Posted on 11/04/2019 2:05:07 PM PST by Textide
Since she graduated from Harvard last year, Yehong Zhu has worked for Amazon.com and Twitter in Seattle, San Francisco and London. She’s living in Lisbon now, gathering ideas for her own startup.
In 2014, however, the jet-setting Ms. Zhu was just another teenager from Newnan, Ga. looking for a summer job. And the only place willing to hire her was Waffle House. “Chick Fil-A was too competitive,” she says.
On her first day, smiling nervously behind a bright-yellow name tag, Ms. Zhu had no idea that her new manager, a woman named Diana, was about to become a lasting leadership role model. “I was very impressed with her,” she says. “She was the first to arrive and one of the last to leave and seemed to have a handle on everything. She thrived under pressure, and pressure at Waffle House is constant.”
In case you’re not familiar, Waffle House is a closely held suburban Atlanta-based chain of 24-hour budget diners in 25 states that invariably reek of bacon. The company does not advertise, rarely changes its menu and refused to take credit cards until 2006.
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Imho, Waffle House employees should be armed after 12pm.
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Yeah... But those crows don't have a decent GPS system... I believe that Richmond is a much a much longer drive from Annapolis than Middletown, DE... I live just south of Annapolis... Frederick is about the same (Except for comparing I-70, I-97, and Rt 100 traffic nightmares to an open-road quiet Rt 301 up the eastern shore... When we drive those roads (to Hollywood Casinos @ both Charlestown, WV and Grantville, PA, we do so only in the wee hours of the morning...
Working a block away from the local Waffle House, a group of us would come in to work, check e-mails etc... and then make our way over for a quick breakfast a couple of times a week..
We had the same waitress every time, a country gal about 70 years old who always had a lit cigarette hanging off her bottom lip. And you better have your order ready when she got to you. The cook was a young black fellow out on work release and about the size of an SEC linebacker.
They seemed to work pretty well together until one morning. She took our orders (pretty much standard fare) and put them in. She went down to the end of the counter to a couple more diners and got half way through taking their order when she turned and threw her pad and pencil across the room, mashed her cigarette into the counter and shouted, “You know what??? F*** THIS PLACE!!! F*** ALL YA’LL!!! AIN’T DOIN’ THIS SH** NO MORE!! I QUIT!!!” and threw her apron on the ground and walked out the front door as we all watched in stunned silence.
Haha, the cook just leaned down so he could see what all the noise was about, shook his head with a smile and went back to the grill. When the door closed, one of my coworkers, laughing, called out to the cook, “Did you get my order?” He laughed and pointed with his spatula, “I got ya’lls, I’ll get them two down there in a minute.”
But there was a manager in the back who hurried out trying to catch the waitress to no avail and ended up being the waitress for a day. We each payed for our meals (the entertainment was worth the price of admission) and hand delivered a $20 tip to the cook. Fun times at the Waffle House!
Only private companies can do this. A large, publicly held company becomes a home for politicians, cutthroats and kiss-ass climbers. Its unavoidable.
I love Waffle House. And down south, the ones I've stopped at when I pull off I95 have a mostly white, very well behaved clientele. The trouble-makers go to McDonald's.
Particularly since, down south, you can count on the regulars to have CCW.
Smells deliciously of bacon and fresh coffee!
10-11 years ago, when my daughter was in college, I told here that I wanted to stop at Waffle House for supper, before I took her back to her dorm. She was rather reluctant to go there, but Dad was driving!
She fell in love with the chessey eggs and has been a Waffle House lover ever since.
I want once. Got extremely ill from all the dreadful sugar in everything. Blech.
I like Waffle House but then I don’t go there after closing time.
I-70 and 48, by the Meijers.
They are in ohio and as far west as arizona these days.Some are better than others and none are exempt.Its the culture these days of some people.
Sometimes it was around 2:00 AM and other times it was around 9:00 AM depending on if we decided to drive from our Saturday night stop that night or catch a little sleep in the van before driving on.
It was not the Ritz but then our wallets would not have run to that anyway. Just good cheap food and enough coffee to keep us awake through the Sunday morning stop.
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When I worked at Cracker Barrel in Cookeville, TN the Waffle House was right next door. When I got off work CB closed. I would go to WH and eat a very early breakfast. Good food, Good Coffee, good service. Of course I love Cracker Barrel food over any restaurant existing. It tastes just like my grandmother’s cooking.
[“Cold pig on a green sea, dust the roof and hold the pompom.”]
Well.....
Somebody’s gotta ask...LOL
Yes. Crazy huh!
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