---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-21-135366"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBRL"
cik: "0001067294"
company_name: "CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC"
filed_at: "2021-11-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T11:15:02.680271+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cracker Barrel names Craig Pommells as CFO, effective Dec 6, 2021

## Summary
- Craig Pommells appointed SVP & CFO effective Dec 6, 2021; succeeds interim CFO P. Douglas Couvillion.
- Pommells previously EVP & CFO at Red Lobster; over 20 years in restaurant industry.
- Base salary $475k, bonus target 65%, LTI target 120% of base; $500k sign-on restricted stock.
- Interim CFO Couvillion returns to SVP Sourcing & Supply Chain; compensation unchanged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-21-135366
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBRL
- cik: 0001067294
- company_name: CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC
- filed_at: 2021-11-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465921135366/0001104659-21-135366-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465921135366/tm2132175d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-135366
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-135366.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-135366.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  P. Douglas Couvillion changed role as Senior Vice President, Sourcing and Supply Chain at CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC.
  - Action: resume
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Sourcing and Supply Chain
  source text: Mr. Couvillion will resume his former position of Senior Vice President, Sourcing and Supply Chain, a role he previously held from November 2016 to December 2020.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465921135366/0001104659-21-135366-index.htm
- Executive change
  Craig Pommells was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On November 8, 2021, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the appointment of Craig Pommells as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465921135366/0001104659-21-135366-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.