The board of directors of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store grew to 11 last week thanks to the election of the president of Union Square Hospitality Group, the holding company for restaurants run by Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer.
The addition of Darryl âChipâ Wade comes five months after Cracker Barrel CEO Sandy Cochran and the companyâs board
saw off the latest proxy challenge from activist investor Sardar Biglari. The latter, who has been a major shareholder of Lebanon-based Cracker Barrel for a decade, had called on the company to add more specific restaurant operating experience to its board and had unsuccessfully nominated a New Jersey-based industry veteran.
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“We are sold out! Thank you so much everybody!!!!” Former Gramercy Tavern pastry cook Lauren Tran types out the note and publishes the update to her Instagram feed. Months into the venture, Tran, 32, still can’t believe customers often snap up her $40 pastry boxes within hours of posting her weekly menu for Bánh by Lauren, her Vietnamese-French pastry business, on Instagram.
On a gray, snowy Monday in mid-January, with customers anchored to their apartments and scrolling through the app, Tran’s macarons and banh bo nuong a chewy, striated Vietnamese pandan honeycomb cake are irresistible. While customers light up Tran’s DMs to see if they can squeeze onto her waitlist, she’s plotting out her baking schedule for the next five days. Over 60 cumulative baking hours, she’ll make 80 langue de chat biscuits, 320 macaron shells, and five to six whole cakes. She’ll also test her recipe for banh bo nuong at least five times before getting up at 6 a.m. on Saturday to bak
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