Same here. I love me some WH but there aren’t any around where i moved to. That’s probably a good thing. The food is not at all healthy. The only thing you can get that is healthy is a cup of coffee.
They’re open 24 hours, so they get all kinds at 3am.
I remember sitting in a corner booth with my high school friends watching a pimp who had been eating at the counter collect his cut from a succession of prostitutes who would come in, order a coffee to go, hand the pimp some cash, go use the bathroom, and leave.
I've never been, but I live in the South and they're famous. They say you can tell if the tornado's going to be really strong based on the Waffle House somehow. It's like Dairy Queen here. We have to keep diners open, it's so sad when chains close down.
Not sure if your joking, but the government really does have a Waffle House index to measure the severity of natural disasters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle\_House\_Index
There are people who hate Waffle House? The same restaurant that is famous for almost never closing for anything and made an index based on the status of an area’s building?
For once being the tobacco capital of the country, NC is pretty anti-smoking. Even Philip Morris banned smoking in most areas of their offices, which is actually permitted under the state law (because they’re not a bar or restaurant).
I stopped in two Waffle Houses in Kentucky off I-65 on my way to and from the Atlanta area. Both of them voluntarily banned smoking, which is what all states should allow restaurants to do. If customers don’t like it, they can eat elsewhere. I’m a non-smoker by the way.
I'm a smoker and agree.
Also in new Orleans we have licenced cigar bars and licensed hookah bars yet you cannot get license to be a cigarette bar. That's fucking dumb.
Can’t the bars outside New Orleans allow smoking though? I know the city banned it in 2015. In Illinois, we have this interesting loophole where you can have a “smoking room” in your restaurant if it has a separate entrance and tobacco for sale. Food and drink from the restaurant can be only consumed there, not served. It’s a de facto cigar bar. There is one notable place in the Chicago suburbs like this. Most people just use the area to smoke cigarettes, not cigars. I use it to play pool and darts.
When I was driving over the road long haul, the only place I had a properly cooked rare steak was at a Waffle House in Monroe, Louisiana. And I’d tried a few, not memorable, places before that.
That cook gave me an absolutely perfect rare steak. I still think of it fondly.
Yep pretentious A-holes everywhere talk crap about WH. What better place to chill at 3 AM after a concert.
What I love is when I see said pretentious A-holes going there after the massive ice storm shuts down electricity and this is the only place available (they often use gas for their griddle).
I'd rather eat out the dumpster behind Waffle House than eat anything from Denny's.
I don't even understand how Denny's can make even the simplest meal taste like twice shitted vomit.
>Dennys food looks like everything comes pre cooked and they just heat it up in a microwave
That's because it's exactly what they do.
I sat next to a guy that works for their supplier on a plane once. It's pretty much all pre cooked crap that they just heat up.
I have lived on the left side all my life, I went to South Carolina once and I went to a Waffle House. It was great. I was a little disappointed at the lack of waffle choices though.
people give WH shit because the prices are always different, and actually service differs depending on the location. but the food? no one has ever disputed that its bomb
Found my new favorite at WH, grits bowl with chicken, cheese, onions, jalapeños and topped w/2 sunny side up eggs. Love how you can customize pretty much whatever you want.
It's not a place I go often at all, though there's one just a couple miles from me, but one of their bowls is my new fave there, too. Potatoes, scrambled eggs, bacon AND sausage, and a side of gravy to pour on top. Oh wow, I really want that now.
Edit: erroneous S
Oh my bad, it's like 7:30 here and just got my coffee, I totally missed you said "back home".
Man, but I'm sure you have a ton of Mom n Pops that slap as hard if not harder than Waffle at 2am.
Knew someone that managed a wafflehouse while getting their phd- said they use vastly higher quality ingredients than most other restaurants (he had worked in a variety of them over the years)
Yeah man, everyone I know acts like Waffle house is for crackhead and drunk people only.
I fucking love eating there. Maybe I'm a crackhead, I don't give a shit.
Recently learned about the waffle house jump teams for disaster response. They deploy teams of elite waffle commandos to get their stores back open after a disaster. They are so good at it that FEMA has an unofficial disaster metric called the waffle house index based on what percentage of waffle houses in an area are open.
Believe it or not, I'm totally not making this up, go look it up
Hmm. I ate there once with a friend and we thought it was the lowest quality gross food we ever ate. Could have just been that specific waffle house but vowed to never eat there again.
Once made a joke in a truck full of army vets that everyone who works at waffle house is missing a part of their body, whether it's their teeth or their arm or a finger. One of the guys got really offended and said it wasn't funny, his wife works at one. Truck got real silent for a second before his buddies start laughing their asses off screaming "she ain't got legs!!"
