---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-051836"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBRL"
cik: "0001067294"
company_name: "CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T17:22:31.935576+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cracker Barrel elects Casey's CFO Steve Bramlage to board, expanding to 10 directors

## Summary
- Steve Bramlage, CFO of Casey's General Stores (CASY), elected to Cracker Barrel board effective May 21, 2025.
- Board size increased from 9 to 10 members with Bramlage's appointment.
- Bramlage brings retail and financial expertise; previously CFO of Aramark and Owens-Illinois.
- He will receive prorated standard outside director compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-051836
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBRL
- cik: 0001067294
- company_name: CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465925051836/0001104659-25-051836-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465925051836/tm2515390d3_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-051836
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-051836.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-051836.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Steve Bramlage was elected as director at CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE, INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: director
  source text: On May 21, 2025, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., a Tennessee corporation (the “Company”), announced that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company had elected Steve Bramlage to serve as a director, effective immediately, until the Company’s next annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067294/000110465925051836/0001104659-25-051836-index.htm

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