[Logo of CBRL Group, Inc.]                              Post Office Box 787
                                                        Lebanon, Tennessee
                                                                37088-0787
                                                        Phone 615.443.9869

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CBRL Group, Inc.
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                                                 Contact: Lawrence E. White
                                                          Senior Vice President/
                                                          Finance and Chief
                                                          Financial Officer
                                                          (615) 443-9869


                      CBRL GROUP FISCAL 2005 FOURTH QUARTER
                         CONFERENCE CALL ON THE INTERNET

LEBANON,  Tenn. (Sept. 1, 2005) -- CBRL Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:  CBRL) will provide
an  on-line,  real-time  Web-cast  and  rebroadcast  of its fourth  quarter  and
year-end  earnings  conference  call on  Thursday,  September  8, 2005.  Company
management will discuss  financial  results for the quarter ended July 29, 2005,
report August sales and discuss the earnings outlook for its 2006 fiscal year.


     The live  broadcast  of CBRL  Group's  quarterly  conference  call  will be
available  to the  public  on-line  at  www.vcall.com  or  www.cbrlgroup.com  on
September 8, 2005,  beginning at 11:00 a.m.  (Eastern Time).  The on-line replay
will follow immediately and continue through September 15, 2005.

     Headquartered in Lebanon,  Tennessee, CBRL Group, Inc. operates 533 Cracker
Barrel Old Country Store restaurants and gift shops located in 41 states and 126
company-operated and 23 franchised Logan's Roadhouse restaurants in 19 states.

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