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Originally posted by corsair:
Funny seeing various posts including the words 'great' and 'Cracker Barrel' together. It's a thematic, national restaurant chain, that alone should be a warning sign to stay away and keep any and all expectations to a minimum. Yes, their bacon and ham steak is tasty but, that doesn't off-set the canned garbage and reconstituted powders that they call food. I'll give my business to the local diner, owned by the local family, that employs the locals before going to a national theme chain.

Add way overpriced, and you've just about covered it!

I use them while traveling. Most of the time, I stop to use the rest rooms. They are generally clean, and I can't remember the last time there was any wait.

Sometimes I eat there.

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Originally posted by vinnybass:
As a fan of Cracker Barrels elsewhere, I've found their Las Vegas store by Bass Pro Shops underwhelming. How a chain can't produce repeatable results is beyond me.

That's what happens when you actually cook your food in house instead of just reheating pouches of pre-cooked food.

That's how you get chains with repeatable results. Pre-cooked pouches.

went to a CB in Derry, NH

I was underwhelmed

the food was tasteless - I had something they called Roast Beef - had zero taste

the coffee was just brown water

the best part of the CB experience was leaving and getting a root beer out of the cooler - seriously, that was the best part of the whole meal

I do a lot of driving and I will drive by a CB before I ever consider stopping in to one again

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Originally posted by Scurvy:

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Originally posted by vinnybass:
As a fan of Cracker Barrels elsewhere, I've found their Las Vegas store by Bass Pro Shops underwhelming. How a chain can't produce repeatable results is beyond me.

That's what happens when you actually cook your food in house instead of just reheating pouches of pre-cooked food.

That's how you get chains with repeatable results. Pre-cooked pouches.

Maybe some, not all. One of the joints I frequent (sammyspizza) has fresh-made food. After visiting several of their locations in the west, I found them to be repeatable & fresh.

If you're going to be in the restaurant business in Las Vegas you'd better bring your A-game or you won't last.

Huh, never had a bad experience in a CB other than waiting for a table since lots of folks find the food good. Like VTail, I love country ham, lots of folks and places have no clue what real country ham is, sometimes I think they believe if the hog was raised outside of the city limits it's country ham.

Coffee has always been hot, OJ is Florida sweet, grits, eggs, toast, always hot I don't think I've ever had to send back a plate or run to the crapper to dump my meal afterwords any faster than normal

First time I stopped in one with my current wife she'd never been in one and we were in Central TN, when the waitress asked if she'd like swee'tea in that southern TN drawl my wife had no clue what she'd been asked, it was funny.

I like their breakfasts -- lots of food, cheap.

But the rest of their menu to me is salt+

Salt + Dumplings
Salt + Pot Roast
Salt + Salt

I don't have anything against salt, but I'd rather not have it the dominant taste.

Breakfast only for us.
Kids like the pancakes and it doesn't take a genius to cook an egg.

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Originally posted by corsair:
I'll give my business to the local diner, owned by the local family, that employs the locals before going to a national theme chain.

Well, to be fair, CB is also employing locals. But I agree with you and prefer to support locally owned business.

I think CB was better years ago. Breakfast items are ok. My main issue is that the restaurants never seem too clean.

When I was a kid, we would stop by CB when traveling and rent books or old radio shows (Amos n Andy) on cassette tape. Helped pass the miles.

I dig their hash brown casserole, but will always prefer a good local place for breakfast. The hard part is finding one.

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but the cornbread is ok for sweet cornbread

way too dry

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Well, to be fair, CB is also employing locals. But I agree with you and prefer to support locally owned business.

That's exactly what goes through my mind when I hear the employ's locals reasoning, as if restaurants are using SB1 visas to bring in staff LOL.

Franchises and corporate owned stores employ locals, pay local business income, unemployment and property taxes as well.

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Originally posted by vinnybass:

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Originally posted by Scurvy:

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Originally posted by vinnybass:
As a fan of Cracker Barrels elsewhere, I've found their Las Vegas store by Bass Pro Shops underwhelming. How a chain can't produce repeatable results is beyond me.

That's what happens when you actually cook your food in house instead of just reheating pouches of pre-cooked food.

That's how you get chains with repeatable results. Pre-cooked pouches.

Maybe some, not all. One of the joints I frequent (sammyspizza) has fresh-made food. After visiting several of their locations in the west, I found them to be repeatable & fresh.

If you're going to be in the restaurant business in Las Vegas you'd better bring your A-game or you won't last.

16 locations vs 639 locations

premium priced products vs value priced products.

It's a little different.

A great place to use the bathroom

A great place to get audio books

The breakfast is pretty good