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A violent food fight broke out at a Waffle House in Ohio after employees asked a group of unruly customers to quiet down or leave. The customers responded by throwing a barrage of drinks, napkin holders, and sugar containers at the employees, who were forced to duck behind the counter for cover. One patron was seen launching a wet-floor sign over the barrier as staff tried to defend themselves and hurled a few items back. The Franklin Police have issued arrest warrants for three of the people involved, but two of the individuals still haven't been identified. Law enforcement has...

Police are investigating a shooting that wounded six people, one fatally, on the west side of Indianapolis early Monday. Officers received a report of a person shot at a Waffle House restaurant in the 2600 block of South Lynhurst Drive, near Sam Jones Expressway and Interstate 70, shortly after 12:30 a.m. Feb. 19. When they arrived at the scene, officers found five victims who had apparently been shot. One of the victims, an adult female, died from her injuries at the hospital. The other victims transported from the scene to area hospitals, three men and a woman, are all in...

One legitimate measurement of the readiness and capability of a candidate to be president is how he or she responds to a crisis. In a moment of crisis, the core of human beings is on display. Some people wither; others shine. Either way, it is always a peek into the foundation of the person — his or her value system. We had two examples of this recently, as both President Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had the opportunity to respond to crises, in the wake of the devastating fire on Maui and Hurricane Idalia, respectively. How did they do?...

A man in Virginia had a not-so-average trip to Waffle House recently. He went there to grab a bite to eat, but when he went inside there was no one to be found. William Davis woke up hungry and drove from Brookneal to the Waffle House in Lynchburg around 3 a.m. Tuesday morning. When he got there, he saw something he never expected: an empty restaurant. "All kinds of things go through your mind when you see stuff like that, you know, out of the ordinary," Davis said. Davis was not expecting to find a scene like this. In the...

Southerner orders for two Brits visiting Waffle House for the first time ever

An eight-year-old Arkansas boy helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for his favorite Waffle House server after finding out the man lived in a motel room with his family. Kayzen Hunter, 8, often dines at a Waffle House restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas. That’s where he met a friendly server named Devonte Gardner, THV 11 reported. “I come with a positive attitude. I treat everybody with positivity. I love to see everybody smile,” Gardner explained to the outlet. TODAY reported when Hunter learned Gardner had been living in a motel room with his wife and two daughters for eight...

LAKE CITY, Fla. — Lake City Police Department is investigating after gunfire hit two cars and a Waffle House early Wednesday.

Video… Former Waffle House employee Halie Booth shares how she defended herself in a fight against 'intoxicated' customers at the restaurant chain and explains how the company responded afterward on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' #foxnews #tuckercarlsontonight

Here’s a Waffle House fight video that’s not really about the fight. It’s about the guy who just doesn’t care. This man is a true Waffle House OG. He just smiles as a fight breaks out behind him at a Jacksonville Waffle House. Dude just gonna enjoy his grits. And is that the 2 pork chop side? I think this guy is ordering off the menu. And who is yelling for security? Does Waffle House have security? I thought the employees were in charge of the fights? And a word of caution if you’re at work or the kids are...

No cheese for you at this Waffle House! A customer at a Waffle House in downtown Atlanta claims a waitress pulled a gun on him after he asked for cheesy eggs Wednesday morning. A man named Candy Franklin found himself staring down the barrel of a loaded gun after pointing out his eggs weren’t what he ordered. “It all happened over cheese eggs,” Franklin told the local Fox station. “At first, they didn’t bring them to me. Then they brought me normal eggs and I said that I ordered eggs with cheese on it. It was all a normal dispute...

Panama City Beach, FL – Over 160 people were arrested and at least 75 illegal guns were seized by police after a mob of violent criminals descended on the popular beachside community of Panama City Beach over the weekend, according to police. Traffic was gridlocked and multiple businesses closed up shop over the weekend as the riotous group tore through the town, WBMM reported. A frenzy of social media posts from concerned residents and visitors soon followed, to include complaints of people jumping on cars and causing chaos in local businesses. Pedestrians struggled to get down the sidewalks due to...

