Waffle House has an incredibly interesting notation system so that their cooks know what to make, and any cook can go to a new WH and immediately start working: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickgray/378694469
Waffle House Vistas
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#12Sounds like Waffle House is to the South what Wawa is to the Philadelphia area. :-)
I've only been in a Waffle House once, but did enjoy the food and the service--definitely on my list for the next time I'm down south.
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#13>Those incidents prompted the Rev. Bernice King, CEO of the King Center in Atlanta, to call for a boycott of the beloved chain. Maybe her heart was in the right place but that idea was doomed from the start. Waffle House and Chick-fil-a are 100% boycott proof in the south, me personally I eat at waho 3 times a week- it’s the best most consistent bang for your buck and the service is impeccable even at 4am.
And why would boycotting a waffle house combat police brutality? Is it supposed to pressure waffle house to condemn the police?
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#14One of the aspects of Waffle House that's always impressed me is their commitment to be open no matter what happens. This has prompted the informal Waffle House Index: the informal metric used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to determine the effect of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery.
https://www.fema.gov/blog/2011-07-07/news-day-what-do-waffle...
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#15I think a great hole-in-the-wall meat and three fills a similar niche. Good barbecue is the great social equalizer in the South.
Meat and 3s are a dying breed in Atlanta- a shame! If only Carvers grocery could come back...
I used to have a standing appointment at Carvers every Wednesday because that was mac-and-cheese day.
And you are correct about meat and three. Matthew's out in Tucker is a suitable yet not complete replacement, but scratches the itch.
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#16My favorite thing about my local waho vista is that I can see another waho from it.
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#17I love Waffle House but I can’t convince my wife, kids, cousins or anyone else in my family. They just don’t get it. But I don’t care, Anthony Bourdain got it: https://youtu.be/bct8stbZafI (As long as I live, I’ll think of him every time I see a Waffle House.)
Thanks for posting that, it's wonderful.
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#18Waffle House has an incredibly interesting notation system so that their cooks know what to make, and any cook can go to a new WH and immediately start working: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickgray/378694469
Wow! I knew Waffle House cooks used pickles as a way to keep track of some orders. I did not know that system was so clever.
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#19I love Waffle House but I can’t convince my wife, kids, cousins or anyone else in my family. They just don’t get it. But I don’t care, Anthony Bourdain got it: https://youtu.be/bct8stbZafI (As long as I live, I’ll think of him every time I see a Waffle House.)
Same. I took my wife a long time ago when we were dating and for some reason she ordered a pork chop which wasn't great and it really turned her off of waffle house. I've been trying to get her to go back and will emphasize on sticking with the breakfast classics.
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#20My first trip to a Waffle House was quite memorable. 6am after a redeye into the Atlanta suburbs. Customers ranged from, uh.. "economically disadvantaged" caucasians missing teeth, to a pair of surfer-dude looking white guys who looked like they just drove in from Newport Beach in their 1970s Porsche 914, to a dapper african-american businessman in a brand new Porsche Cayenne SUV.. it was my first time to the south and it was truly a cross-section of society.