Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (CBRL) $67.19
The Company:
Cracker Barrel Old Country is ten all-American country themed restaurant that started in 1969 in Lebanon, Tennessee. Cracker Barrel restaurants also have an attached retail shop that sell everything from rocking chairs to jars of fried apples. The company generates about 20% of its sales from the retail shops. In the fiscal year 2011 ended July 2011, the company generated on average over $3.2 million in restaurant sales and over $0.8 million in retail sales per store. Cracker Barrel, which emerged as a small restaurant in the 1970’s with the objective of catering to interstate travelers, now has 600 stores in 42 states. There is still room for the company to expand as they don’t have a single location on the west coast.