The defendant, in a light-blue shirt, showed no emotion as the jury's sentence was announced Saturday afternoon following victim impact statements. The jury heard from relatives of the four people who were killed. The four victims were all under 30 years old. The two fatally shot outside the restaurant in Antioch, southeast of downtown Nashville, were Waffle House employee Taurean C. Sanderlin, 29, and customer Joe R. Perez, 20. Inside, the gunman killed two more people: 23-year-old Akilah DaSilva, a student pursuing a musical engineering career, and 21-year-old DeEbony Groves, a college senior majoring in social work who had been...

CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Cape Coral police officers arrested a man at a Waffle House on Wednesday after they received calls about a disturbance. When officers arrived, they said they heard a man identified as 28-year-old Martin Jose Alvarez yelling expletives at the staff about how his bacon was cooked. Officers said Alvarez screamed, “You better cook the f****** bacon right!” Officers asked Alvarez to come outside, but said he resisted until they threatened to use a taser. Alvarez was later arrested and charged with disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest and intent to do violence. He is being held at the...

An Atlanta Waffle House employee has been accused of pulling a gun on a customer in a dispute over his order. According to police reports, Candy Franklin, the alleged victim, said he complained to the employee, Angelic Patterson, because his food order was wrong on several occasions. WSB-TV, a local TV station reported on the incident, which it said occurred at the Marietta Street location in Atlanta, Georgia, early Wednesday morning. "It all happened over cheese eggs. At first, they didn't bring them to me. Then they brought me normal eggs and I said that I ordered eggs with cheese...

Fifteen hours, nine waffles and one upset stomach later, a man in Mississippi completed his punishment for finishing last in his fantasy football league. Thousands on social media joined Lee Sanderlin as he live tweeted his journey fulfilling his penalty, which required him to spend 24 hours at a Waffle House in Brandon, Mississippi. For every waffle he ate, however, an hour was shaved off the clock. After downing the last of the waffles, he posted: "The sun is rising, it’s a new day and I’m never eating waffles again. That’s 9 waffles and 15 hours in this restaurant.

A lawsuit filed Monday against Waffle House claims a South Carolina woman choked, bled and vomited after consuming eggshells in her to-go order. Leslie Brown, a Hampton County woman, ordered the “unreasonably dangerous” All-Star meal from the Waffle House at 8208 Two Notch Rd. in Columbia on July 5, 2020, according to the lawsuit. She dug in, unaware there were eggshell fragments in her food. “She bit into this eggshell substance and, through no fault of her own, consumed and digested eggshell fragments that were sold and served to her” by the Waffle House, according to the lawsuit filed in...

Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has said he will talk to Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin about an alternate plan for raising the national minimum wage. Graham's plan, suggested to him by representatives from the national restaurant chain Waffle House, would index minimum wage increases to inflation. His plan could also soothe Machin's worries that the Democrats' proposal to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would endanger small businesses already harmed by the pandemic's economic downturn.

Bacon and beer is a match made in heaven. Bacon beer, on the other hand, could be something even better. Waffle House, the iconic restaurant chain, has teamed up with Georgia-based brewery Oconee Brewing Company to offer the first Waffle House-branded beer called Bacon & Kegs. Leslie Tillery, Oconee's media director, said the collaboration first came about after she reached out to Waffle House in January to gauge interest in collaborating on a beer.

Rioters in Atlanta decided to spare a local Waffle House, amid an otherwise uninterrupted rampage through the city Friday evening. Video uploaded to Twitter shows the rabble-rousers descending on the iconic breakfast chain before an ad hoc group decision was made to leave it alone. “Not the Waffle House,” several protesters cried, with others shouting, “No, no.” Another man said, “Protesters decide to leave Waffle House alone. Atlanta is amazing.” It was a rare bright spot during a night of otherwise consistent chaos and arson, particularly of small and local businesses. The riots were ignited after George Floyd was killed...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pennsylvania -- It is early Sunday morning along one of the few congested stretches of the Lincoln Highway when an empty parking lot below the familiar cheery yellow sign for the local Waffle House catches the eye. The 24-hour diner chain, born in the Atlanta suburbs 65 years ago and now spreading across 25 states with nearly 2,000 locations, is primarily known for its ability to serve as a touchstone in every community it serves. It feeds a cultlike following among foodies and road warriors. But it is also known for another remarkable distinction: It closes for no disaster....