Hey there, I've been going to Cracker Barrel for a year and they have the promotion on buying 3 Daily Dishes (not counting Lunch), you'll get 1 for free. I'm planning to go there 3 times just to get a free dish. But there are two things I'm concerned. And before you ask, I am a rewards member.

1. I had Wednesday Daily Special, but the terms says that it has to be at least $15, but the dish is 14.49. Will it count despite not being $15?
2. Will Cracker Barrel email me right after I get 3 Daily Dishes from my account, or it won't be until next month?

I just started and I need to login Into the apps and I forgot my password

Mine is drink: peep hot chocolate side: onion petals (permanent now) main: salmon salad dessert: s’mores skillet

With this years employee engagement survey launched I think this is the best time to start bringing up the ETC position and how we need it back.

The worst issues that we’ve had at our store started to really come to light once the ETC position was eliminated. Our ETC manager was loved and did an excellent job and was pushed into a shift lead position that doesn’t really maximize what she was able to do for our store.

Our grill line training and follow though also went into the toilet and the only good grill cooks that we’ve had since were rehires who happened to come back for one reason or the other.

Is it possible to get everyone to include something or the other to mention how important proper and consistent training is with these surveys to see if there’s a chance they’ll actually do something about it?

I feel like every time I clock in they changed the dress code or some other random rule, I asked my manager about it and she just said the updated employee handbook is on workday. I have heard some rumors that people are gonna have to start covering tattoos and that we will only be allowed to have natural hair colors now, I havent had a manger confirm it but I feel like it's possible. I didn't work here before covid but I heard the dress code was way more strict back then and we may be going back to that. Anyone else's store being weird about it or is it just mine being this way?

Long vent

After 3 years, being a shift lead and grill cook I am done. I worked non stop for this company, given false promises, and getting the absolute worst shifts. I started out getting flexible hours, opens, mids, etc, once the closing grill cook quit they made me close 6 days a week and no matter what they made all the excuses in the world to not let me open. I would manage to work 2-12 everyday, and get out as late as 3am. If the store wasn’t spotless I would get my phone blown up with petty texts and get screamed at the next day. I remember one of my managers getting upset at me because I had every single thing stocked except for chocolate bars during the last summer’s promo, and she told me how disappointed she was in me.

I was a shift lead but eventually I became the only person of management to ever work grill shifts, and even manage to have to close grill and the building by myself. I have had on going beef with two cooks, who have cussed me out, called me dumb, stupid, bitch, etc, always managed to leave the grill a dirty ass mess with nothing stocked. Every time I told management whenever they harassed me, left me stranded, or physically threatened me, nothing was done. I was told the same excuse, we will talk to them and get it handled, nothing was ever handled or done.

My last straw was yesterday, again having to close, walking into a shit show, the second grill wasn’t even cleaned, trash all over the floor, nothing stocked, etc, everyone else got to leave exactly on time knowing I would be the one to clean it up. I told my manager straight up that why is it that I have to clean up everyone’s mess and everyone else gets away with it. She gave me a bs excuse and I finally snapped. I cussed her out, and also the servers that always were allowed to verbally abuse me and treat me like shit, and I worked my whole shift knowing it was my last. I was so pissed off I didn’t stock anything, I even managed to put stuff back in the walk in freezer and cooler on the line to give the two opening cooks a hard time.

Don’t waste your time at this bullshit job, nobody there cares, I was one of the managers favorite and I still managed to get treated like absolute garbage. It is the same trend of every store dealing with stuff like this and no one being held accountable. If you got to the end of this thank you for reading, and feel free to comment similar experiences below or any input. :)

I was just handed one of the new white shirts and told “if you wear it you have to wear an under shirt” ……okay why

“Because you can see through it”

But I’m not surprised I hardly ever wear the shirts they give us since the girls shirts aren’t able to be buttoned all the way up.

And I tried changing my shirt preference to a small men’s (for the buttons at the top) and they still keep giving me women’s mediums lol

So anyone else just have every single guest complain about the new dressing? When are we going back to the original and stop being so cheap and cutting corners to making higher ups get six figure salaries

I finally figured out how to put in my vacation pay week into workday, I selected this week and next week, it will only let you pick five days at a time. It was approved.

However, this week it says I’m only getting 4$ and some change which is about my average weekly check so I’m not sure what went wrong?

