Waffle House has more locations than IHOP, and the area where Waffle Houses are more popular than IHOP is the new Maxon-Dixon line.
The Rogers family had/has a successful formula.
Posted on 05/02/2014 8:38:02 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
NORCROSS, Ga. – Police are searching for a man who used a pitchfork to rob a Waffle House restaurant northeast of Atlanta.
Norcross police say 50-year-old Jeffery Wooten entered the diner in Norcross, Georgia, Thursday night and forced people toward a back room. He then grabbed the cash register.
WSB-TV reports that the suspect dropped the pitchfork while carrying that cash register back to his truck.
Two restaurant workers followed the robber outside, grabbed the abandoned pitchfork and used it to smash a window on the robber's truck as he escaped, possibly injuring the suspect.
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In my several travels through NC, VA and SC, I saw one intersection with one exit east and another west bound. Waffle Houses on each side of the Interstate.
I didn’t arrange it, so don’t know. Send them mail and ask, they’re a friendly bunch. I know a couple people who work there, one at the main corporate offices, and another guy who is ops manager for about a 60-location franchisee in NE GA.
It’s pretty close to the size of the actual kitchen in a Waffle House, no doubt.
They had a waitress standing outside the truck, working the line of even attendees, writing orders on her pad, then passing them into the short order cook.
Just wondering....I thought it might be nice to say have it pull up outside my daughter’s house if me and wife were there overnight and then have everybody wake up to it outside and they could order what they want. I know if would be expensive, but I’m wondering “how expensive.”
Who doesn’t!?
In my experience, orders MUST be yelled at the cook, but I’d try it anyway.
Once upon a time, the Clairmont Road and I-85 intersection in the NE Atlanta area had Waffle Houses at 3 of the 4 quadrants. I think they’re down to two now.
It’s likely there are intersections with 3 out there now.
Wow, I think my siting was in NC.
Used to frequent the one in Durham by I-40, across the Interstate from the Hampton Inn.
I worked with a guy doing some consulting. We were working with DOC in NC. One Monday night he drove around for two hours trying to find a “good” restaurant. Everything had closed early. Wound up back at the Waffle House across from the motel. Could have had two more hours of sleep.
I’ll have a pecan waffle and an orange juice. Thanx.
The story doesn’t say how he was identified. Probably license plate, I guess
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Don’t know how ‘big’ Norcross may be but my experience in Waffle Houses in ‘smaller communities’ is that after 1 AM or so a lone ‘stranger’ will get the local LEO to ‘stop by for a cup of coffee’.
I ‘drew out’ the entire night shift in a town or two in Terrell County GA because I was wearing a ball cap with “USS Terrell County - LST 1157” on it.
After being ‘interviewed’, someone picked up the tab for my breakfast - However the SYT made out as she got my payment in tip.
Waffle House has more locations than IHOP, and the area where Waffle Houses are more popular than IHOP is the new Maxon-Dixon line.
The Rogers family had/has a successful formula.
At one time I looked into Waffle House franchises for SoCal. Not a lot open late at night when your out and about (much younger days).
Needed go have some one from within the company involved in ownership/management.
They seem easy to locate. Small footprint, put in the corner of mall or next to a gas station by freeways.
Back 25 +/- years ago, the Waffle House real estate strategy was to buy 2x-3x the land they needed for the store out in areas that were going arterial, but far enough out that land was still cheap. Then after 5-10 years, they’d sell the extra land and do quite well.
Good interstate locations too
Saw them over at the Gwinnett Arena the other day for some big event going on at the Cnvention Center.
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That’s almost as funny as “Honest, officer, the woman is not my wife and the midget was on fire when I got here.”
When they catch him it will be “bail” for him —
Pitchfork control is needed...we don’t need people robbing places with those.
Never had Waffle House until we moved to Fl. We like them, but IHOP is as good.
When they catch him if convicted the sentence will be “smothered covered scattered”. If he had robbed a Krispy Kreme he would have been apprehended immediately.
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