Posted on 07/14/2023 11:14:39 AM PDT by lowbridge
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 Facebook live he posted you can see dishes out on tables and signs that people had been there, like hot water running, but not a single worker.
"I felt like they had walked away because the water was still running. Anyway, I was as confused as what it looked to be," Davis said.
Davis said he stayed for a good 10 minutes or so before he left. He said it all felt very strange.
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I understand this. I live in an older mostly retired area. With few teenagers and youngsters.
Fast food places, grocery stores, restaurants, etc are always needing help.
Myself and some friends walked into an IHOP last year about 10:00pm. Only two employees. The poor kid working the front looked sick. And he was. He apologized; said no one else showed up. And sick as he was... he felt obligated.
Naturally, we turned and left.
Drive to Waffle House at 3 A.M. and it’s empty?
Obviously a horrific nightmare only superseded by a nightmare where you wake up in bed with both Hillary and Moochelle...
Or sex.
I would have probably exploded from all the hash browns I’d help myself to.
It seems any US corporate service-type company that relies on “cheap” labor, general level of intelligence and morality, and high societal trust, will die.
I know a Vietnamese woman who bought a Waffle House franchise - she brought her brother and his kids over from Vietnam to staff it.
They do well, are busy and have good service - only because she has a locked-in labor source. But its a sign of a bad trend for the USA on many levels.
Really, who wouldn’t call 911. Could be everyone had been locked in the freezer. The manager at Arby’s died while being locked in the freezer.
This is not a “coaching” moment but a firing moment.
I can’t believe what passes for news. The most logical explantion is that they were outback on a smoke break and didn’t see him come in. Or someone fell asleep on the job.
anybody here live in Lynchburg? Is it nice? just curious, looking for a place in Va to retire.
Of course he doesn't want to go on camera. He doesn't want to admit that whoever were there were abducted by aliens.......
My wife and had similar experience when traveling late. The person serving and cooking was outside having a cigarette and followed us in shortly after we entered.
Did they check the toilet?
My first thought was the cook and the waitresses got into an argument and they all walked off the job...
Yours is more likely - in which case this man should have called the police. And if I’m right - he should have called the police too. Not everyone who walks into an empty business is an innocent.
I was at a place the other day, 3 people didn’t show and they had one waitress. She was happy, did a good job and I tipped her well.
That happened to us at a small local restaurant at three in the afternoon.
The one employee showed up (after ten minutes) from her “break” with food from another restaurant in hand.
Did he look in the freezer?
Did he call the cops?
LOL!
It’s REALLY beautiful. Gorgeous views, lots of magnificent historic houses. But it’s economically very challenged. The leftist rot from Roanoke has sort of bled over. Why do you want to move to Virginia to retire?
My sister managed a KFC in downtown Omaha years ago and the kids were notorious for calling in sick on football Friday night but she usually had a couple show up. One Friday, she was the only one who showed up so she called the owner who told her to stay open. She told him she was locking up & going home.
Waffle House ping?
“They do well, are busy and have good service - only because she has a locked-in labor source. But its a sign of a bad trend for the USA on many levels.”
The Koreans in Richmond, VA did the same thing. Several of the well to do Koreans got together and helped other Koreans buy the little Mom and Pop stores in the “hoods”. They could get those cheap and they had well to do Korean businessmen basically co-signing for them.
They would have three generations working in the store from grandparents down to kids able to put cans on shelves. And no one from the hood gave them any crap either.
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