{"id":23080,"date":"2024-04-16T22:35:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T02:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=23080"},"modified":"2024-05-09T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T00:56:44","slug":"cracker-barrel-old-country-store-253-forum-drive-15-april-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=23080","title":{"rendered":"Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, 253 Forum Drive: 15 April 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I took these pictures on 20 January 2024 after commenter Mall Guy predicted on 16 January that this location was closing. I haven't been back since, but at some point I will get shots of the closed store.<\/p>\n

I like Cracker Barrel<\/i> fine, but it doesn't come up on my rotation often, and I don't believe I ever actually ate at this location. I do know that I bought several gift items at the attached store. This Village At Sandhill<\/a> outparcel seems like a decent location. It doesn't fit with the chain's Interstate preference, but there is a good bit of traffic on Two Notch<\/i>, and with the growth of Killian Road<\/i>, and the widening of Clemson Road<\/i> to four lanes all the way to I-20, it's not too<\/i> far off the Interstates..<\/p>\n

However, both the media stories I see report the chain saying this store just wasn't making the numbers. You can check those out at WLTX<\/a> & The State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter Mall Guy)<\/p>\n

UPDATE 9 May 2024<\/b> -- Some post-closing shots:<\/p>\n

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I took these pictures on 20 January 2024 after commenter Mall Guy predicted on 16 January that this location was closing. I haven't been back since, but at some point I will get shots of the closed store. I like Cracker Barrel fine, but it doesn't come up on my rotation often, and I don't […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[3966,3967,168,1976,3,36],"class_list":["post-23080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-253-forum-drive","tag-cracker-barrel","tag-forum-drive","tag-home-cooking","tag-restaurants","tag-village-at-sandhill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}