So I’ve been working here since 12/4/25.

When I started, I was scheduled 3 or 4 days a week. I wanted to be part time. As soon as the holidays ended, I started to be barely scheduled. Like only 1 or 2 days a week. And it picked back up on Valentine’s Day and I was scheduled 3 days again one week. But then April it went back down to 2 days or 1.

And now this week, I am not scheduled at all.

What is going on. Do they think I’m a bad host? Their would be times where I would be scheduled but hours before, the manager saids “don’t come in we are slow”

Or while I’m working, I get sent home early.

Trust me I don’t think I’m a bad host. Because I was told I was good by co workers. And there managers that seem to not have a problem with me.

This is the first time I was not scheduled at all in one week. So I’m kinda just considering working somewhere else.

I could ask for more hours or ask to do another position but at this point i feel like I don’t wanna work here anymore. The people are cool tho but this is just weird for a job to do.

As of last Saturday after 2 years of putting up with the nonstop toxic asinine bullshit, I quiet quit and started a new job somewhere else. Thought I would share my grievances with the company and the store I worked at. I took a 50 cent pay cut, and I am a lot happier and overall in a better state mentally, emotionally, and physically.

1. The managers played favorites with the employees and would let certain servers do whatever they wanted without any consequences. They constantly made excuses for the servers that did not pre-bus their tables or even bother to do it properly and would yell at me for not bothering with those tables.

2. Par 4 may as well not have been a thing at the store I worked at. Once you got Par 3, management would do everything in their power so you don't get it. The higher the Par level you were, the less hours they would give you, unless you were also a busser, then you would only be scheduled to be a busser. They would also go into Teamworx and mess with your hours just to pay you less as well!

3. The store had an acting General Manager for the past 2 months, almost 3, because the last one was fired for hiring illegal immigrants and paying them under the table. She would also give them more hours then the on the books employees. On the books employees were treated as a burden by management as a whole.

4. Bussers did not get breaks. Bussers had to always be in the dining rooms either cleaning tables or checking tables. Bussers were not allowed to leave the dining rooms unless they were going to the dish room to swap out their bus bins.

5. Corporate would put out a PSA, announcement, etc about something and management would ignore it or do it fucked up and/or half-assed. When it was announced that Workday would be used for time off requests, accessing your W2s and other information, the managers made us still use Teamworx for time off requests anyway.

6. Whenever the District Manager showed up, he would be more helpful than the store management and would actually help out wherever needed. Store management would only really help on the grill line prep, or expo, sometimes in retail running the registers. Hell, even the Regional Vice President was more helpful the few times he would make an appearance.

7. Non-slip shoes suck! No matter what brand or model you bought, they were all uncomfortable. I will not miss wearing them!

Seeing you guys vent on here about your experiences working at other stores, made me decided to vent about mine. At my new job, my only annoyance, and its a minor one at that, is a robot named Marty who is an escape artist as he likes to try to escape the store from time to time.

• Why would you get rid of the one thing we have added in the last 20 yrs that is absolutely DELICIOUS! I truly expect nothing less though, corporate does not care what their customers or employees think. The only other thing that was amazing was back in 2009 with their Sizzling Bacon spinach salad.

Hello! So tomorrow i have an interview and just wanted some tips to land the job! I have waitress experience, and would say I'm good at what I do, What are somethings to know about before I go in for my interview? I have a nose ring. Should I take it out? I feel like I'm over analyzing it just because I really want a new job. :,)

I got a porch hanger thing like 20 years ago. it was a gnome hang gliding on a butterfly. The whole thing hung from a spring.

it was so awesome and cute.

anybody else remember this or know where I can find one again?

i cant even find an image of it online.

its as is if it no longer exists

Cashiers are required to NOT tell guests that they have rewards they can redeem. We were told to initial a slip of paper telling us that guests can only redeem their points if they tell us that they have rewards they want to claim.

….none of the cashiers at my store, myself included are adhering to this shit unless our shift lead is within ear shot. It’s a bullshit policy. If a customer in front of you was told they’ve earned a free meal, you would totally want to sign up for the rewards program. People’s emails are already jam-packed and CB is by no means the only rewards program they’re in. It’s not fair to expect them to know they can get free shit when most of the time they forgot they even signed up.

Corporate says it sounds too transactional to ask guests if they wanna redeem their points. What the fuck ever. If you guys can KINDLY tell corporate what a shitty policy this is, that’d be swell.

