So this morning I go to the Cracker Barrel that has just opened on Craig Road and the 15 North Freeway. I ordered the country breakfast. Which came with a side of grits, apple jelly, a biscuit, two pork-chops, hashbrowns and a side of eggs over medium.
I'll just start by saying that the term Cracker Barrel a country store. Lead me to believe that this was a place that cook's breakfast somewhat like people in the country.
Let me be the first to tell you, that this could not be further from the truth. The grits that arrived to the table were not only cold but we're undercooked as well the grit was likened to that of sand mix with cream of wheat.
The eggs over medium that arrived were nowhere near over medium they were more like over hard crispy.
When I ordered my pork-chops. I asked for them to be cooked medium and the waitress nodded her head in agreement with my request. Nothing was mentioned to me about the inability to cook these porkchops to that specification.
When The Pork-chops came to the table. I quickly cut into them and was disappointed to realize that they were not medium but well done. I asked the server why my porkchops were cooked well done when I had clearly asked for them to be cooked medium. She responded by sending out the manager.
It was the manager who then advised me that the pork chops could not possibly be cooked to medium due to the fact that when they receive their pork chops those pork chops are vacuum sealed and pre-cooked in a bag. So Cracker Barrels only job is to cut open the pouch and sear them up and make them appear to be cooked in-house when in fact they're prepared outside of Cracker Barrel somewhere else and then shipped vacuum packed already cooked to the store.
Moreover, let's just talk about the texture of the meat of these porkchops. The first bite that I took was very very strange. Almost as if these porkchops have been manufactured in a factory somewhere. The meat texture was somewhere in the neighborhood of rubber cement and Charleston chew.
Any person who is worth anything in food service knows to come back and check with the customer after they have eaten at least two bites of their food and ask them how that food is. In this case the two bite rule was what I myself used to alert me to the fact that I needed to get up pay my check and run like hell.
In my opinion the place is horrible and overrated!