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I saw a crackhead and a Vietnam vet with a prosthetic leg get in a fight at 2am at Waffle House around 2003 or 2004. Wound up with the whole staff grabbing their weapons of choice when the crackhead somehow wound up behind the counter. A bit of a fight happened and then the linebacker looking cook literally picked him up and threw him out of the diner, then started to follow him out. His manager yelled “throw me the apron” at the same time big guy yelled “I quit”. He whooped crackhead’s ass in the parking lot, then came back in and said “can I have my job back?” Manager lady just handed him the apron and they started cleaning up. It was beautiful. I will always go to Waffle House for the free entertainment alone.
Thanos would get his @$$ kicked at Waffle House and no one would bat an eye.
@@wrathshorts2894 You're surprised Squirrel Girl likes southern dining?
I started laughing so hard reading this I couldn't see.
lmao he quit just so he can do business outside for a while.
Not the waffle house equivalent to turning off your body cam 😂
" How well does Waffle House actually treat their employees?"
"They will literally fight you for disrespecting the House"
Based.
Who cares? Don't like your job quit. Why don't you go to work for them and let us know
having spent a lot of time at waffle houses i can tell you it's not because wh is some kind of generous benefactor. it's about respect and the principle.
I seem to remember "The Last Chairbender" getting kinda shafted and blamed for the whole thing back when that incident happened, so the rule of Waffle House treating their employees well isn't exactly ironclad.
I once met a cook from South Carolina to correct the cooking of grits at the local Waffle House I was eating at. That's how seriously corporate takes employee training.
I was once served a trespass notice to remove myself from a Waffle House because a new waitress knew me and didn't want me there. No other reason, no outside issues. The cook continued to cook my meal that I had already paid for to go, since I had ordered it before that waitress arrived; but since she walked in, saw me, maced me, and went out and stabbed my tires, he called the cops. Even the cops don't disrespect Waffle House; her reason was, "His friend dumped me because _he_ said I was 'mentally unstable!'" No charges on her, I had to walk home, but I took my meal with me! Hard "No, fuck you, no," to not getting the food I paid for, officer!
She totaled that car, once I and the cop were both gone. Waffle House fired her and paid for repairs at their own request.
You didn't mention WHY they stay open! Story time: I worked at an airport here in SW Florida for years. After Hurricane Irma, 7 private jets showed up. 2 of them were full of executives and restaurant staff, the other 5 were full of water and supplies. Those jets flew in and out constantly for a week getting people and supplies in. I asked a guy (turned out to be a VP) why. He said so that the heros putting our town back together, firefighters, police, Linemen, DOT workers, all have a place to get some coffee and a hot meal." They don't do it for the money, they do it for the guys putting us back together. As much fuel as we put in those jets, they had to be losing money hand over fist. But they did it for principal and for community! Since that conversation, I've had a huge amount of respect for Waffle House.
That fuel paid for a ton of PR.
I wish they put some of those down here and South Florida.
Baller! Straight F'n BALLER!!!
This makes Waffle House sounds like a business model someone who was Isekai'd would come up with and do.
Actually considering the whole became a lawyer who was drafted then WW2 Happens Arc including breaking into bases to test security and transporting Uranium to the Manhattan Project, I'm thinking Mr. Forkner actually was.
oh they made bank being one of the only places open, here in Panama city they jacked there prices up during hurricane Michael.
I worked at WH when they opened the first one in our county, and the CEO, CFO, and VP showed up and cooked on opening day. They would talk shit if you were too slow on bacon or didn't do a call out properly. They took their food very seriously, and it was actually really encouraging as a cook tbh I have nothing but good things to say about working there
GA natives can never actually die. We just respawn at the last Waffle House we ate at.
This probably also contributes to our willingness to throw hands with drunk people at 3AM, regardless of the risk of injury.
@@pstuart17 They're camping your spawn!
I thought that was Florida Man??
As a georgian I'm currently on my 5th pistol duel
I'm pretty sure it's a Dixie spawn. Last time I died in SC and respawned in Alabama.
I'm a former Waffle House Maintenance Manager (that's what they call the maintenance man for the area). Something that he didn't mention: Waffle House Maintenance Managers are classified as emergency responders. We had a magnetic sign we would put on our maintenance vans, and we would get through any disaster checkpoints.
Where could one aquire some of these magnets for decoration?
@B.V.Luminous honestly, not sure. But, they were flat, flexible magnetic graphic sheets.
Thank you for your service sir. 🫡
That's legit. Because y'all *_are._*
The Waffle House index lives
As quoted by the former Head of FEMA: "If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That's really bad..."
I've heard the Waffle House Index described as such:
- Green: All good, go about your day.
- Yellow: Take precautions, should probably have a go-bag ready to evacuate.
- Red: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE!?
Yes “The Waffle House Index” FEMA says “if you get there and the Waffle House is closed it’s pretty bad”
It's the most American thing I've probably seen in my life
Yeah I just don't think people really understand what that means, I have lived in Florida my entire life, 36 plus years, I've went through more hurricanes then I can remember, and I've never once seen a waffle House closed, when Helene hit north Florida we was the very first ones to get hit, everyone was affected, it looked like a nuke had went off in the town, no one was open, no one except waffle House, if you ever see one closed in your town, go home quickly and get your gun, because it means only two things, we're being invaded by foreign powers or nukes are in the air .
@@rdf4315😂😂😂😂❤❤
Other little notes. I used to manage store 426 and was later a District Manager for Waffle House. Most Waffle House managers don’t have a key to the front doors. I had a sales associate that worked for me that had 250’000 dollars worth of WH stock. WH is a business cases study at Harvard. WH policy is all bills are to be paid in 24 hours, errors would be sorted out after payment was made. So vendors love the WH. Employees are paid in cash and with it receive their payroll stub. Christmas Day planning starts four weeks before Christmas. Working there is not an easy job, but the WH is amazing and was a wonderful experience. You will learn that please and thank you are the two most powerful things that you can say.
Everyone is paid in cash? Interesting.
Well duh don't need keys if you never close 😆😆😆
Thank you for your service 🏅
"It's fucking syrup flavored syrup.... " 2025 is off to a good start.
"I just want coffee-flavored coffee!" - Denis Leary
It's really not unfortunately, but I'm so glad we got this video today.
