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They're putting in a 24 hour Waffle House next door. What do I need to start hiding? (1 Viewer)

Set yer pride aside and wallow in waffles. Beckon for bacon. Stake out your own steak and egg masterpiece.  Then, well then set aside time and toilet paper for a thoroughly draining expungement not just of your meal, and everything impacted on your colon, but the very linings of your digestive track.  Taxing at first but glorious 24 hour later.  

 
Dunkin Donuts is coming right by me. As a diabetic of 40 years this could be the exact moment my family points to as where my health just fell off a cliff. 

 
Walking Boot said:
Up until a few years ago, there were no DD's in Los Angeles. Now there are two within like two-three miles of my house. I have to drive by one whenever I go to work or pretty much ever leave the neighborhood. I might not survive.
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I did some business in New Jersey a while back and rented a car. I felt like there was a DD every three blocks. 

 
Nothing at all wrong with a Waffle House.  Good late night or breakfast eating on the cheap. Pretty decent coffee too. The employees usually look like they came straight out of the prison yard, but I have never been into a WH that all the employees weren't super nice. 

Walk over there, drop some money in the jukebox and order an All-Star and enjoy :thumbup:  

Oh, and if it's that close to you, you may very well smell the food all the time when you walk outside your home. I could see that as being a gift and a curse.

 
Nathan R. Jessep said:
Nothing at all wrong with a Waffle House.  Good late night or breakfast eating on the cheap. Pretty decent coffee too. The employees usually look like they came straight out of the prison yard, but I have never been into a WH that all the employees weren't super nice. 

Walk over there, drop some money in the jukebox and order an All-Star and enjoy :thumbup:  
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:goodposting:

If you start getting food snobby about bacon eggs and toast, then it's time to hang it up. WaHo makes a solid breakfast and you can get a ton of tasty food for a few bucks. 
 

 
Walking Boot said:
Up until a few years ago, there were no DD's in Los Angeles. Now there are two within like two-three miles of my house. I have to drive by one whenever I go to work or pretty much ever leave the neighborhood. I might not survive.
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No Double Ds in LA? I have to call BS on this. Isn't LA the breast implant capital of the world?

 
I feel like this is a VERY regional conversation.  I kinda think Southerners are all gonna be like "Wafflehouse is fine. You're being a snob" even though its disgusting. They just don't know any better. The fact is that you can get  a vastly superior breakfast for only a little bit more money (without the revolting "atmosphere" and shady looking staff) at pretty much any diner in the Northeast. There's a difference between being a food snob and just expecting your food not to be a greasy, mushy, tasteless mess (which was my experience at wafflehouse). Honestly, I'd rather just spend an extra 3 bucks and get something edible.

On the flip side, I'm sure southerners feel the same way when some Yankee comes in from out of town and raves about their AMAZING local BBQ place. (which is almost certainly crap compared to everything south of the Mason-Dixon line.

 
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TLEF316 said:
I feel like this is a VERY regional conversation.  I kinda think Southerners are all gonna be like "Wafflehouse is fine. You're being a snob" even though its disgusting. They just don't know any better. The fact is that you can get  a vastly superior breakfast for only a little bit more money (without the revolting "atmosphere" and shady looking staff) at pretty much any diner in the Northeast. There's a difference between being a food snob and just expecting your food not to be a greasy, mushy, tasteless mess (which was my experience at wafflehouse). Honestly, I'd rather just spend an extra 3 bucks and get something edible.

On the flip side, I'm sure southerners feel the same way when some Yankee comes in from out of town and raves about their AMAZING local BBQ place. (which is almost certainly crap compared to everything south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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No offense man but you're way off base - it's not that ####### hard to make eggs and bacon and waffles.  BBQ is a helluva lot harder.  I think you've just eaten at ####ty Waffle Houses.

 
Tell them to chill. Newer Waffle Houses are different than older ones, as is evidenced by them wanting to put one in your high fallutin' neighborhood. They are actually pretty nice inside, and they are putting them in more upscale areas. As such, they bring in a little higher class of customer than the old run down ones. Some of these newer ones bring in a damn near Chik-FIl-A type of crowd. Tell the neighbors to shut up and enjoy a decent little hangover breakfast every once in a while. 

