13 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Cracker Barrel

8. It’s Been an Ongoing Feud with Kraft Foods Over the Cracker Barrel Name

9. It Supports a Wide Range of Charities and Has Its Own Charitable Organization

10. You Can Buy Most of Its Products Online

11. It’s One of the Few Chains That Doesn’t Post Calorie Counts Online

12. Every Cracker Barrel displays five of the same types of antiques

While each restaurant features unique local finds that reflect the community’s history, every Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has an ox yoke and a horseshoe hanging over the front door, a traffic light over the restrooms, a rifle over the mantel, a wall telephone next to the mantel, and a cracker barrel with a checkerboard in front of the fireplace.

13. The restaurants are decorated with actual vintage finds inspired by local history

All of those tools, signs, photographs, and toys that decorate the walls of your local Cracker Barrel? They’re all authentic vintage items—no reproductions allowed. Back when the first Cracker Barrel opened, founder Dan Evins asked Don and Kathleen Singleton, a couple who ran a local antique store, to help him decorate the space in the style of an old country store. Today, the couple’s son, Larry Singleton, is still in charge of finding unique regional artifacts for new restaurant locations. In fact, Larry runs an entire “Decor Warehouse” filled with over 90,000 artifacts at the company’s headquarters in Tennessee, where his team restores and archives every fabulous antique item that he purchases.

Credits: thedailymeal.com   countryliving.com