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I howled with laughter at that 🤣🤣🤣
Is it maple syrup or corn syrup? Serious question, I've never even seen a WH, the closest is 500 mi.
As a freshman in high school I was DRUNK drunk and so was the driver and everyone I was with. We all rode in one car and the driver was also shitfaced. “Mama”, a beloved and most caring Waffle House employee took the keys and we all slept in booths that night. Probably still here bc of that.
Hell yeah
Happened to me a couple times as well lol
We had one threaten to take our keys but we were walkin distance from our hotel after watching a football game and ubered there. We tipped her extra well for lookin out and dealing with our drunk asses
Shout out Mama!!
I don't know her name, but when I was stationed at Ft. Stewart, GA my buddy and I rolled in to the Hinesville WH at some unknown hour of darkness having somehow made it back that far from Savanah. We struggled through staying awake to finish our food only for me to not be able to find my keys. A few hours later or so, I found them sitting on the edge of the table... holding the check down asking with fresh hot coffees. I don't remember her name, but I can tell you what she looked like. A living stereotype. A big happy Deep-South, always cheerful Black lady that you couldn't really put an age to but you knew she was everything, Grandma, Mama, Auntie - whatever. She was always working late night (or early morning I guess) and called everybody "baby" & "sugar". To this day I swear she slipped my keys away and just kept us busy until we passed out for a bit & sobered up.
I literally have 6 Waffle Houses within 4 mi of my house. During Hurricane Helene all of them stayed open even though none of them had power. One of them was so badly damaged that they could not open the seating area BUT they could still cook everything to go.
And then there were the mobile Waffle House restaurants that showed up the next day.
Waffle House was literally the only place one could get food for like 4 days immediately after the storm.
Who needs anything else? I could do 4 days of WH.
@@phydeux Thats easy!!
Where u in Valdosta Ga
You are so lucky
This is both sad and hilarious.
Florida DoorDash driver here, when Milton stormed through the state looking for his red stapler, you know it was serious because Waffle House closed before the storm hit and then only reopened with a limited menu afterwards.
They were up and running before DoorDash was willing to let me work again.
As a paramedic in the south, Waffle House has fed me during a cat 5 hurricane more times than I can count
You do realize we’ve only had like 4 hurricanes make landfall as a cat 5 that sustained themselves in the past 25 years, right?
@@danikaflorence444 their a peramedic the ability to count at all while dead on their feet is impresive
@@danikaflorence444 He's from Florida, he can't count past 2 ;)
Ok. Correction. Hurricane evacuations, and yes. I've been in EMS since 1998
@@danikaflorence444 He never said he can count high.
I used to work at Waffle House, there was a really bad flood we ended up loosing power and my manage called at like 1 in the morning saying we were on a limited menu.
There was a homeless guy in at the time. He was cool one time he got into a fight with a crackhead in defense of the building. Everyone loved him.
Bro defended the house and was rewarded with waffles.
He went full underarmor
Bro was defending HIS house
That man earned his free waffles.
Waffles for the waffle throne! DEFEND THE HOUSE!!!
@@Tim_Tomorrow FOR THE WAFFLES!!!
I have a friend in the Midwest that asked me 'How bad is it' when I finally got cell signal again during Hurricane Ida.
I told him 'Waffle House is closed"
Scared the shit out of him.
Real! The last ice storm to beat the shit out of DFW was the same. The LOOK on the manager's face when they told me they were going to have to close....
@@russmitchellmovement Looking at the weather forecast for this week... Be prepared for WH closings in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Damn, were you in Lake Charles? I am a lineman and was working in Lake Charles during Ida. The wafflehouse was closed and I knew we were in for some shit. I worked 16 hrs a day 7 days a week for 3 months straight out there. Lake Charles was baaaad.
@@popofabulous Greater NOLA area. They reopened later, but it was bad for a good minute. Then it wasn't. Ya'll did a tremendous job. I was on 190 when all the cherrypickers rolled through in convoy and I nearly got out and saluted I was so overcome to see ya'll so quick. Everything was mostly fine by us but I was pretty wary. When I was a kid, my family stupidly didn't wanna evac during Katrina and Rita so I knew how poorly things could go.
I heard lots of horror stories about Lake Charles from the last 3 storms. Appreciate you mightly, sir.
The ending literally made me want to cry. So awesome to tie this in to the American dream. You are sometimes the only thing that makes me proud of the country whose military I served in.
"How would you like your enriched uranium?"
"Smothered and covered"
And scattered!
And CHUNKED!
scattered smothered covered topped and chunked
I perfer mine with bacon, eggs and toast! 😂
Add diced and I'm in.
The head cook at the one closest to me has a "golden spatula" because he has personally cooked over 1 million dollars worth of breakfast. 😂
to my knowledge the spatula doesnt mean anything. the Million Dollar Club shirts we get are pretty neat though
*with tears in my eyes "god bless that man"
What in the SpongeBob movie 😂
Bad. Ass.
Took 5 adults and 2 kids. Picked up the tab $75. I’ll fight anybody to defend those prices.
Yeah it's reasonable priced and you actual get a decent amount of food.
Jesus. I spent $85 for three adults at my local breakfast diner two days ago, and we weren't getting anything crazy.
Also free entertainment occasionally
People play up the fight aspect but it is well overblown .
Some Waffle Houses in some ... ahem ... "ahem" neighborhoods might be a little extra late at night ... but I have dined there all over past 2a.m. and never had a problem ... EVER .
In the Age of Gouge the customer at fast food restaurants ... they stay the course pumping out bacon eggs and coffee for decent prices 24 hours a day 365 days a year . 👍
And if you're twelve, you can still get a waffle
@Fluffy65 it has gone up unfortunately
As a member of the south and a Floridian. I can confirm you will put respect on the great waffle gods, we only start praying when we learn that place is closed
I've eaten at Waffle House countless times in my 55 years on this planet. Kicked out of the bar at 2 a.m. but hungry? Spending Chrismas alone and hungry but don't want Chinese? Need to eat in the middle of a hurricane? The answer is ALWAYS Waffle House. It's a Southern institution.
Amen.
Amen.