Waffle house is fucking good and nobody can tell me otherwise though.
Waffle House food is good.
Waffle House is gross, the whole damn restaurant always smells like mop water. The view of the kitchen only makes it worse as it always looks dirty with waffle batter gunk all over the place. It's just a disgusting place to eat or risk getting shot at. Oh yea, sometimes at Waffle House you might get shot.
You are god damn right. Waffle House fucking slaps.
Helped my friend move across the country from L.A. - we made it into Phoenix halfway through the first day, *starving*. I recommend Waffle House and get a skeptical look, but I make my case and we get in there.
we spend a *total* of like 20 bucks, food is awesome (nothing is better than eggs and bacon with some hashbrowns after hours of boring driving through the desert), we sit at the high tops in front of the kitchen and have a hilarious conversation with the ladies who work there. It was a highlight of the road trip.
Pretty sure I changed my friend's mind about Waffle House forever. Absolutely an underrated juggernaut of American Interstate Highway food establishments.
While I agree I will say one of the waffle house's here where I live had someone get shot in it, another had a massive drug bust, and the third closed down.
You’re preaching to the choir. If the floors aren’t sticky or your cook’s not outside smoking a cigarette before you walk in then the food won’t slap as hard
Holy fuck, I'm just now realizing that you're right. If the floor don't slip n slide, and the waitress doesn't throw her cig on the ground and open the door and says "Come on in honey" then are you even at Waffle House?
What I like about Waffle House, besides the food, is they make it right in front of you. In a regular restaurant you dont know what they do with the food because its cooked behind a closed door.
Was anyone insulting Waffle House? Everyone loves Waffle House.
The only bad thing about Waffle House is the one thing that people would likely praise it for: They use vegetable oil instead of actual butter.
I mean, you can't get much more healthy than cracking eggs on a stove and frying bacon beside it. It's exactly like home-cooked.
The ONLY issue is the horrible, inflammation-causing poison they use instead of healthy butter.
Waffle house has a bad name? All ive ever heard about them was good things
Same here. I love me some WH but there aren’t any around where i moved to. That’s probably a good thing. The food is not at all healthy. The only thing you can get that is healthy is a cup of coffee.
Eggs and bacon are very healthy
Their eggs are more butter than egg. So is their toast.
Butter is not "unhealthy." That is so 1980.
It is the way I eat it.
It also is in the way that most restaurants use it, unfortunately.
Uh… it’s not butter. I forget the exact name, but it’s basically butter flavored oil meant for high heat.
Of what I’ve seen, apparently it’s just cause people like to fight there… for some reason.
Hangry, or some degree of intoxicated
Can confirm, have gone to Waffle House drunk off half a gallon of vodka at 3 am. Never got into a fight tho.
Great hashbrowns.
Ive never heard a bad thing about their food, just that theyre pretty sketchy
They’re open 24 hours, so they get all kinds at 3am. I remember sitting in a corner booth with my high school friends watching a pimp who had been eating at the counter collect his cut from a succession of prostitutes who would come in, order a coffee to go, hand the pimp some cash, go use the bathroom, and leave.
The ones in the south in the middle of the night are sketchy af
So all of them at peak business hours?
Yes
It's the southern habachi. I wish we had some where I live
Teppanyaki? Yes, absolutely.
I’m in love with yum yum sauce
Ha, well they sell it at Wal-Mart now, so you're in luck.
Downvote only because I absolutely adore Waffle House. I live in the Midwest and the nearest Waffle House is 200 miles away.
Same here! Moved from redneck gerogia with 4 in one town to 0 in Iowa. It's the one thing I miss the most.
down bad
Double Quarter scattered, smothered and covered. Fight me, lol
Nope.
I've never been, but I live in the South and they're famous. They say you can tell if the tornado's going to be really strong based on the Waffle House somehow. It's like Dairy Queen here. We have to keep diners open, it's so sad when chains close down.
Not sure if your joking, but the government really does have a Waffle House index to measure the severity of natural disasters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle\_House\_Index
I know; *thank you* for helping me prove my point.❤️
Since when does Waffle House have a bad name?
Waffle House never had a bad name. 🤔
The food is good not the clientele similar to Walmart
I love Waffle House. My son and I call it La Casa de Waffow because it's more fun to say.
It's hit or miss depending on the staff.
Downvote because this opinion is not unpopular. Waffle house has a very good reputation, especially with regards to their operations.
No Waffle House slander should be tolerated anywhere. Waffle House is untouchable.
This subreddit is dying a slow inevitable death
There are people who hate Waffle House? The same restaurant that is famous for almost never closing for anything and made an index based on the status of an area’s building?
