Waffle House seems to be a hive of social activity in the South...

[Human101948]

Naked woman goes on rampage through Waffle House
KENNESAW, GA (CBS46) - A woman is facing several charges after going on a rampage at a Waffle House restaurant in Kennesaw, all while completely naked.
Read more: http://www.cbs46.com/story/30962767/naked-woman-goes-on-rampage-through-waffle-house#ixzz47JGCHD7Y

'Clown' arrested after Athens Waffle House employee accuses him of smoking meth
A man dressed in a clown suit was arrested at the downtown Waffle House early Tuesday morning after an employee called to complain he smoked methamphetamine at the restaurant's counter, according to an Athens­Clarke County police report.
http://onlineathens.com/mobile/2016-03-03/clown-arrested-after-smoking-meth-athens-waffle-house

Man sleeping in Waffle House bathroom sought on shoplifting charge

Athens-Clarke County (GA) police said they were called to Waffle House on South Milledge Avenue Wednesday morning on a report of a man sleeping in a restroom, and upon waking 30-year-old Jamie Devin Parker they arrested him because he was wanted on an outstanding warrant on a shoplifting charge.
http://onlineathens.com/blotter/2016-03-26/man-sleeping-waffle-house-bathroom-sought-shoplifting-charge?utm_source=Recommendation_Widget&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=qrec&utm_content=image

Vietnam vet foils Waffle House robbery with cane

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Phillip Brooks was mad that a robbery attempt at a Fayetteville Waffle House interrupted his breakfast last weekend.
http://www.wral.com/vietnam-vet-foils-waffle-house-robbery-with-cane/15629326/

Deputies charge man for making false bomb threat at Waffle House

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - The New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office made an arrest after determining a suspicious package at at the Waffle House in Monkey Junction Wednesday morning was not a threat.
http://www.wect.com/story/31301153/deputies-charge-man-for-making-false-bomb-threat-at-waffle-house

Four arrested after dining-and-dashing from NC Waffle House

GASTONIA, N.C. – Four people from Ohio have been arrested after allegedly eating at a North Carolina Waffle House restaurant and leaving without paying.
http://myfox8.com/2016/03/05/four-arrested-after-dining-and-dashing-from-nc-waffle-house/

[JonathanRackham]

1. It's like Walmart went into the restaurant business.

Alls they need is Trump signs on the front lawn.

[Major Nikon]

18. It's more like Walmart went into the ptomaine business

[glowing]

2. Waffle House was a staple at about 3 or 4 am after drinking all night.. Doesn't surprise me one bit.

Sketchy as all hell everywhere.. Grease the main food group... and at 4 am, everything tasted great... LOL.

[ronnie624]

48. It's not that bad.

Their pecan waffles are the bomb, and they whip up their own butter, fresh every morning.

[glowing]

49. The things I could eat in college aren't quite the

things I can eat now... Nor can I consume as much alcohol as I used to... My college self would drink my current self under the table after round two... Lol. Guess those were the days for memories to be had and cherished while we age... (And to scare the crap out of ourselves when raising children knowing all the stupid crap that you did back then and know they are heading into).

[ronnie624]

50. +1. n/t

[840high]

55. I love their hash and eggs. Treat

for me about once a month - my grandsons take me out.

[ronnie624]

61. The food really is tasty.

I cooked at one about 35 years ago, for a couple of years. I don't know if it's the case now, but after the training period was over, the cook was forbidden to look at order tickets. Every order had to be memorized as it was called out by the wait staff. Thousand dollar lunch runs (in 1980) between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM, were routine, so an exceptional memory was a must.

Their hashbrowns were dehydrated and reconstituted with hot water at the restaurant, but still very tasty.

[Hortensis]

3. Hey, don't mess with my Waffle House!

Seriously, it's an important employer down here. In the small hours of the 2008 election day, before heading out as a poll watcher, I stopped at a Waffle House and got to watch a mostly toothless staff (some hard lives lived) discussing the election. Soberly and coherently, and not so ignorantly either. Loved it.


"I love Waffle House, and not just ’cause watching someone fry an egg while they’re smoking reminds me of my dad." Jim Gaffican

[Fairgo]

4. For those in the know..

You want it scattered, smothered and covered.

[Skinner]

10. I am totally with you.

I wish there were a Waffle House somewhere near me, but sadly there aren't many of them this far north.