🙏
Amen. Gobless
Thank you. Adding syrup
I have had close friends that found themselves down on their luck and living out of their vehicle. The folks at waffle house were the only people who didn't judge. Treated them like human beings instead of trash. Like the rest of us treat the homeless. They not only gave support by feeding my friend. Even allowing them to sit at a booth on the coldest of nights. But they trained and hired my friend as an employee. Giving them the opportunity that no one else was willing to give. That was the launching board for turning their life around. So that they now have a home and a one yrld healthy baby boy. Waffle house basically saved my friends life. Helped them achieve a life worth living they are now proud of. Instead of likely dying cold on the streets from loneliness and hopelessness. Waffle House forever has my respect.
I was employed there and we tried to feed homeless our managers would kick them out and threaten our jobs for even letting them sit inside to long….. your friend got lucky. They train management at their university to manipulate and mistreat employees
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I’m not crying, you’re crying. That’s powerful
I had to pick up 3 marines who blew through their paychecks via las vegas and strippers but big brother ( me) hooked them up with waffle house and no joke the 5th guy in our group won big in the casino in black jack and they went back to gambling with him getting their money back plus extra definitely a fun weekend
Flamboyantly gay waiter in a crazy yelling argument with a female waitress, that the cook is trying without success to keep the lid on. All happening 5 feet from me sitting at the counter.
Also
Service was great, everyone was nice (to me not each other) Food was fast good and hot. Coffee cup was never empty. All 3 had a smile whenever they turned to face a customer.
God I love Waffle House
Pure ‘Merican poetry.
*bald eagle screams*
This is the way.
this is how you have customer service. you can be having the loudest beef with your coworker, but the customer is always happily treated and well served. only condition is you watch and eat.
It may be unprofessional but hey, I came there to eat. Not audit their professionalism. If I get my coffee and waffles with no issue, their beef ain't mine 😂
Hope the coffee has improved
it was awful years ago.
I was evacuating from a hurricane with my family and stopped at WH in another state in route to family in another state. I asked for the check, and they told me it's on us my friend, stay safe... I was in shock. It was a small thing that ment a whole lot. Damn good people at WH.
after hurricane Laura devastated my area there were only 2 consistent sources of food. There was the local churches giving out plate lunches which would run out after a few hours, and Waffle House who went non stop. My area was cleaning up fueled by hash browns, sausage, and orange juice. Waffle House came the fuck through every single day fully stocked fully staffed fully running and never ran up prices.
They are the definition of quality and quantity.
and on that day it truly became a waffle home
Absolutely never underestimate the value of being able to sit down in a warm, dry place and shovel hot protein, carbs, and fat into your face, during a shitty situation.
Same here. Helene devastated my area. Waffle House was still serving the first responders 🫡
as much as people like to talk about how much this is all for the community and so on, I fucking guarantee you that Waffle Houses make bank from disasters. Either A : because they're literally the only place selling food for potentially weeks on end or B : because of the sheer good-will and habit-forming from people doing nothing but eating at Waffle House for weeks on end.
Pulling through when no-one else is is actually a great way to stay profitable. Steam and MySpace started the same year, one is an "unchallengable natural monopoly" and the other is Steam. It doesn't matter how strong you or anyone else thinks your position is, your business lives and dies by your customers.
The secret sauce behind Waffle House's "chaotic-good" vibes is its private ownership. They don’t have to deal with stockholders whining about quarterly profits or some overly polished board of directors debating whether syrup counts as a health hazard. Instead, Waffle House answers only to its true master: late-night hunger.
This is why their employees get treated like humans rather than just “cost centers.” They can focus on flipping hash browns and keeping the jukebox alive instead of cutting corners to fund another yacht for some hedge fund guy. Waffle House thrives in its own lawless ecosystem, where the menu is sacred, the coffee is bottomless, and employee loyalty is as strong as their coffee stains.
Beautifully written, and absolutely true.
I'm only awarding half credit. The issue isn't stockholders, it's the government-controlled monopoly of the stock market.
The issue with stocks is that they are *_always_* liquid, meaning you have no reason to prioritize long-term sustainability as a stockholder. (Including but not limited to, having good employee relations) The issue is that since the government thinks it owns everything the light touches and regulated the market into stagnation, there isn't any competing system that'd fix that problem. (For instance by applying some of the behaviours of bonds to stocks and letting companies mint stocks that "Mature" at different rates) If such a thing existed then you would see massive quantities of mid-long term investments that favour a business being well off *_decades_* into the future, rather than *_days_* into the future.
Such a system would mean more Steam, and less MySpace. (Which started the same year fyi.)
Wow that tirade about investors seems a lot of work to translate from the original German
@@felixjohnson3874 Not really. most of their work was the translation from German, they managed three of the 25 points all in one run-on paragraph
Ah! I was wondering why they were so based. Further proving my point that a privately owned company can in fact make a shit ton of money while treating employees well. You just need full control.
True. I have a bachelors degree in Emergency Management and counter terrorism and part of my degree was writing about how Waffle House was a better first responder than the federal government.
Helps when you're already on site.
Responding to the life or death needs of millions of people is slightly more difficult than making sure your 30 seat restaurant can still crank out breakfast.
Kinda easy to be a "better first responder" than the feds when it takes a month or two for anything to get through the federal bureaucracy...🤷♂️🤷♂️
I mean... of course they are. If Waffle House doesn't do a good job, they might go out of business. The feds are just like, "Well, clearly we just need more money. So, pay up or we'll lock you in a cage."
Is it posted anywhere? I'd like to read it
I've noticed the one thing that most of these companies that treat their employees well and have a moral compass when it comes to doing business is that they are not publicly traded.
I have lived in Tampa my entire life - The Waffle House index is not only very real, but many Floridians use it as a gauge on when to evacuate during the storm.
If your local Waffle House closes for any reason, pack your bags and leave the city immediately.
Yup, I first heard that from a short from omgitswicks. Love his content ☺️
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I live in Jacksonville and use their index myself.
@@Syko_Gaming5150I have watched The Good Place so many times that literally anytime I remember that Jacksonville is a place I have a tiiiiiiny voice buried deep in the back of my head that I can hear faintly yelling "JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS RULE" off in the distance. I then promptly forget about it again.
@ hahahahahaha Jason from Jacksonville was amazing. Loved all the jokes.
