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ROOM FOR YOU AT CRACKER BARREL’S THANKSGIVING TABLE!
Celebrate with your family by dining with us for $8.99 or host in your home for $49.99

LEBANON, Tenn. (November 11, 2009) – Cracker Barrel Old Country Store^® has just the recipe to help you spend a little more time with family and friends this holiday season, starting with Thanksgiving. As this special time approaches, you can smile knowing that your family will enjoy a hearty Thanksgiving meal with all the fixin’s, and you don’t have to do the fixing! Spend Thanksgiving visiting with your family and let Cracker Barrel take care of the kitchen work. You and your family can come down to the store for a homestyle Thanksgiving meal with all the fixin’s, or bring the feast straight to your home!

You can have a complete traditional feast in the restaurant: enjoy oven-baked turkey breast with made-from-scratch cornbread dressing and topped with turkey gravy.  This will be served with a sampling of baked sugar-cured ham, sweet potato casserole with caramel pecan topping, cranberry relish, your choice of a vegetable and fresh biscuits or corn muffins, plus Cracker Barrel’s very own Pumpkin Pecan Streusel Pie with real whipped cream and a beverage (excluding milkshakes), all for $8.99 for adults, $4.49 for children.. This will be served only on Thursday, November 26th, beginning at 11 a.m.

If everyone is planning to come to your house for the Thanksgiving meal, you might find it to be easier, and still delicious, for you to serve Cracker Barrel’s Thanksgiving Dinner To Go. Spend time with your company instead of in the kitchen because this high-quality no-fuss feast feeds six people and features oven-roasted turkey breast with made-from-scratch cornbread dressing and turkey gravy. This will come with a sampling of baked sugar-cured ham, sweet potato casserole with caramel pecan topping, cranberry relish, your choice of three vegetable and a baker’s dozen of either fresh biscuits or corn muffins, all for $49.99.  Phone ahead and let them know what time you want to pick up your no-fuss feast, it will be hot and ready to go when you arrive. 
 
Cracker Barrel can also help you serve dessert with four selections of freshly baked Holiday Pies for you to choose from for $7.99.  Selections are Pecan Pie, Chocolate Pecan Pie, Apple Pecan Streusel Pie and No Sugar Added Apple Pie.  

“Our guests tell us that they enjoy visiting with their friends and family without having to worry about all the cooking and cleaning that goes along with making a traditional Thanksgiving meal,” says Chris Ciavarra, Vice President of Brand and Menu Strategy for Cracker Barrel. “So we're pleased to be open all day to make it possible for them to relax and truly enjoy the holiday, either in our restaurant or by bringing home Cracker Barrel’s Thanksgiving Dinner To Go!”

Cracker Barrel will be open during its regular hours – 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. – on Thanksgiving for travelers and neighbors alike who know that they can count on Cracker Barrel to provide the high quality food and warm hospitality they have come to expect.

About Cracker Barrel
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store^® restaurants provide a friendly home-away-from-home in their old country stores and restaurants. Guests are cared for like family while relaxing and enjoying real home-style food and shopping that’s surprisingly unique, genuinely fun and reminiscent of America’s country heritage…all at a fair price. The restaurant serves up delicious, home-style country food such as meatloaf and homemade chicken n’ dumplins as well as its signature biscuits using an old family recipe. The authentic old country retail store is fun to shop and offers unique gifts and self-indulgences.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the publicly held CBRL Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBRL). Cracker Barrel was established in 1969 in Lebanon, Tenn. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. operates 593 company-owned locations in 41 states.  Every Cracker Barrel unit is open seven days a week with hours Sunday through Thursday, 6 a.m. – 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 6 a.m. - 11 p.m.  For more information, visit crackerbarrel.com

Media Contact:                          
Julie Davis     
(615) 443-9266     
jdavis@crackerbarrel.com 

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