Cracker Barrel sells Maple Street Biscuit Co. - Jacksonville Daily Record

What the report says

The Jacksonville Daily Record reports that Cracker Barrel has sold Maple Street Biscuit Co., a restaurant chain founded in Jacksonville, to Kentucky-based Biscuit Belly. The supplied report says the sale comes after Maple Street downsized, but the available text does not include the purchase price, closing date, number of restaurants involved or any executive comments on the deal.

The development is notable because Maple Street began as a Jacksonville-grown brand before becoming part of a larger restaurant portfolio. Its sale marks another ownership change for a concept associated with the city’s food scene and suggests a strategic shift by Cracker Barrel away from the chain. Biscuit Belly, the reported buyer, operates in the same broad breakfast-and-biscuit restaurant category, making the acquisition a potential expansion move, though the available source material does not specify its plans for the brand.

Key questions remain for customers, employees and landlords, including whether Maple Street locations will keep operating under the same name, whether menus or staffing will change, and how many sites are part of the transaction. Those details were not included in the supplied Jacksonville Daily Record excerpt. The core confirmed point is that Cracker Barrel has divested Maple Street Biscuit Co. to a Kentucky-based buyer following a period of contraction for the Jacksonville-founded chain.