As a georgia son, i can tell you that not only is it not uncommon to see a waffle house across the street from another waffle house, but both of those stores do very well and the locals of that area will choose which one is "their" waffle house, and will go to that one exclusively
Yep. I went to college in a small little town in middle of nowhere South Carolina. But it was about two miles away from where two highway intersected. We had a Waffle House on each side of the highway overpass. And yes, one was pretty much exclusively for college students and locals while the other was for truckers and people passing through.
Looks like this area can support 60 seats. Should we build a double sized Waffle House?
No, build 2.
What? Why?
We have a formula, don't mess with it.
I seriously have 4 of them within a 3 mile radius of my house. That is not including the original one which is also a couple of miles away but that one is just a museum.
True…and they will fight each other too. Both sign wars and physical throwdowns.
Where I live in Oklahoma we have three Waffle Houses within 5 mi of one another. Everyone of them is always full.
Out of all things I'd thought I would learn about Waffle House, one of the owners having unknowingly helped deliver the uranium used for the Manhattan Project was not one of them.
This is why I love history because you get hit with a curve ball, even on the smallest of things. Great video to start the year off with!
niether did i
I used to be a Waffle House Maintenance Manager, and here’s a fun fact: we were considered emergency responders. With our magnetic signs, we had access through disaster zones to keep things running.
I was a server, cook, district trainer and relief manager there. There is so much drama most employees call it a reality soap opera "As The Waffle Turns"
Yeah but the food is so damn good!
Yeah, I worked there as a server, and most of the drama we had there was with the other employees, especially talking shit about how horrid the other locations were around us because we were the best one around. The worked once at the location I was trained at, which was a different one from the one I normally worked at, had one of the servers vanish for two hours without telling anyone right before the bar rush happened during 3rd shift, probably so she could go smoke weed or some shit. Also, I don't know why he's acting like there isn't another side to that menu, They serve dinner, like t bone steaks and stuff The chicken hashbrown bowl, no onions, lots of waffle house sauce was my go to, though the owners were super picky about workers not being home any food, though at least all meals while there were free, if you could find 5 seconds during your shift to sit down and actually eat. Also, they will threaten you to show up to work, like, if you work Christmas day, they will tell you that if you don't show up, you will be fired, and I can easily see that being said to employees during natural disasters.
We called it "As the Waffle Burns..."
Burns not turns we say burns
so a 2 for 1 specially, good food and entertainment.
The fact the place is still privately owned and not by stockholders is likely one of the main factors in why they run so well and treat their employees like people. Once there's a 'board' and CEOs and whatnot that kinda thing tends to go to hell in the name of more money for the people at the top. Also now that I watched this I wish there was one up here, I could really go for some waffles
Just ask any one that works for a big box chain store
I was just about to say this same thing. As soon as a company goes public, it all goes to sh--.
Waffle House offers staff the option to buy stock. About1/3 of hourly associates and all the managers own stock.
I owned restaurants for 30 years and when I was looking to hire a cook… if they had 1 year exp as a line cook at Waffle House, it was an auto hire
I cousin works in HR for an IT support company. She considers "worked your way through school at Waffle House" to be an automatic advance to next level.
That's like serving on the front lines as far as the restaurant industry goes 😂
I did a single tour in a dish pit and...kudos. Seriously, you have to be into a certain sort of chaos to want to wrangle restaurants. A real passion or a permanent psychosis, but it's powerful stuff whatever the case.
I've seen other local restaurants conduct interviews for thier kitchen at WH.
I am now imagining Waffle House cooks as Spongebob in that one episode with the anchovies.
Gotta telll you in my hardcore gigging days, finding a Waffle House on the road at 2-3 am after playing on a 4-band bill is a Godsend. That yellow light on the side of the highway is like a lighthouse to a fog-laden ship. It beckoned us to safety and cheaply filled stomachs every time. Because WH employees have a heart and deal with traveling musicians, truckers, etc. on a regular basis, they didn’t mind if we slept in a booth for an hour or so. God bless Waffle House!
You know this is an important video. He's wearing his formal singlet.
Formal singlet 😂😂😂
Waffle House deserves only your sunday best. ;)
That's his waffle house wear. Fancy shizzle😅
Calling "WAFFLE HOUSE WENDY" : "The Last Chairbender" was outrageously, ridiculously hilariously funny !!!
Chiseled Adonis has a video on her that's e maculate
I called her the chairurai as in chair samurai, but it doesn't look as cool typed out lol
@davidkintzer1604 ... I looked at that and I'm sure that I would get tongue tied trying to pronounce it ! 🤐😵💫
Yeah that was funny as hell I remember when I first saw that video with waffle House Wendy, everyone in the comments said the exact same thing, when you see a human do what she did to a chair, you apologize immediately, and then you sit your ass down quickly, because she is not normal, she has some weird superpower, and no fear Gene, so it is best to leave her alone, because she was definitely ready to send people to the hospital with no f**** given.
I worked at Waffle House when I was younger, my favorite line was being told... if something happens, as long as they from behind the counter call the law... if they come behind the counter... they are ours.
I can hear your accent in this comment.... and i automatically believe you
Great now I'm picturing the last chair bender standing there like William Wallace "hold the line men, if they cross, make sure you keep score. Highest score gets Saturday off!"
haha, I worked in auto parts stores for 15 years and we had the same philosophy. The customers seemed to know it, too. We literally had a wall of tools behind us to select from. Never had a single person try it no matter how mad they were, and people are generally grumpy coming into those stores already because something on their car broke and now they have to spend money on something they don't want to spend it on. Job could get wild.
They are ours 😆 that sounds like I’m not locked in here with you! You locked in here with me kind of shit
@@andresgil1449 The most "merica" shit ever
Fantastic video! I will mention that in my younger years I could be to drunk to read but still point at the pictures on a waffle house menu and get fed. I will be going back to respect the establishment I disrespected in my youth after this video.
Went to Waffle House last year. Pipes were frozen. Bathroom was closed. Hand washing dishes with gallon jugs of water. They couldn’t serve their entire menu and They had no fountain machine so they went to Kroger to buy 2 liters of Pepsi for people. But dang it they were open. They absolutely refused to close that store.
