EX-99 2 pressrelease.txt PRESS RELEASE POST OFFICE BOX 787 LEBANON, TENNESSEE 37088-0787 PHONE 615-443-9869 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CBRL GROUP, INC. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Logo of CBRL Group, Inc.] Contact: Lawrence E. White Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer 615-443-9869 CBRL GROUP, INC. TO PRESENT AT THE JOHNSON RICE CONSUMER CONFERENCE Lebanon, TN (October 18, 2004)- CBRL Group, Inc. (the "Company") (NASDAQ:CBRL) will be presenting at the Johnson Rice Consumer Conference to be held in New Orleans, LA at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Monday, October 25, 2004, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time (1:30 p.m. Central Time). The Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, Michael A. Woodhouse, and its Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Lawrence E. White, will be speaking at the conference. A webcast of the presentation will be available over the Internet at http://wsw.com/webcast/jr/cbrl/. The replay of the webcast will be available one hour after the presentation ends and will be accessible for 14 days. The archived webcast will also be available on the Company's website at www.cbrlgroup.com through November 7, 2004. Headquartered in Lebanon, Tennessee, CBRL Group, Inc. presently operates 509 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurants and gift shops located in 41 states and 114 company-operated and 20 franchised Logan's Roadhouse restaurants in 18 states. - END -