Cracker Barrel Fried Chicken Menu Prices 2026

Which Cracker Barrel Fried Chicken Is Which?

Cracker Barrel’s menu carries several dishes with “fried chicken” or “chicken fried” in the name, and they’re genuinely different dishes, not menu duplicates:

• Southern Fried Chicken — bone-in fried chicken, sold only on weekends, available plain, with Honey Butter, or Nashville Hot.
• Chicken Fried Chicken — a boneless chicken breast breaded and fried steak-style, served with sawmill gravy poured over it, the same way a chicken fried steak is served — except the protein is chicken, not beef.
• Crispy Homestyle Chicken — a boneless fried chicken breast sold by the piece, with optional toppings (Maple Bacon, BBQ Smokestack) or sauces (Nashville Hot, Honey Butter).
• Crispy Tender Dippers — chicken tenders served with a dipping sauce of your choice.

Not the same dish: Country Fried Steak sounds similar to Chicken Fried Chicken but is a beef entree, breaded and fried the same steak-style way — it’s covered on our Dinner Menu guide’s Beef & Pork section, not here, since it doesn’t contain chicken.

Southern Fried Chicken

Straight from crackerbarrel.com: Weekend Southern Fried Chicken is “four pieces of bone-in fried chicken paired with honey for drizzling. Served with two or three classic sides and buttermilk biscuits or corn muffins.” It’s the bone-in option in the Cracker Barrel Fried Chicken lineup, a weekend-only Daily Special at all three restaurants checked, also available in Honey Butter and Nashville Hot versions, running $13.99 to $17.99 with two or three sides.

Chicken Fried Chicken

Cracker Barrel describes Chicken Fried Chicken on its own site as “our crispy homestyle chicken served with sawmill gravy. Comes with two or three classic sides and buttermilk biscuits or corn muffins.” It ran $14.99 to $17.29 across the three restaurants checked.

Crispy Homestyle Chicken

The one-piece version is described on crackerbarrel.com as “one boneless chicken breast fried just right. Get it loaded with our Maple Bacon or BBQ Smokestack topping, or get it sauced with Nashville Hot or Honey Butter.” Crispy Homestyle Chicken ran $9.99 to $17.29 across the three restaurants checked, from a single piece up to two pieces with three sides — the only sauce-customizable option in the Cracker Barrel Fried Chicken lineup. Grilled Chicken Tenders are the grilled alternative to the fried varieties on this page, for guests who want the same protein without the breading.

Tender Dippers, Sandwich & Salad

Crispy Tender Dippers are described on crackerbarrel.com as “chicken tenders with choice of signature sauce. Served with one classic side and a buttermilk biscuit or corn muffin” in the Kids version; the full entree size comes with two or three sides instead. The Homestyle Fried Chicken Sandwich and Homestyle Fried Chicken Salad round out the Cracker Barrel Fried Chicken family covered on this page — no official standalone taste description was found for the sandwich at the time of this check, so only its real price and calories are shown below.

Family Meals

Both Southern Fried Chicken and Crispy Homestyle Chicken come in Family Meal sizes, running $50.99 to $53.99 across the three restaurants checked.

Calories & Allergens

Calories vary a lot across this fried chicken family — Grilled Chicken Tenders run as low as 320 calories with two sides, while the Weekend Nashville Hot Southern Fried Chicken with three sides runs 2,990 calories. For a full category-by-category calorie breakdown and official allergen and gluten-free guidance, see our dedicated Cracker Barrel Nutrition Menu guide.

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