[840high]

56. Y'all come down and visit.

[DawgHouse]

13. +1

[ChisolmTrailDem]

23. Damn right you do! nt

[Sissyk]

37. Oh, hell ya!

[nolabear]

45. Oh hell yeah. Waffle House is the most egalitarian place there is, you libs.

Open all night, breakfast any time, everyone welcome, employs people of all ages and walks, and it was the very first place to rebuild after Katrina, because it had the money and people needed to eat.

Don't look down your nose and then say you're for the working man.

[Fairgo]

47. Nothing wrong with funky

Wafflehouse jukebox...pork chop and eggs...a new year's eve tradition

Question: Do you remember the Hummingbird Grill?

[nolabear]

68. No, I don't? Was it a single place or a chain?

[Fairgo]

71. It was a greasy spoon attached to a flop house

It was an all night hang out for "gypsy hacks and insomniacs"...on Saint Charles avenue. Google it.

[nolabear]

80. LOL! I hated waitressing 11 to 7 in NO!

Lord, there's nothing like drunk and rowdy people. I didn't do it that long but it's burned into my memory. I was not a natural.

[GulfCoast66]

57. I love your last line

And am going to shamelessly stealing it.

[Hortensis]

66. Great post, Nolabear.

[Skittles]

58. love it all three ways

[FrodosPet]

70. Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked, and Capped

The ham and mushrooms puts them over the top.

[Katashi_itto]

5. When doing an on location movie shoot here in the south

I would always go to a waffle house while waiting for the crew to get the set ready. Would always see some seriously strange behavior there.

[EL34x4]

6. It's the hash browns

Nobody can make hash browns like Waffle House. I don't know how they do it. Maybe God Himself miracles them to crispy golden perfection, scattered, smothered & covered.

[KG]

7. the only place open after 9pm, cept maybe some wal-marts.

most folks have no idea what it's like to live in rural america.

[pinboy3niner]

8. Forget it...

"Forget it, Jake; it's Waffle House."

[sendero]

9. Surprisingly..

.... one can get a right decent breakfast at Waffle House, without an emphasis on goofy jellies, whipped cream and other crap that should not be eaten more than once a month.

[Ex Lurker]

32. I love the Waffle House NT

[awoke_in_2003]

34. Yep...

and a heck of a lot cheaper than Internationally High On Prices.

[Jitter65]

11. Trump town halls. nt

[EL34x4]

15. You'd better hope not.

If Trump has won over people who eat at Waffle House, he'll be our next president.

[blogslut]

12. I adore Waffle House.

24-hour breakfast where I can get a minute steak served with my hashbrowns and eggs and they don't look at me funny when I ask for Worcestershire sauce. Plus their coffee is damned fine and they have a friggin' jukebox.

[tavernier]

73. The. Best. Coffee. EVER!!!

And the only place that won't sell you a bag of it... Grrrrrr!

[DawgHouse]

14. I love Waffle House but some are definitely better than others.

I worked an overnight shift at the USPS for a few years and my coworkers and I stopped in at WH several mornings at 4 AM. How that lady made the fluffiest omelet in town, I'll never know.

[ladyVet]

19. I think it's pancake batter. Something like that, anyway.

I remember reading something about making eggs fluffy with something that wasn't low carb a few years ago. Pretty sure it was pancake batter, which made the eggs at most restaurants a no-no for me.

[DawgHouse]

24. I heard that too! She always turned her back to us so we couldn't see.

[ShrimpPoboy]

44. I've never heard that before but it makes sense

There's often something a bit off about eggs in restaurants and hotels. Too thick and dense.

[haele]

16. FEMA tracks the status of a Waffle House in natural disasters...

...as whether or not a Waffle House stays open, how fast a Waffle House re-opens, or whether or not there is an increase in customers because of infrastructural break-down - stranded communities and travelers will congregate at the local Waffle House if it can remain open.
Waffle Houses are typically the first businesses to re-open. And because of they tend to be in locations where there are weather emergencies, they have natural emergency protocols that allow them to manage their resources to continue operations during floods, heavy storms, hurricanes, tornado aftermaths for close to a week in isolation.

http://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/04/business/when-disaster-strikes-fema-turns-waffle-house

Whether or not you like the food, the business model of a typical waffle house is to be part of its community.

Haele

[sl8]

21. "The Waffle House Index"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

[Hortensis]

67. Another great post.

And the food for the price is good.

[dlwickham]

83. I had to read the link because I didn't believe it

sometimes the feds are amazing in their simplicity

[longship]

17. But don't forget Pancakes House!

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

I agree with the consensus here. Waffle House is pretty damned good. And yes, also culturally unique. Kind of like what White Castle used to be. Except the food IS awesome at Waffle House.