If they bought Pepsi...it wasn't a Waffle House. Not in the south anyway. It would've been Coca-Cola. NEVER Pepsi in the south. EVER.
@@scottbaron121eh, go west. dr pepper it is
@@scottbaron121 you're full of it, coke is garbage and multiple states in dixie prefer pepsi to it(though ALL except those weirdos in missurah would rather have Dr Pepper)
@@scottbaron121if the pipes were frozen, I highly doubt it was in the south.
@@anthonyhayes1267 yeah, because the south has never had crazy winter storms roughly every 10-15 years...
Grew up across the street from Mr Tom and Mr Joe in Avondale Estates. My father was their accountant for 35 years, and I started working for them at the original location when I was 14. My family was the first outside their own to be invited to open a franchise, which grew into us opening 22 in the metro Atlanta area. We are still one of the only multi-franchise owners, my sister running all 22 locations. I served as a jump team member for years and am still on call to respond during times of need. One thing you failed to mention is that we will often provide food at no cost for days and weeks at a time for relief workers and those affected by a natural disaster. I still eat at WH all over the south east, they just get confused when I walk in and call my own order before I sit down.
That's really cool :D
Since you sound potentially influential in the Atlanta area, would it be too much to ask for you to teach some people down there how to drive? Like what in the literal fudge?!? Ya'll terrible at it!
@@MiloDebuque Atlanta native here:
Atlantans can drive well, but we've been so diluted out that you've probably never seen one of us drive. :)
The challenge is that in NY, everyone drives like a New Yorker, and it works alright. In Boston, they drive like Bostonians, and it works. Same with Miami, Texas, LA, etc. The problem is that when all those folks bring their version of how to drive to Atlanta and mix them all together, it just doesn't work.
That, and those Duke boys are always jumping the General Lee over washed out bridges.
@@MiloDebuque No sir, I haven't lived there for 25 years. Even when I have to drive through there 4 or 5 times a year it's literally like the chase scene in Fury Road. Unfortunately Nashville is now just as bad.
I love you
Childhood friend was a short order cook at one of our towns wafflehouses, he was arrested for public intox and the manager bailed him out with the restaurants petty cash so he could work a shift.
Was he still just as drunk as the customers?
If you see prison tats on your WH cook, you know your meal is gonna be bangin'.
@@matthewcox7985 🤣🤣🤣
Literally the best advertisement for the company.
Also note: waffelhouse cooks have been acknowledged as some of the best short order cooks in the world.
You have to understand that I went to Waffle House after a cat 3 hurricane annihilated the power grid in my area. I still had my Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Hash Brown Bowl at 4 a.m. after the storm passed.
Waffle House is a giga chad
Probably cooked to perfection, within 5 minutes, and served hot.
Ihop makes you wait 30 minutes for cold, unseasoned food
@@Reeg3x their sausage has just enough spice in the meat to carry the dish
@@Reeg3x Depends on the hop, one near me for over a decade never missed and never made you wait long, their omelets wear god tier
Debbie and Helene didn't bother Orlando.
Milton made a bit of a mess. My power was out for a bit and I didn't feel like cooking after being up monitoring the house.
So I went to the one restaurant I knew would be open. Their power was out, too. But the doors were open with fans running off generators. Got a meal before going back home to deal with the mess.
Fun Fact in my area an elderly man drove into the front of our local waffle house. The very same day they had the hole patched with a huge piece of wood with "we are open" spray painted on it. They didnt even go after the elderly gentleman as far as I'm aware.
I wonder if they have the windows 8' on center so that they can just use a standard sheet of ply? I could see them doing something ingenious like that. For the fastest repairs and hurricane prep.
Same thing happened here a few months ago. Must be in the Playbook
In 2005 after hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana , the Army ordered the 82nd Airborne Division and parts of the 1st Cavalry division to New Orleans for humanitarian relief efforts. Waffle House never closed. We stopped in to use the restroom while convoying relief supplies and the manager looked at us for 2 seconds and yelled "I can get you 2 burgers each". LT immediately told us to shut up and get out he would do the talking.
Lol
@@Vault_tec10 You know a couple of E3s left with a patty or two.
@@fakshen1973 I think you meant E-4's😂😂 E-4 mafia for the win and burgers.😂
We’ll take 8 waffles and a box of crayons for the mentally challenged kids I’m in charge ma’am
@@billysmith5594E-3s were the ones the E-4s sent for sandwiches
As a Waffle House manager this is exactly how we get down a lot of social media try’s to paint a bad picture of us but we are definitely build different!!!!! WH baby love this video
H.E.B. have backup generators at their stores. They also shuffle their employees to keep stores open and tell their people "take care of family and home first!"
HEB is one of the things I miss since moving out of Texas
My daughter works for an H.E.B. in Waco, Tx and that is NOT her experience
HEB❤️
There are reasons HEB and Waffle House have customer loyalty. People don't feel that way about Wal-Mart.
@@happyday-yx7mx I literally just got back from HEB and I'm headed back there soon, to buy some beer XD
another great strategy was putting pictures on the menu, so that when you do go to waffle house after closing the bar, you can just point to what you want instead of trying to talk coherently.
Whenever a new WAHO is built, they put the key to the building under the concrete of the front step, to symbolize that waffle houses will never close. God bless and keep Waffle House!
That's gangster as fuck!!!
I've been to multiple Waho's that weren't 24/7. Sad times.
@@afhostiesure, Jan
@afhostie I've never seen one. You sure it wasn't a Waffie House? Like the MacDonalds?
@jameskirk3 from what I've been hearing one in Colorado Springs closes every night because they can't get people to work.
As a New Yorker, the nearest Waffle House is in Pennsylvania. In December of 2022, my friends and drove 3 hours to the nearest Waffle House. Totally worth it.
American breakfast is comfort food to almost all of us. When bad things happen, you're feeling your worst, having a hearty breakfast that not only fills and warms you but also ticks that place of nostalgia can bring you back up.
Halie both is my daughter and I LOVE that he called her out by name! The last chair Bender is easily one of my favorite one's I've heard lol
Is she still blacklisted, or was she able to get her job at WH back?
@Pseedholm still blacklisted. Really stupid too because they told her when she left they'd hire her back any time
I have watched this twice because I have no clue what you and others are talking about. Can I get a time stamp?
