Skammer is totally right. I work at the Cracker Barrel Home Office, and we have buyers who travel the world looking for and purchasing all the antiques in the stores. They are then shipped back to the Home Office where they are cleaned and restored and then put away in preparation for new stores to open. They then pack it all up very carefully and travel to the stores and put it up. I know that all stores have the deer head and I am thinking the shotguns below the heads hanging over the fireplace. I can’t remember if anything else is the same in all stores. You can see more about it here.
Good to know - thanks, everybody!
This is why the SDMB is so great.
I haven’t been in a Cracker Barrel in years, but even out in Asia the TGI Friday’s have all that kind of stuff on the walls. Probably mostly manufactured, but some of the framed diplomas and stuff look authentic. It actually makes me a bit depressed when I think about it. Years from now, all the stuff that’s important to me in my life, in what I think of as the permanence of my home, could be festooning the walls of some 22nd century chain restuarant.
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There was an episode of American Pickers where a guy was re-selling stuff back and he clearly had a warehouse of these type of things. There is a place locally that I could get pretty much anything to furnish my own restaurant if I needed.
And of really no interest to anyone… my Dad went to Castle Heights Military Academy with the Cracker Barrel founder (decbaby may not even be old enough to know about its existence). Unfortunately he decided not to invest in his idea when offered.
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So? I mean, we still got an answer straight from the horses mouth.
Seeing as how they tend to renovate those places with a backhoe, I assume that all of this stuff is taken out when they rip down a location and sent back to HQ, right?
While we’re talking about restaurant customizations, I like how Applebee’s customizes their stores to the city. And I’m not talking about little things, but here they have an entire wall dedicated to photos and an official city sign and everything.
Some of you folks need to check in on ‘American Pickers’.
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