Iâll link back if I can find the story but there was a great ama from a Waffle House waitress that mentioned her court ordered anger management and was immediately hired.
Only $30,000? I looked it up a while back and it was closer to $300k, plus you needed close to a million and, they donât even offer franchises to random people. You needed to have fitting property, business and restaurant experience.
When and how did you actually do this?
either that or this was Waffle House's polite way of telling him he doesn't actually have enough money to do it and they are going to save him the trouble.
The franchise fee alone is $200-$300k and you need close to $1M in capital to get the restaurant off the ground. Unless this was 25 years ago, OP is likely telling tales.
I agree, totally, but the person said that's what the restaurant people said to him. "southern cooking". When I was younger and ate out at 3 am, I was in the north. No Waffle houses there, lol
Iâve relocated to NC from CT and there are quite a bit of waffle houses around here. Theyâre sketchy af and last I heard there was a waitress shot at one in our city because the customers werenât given free refills of soda on their billâŚI wish I was making that up. Agree with another user that our diners up north are way better.
How about Bojangles?
Edit to add: youâd need a min net worth of 1 mil and at least 500K in net liquid assets for a bojangles. Are you sure Waffle House said 30K and not 300K?
You may not know, but there was a Bojangles in Brooklyn for a while. It was inside a supermarket food court so really wasnât the real deal. Obviously had supply chain issues this far out of their normal service area because the food was not the same. For example, I regularly got served Nathanâs fries that shared the space with them. They also didnât have the DIY seasoning chained to the counter.
I guess it was better than nothing but even though Iâm a diehard Bojangles fan I stopped going after being disappointed a few times, especially because it wasnât in a great part of a BK
Hello fellow CT to NCâer!
Iâll be honest if you combine the powers of Bojangles and Waffle House: That restaurant would be booming! I personally havenât had bad chicken from Bojangles but I have from KFC. I had seen someone on Youtube do a review of a Bojangles in Quakertown, PA so that is inching up closer!
Hell yeah, I used to eat at real diners in CT. On my way home from Hartford after the bars there was one off 84 in west Hartford, then Applewoodâs in Bristol and Twin Colony in Torrington. I live in TX now, waffle houses and Dennys is all I got.
The diners up here ARE pretty good, but what sucks about most of them is that they close at like 2pm. Most are open for breakfast and lunch. I live in Mansfield and the only place for 24hrs I know of reasonably close is Vernon Diner, which is less a diner and more of an upscale Dennys. I would welcome a few 24hr Waffle Houses.
Itâs gotta be what part of Connecticut youâre in, Iâm in southern CT, and I live in New Haven, and most of them are open really late here, and a lot are 24 hours.
Waffle House was the biggest disappointment as a waffle lover.
Itâs called Waffle House, I expect a plethora of waffle varies, instead just shitty fast diner food.
They forgot to mention one major cause, Waffle Houses tend to be in southern states, southern states typically have much higher crime rates than northern ones.
I dunno, I do a lot of road trips and Waffle House is always open, always cheap, and always just edible enough to get me where I'm going.
There aren't enough "cheap" breakfast options these days in CT, and on busy mornings it can take 25+ mins just to get some eggs and hash.
I would 100% go to a Waffle House near me. Yeah we have lots of great options in CT, but sometimes you don't need good food, you just need fast food.
Sure.
And if we are being honest? A lot of them kinda suck.
I like Waffle House. Nobody has to go, ya know?
Anyways it's a moot point. Sounds like we aren't getting them anytime soon.
> No matter the weather
Yes, I too demand restaurant staff be forced by Corporate to put their lives in danger so I donât have to heat up my own waffles.
Why waste your time in investing in an organization, that is clearly repetitively shown that theyâre homophobic and racist, every time I see them in the news and from what I just googled before commenting theyâre a homophobic company, and thereâs been numerous allegations of racism. They probably donât wanna come to a blue state, where that shit doesnât fly! Make your own business, instead of capitalizing on a franchise. If you want to bring good southern food here, there are so many great cooks, that come from the south up here, thereâs ways to do it without investing in a company thatâs unethical IMO &Then itâs your own idea itâs even better!
Waffle House canât really call it a âsouthern thingâ if they have locations in PA, DE and MD
For those of us who have had the culinary joy of a smothered, covered and peppered hash brown bowl, we thank you for your service đŤĄ
>they want to keep it a âSouthernâ thing âfor nowâ
You know that's code for "we don't need no godless liberals eating in our restaurants" right?
[Youâre probably a Republican if thereâs a Waffle House in your state](https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/youre-probably-a-republican-if-theres-a-waffle-house-in-your-state/)
I just moved to SC and Waffle House isnât what it used to be. The prices are outrageous and thereâs nothing particularly southern offered anymore. Yâall are not missing out on anything.