R&K

[awoke_in_2003]

35. are you insinuating...

that White Castle isn't? I had to hit one in Nashville a few years ago when I was visiting my father. I hadn't had any since leaving Cleveland in 92. I tore it up. I love their onion chips.

[longship]

38. I wouldn't do that. A dozen White Castle sliders and I'm good to go.

[awoke_in_2003]

39. Cool

12 is a nice round number

[sufrommich]

20. Waffle House is slowly heading north at

the same rate that Tim Horton's is moving south. I predict a cultural bloodbath of epic proportions. It's North v. South all over again people.

[awoke_in_2003]

36. Shit's about to get real

[JVS]

63. Huber Heights OH right off I-70 near Dayton

Horton's and Waffle House meet

[sufrommich]

75. I just looked up Waffle Houses in Michigan,

we have one.So far it's Waffle House 1-Tim Horton's -a gazillion.

[MrScorpio]

82. Where's that WH at in Mich?

I can walk to a TH.

[sufrommich]

87. It's in Watervliet,which is down by the Indiana border. nt

[MrScorpio]

88. It's GONE! No longer there.

http://www.yelp.com.au/biz/waffle-house-watervliet

The closest one to me is apparently in Toledo. I have no reason to go to Toledo.

[sufrommich]

89. Well,there goes our lone Waffle House. I wonder

what put it out of business.

[dembotoz]

22. joys of late night food biz

here is wisconsin a chain called george webb would get that crowd in towns were they have or had them.

my son works 3rd shift at an all night mickey d drive up. Located next to a taco bell.

seems taco bell gets the stoners just before they close and then mickeys gets hit around bar time....

he as a rule does not tell tales cause in many ways he lives in a small town and he knows by association or families, many of the shall we say.....happy patrons.....

i think there are a couple of reasons why the late night is drive up only.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

25. With 2100 locations and an all-day (and night) schedule, no one should be...

...surprised that odd stuff, as well as good stuff, happens there.

[Hoyt]

26. The Waffle Houses near me were always packed when they allowed smoking. Now they are mostly empty.

[LongTomH]

27. Eat at Waffle House or IHOP and get your 2 days worth of saturated fat in one meal!

Try our Code-Blue Plate Special!!!

[2naSalit]

28. I used to stop at

the ones where you could park a semi in or near the parking lot... I liked their grits instead of toast with oil painted on it.

[1939]

29. Waffle House at 2-4AM is good hunting ground

You get all the cocktail waitresses from bars that closed at 2AM and the streetwalkers that have given it up for the night.

[Human101948]

31. Do you get discounted rates at that time?

I usually can't stay awake that late.

[Fumesucker]

65. That's why they invented the term Waffle Hoggin

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=waffle+hoggin

[Heeeeers Johnny]

30. Chuck E Cheese is worse.

It's like Wrestlemania only without the pomp and pageantry...


https://www.google.com/search?as_q=fights&as_epq=chuck+e+cheese+&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Chuck+E.+Cheese+fight

[ancianita]

33. Hah, they are, which is why I haven't been to one in at least seven years of road trips south.

My last visit, locals -- apparently they are hangouts for locals -- were way too forward with questions and conversations about my life in the North, work, family, etc., cheerfully unaware of our need to simply relax and refresh after hours of driving. Some drama between two men made me decide that cheap eats there aren't worth it.

I like truck stops better, anyway.

Thanks for all the Waffle House news!

[kwassa]

40. A bacon chicken cheese salad.

The healthy item on the menu. They claim only 310 calories. Figure that out.

[cherokeeprogressive]

41. You makin' fun of the people who were so instrumental in getting Hillary nominated?

Not cool. She couldn't have gotten to where she is today without them.

[struggle4progress]

43. I guess I should go there more often to keep a finger on the public pulse

[romanic]

46. Any eatery joint open after club hours is going to be a hole of ratchetry and mayhem.

It's not limited to Waffle House either. IHop gets just as turned up at night.

[Separation]

51. Waffle House is great

I normally hit them up after I have to go to my VA appointments.

Its those damn Huddle Houses you have to be worried about!!

[Doctor_J]

52. Well you can't throw a rock in Dixie without hitting one

And their pecan waffles are amazing

[nolabear]

54. Bacon-pecan. Heaven!

I never eat that stuff at home but get me back down to the Gulf Coast and there's a Waffle House every 30 feet, and I love it.

