has long since passed and I miss her. Going to a CB will bring back sweet memories of her and the good times we had.
Thank you, now I know the history.
The portions are never slack, no matter what you order and the staff are always polite.
One biscuits & gravy, one coffee, thanks!
Fair winds and following seas to all.
I've been there before, such good memories.
Absolutely love your videos. Video suggestion: Charles Chips. As a kid, I remember my neighbor getting home deliveries of big ol’ Charles Chips cans and I was so jealous. Keep up the excellent work!
Great idea! We used to have Charles Chips delivered to our house in Queens NY. We got both chips and pretzels. So fresh and so good....
you can sometimes get them at cracker barrel
Good suggestion, my best friend's family growing up had Charles Chips delivered to the house.
I accompanied my Dad on a business trip to Tennessee one summer in the late seventies.
We ate at Cracker Barrel for breakfast, lunch and dinner almost everyday for two weeks.
When we got back home we told everybody how great they where.
A few years later they came to Texas and Cracker Barrel was our families destination for Sunday dinner for years.
Lebanon, TN? Never heard of it. You mean Leb-nun? 😝
The one near my house (South Florida) is always packed.
Is that the Naples one or LaBelle ? Know them both also Brunswick, Ga.!
@@noreenfreeman1658 I ended up moving near one in Mineral Springs WV
Cracker Barrel was one of my Mom's favorite places to eat.
Interestingly, Cracker Barrel stores and Cracker Barrel brand cheese are totally unrelated.🤔
I have shocking information too. Mars bars are made right here on earth.
@@jamesdean258 What a smart aleck. 😂
@@jamesdean258 Not the same. If we were on mars and eating mars bars you never would expect they were not produced on mars.
After a tasty meal ... love those rocking chairs out front 😬🤣
I just found your channel a few days ago. Thank you so much for doing these wonderful videos of yesteryear. Like so many folks have commented, I wish that way-of-life had never changed. I really feel sad that everyone cannot experience the kind of childhood we had in the 1950s and am thankful I did. Your videos are the best on RUclips and very much appreciated. Yes, I love reading the comments and am glad to know that I'm not the only one that misses yesteryear.
I am a cook at Pensacola's Cracker Barrel and I love it.
It's nice to go sit waiting for your meal looking back and remembering your past.
They have an excellent Ruben !!!! And salad 😋😋 love the gift shop ❤️ love that they have old candies as well! They used to put hand cream in the ladies bathroom way back when. The place is always clean and very friendly.
I stopped in the Lancaster Cracker Barrel today for lunch. Since the line was so long, I asked for an iced tea to go instead. They gave it to me for free. Random tidbit, that location is one of two in Pennsylvania not located on an Interstate; both are on Rt. 30. I don't recall any others that aren't on an Interstate.
Interesting about those non-interstate locations...
There is one in Lynchburg, VA not on an interstate. It's just off U.S. 29, which may be upgraded to one in the future.
Chicken and Dumplings, Corn Bread, and Corn, great dinner dessert fried apples. I traveled on the road and in the air for nearly 32 years and never had a bad meal. Always looked forward to my day ending meal.
I’m a CB regular. The trout is my favorite.
Their chicken and dumplings is very close to my mamaw's.
Catfish with grits and fried eggs.
There is a CB store on the north side of Houston - only place in Houston that I can find maple sugar candy.
I go to the CB in Conroe and get the root beer hard candy.
Great video love your channel. Love the coffee and pancakes
Can I still get unlimited dumplings? That’s like dessert!
No there 5.00 bucks a piece now. Inflation.
After dinner like a little kid I have to ask my wife if I can get a couple rootbeer or cinnamon sticks and a bag of those raspberry gummy candies. She usually says yes
What a nice wife! 😊
My all time favorite restaurant
As a 70 yr old Tennessean who has loved these from the start ,I was so happy when they started spreading across the country so I could eat good down home food as I traveled all over the country. Good wholesome Southern food makes everyone feel good. Even up north. I hope his family keeps running it and wish them well. Thank you Cracker Barrel for all the good memories.
All you can eat biscuits?? Enough said, g... 😉
Love Cracker Barrel... So many choices, it'd take a long time to grow tired of it.
Wonderful story about Cracker Barrel & it lasting throughout the years.
Hope to see a story about Perkins restaurants. 🥞
You hit another one out of the park! An excellent retrospective on an American institution in the food service industry. How about doing one for my favorite restaurant Bob Evans!
Bob Evans used to be the place for breakfast, not so much anymore
Lets hope they dont get sucked up by a 'private equity firm' and be gutted..... like so many other American institutions that are now either gone or shadows of what they once were.
I like eating there.
Too bad the rocking chairs though still by the Hinkle brand are now imported and no longer made in USA.
Here in Buffalo, we had two(2) locations, both by the I-90 Thruway... Blasdell/Hamburg near McKinley Mall, and Lancaster/Williamsville near the Airport. The Lancaster location still operates today, and it's pretty much packed all the time. The other location became a sports bar; my wife and I went there after the Eagles(#FlyEaglesFly) whupped the Bills a year and a half ago.
ate there twice and they messed up the meal the 1st time and it tasted like microwaved Swans food, i renamed it Cracker Dumpster and my kids laughed
We have one just down the road from us. It's always been a good place to meet and eat. Lots of history I never knew. Thanks for the video!
Cracker Barrel food isn't good anymore. The good cooks retired.
Love our local Cracker Barrel. Breakfast any time and the candy rack has some old classics that one doesn't see anywhere else. It's a great place to step away from the grind.
First time I was in a CB was in 1986 in TN or KY. I remember their "rosin-baked potatoes" wrapped in used menus. They were SO good, smoky flavored, but, CB quit making them as their menu offerings have become bland & "watered-down". I do only breakfast @ CB, now.
Luv♥️that flava from the c.b. standing the test of time.
I like our Cracker Barrel in Gadsden, Alabama... and in Trussville, Alabama.. always good food and plenty of good biscuits. coffee is great too.
Overrated and these young lazy generation are bringing it down.
If you know the antique is destined for CB the price just doubled
Ive watched them change over 20 some years. I like the store and the food but lately the store near me in davenport iowa has really slid. i went twice and my servers seemed like they wanted to be anywhere but doing their jobs, very disinterested in doing what they were paid to do and im not being racisist but keep your BLM attitude to yourself, im not interested. the worst part was someone behind us got something in their glass of water that had legs. maybe management needs to pay them more and weed out the ones who just dont cut it. ive talked to a few people who work there and they say that management is the worst and treats their staff like crap, arrogance runs supreme im told. but hey, thats happening all over. anyways, i love the food, get lots of it and rarely ever leave hungry, usually wanting a nap but just have to browse the country store after a good meal.
I wonder if this man was kin to "Bob Evan's"??? Either way I have tried Bob Evans and to me Cracker Barrel is WAY BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!! I especially love there Sunrise Sampler, I can eat two helping's of that "lol". Also there biscuits: "BEST IN THE WORLD"
🤔...To bad they got rid of the gas⛽pumps, because I think that's an awesome idea, especially for Cracker Barrel's that are out on interstates and highways...💯✔