I think they are popular with non drinking Christians. Maybe they lose sales.
Is buying the booze mandatory? /s
As long as the kitchy items in their gift shoppe remains as goopy as ever, they should be okay.
Lemme guess, they just “discovered” the verses where water is turned into wine and Paul recommends taking a little wine for the stomach?
“Our job is to keep the price down. Your job is to keep the wine down.”-Johnny Carson
I worked at Denny’s briefly, when they had a pilot program to sell beer and wine. That didn’t last very long.
Was it due to the cost of a liquor license not worth the few sales they got from it, or more due to the inherent problems that come from having a 24/7 open eatery that also serves alcohol?
“Cracker Barrell sells alcohol now”. I can see the ad slogan now; “We leave off the last l for liquor.”
Sales were pretty high at first, and then quickly dropped off.
in the South there are people who don’t like to be around alcohol. At my own wedding some of my wife’s relatives were not happy we had free wine and beer at the reception.
Some stores don’t sell lottery tickets because the owners are religious. A big grocery chain, Harris Teeter did not sell lottery tickets for about the first 10 years of the NC lottery
“The second L is for lliquor” “what’s the second L in lliquor for?” “that’s a typo”.
Sorry. It was a joking reference to the misspelling of barrel in the topic title and a callback to the commercials for 1800Mattress, which had,“Leave off the last S for savings” as the slogan.
The non-drinking Christians don’t have to buy the alcohol.
It won’t help.
The last time I ate there I was already drunk as hell and the food was terrible. If restaurant food sucks when you’re wasted, then it is really terrible.
I never saw a Cracker Barrell for the first thirty-seven years of my life, because I always lived out here. The 3 Pacific Coast states have 1 of them, in a suburb of Portland. Which seems like an odd way to avoid revenue. My first guess is that those states in particular require restaurants to pay their waitstaff minimum wage (which is higher in all those states than the rest of the country), with no “tip credit” allowed.
I’ve always said Cracker Barrel would be my perfect restaurant if they served beer. I have simple food tastes, I love the grilled catfish with mashed potatoes and green beans.
My wife and I ate there exactly once and we both got the worst food poisoning of our lives. I still get queasy just looking at one of their billboarrds.
Country fried steak and Lima beans Yum!
I did a tour waiting tables at the Barrel back in college. At least once a shift somebody tried to order a beer. Occasionally people got belligerent and swore that the CB they usually went to had beer.
I always told them that they couldn’t have beer because the staff would have drunk it all. Which was true. As it was they had to stick to cocaine.
as a kid we were on vacation and my father was in a grocery store looking for beer in a dry county. He asked the guy where it was and they said “Blowing Rock” which was nine miles away in the next county. Can’t recall for sure but I guess my father drove 9 miles to get the beer. That town, Boone NC is now wet and has been since the 80s.