Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., doing business as Cracker Barrel, is an American chain of restaurant and gift stores with a Southern country theme. The company’s headquarters are in Lebanon, Tennessee, where Cracker Barrel was founded by Dan Evins and Tommy Lowe in 1969.
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Flavorlessness is the primary reason why I don’t dine at Cracker Barrel. Same goes for Miller Lite as blandness of character pertains to beer. My strongest perennial argument against chains and franchises derives from aesthetic considerations and plain personal principle, as I prefer the way independent operators do it, and I’d rather hand them my money than a corporate conglomerate.
But there also comes a point where art meets economics, hence the Local Multiplier Effect, which is derived from facts proven by numerous studies that “independent locally owned businesses recirculate a far greater percentage of revenue locally compared to absentee-owned businesses. In other words, spending locally...
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