JULY 4TH, 2009 IN TENNESSEE

Hey Ya'll,

Happy 4th of July to EVERYONE. I hope you are having a wonderful and safe day today.

I know many people are familiar with the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store but I wonder if you know that it was founded here in Tennessee. A local contractor and Dan Evins, Cracker Barrel’s Founder, scratched the plans for the first store in some dirt on land on Highway 109 in Lebanon,
Tennessee, and the first Cracker Barrel Old Country Store was opened in
1969. As of today, that one store has grown to over 575 locations in 41
states, but the Cracker Barrel Offices are still located in Lebanon. I love
the good country cookin’ with the homey atmosphere. Each store also has a retail area with a whole variety of gifts and fun items to choose from. It’s obvious that their Mission Statement which is “Pleasing People” is very important to Cracker Barrel.

I’ve got some fun facts about Cracker Barrel if you’d like to hear them. I think they might be of interest to everyone.

In a typical year, Cracker Barrel serves……
- 35 million bottles of maple syrup (that’s 6% of the world’s pure
maple syrup supply!)
- 124 million slices of bacon
- 145 million eggs
- and 18 million orders of Chicken N’ Dumplins

They also use 70,000 pounds of flour every day to produce their made-
from-scratch biscuits and dumplins.

I know that’s probably for all the stores together, but I think those numbers are
mind boggling. That is really a whole lot of food.

YOUR FAVORITE TENNESSEAN

EUNICE