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Posted: 11/27/2022 11:33:11 AM EDT

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That describes me, also.

I do remember them serving a decent breakfast back in the day.

Not great, but decent.

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Sitting here thinking about it, I haven't been to one in like 10 years. No particular reason, it just hasn't come up.

That describes me, also.

I do remember them serving a decent breakfast back in the day.

Not great, but decent.

In my area over the last 10 years we finally got a better selection of breakfast/brunch restaurants so places like Cracker Barrel became a bit obsolete.

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:33:31 AM EDT

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We don’t have Cracker Barrel here, but the last one I ate at (Oklahoma) I had smothered pork chops that were delicious. This was a year ago.

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:35:06 AM EDT

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Actually went a couple of weeks ago got chicken fried steak it hasn't changed. That was the first time in 10 years going there

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:46:25 AM EDT

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I've always found it to to be overpriced.

The only way I'd eat there is if somebody else is paying.

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one of the many kitchens where they snip the plastic bag and microwave your meal to order?

the biscuits were good, I will give them that.

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:48:29 AM EDT

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I was eating at one every day up until mid 2020. Simply by merit of it being around the block from the motel I was at.

It wasn't bad. It also wasn't great. The place was clean and never gave me the shits... so it had that going for it.

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:51:02 AM EDT

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When we first moved near one I found the food decent but after a while it seemed whatever you ordered it all tasted the same. Haven't been to one in at least 8 years.

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:52:14 AM EDT

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Covid, inflation, problems finding workers.

Same issues every other restaurant, on some level, is facing

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QFT

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:54:21 AM EDT

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Now you can go get wasted while eating their shitty chicken fried chicken.

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:55:23 AM EDT

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There was more than twenty years between my last meal at a Cracker Barrel and the one before it.
The one before was in Knoxville, TN in 2000 and I recall it as being pretty darn good. Had a wait to get in as well.
The last one was last year in Wisconsin somewhere and it was just blah.
It'll probably be another twenty years before I eat in one again.

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:56:22 AM EDT

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Ours is still great, big portions and good food - though we almost always get breakfast items

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:57:38 AM EDT

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I like Cracker Barrel ok. The thing with them is, their menu is sort of unique from most of the other big chains.
Longhorns, Outback, Chili’s, Applebees etc, have different combinations of the same stuff. CB having a “country” menu and setting kind of sets them apart from the others. The ones I see are usually packed around meal time.

Posted: 11/27/2022 11:58:25 AM EDT

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I go once a month on Thurs for the turkey dinner. Love it.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:00:18 PM EDT

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I used to like them and looked forward to going there. Since Covid they pared down their offerings significantly. Probably won't be going back.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:01:01 PM EDT

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I haven't been in awhile, but I've always liked their breakfast, and the fact that you can get it anytime.

If as posted above they've dropped their hash brown casserole, they're going to be dead to me.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:01:45 PM EDT

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

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This. Always been trash.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:02:35 PM EDT

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I had CB catered for our Thanksgiving lunch at work, the team enjoyed it.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:03:58 PM EDT

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

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Applebees is the only restaurant I have walked out of without paying.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:04:00 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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Pretty much this. I'll go if someone else wants to meet there and they're paying. That's about it.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:04:22 PM EDT

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We weren't impressed. Maybe it was just the one in my area, but from the overheard conversations from the other customers, the wife and I felt like it was a liberal/democrat gathering place for some reason.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:05:09 PM EDT

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Only eaten there once or twice, was not impressed.
On a side note I do try to avoid chains and support smaller places.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:05:15 PM EDT

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They got canceled because of their racist name?

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:13:31 PM EDT

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What Happened To Cracker Barrel?

Beats me. Haven’t been to one in at least a decade. And then only under duress. Truthfully, I’d rather go to my local McD’s even if CB was free.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:14:06 PM EDT

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Straight pig slop

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:14:19 PM EDT

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Straight pig slop

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:19:21 PM EDT

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Cracker Barrel is an overpriced fake country tourist trap that happens to have a restaurant attached.

I despise that place and that stupid ass store where you have to pay your bill.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:20:44 PM EDT

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Only eaten there once or twice, was not impressed.
On a side note I do try to avoid chains and support smaller places.

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I too like to support the smaller places.