@davidgoodnow269 his daughter is the girl who deflected the chair thrown at her....6:05 🙄
She will give you powerful grandbabies.
When snowpocalypse hit Atlanta in what 2015 I think I went out in my 4wd and picked up multiple truckers that were stranded and got them to the nearest waho. It's a beacon of love in the south. Those guys were stuck in there trucks for about 20 hours before I ended up near them on Fulton industrial. Will never forget that day and the looks on those guys faces to just be at waffle house after all that. 10/10 would waffle again.
What a nice (and humanitarian) thing to do.
Git in boys, goin to Waffle House!
If you roll up on stuck truckers like that, they might cry, thinkin you're an angel.
You, Sir, are a true hero. Mad props.
I'm a nurse. Tell every nurse need a meal during bad weather. Always open and warm!! I've driven 10 miles an hr. To get into work in ice storm. Stopped in TO get hot coffee, breakfast only meal for 16 hrs
So I actually have a really funny story related to waffle house.
I saw my favorite kpop group (Stray Kids) in Atlanta in March 2023. During the concert when they were interacting with the audience, they asked where they should eat. The enter venue, which was one of the biggest in Atlanta that wasn't a stadium, unanimously answered "Waffle House". The group was so confused but found it funny. People flamed the answer online, wondering why on earth people would say that due to its reputation. But every single person from the south just...got it. If you want something that's just so...southern? Waffle house.
My wife was a waitress at WH, and apparently, the T-bone steak is a huge hit with Asian dudes.
Just searched on RUclips and indeed there is a video of stray kids being told on stage to go to waffle house 😆 no info on if they actually went there
@KennethLeung38 i *highly* doubt they did, but it was just one of those wtf experiences 🤣
I used to work for a sign company and Waffle House was on of my clients. When any letter other than the "W" would go out we had 72 hours to effect the repairs. On the "W", we only had 24 hours.
Some of those damn signs are super tall and getting a 100+ foot crane on short notice was no fun.
Listen, in Germany, where I’m from, its about midnight right now, I have work at 3am and I have yet to get a minute of sleep but I’ll be damned if I don’t watch this right now
Good man...gotta get your history facts in some time 😅
My man!!!!!!
Never seen a foreign so determined for US history, I love it 😂
You're weird. Just go to sleep the video will still be here tomorrow. What else do you vehemently consoom?
@_spicy_salad_2810 Well Waffle House is a place of legend that many non-Americans don't really understand.
I mean, the Japanese creator of Street Fighter literally asked people online what Waffle House was and why are so many people asking for it to be a stage in the next Street Fighter entry.
I met a district manager for WH last night at a social function and I was infinitely more excited about his job because of this. Thank you for the entertaining informative videos!
As a former cook, I have to give you a small correction, some of the waffle houses in the south have a double grill
legend has it that a single waffle house in GA has the mythical triple grill
- unknown author
I've seen several that have double grills.
Waffle House is probably one of my favorite places to eat.
I just wish there were more of them near/next to big-rig friendly parking.
@@haydenunsellI heard this was the same Waffle House where kid rock got in a fight and where golfer Jon daly shows up hungover at least once a month on Thursday afternoon
@dstokes8484 most of the ones here on ohio are like that, waffle house Monroe specifically, people come straight off i75 to sleep and eat
@Trucker_Dude84
Bo, I'll tell you what. My favorite is seeing a WH within walking distance of a truckstop OR with truck parking. The best place, though, is here in NC. I-77, I think ex 83. There is a Bojangles with truck parking, and a WH directly across street. You have dinner and breakfast right there together, plus a quiet place to park. It's great.
When we were without a home, and I was seeking work, WH was like a great hug. They knew our situation. They told us to never worry about missing a breakfast. My family ate breakfast during our hardest times because at WH it was important even to the staff.
When Mrs. Electrician said "Boombox" I knew Nic was going to pull out the Q Boombox 😂
These tax write-offs are getting very creative.
I live in Swannanoa, right near Asheville, and the day after Hurricane Helene hit, we didn’t have any idea how bad it really was. It was only after I tried to go to Waffle House and found it closed that I truly understood the severity of the destruction.
he said the quiet part out loud; its good to its people BECAUSE THERE ARE NO SHAREHOLDERS!!!! tear down wall street!
you have to be employed by waffle house for at least 1 year to buy stocks
Once I ordered my hash-browns like I always do. Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, diced, and peppered… she hands them over too me. I look down and say “Hey where’s the seasoning?” She says huh??? I said the cigarette ash seasoning I used to always get 😂😂😂 she says honey the cooks aren’t allowed to smoke at the griddle anymore… at that moment I realized how old I really am.
Every time I smell old fart... it's me.
I, as a 15-year Waffle House Grill operator/District relief manager I can tell you that FEMA literally bases their Emergency Management levels on whether or not waffle House is open. All waffle House managers of every level it is mandatory that you have a 4WD for such an occasion of snow or ice so no one can call out of work saying that the roads are too bad (Waffle House gives managers car allowance).
I worked on the road for 10 years and have eaten in a Waffle House in nearly all 39 states I visited. Working in Georgia in a fairly small town there were 6 directions to head in when leaving the hotel. There was a Waffle House on everyone of those roads, the furthest was about ten minutes away and the closest was across the street. While checking out new restaurants can be fun, when you been working umpteen hours straight on 4 hours sleep the last thing you want is fun, I just didn’t have the energy to be entertained. I liked the fact that while the patrons could be unpredictable, the menu and service wasn’t, you knew exactly what you were in for, a solid affordable meal and off to the hotel for another 4-5 hours of work induced coma. Thank you for giving some unsung heroes their due and thank you Waffle House for being there.
I worked with someone who had worked for Waffle House corporate and she loved it. She said that one day a month, the corporate employees had to work in a restaurant, just to keep them in touch with what it is that keeps them in business. A Southern comedian did a skit about preparing for a storm, with a Waffle House closure playing a significant role in his decision to get the hell out of the area.
I've been in multiple Waffle Houses in multiple locations. Never saw a fight, have seen a few dodgy people but everyone behaved themselves.
They knew they’d catch hands disrespecting the house
Waffle house is a sacred place
Nobody wants to get banned from the House.
