Exhibit 10(j)

                                CBRL GROUP, INC.
                          RESTRICTED STOCK AWARD NOTICE


     This Award Notice (the "Notice") is dated this  ____________________,  from
CBRL Group, Inc., a Tennessee  corporation (the "Company") to __________________
of the Company (the "Employee").

     WHEREAS, the Compensation and Stock Option Committee of the Company's Board
of Directors has authorized an award to the Employee of ______________ shares of
the Company's $0.01 par value common stock (the "Restricted  Stock") pursuant to
the  terms  and  provisions  of the CBRL  Group,  Inc.  2002  Omnibus  Incentive
Compensation Plan (the "Plan");

     NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and other good and
valuable consideration,  including the services to be rendered to the Company by
the  Employee,  the  Company  does  hereby  award  the  Restricted  Stock to the
Employee, and the Employee, by his/her signature hereto, accepts such Restricted
Stock, on the following terms and conditions:

     (1) Grant of Restricted  Stock.  The Company  hereby grants to the Employee
______________________shares   of   Restricted   Stock,   subject   to  all  the
restrictions,  limitations  and other terms and  provisions of the Plan and this
Notice.  Upon  vesting,  the Company shall cause a  certificate  evidencing  the
Restricted  Stock to be issued by the Company's stock transfer  agent,  who will
release  such  Restricted   Stock  to  the  Employee  solely  upon  the  written
instructions of the Company.

     (2)   Restrictions.   Until  the   Restricted   Stock   vests  and  becomes
distributable  in accordance  with the Plan and this Notice,  the Employee shall
not have any of the rights of a  shareholder  of the Company with respect to the
Restricted Stock,  including the right to vote the shares or to receive any cash
dividends.

     (3)  Vesting.  The  Restricted  Stock,  subject  to all  the  restrictions,
limitations  and other terms and  provisions of the Plan and this Notice,  shall
vest and become distributable in accordance with the following schedule, and the
restrictions  shall lapse so long as the  Employee is employed by the Company on
the applicable vesting date:

     Vesting Date          Number of shares vesting     Cumulative shares vested
     ------------          ------------------------     ------------------------


     (4)  Non-transferability.  Unvested Restricted Stock is not transferable by
the Employee.

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     (5) Notice  Subject to Plan.  This Notice does not undertake to express all
conditions,  terms and provisions of the Plan. The grant of the Restricted Stock
is subject in all  respects to all of the  restrictions,  limitations  and other
terms and provisions of the Plan,  which,  by this  reference,  is  incorporated
herein to the same extent as if copied verbatim.

     (6) Tax Withholding and Section 83(b)  Elections.  At the time the Employee
shall become subject to federal  income  taxation with respect to the Restricted
Stock  (normally  upon  vesting,  unless the  Employee  files an election  under
Section 83(b) of the Code),  the Employee shall pay to the Company the amount of
any Federal, state, local and other taxes required to be withheld by the Company
with respect to the  Restricted  Stock.  If the Employee files an election under
Section 83(b) of the Code with the Internal  Revenue Service to include the fair
market  value of any shares of  Restricted  Stock in gross income while they are
still subject to any  restrictions,  the Employee shall promptly  furnish to the
Company a copy of such election.  The Company may make such  provisions and take
such steps as it may deem  necessary or appropriate  for the  withholding of all
Federal,  state,  local and other taxes  required by law to be withheld upon the
vesting of the Restricted Stock.  Unless otherwise  determined by the Committee,
the Employee  will be  permitted  to elect to  surrender a sufficient  number of
shares of the vested  Restricted  Stock to satisfy  the  Company's  minimum  tax
withholding obligation.

     (7)  Acceptance  of  Restricted  Stock.  The  Employee  hereby  accepts the
Restricted  Stock subject to all the  restrictions,  limitations and other terms
and provisions of the Plan and this Notice.


WITNESS the action of the Company  effective  as of the day and year first above
written.


The foregoing is acknowledged and accepted:


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                                                  CBRL Group, Inc.

                                                  By: _________________________

                                                  Name ________________________

                                                  Title _______________________


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