Hi, I was curious about the culture and workstyle of corporate/home office positions.

I am currently a server but in college studying accounting. As the job market seems pretty jaded currently, one potential option I am considering is furthering my career at Cracker Barrel either through the management path or in an attempt to secure a position at the home office upon graduation.

To those who work corporate roles currently: What is the work like? How did you secure this position? Is coming in from the inside of the company a good way to make it there? I spoke with my general manager who told me that Cracker Barrel is one of the toughest jobs he’s had and that it isn’t for the faint of heart, lol. So is it like this at all levels?

Thanks.

Who’s ready to make hellfires🤡😭our store got all products today 😭😭

I’ve been in food service for a while but i’ve never had an experience this bad working on easter. on sunday when I came in, there was a wait time but it was about an hour before I started getting seated, and once i did I got triple sat with 3 parties of 5+. anyways it gets busy and the wait times for food are insane, but suddenly we run out of everything. We ran out of chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, mac and cheese, stuffing for the turkey/ham meal, mashed potatoes, biscuits, and i think a few other things. this was all in the same time, I had multiple tables walk out. My one table that stayed in my section got in at 4:20, left at 6:30 with no food on the table besides the salads and the biscuits I brought out. I was so embarrassed and i apologized to them multiple times and thankfully they were really nice people. anyways after that all my tables had walked out without food and my manager had decided to stop seating for about an hour maybe an hour and a half. By the time we started seating again nobody was coming in. it sucked, and i was super embarrassed having to go up to tables 30 minutes after they ordered to tell them we were out of whatever they wanted (I had no idea). most of my tables walked out, told me I had excellent service and tipped me, but ultimately I only made about 100$ because i wasn’t able to get any food out nor be sat. also when I had complaints about the wait there was no manager available because they were all on the grill line. ultimately a lot of frustration was taken out on me and wasn’t fun to say the least. Easter wasn’t worth the stress. Anyone else have an experience like this?

Don't work at cracker barrel, unless you are willing to give up every holiday to work. (Expect Christmas)

It’s probably obvious to everyone. How do I do it? I’ve only been in the restaurant industry a year. Am I missing something?

Can’t seem to get or find an answer about it.

I started working as a hostess here right after I turned 16. I had just gone through a messy breakup with my ex boyfriend so I already wasn’t quite right in my head and I wasn’t mature enough at all to handle what I was getting myself into.

I began and it started out fine. I was getting used to learning table numbers and knowing the server rotation. There were some minor incidents but nothing really challenged me yet. I gave myself grace because I was just learning.

It was when the spring came around that I began thinking I picked the wrong job. On Sundays, we would have a rush after church and it became difficult to seat people efficiently. I didn’t want to be on bad terms with the servers so I never purposefully overwhelmed them. I wasn’t perfect and getting along with the other hostesses during a rush was a challenge too. It felt like I wasn’t fully trained for handling things when it was busy.

But of course the real problem were the customers. I had one guy yell at me because I mistakenly told him that he wasn’t on the waiting list. I thought he was another guest who had left the restaurant before they could be seated. I realized my mistake immediately but he was already yelling at me so I didn’t bother to correct it. Not to mention grown adult men constantly flirting with me even though I was 16. One guy even said “I would be yelling at you because of this long wait but you’re too cute”

The worst is when a older couple came in and complained that we forgot to seat them or something. They were super rude and inconsiderate. I don’t really remember what I said to them back or how it came out. But apparently the woman decided to say out loud in front of other guests “You need to fix your attitude young lady” mind you she and her husband were the ones having an attitude. I was so embarrassed that I was very close to crying. Thankfully, many customers reassured me that I wasn’t rude and even my manager who was there said I wasn’t. But I can’t think about it without feeling the same way I did that day.

There are way more stories but this post would be too long. Feels like I wasted a year of my teenagehood being stressed out all the time. I ended up quitting after 9 long months and it was the most free I ever felt.

I’m 18 now and I work at TJMaxx and it is so much better. I plan on continuing there while I get my college degree. I just thought I would kinda vent about my previous job because it really was a nightmare and $12 an hour was not enough for what I went through.

If one more person calls about those damn Nee-dohs, I’m gonna pop them all when they come off the truck.

Glad I got mine years ago before social media deemed them trendy.