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Doesn’t sound familiar, but honestly if it’s a meat and 3, with anybody who frequents HN we’d probably have a mighty fine lunch.
:-) true enough, and I'll take you up on that. Especially if you sold a wireless mesh company and know a guy named Eric from your GT days who recently changed jobs from one consultancy to another...
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It's interesting to me how views are so polarised. I once asked a professional cook where the best restaurant in town was and she said she mostly just ate at WaHo. I had seen the Bourdain clip. So when I finally went there the first time I was predisposed to like it. And it was just disappointing. The syrup, for example, is basically high-fructose corn syrup with added flavouring. So is the ketchup. I didn't sample t…
My brother was (retired in his early 40s) a chef and worked closely with a small cohort of serial restaurateurs. He and his friends swore by Hardees. To this day I don't get it. My father and I still crack jokes at their expense, whenever we see a Hardees, "Where the chef's eat!" If only we'd been in the south and not the Midwest, WaHo may have won the title for him and his friends. I probably wouldn't tease him abou…
I happen to like Carl's Jr. (Hardees other name)... although I don't like everything they make, and some locations are better than others.
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I love waffle house because I can tip 100%.
You put your finger on it. You can tip 100% and someone else with limited mulah can't. That's what makes it special and impossible to find such WHs in SF, LA, NYC areas.
One 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...
Wouldn't this just mean that they are putting their employees lives in danger more than the average restaurant? It's got to be hard to choose between following a suggested evacuation and losing your job.
My Waffle House story: My girlfriend and I had spent three rough months trying to figure out how to date each other. Nothing was working. We were awkward and poor communicators and just generally not a good fit. We were going to a coffee shop to break up but figured we would see too many people we knew. Break ups are emotional. So we escaped. To Waffle House. I don't remember what either of us ordered, probably hashb…