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On the Ground with President Bukele in El Salvador plus Cracker Barrel Surrenders

Published | Video Starts at 32:12

They listen to common sense. In this case, they did. And it's worth noting, it isn't just in the last week that people noticed that what Cracker Barrel was doing was nuts. Almost a year ago, November of last year, a big investor in Cracker Barrel guy named Sardar Biglari, he owns approximately 5% of the restaurant chain stock. He wrote to his fellow shareholders that the Cracker Barrel transformation was a corporate quote, mistake of misguided executives falling into a textbook trap of overspending on cosmetic remodeling. (32:12–32:26)

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Asserts that Sardar Biglari owns approximately 5% of Cracker Barrel's stock.

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