 
AAABatteries said:
No offense man but you're way off base - it's not that ####### hard to make eggs and bacon and waffles.  BBQ is a helluva lot harder.  I think you've just eaten at ####ty Waffle Houses.
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Yeah, of course BBQ is harder. Maybe comparing it to pizza (which, IMO, is absolute garbage 90% of the time outside NY/NJ) would be more appropriate.

And yeah, it shouldn't be that hard to make breakfast food. I've just never seen the appeal of eating greasy slop when you can spend an extra couple of bucks and get something much better. (by that same logic, I never understood why anyone would go out and buy a case of Natty Lite to get drunk off just because its cheaper than real beer or even decent Lite beer) )

To me, wafflehouse just feels like a southern cultural thing that everyone is too afraid to acknowledge sucks.

Are there really good and bad waffle houses? I guess I just figured that like all franchises, the food was standard at all of them.

 
TLEF316 said:
Yeah, of course BBQ is harder. Maybe comparing it to pizza (which, IMO, is absolute garbage 90% of the time outside NY/NJ) would be more appropriate.

And yeah, it shouldn't be that hard to make breakfast food. I've just never seen the appeal of eating greasy slop when you can spend an extra couple of bucks and get something much better. (by that same logic, I never understood why anyone would go out and buy a case of Natty Lite to get drunk off just because its cheaper than real beer or even decent Lite beer) )

To me, wafflehouse just feels like a southern cultural thing that everyone is too afraid to acknowledge sucks.

Are there really good and bad waffle houses? I guess I just figured that like all franchises, the food was standard at all of them.
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The food is pretty much the same at most of them, but it's about building, location, and clientele with the newer ones. They aren't putting them beside seedy motels anymore. They are putting them near decent neighborhoods, in newer, cleaner buildings. And ultimately, that's what Bender's neighbors need to worry about. It'll be a higher class of clientele. They are essentially IHOP with counter service now.

As far as food quality goes, it's okay, not great. But then most suburban areas just don't have great places to get breakfast. Breakfast is a labor intensive endeavor that customers just don't want to pay a bunch of money for. It's why there are a million places to get lunch/dinner, but a lot fewer places to get breakfast (outside of fast food).  BTW, Waffle House isn't very cheap. I run a breakfast restaurant with significantly lower prices than Waffle House. Basically, Waffle House got the hell out of my neighborhood to go to a more affluent area. I can make it the way small and local places do, but obviously, Waffle House is not that.

 
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sbonomo said:
There is nothing wrong with a waffle house.  In fact, my favorite waffle house is right next door to a strip club in phoenix.  Oh wait, you don't have a strip club near by do you?  
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Not a bad combo...which one?

Ever get over to "Little Miss BBQ"?

 
tdoss said:
Not a bad combo...which one?

Ever get over to "Little Miss BBQ"?
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My heart is broken - itd to be here: Waffle House 1801 W Baseline Rd Phoenix AZ. Now it is a title loan place.  For years i used to stop at the gentleman club after my 535 pm flight for the 2-1 bud lights while i waited for traffic to die down  :sadbanana: .  Now there is just a waffle house there all by itself.  very sad day!

 
sbonomo said:
My heart is broken - itd to be here: Waffle House 1801 W Baseline Rd Phoenix AZ. Now it is a title loan place.  For years i used to stop at the gentleman club after my 535 pm flight for the 2-1 bud lights while i waited for traffic to die down  :sadbanana: .  Now there is just a waffle house there all by itself.  very sad day!
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Christie's?

It's gone?

 
I went to a WH in Nashville around 2:00am. From what I remember the food was good, and who doesn't like dinner and a movie? The customers were great to watch.

 
Waffle House isn't bad. And it is really good drunk food. If you haven't experienced Awful Waffle you are missing out on part of the American experience.

 
I had no idea Waffle House had a stigma..

But now that I think about it, I only see them in low income areas or right off the freeway. 

 
I grew up hearing it referred to as Awful House. Maybe it's changed. Even when I was in college, I never walked in to one before 2 am.

 
Maybe write them a nice "welcome to the neighborhood" song? Who knows, you might get a free side of hash browns (covered amd smothered, of course)

 
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