---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-092841"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBRL"
cik: "0001067294"
company_name: "CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC"
filed_at: "2022-08-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T22:27:08.443958+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cracker Barrel's VP & Principal Accounting Officer Kara Jacobs to resign; CFO Pommells will assume interim role

## Summary
- Kara Jacobs, VP & Principal Accounting Officer, resigns effective Oct 1, 2022 to pursue other opportunity.
- She will remain in position until Separation Date to assist transition.
- CFO Craig Pommells will serve as interim Principal Accounting Officer starting Oct 1.
- Pommells has over 20 years restaurant industry experience, previously CFO of Red Lobster.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-092841
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBRL
- cik: 0001067294
- company_name: CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC
- filed_at: 2022-08-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465922092841/0001104659-22-092841-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465922092841/tm2224095d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-092841.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Kara Jacobs departed as Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer at CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC.
  - Action: resign
  - Role: Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Kara Jacobs, the Company’s Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, will resign effective October 1, 2022 (the “Separation Date”), to pursue another professional opportunity.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465922092841/0001104659-22-092841-index.htm
- Executive change
  Craig Pommells was appointed as interim Principal Accounting Officer at CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC.
  - Action: serve
  - Role: interim Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Craig Pommells, the Company’s current Chief Financial Officer, will serve as interim Principal Accounting Officer, effective as of the Separation Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465922092841/0001104659-22-092841-index.htm

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