By: Jefferson Palma
Waffle House is located across America with around 1,900 locations with most of its locations in the South. It was founded on September 5th, 1955, by Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner. It is 2 years away from reaching its 70 year anniversary.
This casual dining restaurant has a service of being open for 24 hours/ seven days a week.
Waffle House has an unofficial index for government agencies to measure the conditions of a hurricane. As mentioned above, most of Waffle House is located in the South where hurricanes can hit. There’s a green sign, indicating that they can serve a full menu. Yellow sign meaning that they’re probably using a generator, or are low on supplies and cannot serve a full menu. And lastly, a red sign showing that the restaurant is closed and the storm is dire.
Waffle House is also known for its violence. According to ‘Rolling Stone’, Jessica Gantt, an employee, states that “I’ve had to clean up blood from the lobby area because people were cutting on each other. Just last week there were two shootings at Waffle Houses, one in Indianapolis and one in Dillon, South Carolina. I feel scared.”
For the employees they have to endure the threat of violence, minimum wage, and very short breaks.
Waffle House is famously known as a fight club in the social media world. There were many fight videos online that went viral. One employee was a ‘hero’ on the internet and was titled “Waffle House Wendy,” after she instinctively caught a metal chair that was thrown at her.
Having seen some of the Waffle House social media, it can be said that it is funny, and crazy, and that there is always some kind of argument or conflict going on.
Although the never closing diner has a crazy reputation of fights and a hurricane meter, the main website of Waffle House states, “Waffle House was founded on the principles of providing the friendliest service in town.”
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