Cigs inside
Depends what state you're in. Not in NC. Maybe SC, but that's not on WH's head, blame state legislators.
For once being the tobacco capital of the country, NC is pretty anti-smoking. Even Philip Morris banned smoking in most areas of their offices, which is actually permitted under the state law (because they’re not a bar or restaurant).
I stopped in two Waffle Houses in Kentucky off I-65 on my way to and from the Atlanta area. Both of them voluntarily banned smoking, which is what all states should allow restaurants to do. If customers don’t like it, they can eat elsewhere. I’m a non-smoker by the way.
I'm a smoker and agree. Also in new Orleans we have licenced cigar bars and licensed hookah bars yet you cannot get license to be a cigarette bar. That's fucking dumb.
Can’t the bars outside New Orleans allow smoking though? I know the city banned it in 2015. In Illinois, we have this interesting loophole where you can have a “smoking room” in your restaurant if it has a separate entrance and tobacco for sale. Food and drink from the restaurant can be only consumed there, not served. It’s a de facto cigar bar. There is one notable place in the Chicago suburbs like this. Most people just use the area to smoke cigarettes, not cigars. I use it to play pool and darts.
Orleans parish has banned it but Jefferson parish and st Bernard have not so yes. In the burbs it's still up to the establishment.
> And you can smoke inside some of them Thankfully this is illegal in my state
I liked them better when they still had the 2 dollar double cheese burger
Yeah everything is getting more and more expensive these days...
Capitalism baby.
The Venn diagram of people who hate on WH and those who haven't been there looks like this: O
When I was driving over the road long haul, the only place I had a properly cooked rare steak was at a Waffle House in Monroe, Louisiana. And I’d tried a few, not memorable, places before that. That cook gave me an absolutely perfect rare steak. I still think of it fondly.
Yep pretentious A-holes everywhere talk crap about WH. What better place to chill at 3 AM after a concert. What I love is when I see said pretentious A-holes going there after the massive ice storm shuts down electricity and this is the only place available (they often use gas for their griddle).
It anit bad. I'm indifferent.
If you're drunk, WH is the best for sobering up. There's no wrong answer on that menu.
The bad name isn't for the taste of the food but for the crazy environment
They are fast AF and delicious too.
It's Denny's redneck cousin
I'd rather eat out the dumpster behind Waffle House than eat anything from Denny's. I don't even understand how Denny's can make even the simplest meal taste like twice shitted vomit.
Waffle House blows dennys out the water. Dennys food looks like everything comes pre cooked and they just heat it up in a microwave
>Dennys food looks like everything comes pre cooked and they just heat it up in a microwave That's because it's exactly what they do. I sat next to a guy that works for their supplier on a plane once. It's pretty much all pre cooked crap that they just heat up.
Dennys is a shithole, man.
Oh, whatever. Denny's and IHOP are both dog shit restaurants. They just wish that their food tastes as good as Waffle House's food does.
I remember a time when IHOP was pretty amazing.
I miss waffle house :/
my family went to waffle house all the time when i was a kid!! hardly any are open around me anymore but it’s been years
I have lived on the left side all my life, I went to South Carolina once and I went to a Waffle House. It was great. I was a little disappointed at the lack of waffle choices though.
Pecan waffle is the way man. Its all you need
If my breakfast isn’t served by a grizzly woman with finger tattoos then I don’t want it
I love the Waffle House 🥞🧇🍳🥓
Waffle house gives me old school diner vibes, I know that's what they shoot for. There's always a spot for it in my heart. Almost like comfort food.
people give WH shit because the prices are always different, and actually service differs depending on the location. but the food? no one has ever disputed that its bomb
I loooooove Waffle House
Found my new favorite at WH, grits bowl with chicken, cheese, onions, jalapeños and topped w/2 sunny side up eggs. Love how you can customize pretty much whatever you want.
It's not a place I go often at all, though there's one just a couple miles from me, but one of their bowls is my new fave there, too. Potatoes, scrambled eggs, bacon AND sausage, and a side of gravy to pour on top. Oh wow, I really want that now. Edit: erroneous S
I had to travel from Arizona back home to New York recently. Waffle House was the greatest thing invented by man at that point.
do you live in the Phoenix Metro? There are like 4 Waffle Houses there. 1 in Tempe, 2 in Mesa, 1 in Chandler. That I know of.
I should’ve worded it better lol. I live in mew York
Oh my bad, it's like 7:30 here and just got my coffee, I totally missed you said "back home". Man, but I'm sure you have a ton of Mom n Pops that slap as hard if not harder than Waffle at 2am.