Calling that corporate honestly seems wrong
I was aware of the Waffle House Index, but I didn't know about the emergency preparedness of the jump team. I'm so glad to hear they treated their employees so well.
Very happy news for me. I had assumed they were like any other corp and making their local employees work through the disaster, prioritizing the job over their family. Even worse than most because I assumed they were pushing more than the rest in these disasters.
Knowing they have separate teams come in and run the store to allow the workers to prioritize their families completely flips that. Makes me want to open a Waffle House.
“I’m a simple man. I like pretty dark haired women and breakfast food.” - Ron Swanson
“You had me at meat tornado.”
Bacon-wrapped shrimp.
...I wasn't offering.
@@themulattomaker2602 “I'm worried what you just heard was, Give me a lot of bacon and eggs. What I said was, Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.”
@@themulattomaker2602 that’s my number one favorite food wrapped around my number three favorite food
@@johngriff914that clip of him ordering 'all the bacon and eggs' gets funnier if you imagine that being a waffle house, given their logistics.
I was in the Camp Shelby, Mississippi near Hattiesburg. We trained lots of soldiers and I would sometimes get off work at 0200 hours. I would go to Waffle House and get my food, and watch the locals come in highly intoxicated and fight inside the restaurant.
And used to see in Waikiki, Hawaii intoxicated locals fighting at Denny’s at closing time.
As a new englander working in Atlanta, I asked a coworker what's with all the waffle houses around. His answer was perfect, " if it wasn't for Waffle House, we wouldn't be able to give directions"!! Dude keep up the awesome work
Yeah, after watching this video, I wish we had them up here
@GavinMcCollom Just use Dunk'n!!
I have a friend whose mother has worked for Waffle House for over 30 years. Heard someone ask her once how come she didn't move on to a real restaurant with all her experience. I watched that someone get humbled that day. And I learned just how awesome a company they are. Sure the new folks get crap pay, but the scale goes up significantly over time as you prove your worth. Oh, and she's been on multiple jump team deployments. It is volunteer, but the incentive pay is quite substantial. They really do take care of their employees.
You know, I’ve been a bit iffy about people expecting certain jobs to be forever-jobs where you plan to just keep building up pay raises. But if the company is solid, sounds real nice having employees that know their shit and are more likely to care about what they do.
Here is a cool thing about the stocks thing! The emplyees are allowed to buy stocks within the company as part of the retirement plan.
As a Georgian, I grew up in Waffle Houses. The best one I had the pleasure eating was in downtown Asheville NC. Me, the Mrs & our six chilluns rolled in on a Christmas morning. Line was out the door but moving. It didn’t take long to be seated & were treated to the most exquisite ballet of food preparation I’ve ever witnessed. Above the cachaphony of diners, the workers worked together seamlessly speaking in that famous Waffle House language. All the orders were completed in a timely manner & nary a disparaging comment was uttered. Truly the A team was there that morning.
Sir. I am an Asheville native and I approve of this message! Thank you, kindly!😊
That “boom box” can absolutely play music… Sabaton used a 1911 for high hat, rifle for snare drum, and artillery for base drum on the song Lost Battalion.
Yeah, Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture did it best and first
Exactly! You just need the appropriate target materials. Steels for brass percussion, plastic drums for hollow percussion, various suppressors for "woodwinds"(?)..... you get the idea.
I think it was knife stabs for hi-hats, 1911 for snares and a .50-cal for bass, but yeah....
I remember when Irma came through our area (Orlando). It had weakened quite a bit by the time it got here, but it still tore some stuff up. We were out of power for about a week, which is not fun during a Florida summer. Every other restaurant was shut down, but the local Waffle House was serving their FULL FSKING MENU! That was truly one of the best omelettes I’ve ever eaten.
All the hurricanes the last couple of decades kinda blur together. I remember being out of power at least three times for over a week. August though October in Orlando with no power is no joke! I've slept in the carport and the backyard a few times as the house was unbearable. At least Waffle House was always ready to feed me!
That reminds me, I need to dump my hurricane gas into my pickup.
I can't remember the last time the one near me in East Orlando closed. I don't think it closed when we got nailed by those three or four hurricanes back in 2004 even.
I’ve been watching for a couple years now and didn’t know you had this channel. This is awesome.
You got one thing wrong. They have the most complex menu of any fast food chain. They'll cook anything any way you want them to. Kiss method on the menu, "secret" menu for regulars and polite first timers. Plus the back side lunch/dinner menu with the same rules. America's best diner.
I just want one over medium egg on well fried hashbrowns and a waffle.
@suran396 my order changes on time of day, chores I need to do, and my health.
My mom has worked there for 22 years. I worked there in high school. When I’m telling you, I will never betray the awful waffle, I mean it. 🤣
In addition to paying its employees well, and doing things like providing health care and retirement benefits, they also are very good about giving second chances. I remember sitting at the counter one morning waiting on my pork chops and eggs and reading an employment application. I will always remember the question, “For which crimes you been convicted?” Not if you have been convicted so they can blow you off. They just want to know if they can handle your particular crime.
I’m good with that.
Lol. Keep that bar low. But fr tho, most of the older more reliable ppl in fast food are usually only working in fast food because of a criminal conviction that bars them from a lot of employment(myself included). Currently I work at Wendy's and stock and clean a bar, but on the app at Wendy's i answered "can answer upon interview" because it's a pretty long list of convictions. When I told the manager everything, she just asked me if I plan to rob the register. I said I didn't plan on it. I started 2 days later and have been there 4 years thru 3 different GMs. My point is, the older ppl in fast food are almost always more reliable and harder workers and generally they understand that those older workers have a questionable past.
@@dirkz.duggitz1567I'm glad you got your chance. Keep up the hard work.
Hell, it’s a joke with me and my brother. If the cook looks like he’s done time, you’re in for some good food.
But Waffle House’s policy on felons is a god send to a lot of people.
When our local waffle houses here in Tampa, FL boarded up for Milton we all got extra worried
I was a cop for 29 years. Waffle House and IHOP next door real AF after 9pm. Stabbings, shootings, beatings, people ran over.
Well.... blacks. Full stop.