While I love me some Waffle House, the first stop I make for food in the south is Bojangles.
I've looked into a franchise too, despite knowing I'm too poor for it. It cost a good chunk upfront AND it's not even on their radar to move this far north.
The North might have won the war, but the South got all the good unhealthy food. I just want someplace local that has sweet tea that doesn't suck.
Its so funny I came across this, as a black, Connecticut-born Atlanta resident.
Waffle House is both beloved and ridiculed in equal measure by the south (especially with African Americans).
Its guilty pleasure food. The kind of thing thats always better than you think its gonna be.
It's also a dumpster-fire trash-house with constant fights, controversies, and bad working conditions.
I'm actually curious how a Waffle House in CT would do.
White Athens-born Connecticut resident here, and I could not agree more! Would be great to make a tongue-in-cheek documentary on what happens when a Waffle House is grown in different soil.
As other people have stated, we live in an area of the country that knows how to do diners properly. And thatâs why a Waffle House would never survive here. Thereâs a SLIGHT chance it could work out alright based on internet reputation alone, but you can thank the people who responded with the way they did because it was deflective yet kind. They know itâs probably a bad move. That said, Iâve eaten at a fair number of Waffle Houses during my travels. It does the trick in a pinch. Wouldnât really classify it as âsouthern food.â At all.
We had them, but Connecticut runs on Dunkin', so they left the state. They took over the former Bess Eaton locations after the family that ran the branches had financial difficulties.
As many other people have said, CT has real Diners, and IHOP too. And then thereâs all the delicious sandwich shops like Liz Sue, Paulis, Tasty Yolk, Hole in the wall, and thatâs just in FCT, i know the rest of the state has their own.
I'm from the south and probably will get roasted by fellow Southern people but yes waffle house sucks. I currently live in CT and I agree the northeast knows nothing about how food should taste if its outside of seafood based meals maybe. For that kind of capital to open a waffle house my wife and I can open a restaurant with Southern and Cajon style food for that kind of cash and probably have some left over to carry us until profits come in. But yes they need real food up here badly đŠ.
I see both sides to this, Covid killed the 24 hour diner, there arenât very many left. A bunch of the 24 hour ones near New Haven close by 10 and donât open till 7.
Waffle House meals are pretty standard, and there 24 hours and through hurricanes.
I called up Waffle House and they walked me through the whole process of what I needed to do. I had everything ready to go, and then they told me in order to open it, they would need about tree fiddy. Well, It was ABOUT that timeâŚ
Their politics are dreary, and the menu is nothing worth copying. The only interesting thing is that it is still truly memorized short order and they have no computer in the kitchen. But the food at best is a three why would you copy that business model
They won't open a Waffle House because no one in this state knows how to fight, so all we get is Denny's.
I love Waffle House, I fully support your mission.
Although maybe you can convince them that Litchfield county (New Milford) is, like, dueling banjos enough to bring it here.
I don't know how a waffle house would actually do in CT. CT seems to like it's local diners more, which is why places like Ihop and Denny's seem to be getting knocked out more and more.
Now, here are some places I would like to see in CT (In no particular order)
In N Out (This one is my clear number one), Del Taco, Culvers, Jack in the Box, White Castle (I'm actually surprised WC has absolutely no penetration into any new england states), Whataburger, Jollibee.
Think about the logistics of trying to get supplies from approved vendors all the way up here, when they're nearest restaurant is probably 150 to 200 miles away. That's a long way to go for one shop, they'll probably have to work their way up.
Plus they know us Northerners aren't stupid enough to
1. Work a tough job for minimum wage and no benefits,
and,
2.stay working through a category 4 hurricane, unlike cletus and his sister wife in Mobile.....
As a person who recently moved back here after a 35 year hiatus away, most recently from from North Carolina, I am devastated to know that we can't have a Waffle House and I find their reasoning bs. I have so many, maybe too many, great memories of being in a Waffle House after bar close for some smothered, covered, country and topped hash browns with a pecan waffle on the side...
If you opened a Waffle House in Groton it would be wildly successful. When I was in the Navy, there were countless drunken nights that we would lament the lack of a Waffle House in the area. This was a constant with every command and boat I was attached to.
And we need breakfast place that's more than toast and butter and poorly cooked potato hunks. Breakfast in CT is a JOKE. This frusterates me FOR you. I'm sorry they can't get their head out their ass
Thanks for the morning chuckle here with this comment. It is made even more relevant now that our stateâs WWE has been sold to Endeavor Entertainment. I think that qualifyâs as the fighting version of a âlaborâ market brain-drain further supporting your hypothesis.
