Sunday Morning Factoid

Have you ever been to a Waffle House? I’ll never forget the first time I wandered into one in the wee hours of the morning while motoring around Ohio.  Don’t ask what I was doing motoring the roads of Ohio in the wee hours of the morning.  As soon as I walked through the door, I was greeted with a “Good Morning” by two or three individual employees.  I like that about Waffle House, and this instant greeting happens in every Waffle House I’ve ever walked into.  Anyway, I enjoy Waffle House and its story.

Last night I heard an interesting story from a friend who works for Coke. The owners of Waffle House signed a contract with Coke, a number of years ago, for eternity.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Waffle House signed a contract to serve Coca Cola products, for eternity.  That’s a long time.

Now, I’m not certain how wise a business decision that is, since I haven’t read the contract, but I admire the owners’ certainty in executing the contract and I enjoy the heck out of their restaurants.  It’s a shame that the closest one to my house is two and a half hours or so away.  Guess I’ll be fixing breakfast myself today.

Posted by on 03/21 at 05:30 AM

  1. Waffle Houses are all over the metro Atlanta area, where I used to live.

    I used to run with a guy named Peter “Wookie” Magdarz, a lights crew-chief who was such a wheel on the road that he could summarily pull a crew coach over any time and anywhere he wanted to, without a single word of dispute from anyone.  Peter would pull over for a Waffle House at the drop of a hat.  When we rolled home from the West Coast, he would invariably stop at the first one he saw, coming east, usually the first one on Interstate 10 in Arizona.

    I’ve been in hundreds of them.

    I have never walked into a single one without being personally greeted by the staff as soon as I opened the door.

    Posted by Billy Beck  on  03/21  at  08:28 AM

  2. That instant greeting, the clatter of plates, the verbal delivery of customer’s orders, the hustle and bustle behind the counter, and hash browns however I want them, will keep me heading into Waffle House whenever I’m on the road.  Another positive, reading their website, Michigan is a target market for them in the next 3 - 5 years.  Excellent.

    Posted by  on  03/21  at  09:43 AM

  3. Love Waffle House.  There was one just down the road from where I went to college and there was no better place to go when the beer-munchies hit.

    Posted by shonk  on  03/21  at  10:14 AM

  4. I found your page through a search for Peter Magdarz.  We were friends in the late 70’s or so in Raleigh, when he was with Nantucket.  Would love to communicate with him.  Any idea where he is now?  Lisa

    Posted by  on  10/03  at  04:14 PM

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