@@Deletirium😂
@@Deletirium first of all that’s racist second of all no it’s the south the whites will fuck you up to
so typical monday night.
was this atlanta outskirts by Lithia Springs? That Waffle House was closed one time in august 2022, plywood patched, "NO WORKERS" taped to the window.
ive met the founders Joe and Tom before while i was a server at a different type of restaurant in the Atlanta area. genuinely one of the nicest folks ive had the pleasure to serve. i had no idea who they were, just nice old guys who liked to have a good laugh. later on my manager told me who they were and i was surprised. their entire families from the kids down to the grandkids are all amazing.
I’m from SC 42 retired vet and I’m from the hood. I made a shirt online one the military that said” i survived poverty, war, and the Waffle House. Aww good times. Lmao
Chair bender here, Thank you for the shout out!!!
And you said my name right..Sir thank you. You don't know how refreshing that is XD
I worked at a legally distinct restaurant in Australia for the better part of a decade that was looking to copy the business model of waffle house, but they completely screwed up the "keep it small, stupid" part. We were seating up to 400 customers at once, on busy days there were always so many angry pissed off customers complaining it took half an hour to get their food not realising my team and I literally could not get orders out faster, we were maxing out every cooking surface and pan we had to try and meet the demand, it literally could not be done.
Pancake manor
"Syrup flavored syrup..." That's all I needed to know. Being southern born and southern bred, waffle house is the ONLY breakfast spot. If a fight just happens to break out, well you'll have entertainment to go with your meal.
That is one of the most real statements I've ever heard.
In 2005 after Katrina I volunteered with the Red Cross to go into New Orleans and help out. We lived off MRE's and Waffle House for 2 months. The Waffle House right by the motel we were in was open a day or two after we got there. The McDonald's across the street did not open until the last week I was there.
We have 11 in our county alone growing up on the WH way before Cracker Barrel’s shown up. Pre-Covid WH was in 4th gear at 160mph in there NASCAR on the business HWY them COVID happen and the wheels almost fell off the car.. it was an double wide trash bin Inferno going on… very bad is an understatement for sure .. then something happened in 2024 , people started to return .. menu pricing changed it was so different then in 2021, 2022, 2023.. So glad they got some new tires and crew working now.
Best weather forecast in the south, especially here in Florida. If they close down for a hurricane, it’s time to leave.
As a Florida man, this is so true
When waffle house closes we know the hurricane is bad
After manning the wastewater plant for 3 days/nights went to WH to get my crew breakfast. They were open and full of power co. responders and clean up crews. My most fav place to eat regardless of the time AM or PM.
Same for Houston, TX
Living in FL this is 100% accurate, I just wish Publix still made Hurricane cakes for our Hurricane parties 😢
True story. I flew in to Boynton beach FL to do a job. After my flight landed, i went to the local grocery store to buy me some beer and snacks. While i was at the store i was getting a really weird vibe. So when i got to the checkout i asked the cashier "is something going on?" She looked at me like i had three heads and said "there's a hurricane on the way."
Got to my hotel and checked the weather, and sure enough there was a hurricane scheduled to hit the next day. Why my job flew me into the teeth of a hurricane i'll never know. So i called the jobsite, and my POC told me "why are you even here, evacuate!" Could not book a flight out, no seats left.
So i had to iron man it out in a rental car. Sucked so bad, because traffic was insane. But i did make it.
WH always impresses me that they do all their dishes in a tiny little sink hidden under the counter you're sitting at. And they clean the grill with a LITERAL BRICK and the thick, dark grease from the grease trap. First time I saw that part of my brain broke trying to figure out if that's even hygienic, but then I realized my hashbrowns were getting cold.
😂😂😂
If it works, it works. It ain't broke, don't fix it. 😂
if you don't get the shits than it must be hygienic enough.
I have walked 3+ miles to my closest Waffle House in the aftermath of a snowstorm when power was out and the roads were undrivable (at least for Southerners without tire chains). And there was a hot meal waiting at the end of my hike. Waffle House is awesome. I did envy my neighbors with 4x4's that day ... they made the same trip, ate their meal, and were probably back at home before I completed my outbound leg. And yes, there are two Waffle Houses within sight of each other at that location -- one on either side of the Interstate.
THAT is amazing! I'm in the Atlanta area. There's 1 about 4 blocks from my house and about 3 more in close driving range I can quickly think of.
The last time I went to Waffle House it was in the middle of a blizzard after a twenty two hour day of work replacing automatic carwash equipment in the freezing cold with no breaks. I ordered so much food that the waitress brought it to my table piled high on two serving platters instead of plates, and I ended up eating it all and had to set my car's seat back a couple notches after getting in, drove home groaning in pain the whole time, and then passed out on my couch for three days in a food/exhaustion coma. When I finally woke up, I realized my car was parked sideways in the yard with the driver's side facing the front door. I'm pretty sure I left a hundred dollar tip.
They were the first place open to the public/military after Hurricane Katrina at their D'Iberville, MS location. The manager refused our money, so we gave our money to our servers. They were absolutely amazing, even though WH had lost their location on Biloxi Beach. The sign survived, though. Epic place. Don't get me started on their waffles and hash browns, or the best cup of coffee.
Thanks for always serving up some of the best informative videos, FE! Happy New Year, y'all!
Best hash browns ever, 4 real
Happy new year.
I work for a disaster response company. The most consistent thing when being deployed is that if you're going to the south, Waffle House will be open somewhere near you. Hurricane Beryl in Houston- they were open when the eye passed over.
When the EF-4 hit Clarksville, they helped feed responders & shelter residents.
Scattered, chucked, & capped!
Why do I see that happening in a movie. Like main character in the roof with a machine gun and a cup of coffee just yelling while a cat 5 hurricane goes overhead and they are defending it from idk zombies or something.
Music would be awesome
Emergency Management student here. What company do you work for?? I’m looking for a career outside of FEMA even though I’m pro FEMA but they need to be on their own and not under DHS. TIA
@JohnLee-jk5ew American Red Cross. Best job I've ever had! The most rewarding job you can imagine. Whether assisting with house fires or responding to hurricanes and tornadoes, your whole job is to help people.
I'm from Alabama. We have 3 in our small town. An employee told us that if weather is expected to be snowy or icy, real disaster in Alabama, they are put up in the local hotel. They told us that each house is placed next to a hotel with that in mind.