The cracker barrel was the first thing the Aldens saw when they went into the store.

I started to worry about that the other day when we were at the Cracker Barrel.

By 2011, Cracker Barrel had opened more than 600 restaurants in 42 states.

"Yeah," he says, "I'm just sitting here around the old cracker barrel."

Instead it was packed away in boxes, envelopes, and even a cracker barrel.

He served as the chairman of Cracker Barrel from 2001 until his retirement in 2004.

Cracker Barrel became a publicly traded company in 1981 to raise funds for further expansion.

Americans can think like those peg games at Cracker Barrel.

Cracker Barrel, which had sales of $200 million last year, has about 100 locations in the Southeast.

That was when cracker barrels contained crackers and not microphones.