Many women I know hold the exact opposite opinion, however.

I don’t think either opinion is wrong, just an observation I have made.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:21:07 PM EDT

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Portions shrunk and quality is down. We stopped at one while traveling and I ended up with 2 days of ass explosions. They are trying to serve beer and wine to increase profits

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:21:17 PM EDT

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I go once a month on Thurs for the turkey dinner. Love it.

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We do that too. I used to love the Sunday pot roast dinner.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:22:53 PM EDT

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Sitting here thinking about it, I haven't been to one in like 10 years. No particular reason, it just hasn't come up.

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Same. It's probably because eating at a Cracker Barrel is a completely forgettable experience.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:25:28 PM EDT

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Nothing changed here

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:33:30 PM EDT

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People got tired of SE Ryekoff?

Inflation happens. Quantity/quality decreases along with price increases. People can't afford to eat out as much as they used to too.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:36:12 PM EDT

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I don't have many options for country ham since I left the south, so they're my only option when I'm in the mood.

I also don't expect every dining experience to be by candlelight with multiple courses

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:36:45 PM EDT

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Meh food at a reasonable price.
They're doing quite well here.

I give the wife 2 options, if she doesn't want either it's cracker barrel.

Been awhile since we've had cracker barrel.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:37:41 PM EDT

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And started selling Impossible Sausage. Downfall was inevitable.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:39:13 PM EDT

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I've always found it to to be overpriced.

The only way I'd eat there is if somebody else is paying.

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That's the one thing it isn't, imo.

I can name the number of sit down places two can eat at for under $20 on one hand, in my ao.
Now their portions do seem to be shrinking, but I never could eat all of it, regardless.

You don't pick CB for a quick meal, given.

Location dependent?

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:46:08 PM EDT

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I haven’t been in a while but I do like their pancakes and fresh fruit on top in the morning.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:47:52 PM EDT

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Worst chain restaurant there is.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:48:03 PM EDT

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Got food poisoning in one several years ago. Haven't been back.

Posted: 11/27/2022 12:51:48 PM EDT

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Heavy users don't care about quality at all anymore. They'll line up and consume their troughslop happily until they stroke out at 45. Why would fast food go above and beyond when they have a solid base of mindless eaters?

Posted: 11/27/2022 2:51:02 PM EDT

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Applebees is the only restaurant I have walked out of without paying.

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Yup! The LAST time I was there (and we are talking about 10 years ago) my "steak" was gray... No thanks. Sent it back... I'll just have water thanks.

Posted: 11/27/2022 2:54:12 PM EDT

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Someone calibrate me if I am wrong please. Their biscuits, Didn't they used to be bigger? The last time I was there I swear it was the Pillsbury Dough ones. Small, tasteless and dry.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:10:18 PM EDT

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I don't understand why they haven't changed their business model. You wait in a cluttered "gift shop", go to a dark dining room with dirty dingy lattice and junk on the wall, the food isn't any better than anywhere else.

It amazes me they are still in business. What's up with the lattice anyway? Who thought that was nice dining decor.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:17:35 PM EDT

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I've ate cracker barrel every couple years for 30 years.

I've not noticed a change, other than as you pointed out, beer.

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30 years ago when you got sunrise sampler or the uncle Hershel’s you got a lot of food. Now the meat is like three bites

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:18:59 PM EDT

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Last 3 I tried have been the same

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:26:05 PM EDT

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I've ate cracker barrel every couple years for 30 years.

I've not noticed a change, other than as you pointed out, beer.

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Same here. Took the kids out last weekend for the pot roast they make on Sunday. It was as good as I've had before. Little server girl was cute, too.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:27:01 PM EDT

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Cracker Barrel needs to change that racist fucking name.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:29:04 PM EDT

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This.

Seeing it across the board. Can't remember the last time we ate at a restaurant and thought the service was good. At best it's been mediocre.

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If you come to Texas most places have good service especially tex mex places.

I find myself going to the same good places and asking for or getting the same servers.
At most of the Mexican places if you go there a few times and give good tips you will be owned by that waiter and everyone knows who belongs to who.

If your waiter is not in they go by regular rotation.
I get the name of good waiters and ask for them.

Posted: 11/27/2022 3:31:48 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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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..