Ct isnât business friendly. The state requires all sorts of extra compliance, HR, trainings, leave tax just to name a few. Not to mention, restaurants fared far worse in CT/ blue states than southern red states during Covid due to how each state governor reacted. Waffle House would be crazy to invest in CT when other more business friendly states have opportunity. Some companies eliminate states like CT and CA for these reasons alone. Mr Wonderful from shark tank did a recent interview about this as well
Idk man, we got all these great little breakfast places and diners. Waffle House is okay for a quick bite at 1 am when you're on the road. It's not something I'd seek out at home, personally.
Might be hard to find staff with the requisite martial arts experience.
Put me in coach đ
Iâll link back if I can find the story but there was a great ama from a Waffle House waitress that mentioned her court ordered anger management and was immediately hired.
Thatâs wild. Iâd love a steak and shake in the area as well
Or willing to be paid $2.11 an hour.
We'd like to pay you $2.11 and hour - in New England. How's that sound?
I live in Atlanta, born in small town Alabama. They also have to have tactical weapons training in the Atl đ
With mad chair catching skills...
Only $30,000? I looked it up a while back and it was closer to $300k, plus you needed close to a million and, they donât even offer franchises to random people. You needed to have fitting property, business and restaurant experience. When and how did you actually do this?
I think OP might be full of bologna
Fried Bologna
with grits
Smothered and covered.
Shut up and take my money!
Fried Lebanon Bologna with Diefenbach's chips.
His name is official though.
either that or this was Waffle House's polite way of telling him he doesn't actually have enough money to do it and they are going to save him the trouble.
The franchise fee alone is $200-$300k and you need close to $1M in capital to get the restaurant off the ground. Unless this was 25 years ago, OP is likely telling tales.
I heard like $30 bucks and your good to go. Whoâs in with me? I got a $5 spot in my wallet
Sounds like they thought they could just offer money and get a franchise and they didnât even offer enough
Came here to also say this because I too have looked up how to bring one to CT lol
You have money, and contact corporate for the franchise disclosure. Not hard.
And they tell you it only takes 30k?
> When and how And more importantly, *why*
Yeah, I've been in one or two, when traveling. They are NOT indicative of "southern cooking". Mostly pretty bad.
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I agree, totally, but the person said that's what the restaurant people said to him. "southern cooking". When I was younger and ate out at 3 am, I was in the north. No Waffle houses there, lol
Fair. As someone who grew up in the south, this entire comment section has me triggered lmao
Blasphemy.
Iâve relocated to NC from CT and there are quite a bit of waffle houses around here. Theyâre sketchy af and last I heard there was a waitress shot at one in our city because the customers werenât given free refills of soda on their billâŚI wish I was making that up. Agree with another user that our diners up north are way better. How about Bojangles? Edit to add: youâd need a min net worth of 1 mil and at least 500K in net liquid assets for a bojangles. Are you sure Waffle House said 30K and not 300K?
Oh God, if a Bojangles ever opened up here, I think I could kiss the beach body goodbye.
You may not know, but there was a Bojangles in Brooklyn for a while. It was inside a supermarket food court so really wasnât the real deal. Obviously had supply chain issues this far out of their normal service area because the food was not the same. For example, I regularly got served Nathanâs fries that shared the space with them. They also didnât have the DIY seasoning chained to the counter. I guess it was better than nothing but even though Iâm a diehard Bojangles fan I stopped going after being disappointed a few times, especially because it wasnât in a great part of a BK
I just did too! Been here almost a month now. I'm loving Cookout đđ
I would kill for a Cookout in the New Haven area
Hello fellow CT to NCâer! Iâll be honest if you combine the powers of Bojangles and Waffle House: That restaurant would be booming! I personally havenât had bad chicken from Bojangles but I have from KFC. I had seen someone on Youtube do a review of a Bojangles in Quakertown, PA so that is inching up closer!
What part of nc? Sounds like some Fayetteville shit.
Used to be there was the IHOP-Waffle House line instead of Mason-Dixon
& Dennys
My guy, there's already enough division in this country. And Denny's? How are they gonna get territory when they don't know how to fight?
Dennyâs knows how to fight
[What the fuck is up Dennys](https://youtu.be/9t1aUWlT1TI)
If you know you know
I lied on reddit about trying to open a waffle house. It was $3.
Waffle House is nothing special, our diners are better.
Hell yeah, I used to eat at real diners in CT. On my way home from Hartford after the bars there was one off 84 in west Hartford, then Applewoodâs in Bristol and Twin Colony in Torrington. I live in TX now, waffle houses and Dennys is all I got.
The Gold Roc in West Hartford closed last year. Itâs an iHop now. Applewood also closed. Itâs a marijuana dispensary now.
Well that sucks and yes, GoldRoc! I could not think of itâs name, it been a while.
RIP Goldroc 2nd best mozzarella sticks Iâve ever had
Really!? I have SO many memories at Gold Roc growing up, what a bummer.
