Cracker Barrel Menu With Prices (September 2026)

Cracker Barrel Menu Prices at a Glance

Cracker Barrel prices look higher than a diner and lower than a casual dining chain, and the reason sits in what comes with the plate. Order a country dinner and you get the entree plus your choice of country sides plus biscuits or cornbread, all in the one price. Nothing on the sides list is an upcharge and the bread keeps coming.

Prices below are in restaurant figures checked across several states in September 2026. Cracker Barrel is almost entirely company owned rather than franchised, so the spread between markets is narrower than at most chains. Delivery apps add roughly 30 to 35 percent, which is where the inflated prices circulating online come from.

Cracker Barrel Breakfast Menu

This is the part of the menu the chain is built on and it never stops. Every breakfast plate on this page is available from opening at 7am until close, whether that is nine in the morning or nine at night. Grits, hashbrown casserole and fried apples are all standard sides here rather than special requests.

Uncle Herschel’s Favorite and the Classics

Uncle Herschel’s Favorite is the plate people ask for by name and it is named after the founder’s uncle rather than being a marketing invention. Two eggs any style, a choice of breakfast meat, fried apples or hashbrown casserole, grits or another side, and biscuits with gravy.

Ordered as printed it clears a thousand calories comfortably, and the largest builds with country ham and gravy run higher again. It is the single most requested item on the Cracker Barrel menu and it has been on there in one form or another since the early days of the chain.

Pancakes and French Toast

Pancakes here are buttermilk and served with warm syrup rather than the cold bottle. The pecan and blueberry versions are the two that regulars order over the plain stack.

Syrup is not counted in any of those figures. A full pour adds roughly 200 calories on top, so a stack of pecan pancakes as actually eaten sits closer to 1,400.

Country Dinner Plates

Every one of these comes with your choice of country sides and biscuits or cornbread at no extra charge. That is what makes the pricing work, because the same entree at a casual dining chain would have sides as separate lines on the bill.

Calories above are for the entree alone. The sides you choose move the total more than the entree does, which the next table makes obvious.

Sandwiches and Lighter Plates

The sandwich side of the menu gets ordered far less than the dinners and it is where the cheaper plates live.

Cracker Barrel Country Sides

This is the list that matters most, because your dinner comes with sides included and the choice you make swings the plate by several hundred calories at no difference in price. Ordered on their own they are $4.99 each.

Daily Specials

Cracker Barrel runs a different feature plate each day of the week and it is usually a few dollars under the regular menu price for the same dish. The rotation varies by location, but the pattern below is the one most restaurants follow.

Specials are lunch and dinner rather than all day at most restaurants, and because the rotation is set locally it is worth calling ahead if you are driving for a specific one.

Cracker Barrel Kids Menu

The kids menu covers children twelve and under and each meal comes with a drink. Portions are small and the pricing sits close to the adult sides, so a child who eats well may do better with a country side and a biscuit.

Cracker Barrel Desserts

The Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake is the one people come back for and it is also the heaviest thing on the entire menu once the ice cream lands on it.

Drinks

Coffee and sweet tea are bottomless, which matters at a restaurant where people sit for a while. Beer and wine are available at a growing number of locations but not all of them.

Family Meal Baskets

Family baskets are takeout and each feeds four to six with sides and bread included. Per head they undercut ordering the same plates individually by a wide margin.

Cracker Barrel also runs Heat n’ Serve meals around Thanksgiving and Christmas, ordered well in advance and collected cold to finish in your own oven. Those sell out early and are the busiest ordering period of the year.

Cracker Barrel Opening Hours

Cracker Barrel opens early and closes earlier than most casual dining. There is no late night here and no drive thru at any location.

Sunday between about 11am and 2pm is the single busiest window of the week at most locations and waits regularly pass an hour. Cracker Barrel does not take reservations, but the app lets you join the waitlist before you arrive, which is the only real way to shorten it.

How to Order at Cracker Barrel for Less

Order a country dinner rather than a sandwich. At $13.49 for Chicken ‘n Dumplins you get the entree, your sides and unlimited bread, where a $11.49 sandwich brings one side and no bread. The dinner is two dollars more for a great deal more food.

Check the daily special before you order the same dish off the regular menu, because it is usually a few dollars less for exactly the same plate. Take the bottomless coffee or sweet tea rather than a soft drink, since refills are free and a soda is not. And if you are feeding a group, a family basket at $36.99 to $44.99 covers four to six people with sides and bread, well under the cost of the same plates ordered separately.

Cracker Barrel Nutrition Notes

The thing to understand about this menu is that the entree is rarely the problem. Pot Roast is 440 calories, Meatloaf is 440 and Roast Beef is 450, all of which are perfectly reasonable plates. What moves the number is everything that arrives around them.

Two country sides can add anywhere from 80 calories to 830 depending on what you pick, and the biscuits and cornbread are free and unlimited at about 160 each. A pot roast dinner built with turnip greens and sliced tomatoes and one biscuit lands near 680 calories. The same dinner with mac and cheese, hashbrown casserole and three pieces of bread clears 1,700. On sodium, the country ham, the gravies and the casseroles carry most of it, and several breakfast plates pass 2,000mg on their own. Vegetarians can build a decent meal out of the sides alone, though the turnip greens, pinto beans and green beans are cooked with pork at most locations, so ask before assuming.

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