Pro: less likely to mixup orders since the order is encoded into the plate.
Con: running out of condiment could be a show stopper.
Waffle House's Magic Marker System
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Can I get a kick in the pants along with the old "they work in the [some other] industry instead of in tech, so they are likely to be idiots" nonsense?
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#23Eating at a Waffle House (preferably at 1am following a night out) is a unique American cultural experience that especially those confined to the Bay Area have been denied. It's a place where those from all walks of life come together.
Sounds like IHOP / Denny's in other places
It is very different because of the size and layout. You almost feel like everyone, including the cooks, are at one big table. It is honestly one of my favorite places to eat alone. It can be really fun at times. Also, kind of dangerous too
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#24As a regular customer of the onboard dining on BC Ferries, I was always a bit mystified about how the cashier (maybe 20 m from the counter where you order) seemed to have some kind of clairvoyance regarding which type burger(s) to charge for, as they all use the same kind of wrapper. It turns out the wrapper (that's printed with patches of stripes and crosshatches in different colo(u)rs), can be wrapped in a way that…
Lots of fast food places use wrappers like this. Here's a picture of a Taco Bell wrapper that can be a regular taco, taco supreme, double decker taco, or "special" depending on the fold: https://www.flickr.com/photos/target_man_2000/16329290081
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#26Eating at a Waffle House (preferably at 1am following a night out) is a unique American cultural experience that especially those confined to the Bay Area have been denied. It's a place where those from all walks of life come together.
Sounds like IHOP / Denny's in other places
Waffle House is an entity unto itself:
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
See: https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2011/11/four-se...
See: https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kid-rock-arrested...
And the man himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bct8stbZafI
Waffle House goes from nice to war zone and back again just about every day. It never closes, never... If a Waffle House is closed you better have a boat or a gun cause what ever comes next will likely require one or both.
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#27This reminds me of the simple substitution cipher that coin, diamond, and antique dealers use on their price tags to encode the lowest price their staff are allowed to take during bartering: https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/760945/how-do-deale... https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/109089/cracking... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_cipher#:~:text=In...
Also related, only very tangentially, but ever-interesting, FEMA's Waffle House Index (2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105662
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#28As a regular customer of the onboard dining on BC Ferries, I was always a bit mystified about how the cashier (maybe 20 m from the counter where you order) seemed to have some kind of clairvoyance regarding which type burger(s) to charge for, as they all use the same kind of wrapper. It turns out the wrapper (that's printed with patches of stripes and crosshatches in different colo(u)rs), can be wrapped in a way that…
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
This stuff can be Googled to level-set the conversation. First search result says: - 54% of adults have a literacy below sixth-grade level. - 21% of Americans 18 and older are illiterate in 2022. We can dig further to find more sources of data and judge how reputable they are. If those numbers are incorrect, correct them and go from there.
What are you trying to say? That all waffle house employees are functionally illiterate? Because that is not what the data says.
No, I have no idea. It does seem that overall US literacy rates are much lower than you’d guess though. Certainly 2x worse than I thought before doing a single Google search.
So it seems wise for companies in general to make their processes accessible to the illiterate, especially if they have more accurate data about their employees’ literacy than this general data.
I only replied because OP seems to be getting jumped on for making a guess that feels uncomfortable to talk about.
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C'mon. Super pretentious viewpoint to think that employees at Waffle House are illiterate enough that they can't assemble orders without symbols.
“So if you've ever been to a Waffle House and you notice the menu has pictures of the food on it? …yeah.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwkdGr9JYmE
As someone who is always in the mood for an All-Star Special I would agree that this joke is pretentious and reflects poorly on Hicks despite the very funny delivery :)