LEBANON Tenn. CBRL Group Inc. reported Wednesday that same-store restaurant sales at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store increased 3.1 percent for the four weeks ended Aug. 31, versus the comparable four-week period last year.
The gain was aided by a 2-percent increase in average checks, which was helped by an average 2.7-percent increase in menu prices, the company reported. Cracker Barrel’s same-store retail sales increased 0.1 percent in August.
Michael A. Woodhouse, the company’s chairman, president and chief executive, said in a statement that the positive sales and traffic were partly due to consumers’ summer vacation travel and a later start to the school year in some parts of the country.
CBRL noted that the August sales were compared with year-ago comparable weeks and not the prior-year fiscal August period because of the 53rd week in the company’s fiscal year 2007 ended Aug. 3.
The company, based here, operates 562 Cracker Barrel locations in 41 states.