Cracker Barrel

I want to preface this by saying I really enjoy the Cracker Barrel franchise, but today, seemed to be an off day for them. I ordered the country boy breakfast, and when I asked for medium rare, the waitress said "we only do medium and above". I was like okay cool, I'll have medium, but the picture you see clearly shows that it was barely even cooked. It was actually quite cold in the middle. I asked them to make a new one, again at medium, because I was told that's all they do. This time it came out medium rare, which I prefer anyway. However, it definitely seems like there's a misunderstanding between some of the wait staff and the kitchen. The first steak was so undercooked that I could barely get my fork in there. The second one was at least edible, and it was seasoned beautifully, but it still wasn't medium as I was led to believe. I would suggest the wait staff and the kitchen staff come to an understanding so that mishaps like this don't happen again.

Probably one of the worst cracker barreck experiences I've ever had. We were told there was a 25 minute wait which okay it's 8:00. It's busy time. When we looked in the dining room. There's about six tables and the rest are filled with dirty dishes. We order our food and when I got the chicken fried chicken with a loaded baked potato, I get it all the time at my local cracker barrel. Normally it's crispy and moist. This time it was bland and soggy. The potato I got, the bacon was ice cold and obviously raw. I pointed it out to the waiter and they said it's just how it is and reason it wasn't hot was because it wasn't under the heat lamp. The bacon was as red as my sunburn when it should be crunchy not chewy. There was no effort to right the wrong.

I’m surprised :( I have heard many times of people going here, but never heard of their experience dining here. This place doesn’t stress the wearing a mask policy, which is awesome. However my experience here was poppy. The place has one entrance, coming through their store literally. Their store is has so many displays of goodies that it felt like I was going through a winding road to get to the restaurant. It definitely has an old-school country vibe, to me it kinda feels outdated. I saw hair hot combs & old barbershop price menus stuck to the walls as decor. I’m unsure how these tops went with the brand’s theme. The place smelled, my step-daughter asked me “why did it smell like cat?” In there. I told her to be nice yikes! The food took a while to come, and when it did come it was hot, dry and did taste good. My fish wasn’t moist at all but did have an amazing dry rub on it. I requested to have a side of their maple bacon sauce & then my fish was delicious. My dumplings weren’t my favorite. It tasted like a boiled flour dumpling that’s pulled after being cooked & stewed in gravy :( I wouldn’t recommend to millennials, but my grandma would love it.

I tried the fried shrimp meal for dinner. I thought the price was great. Easy online ordering. I arrived at pickup time and waited an hour past my pickup time for my food. Lots of people were waiting long. I could understand if they were short staff, but nothing was communicated to us folks waiting. Unfortunately, I don’t think I will try this place again for awhile. The food looks delicious. But we ordered biscuits and they gave us cornbread. The fries were rock hard and the corn had no flavor. The shrimp and hush puppies were ok.

This is an absolute amazing place as you all know what’s an old school breakfast. You can never go wrong on this restaurant chain. It is for sure a long waits in mornings some weekends. We went to this restaurant the next day after the Hershey Park visit. This is our to go breakfast place without fail whenever we see this near by in our outings. The server Named “Jill” was extraordinarily accommodating and really very polite and friendly. Their food is as usual exceptional again with every bite you take is super worth. ❤️💯❤️ Really for sure recommend this place once or as many times you see this place near by. This place is really located in really nice view of the highway 🛣.