My Visit to Cracker Barrel

This is going to violate almost every rule I have. When I was in Charlotte (actually stayed in Concord), there was a Cracker Barrel across the street. I am not from the South and discovered Cracker Barrel about four years ago, when I visited Savannah,Ga and loved it. I know it is a chain (this violates a major rule of mine in this space which is never to highlight chain restaurants,but I who cares) but since there is none on the West Coast (St. George, UT is the closest and I have been to that one) I decided to show it off to my friends in the Pacific Time Zone.

Cracker Barrel is both a store (OK, giant gift shop) and a restaurant. The prices are low and the food is good:

Part of the outside. You can play checkers and you can buy the rocking chairs to take home

Loved this water pump outside

Inside the store part. They sell a lot stuff for tourists 

Old time soda

The ceiling I though it was cool

Loved this fireplace in the joint

Inside the restaurant

They have this peg game at every table. The goal is to jump the pegs with the empty space and only leave one peg. I have never won

I thought this was cool on the walls

Dinner: The Cracker Barrel Sampler: Meat Loaf, Ham, Chicken dumplings, carrots and beans. It was yummy

I wish that we had a Cracker Barrel here on the West Coast. I would be there once a week at least.