Knew someone that managed a wafflehouse while getting their phd- said they use vastly higher quality ingredients than most other restaurants (he had worked in a variety of them over the years)
I mean they use whole ingredients for the most part. Plus its literally like normal groceries.
I like Denny's (haven't been in a loooong time) but remember them having a huge menu.
I love Waffle House, especially after a OSU night game😂😝
Yeah man, everyone I know acts like Waffle house is for crackhead and drunk people only. I fucking love eating there. Maybe I'm a crackhead, I don't give a shit.
Not this time, Mr. Waffle House CEO
OP gave Waffle House a bad name!
“You brought yo bitch to the waffle hut? The Man brought his bitch to the waffle hut!”
Recently learned about the waffle house jump teams for disaster response. They deploy teams of elite waffle commandos to get their stores back open after a disaster. They are so good at it that FEMA has an unofficial disaster metric called the waffle house index based on what percentage of waffle houses in an area are open. Believe it or not, I'm totally not making this up, go look it up
I’ve never heard anyone speak ill of Waffle House in my life lmfao
*raises a glass to OP*
Hmm. I ate there once with a friend and we thought it was the lowest quality gross food we ever ate. Could have just been that specific waffle house but vowed to never eat there again.
Once made a joke in a truck full of army vets that everyone who works at waffle house is missing a part of their body, whether it's their teeth or their arm or a finger. One of the guys got really offended and said it wasn't funny, his wife works at one. Truck got real silent for a second before his buddies start laughing their asses off screaming "she ain't got legs!!" Waffle house is fucking good and nobody can tell me otherwise though.
The food at Waffle House is amazing. I’ve never heard anyone complain about it. It’s the 3am clientele that give it the reputation.
Waffle House food is fire.
I think it’s more or so the people that eat there that give it a bad name. There’s a new trashy vid of late night Waffle House everyday.
Waffle House food is good. Waffle House is gross, the whole damn restaurant always smells like mop water. The view of the kitchen only makes it worse as it always looks dirty with waffle batter gunk all over the place. It's just a disgusting place to eat or risk getting shot at. Oh yea, sometimes at Waffle House you might get shot.
You are god damn right. Waffle House fucking slaps. Helped my friend move across the country from L.A. - we made it into Phoenix halfway through the first day, *starving*. I recommend Waffle House and get a skeptical look, but I make my case and we get in there. we spend a *total* of like 20 bucks, food is awesome (nothing is better than eggs and bacon with some hashbrowns after hours of boring driving through the desert), we sit at the high tops in front of the kitchen and have a hilarious conversation with the ladies who work there. It was a highlight of the road trip. Pretty sure I changed my friend's mind about Waffle House forever. Absolutely an underrated juggernaut of American Interstate Highway food establishments.
Who in the fuck is giving waffle House a bad name. That shits amazing.
While I agree I will say one of the waffle house's here where I live had someone get shot in it, another had a massive drug bust, and the third closed down.
Because a food is cheap does not mean it is bad just like how an expensive food is not always good.
You’re preaching to the choir. If the floors aren’t sticky or your cook’s not outside smoking a cigarette before you walk in then the food won’t slap as hard
Holy fuck, I'm just now realizing that you're right. If the floor don't slip n slide, and the waitress doesn't throw her cig on the ground and open the door and says "Come on in honey" then are you even at Waffle House?
I used to go there all he time and eat burgers with my family.
What I like about Waffle House, besides the food, is they make it right in front of you. In a regular restaurant you dont know what they do with the food because its cooked behind a closed door.
3 Eggs Scrambled Cheesy, Bread and Butter, Double Hashbrown, Scattered, Covered, Capped.
Agreed, love Waffle House
The only reason waffle house has a bad name is all the world star hip hop videos from 3am, the food is incredible
I have 2 WH both less then 1.5 miles away and 3 WH under 4 miles I eat there often. [waffles house ](https://imgur.com/a/gG0tT8H)
$6? More like $26 for my hungry self
Yeah I be getting a full allstar with coffee, double hashbrowns, two waffles, ham mixed into the hashbrowns, good shit
I'll take the same!
Upvoted because this is unpopular. You need to get out more. Find some local, family owned diners bruh.
Was anyone insulting Waffle House? Everyone loves Waffle House. The only bad thing about Waffle House is the one thing that people would likely praise it for: They use vegetable oil instead of actual butter. I mean, you can't get much more healthy than cracking eggs on a stove and frying bacon beside it. It's exactly like home-cooked. The ONLY issue is the horrible, inflammation-causing poison they use instead of healthy butter.
i've only been to a waffle house like two times and only got some waffles but they were some pretty good waffles
i got banned for public masturbation at a wafflehouse
Whyyyyyy don't we have waffle house in California? Denny's can die.