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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-21-141620"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBRL"
cik: "0001067294"
company_name: "CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC"
filed_at: "2021-11-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T06:24:42.930310+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cracker Barrel 2021 annual meeting results: all directors elected, rights plan approved

## Summary
- Ten director nominees elected with majority votes; Biglari withheld ~2M votes on several candidates.
- Say-on-pay passed: 14.9M for, 2.5M against (excluding 3.2M broker non-votes).
- Shareholder rights plan (poison pill) approved: 13.0M for, 4.5M against.
- Deloitte & Touche ratified as independent auditor with 19.8M for, 0.8M against.
- Shareholder proposal for virtual-only meetings failed: 10.1M for, 7.3M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-21-141620
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBRL
- cik: 0001067294
- company_name: CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC
- filed_at: 2021-11-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465921141620/0001104659-21-141620-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465921141620/tm2133477d1_8k.htm

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