[Liberal_in_LA]

53. Yummm...waffles

[greytdemocrat]

59. God

I have them all around me and I've never been in one!

[Are_grits_groceries]

60. Waffle House is dinner theater 24/7.

I love them. You never know what you will see and you have a group of regular customers for commentary. You have to know what's good because some of the food is great.

And they now have bulletproof placemats.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

62. I think dining and dashing the Waffle House is a right of passage in parts of the South

I always feel bad for the servers. Realistically, 4 people at the Waffle House walking on a tab would be unlikely to be more than $60 total.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

64. My dad called Waffle House "pervert free rest stops"

I'm not sure he ever bought anything more than a coffee there, but they were convenient and clean bathrooms at all hours.

[whatthehey]

69. I'm just mad my local one stopped strawberry or blueberry waffles

No idea why - seems like keeping a bottle of syrup handy is cheap and easy. The peanut butter version is a bit clyingly sweet and sticky. Not a fan of pecans.

I'm a topped and peppered ultra crispy guy, but I'm not out to cruise for hookups obviously.

[Kang Colby]

72. Love Waffle House...

I get my hashbrowns southern style (gravy) and I add Tabasco. I love the bacon, egg, and cheese on Texas toast.

[KamaAina]

74. That'd make one hell of a reality show

but somehow I doubt Waffle House would play along.

[djean111]

76. I have to confess that I used to fucking LOVE their pecan waffles.

No syrup - just pecan waffle butter delivery on a fork.
I know the waffle batter is made from a likely chemical-laden powder, out of a box. But, thank goodness, there are no Waffle Houses near me. Here in Florida.

80 thousand years ago, when the interstate from Illinois down to Florida was still under construction, we used to drive from Bloomington to Daytona Beach, no stopping except for gas, and for Waffle Houses along the way. Could leave Bloomington (Il.) around 4:30, after work, and be on the beach in Daytona by noon. Waffle Houses always felt safe.

[Separation]

85. Down here in Florida

They are called the Huddle House. I would venture it's to Waffle House as what Hardee's is to Carl's Jr.

From the looks of Google mapsthough, it seems that the WH is now invaded Florida. All down I-75, lots in Orlando and other cities and towns.

After I retired I moved from Florida to Tennessee (yea I know. I did it bass akwards) when I left Florida I could never find a WH, it was all HH. I'm actually in Orlando for a Dr's appointment for my son, and they are all over now.

[djean111]

86. Oh, the green hills of Tennessee....so beautiful, driving through Tennessee.

That's not bass ackwards, unless you like the ocean. I live right below Tampa now.

I did not come to Florida by choice, really, the huge telecom I worked for closed the data processing office in Bloomington, I got transferred to Durham, they closed that one two years later, got transferred to Tampa. Then they shipped as many jobs as they could to Chennai, laid most of us off due to that and a merger, then replaced what was left with mostly H-1B visa holders. I am retired now, but the pickings were slim, and of course the days of relocation were long gone. Hope, at some point, to get a little place in Gulfport, over by St. Pete.

No Waffle house near me, I thought - but looking at the map, there is one 5 miles away, and one 6 miles away. Probably drove right past the nearest one a couple of times in the past week, but looks like it is in the middle of a good-sized cluster of restaurants, not a beacon of warm yellow light, seen from the interstate.

I am a low-carber, so I hate having this information!

Orlando is a long way to go for a doctor - I hope things turn out well for your son.

[robertpaulsen]

77. But according to Bill Hicks, they do frown on READING at a Waffle House.

“I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: 'Hey, whatcha readin' for?' Isn't that the weirdest fuckin' question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, goddamnit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well . . . hmmm...I dunno...I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress.”

― Bill Hicks

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/76449-i-was-in-nashville-tennessee-last-year-after-the-show

[backscatter712]

78. Here's the vid...

[Zen Democrat]

79. Waffle House makes me think of comedian Bill Hicks talking about being in a small town Alabama WH:

Bill sits down with a newpaper.
The waitress says: What'ya reading for?
Bill: So I don't end up a a Waffle House waitress.
Trucker nearby: Well lookee here, we got ourselves a Reader!

[MrScorpio]

81. One of the few things that I liked about being stationed down south...

Was finding a Waffle House anywhere. Never had a meal I didn't like there.

[Skittles]

84. I agree with this assessment

I've never been disappointed in a a Waffle House