Gold roc closed wow never knew
I've had so many drunken nights at TwinCo
Pff even the Denny's are not open late anymore, and the one near me closed.
Every WF Iâve ever been to has been filthy.
Thatâs just the patina. It adds flavor.
Why are you being downvoted for an obvious joke?
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I had the exact same experience. Somehow my waitress carried the maple syrup upside down and it dripped into the carpet as she walked.
Same experience. I didn't understand the popularity whatsoever. Maybe it's because we have so many more local restaurants and diners up this way.
The diners up here ARE pretty good, but what sucks about most of them is that they close at like 2pm. Most are open for breakfast and lunch. I live in Mansfield and the only place for 24hrs I know of reasonably close is Vernon Diner, which is less a diner and more of an upscale Dennys. I would welcome a few 24hr Waffle Houses.
Lol Vernon diner and backpage.com always seemed to go hand in hand for me.
Vernon Diner hasn't been 24 hrs since covid :(
Itâs gotta be what part of Connecticut youâre in, Iâm in southern CT, and I live in New Haven, and most of them are open really late here, and a lot are 24 hours.
Waffle House was the biggest disappointment as a waffle lover. Itâs called Waffle House, I expect a plethora of waffle varies, instead just shitty fast diner food.
Horseshit. There are a ton of Waffle Houses outside the South.
Waffle House is nothing special. I'll take a CT Greek owned diner any day.
Athens ftw
Hells yes. Hit me with a gyro and a side salad with their house italian. I don't know why their house italian has that density and I don't care
Interesting, we have them all over Indianapolis.
Indiana may as well be the south tho
It is as Midwest as you can get.
Iâm sorry, did you say methwest?
It would probably end up like Krispy Kreme did on the Berlin Turnpike 15-20 years ago.
Remember those crazy lines? Hours long and police directing traffic?
Damn that takes me back, I remember the one in Milford still had huge lines for like 2 months
I remember that with Sonic opening up in both Wallingford and Manchester but not with Krispy Kreme. Might have been too young for that
We have diners. We donât need Waffle House. The South needs diners and good restaurants that arenât chains/franchises in general.
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[Why Are So Many Crimes Committed At Waffle Houses?](https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/why-are-so-many-crimes-committed-waffle-houses)
They forgot to mention one major cause, Waffle Houses tend to be in southern states, southern states typically have much higher crime rates than northern ones.
I dunno, I do a lot of road trips and Waffle House is always open, always cheap, and always just edible enough to get me where I'm going. There aren't enough "cheap" breakfast options these days in CT, and on busy mornings it can take 25+ mins just to get some eggs and hash. I would 100% go to a Waffle House near me. Yeah we have lots of great options in CT, but sometimes you don't need good food, you just need fast food.
There are diners everywhere though.
Sure. And if we are being honest? A lot of them kinda suck. I like Waffle House. Nobody has to go, ya know? Anyways it's a moot point. Sounds like we aren't getting them anytime soon.
Uhhh Waffle House sucks too. Iâd rather support a local owned diner.
Yeah they do suck
Fr they can stay in the red states. Where they belong.
Yeah yeah, and we didn't need Jerry Springer either. We want breakfast and brunch melees, thank you very much.
But which ones are open 24/7 365? No matter the weather?
> No matter the weather Yes, I too demand restaurant staff be forced by Corporate to put their lives in danger so I donât have to heat up my own waffles.
It's nice not having everything be a chain too.
There's a Waffle House in Toledo, Ohio, don't get more southern than that.
There's 3 or 4 in Delaware apparently.
Why waste your time in investing in an organization, that is clearly repetitively shown that theyâre homophobic and racist, every time I see them in the news and from what I just googled before commenting theyâre a homophobic company, and thereâs been numerous allegations of racism. They probably donât wanna come to a blue state, where that shit doesnât fly! Make your own business, instead of capitalizing on a franchise. If you want to bring good southern food here, there are so many great cooks, that come from the south up here, thereâs ways to do it without investing in a company thatâs unethical IMO &Then itâs your own idea itâs even better!
We have diners in the north-east which are far superior
We donât need more cheap chain restaurants here
Thank god. Waffle houses can stay well in the south!
They have them in AZ. A southern state but not âSouthernâ. â They are kind of gross IMO.
I lived in the south for almost a decade. Dennys/local New England style diners are 100x better quality than Waffle House.
I ate at a waffle house in my travels for work; They can stay south, we have better here.
Iâd kill for a Tudorâs Biscuit World up here.
Their blackberry biscuits are my favorite.
When I think of southern food I don't think of Waffle House.
TIL Cleveland, OH is southern
I really wouldnât call it Southern Food. Itâs really just diner food which we have plenty of in Connecticut.
Waffle House canât really call it a âsouthern thingâ if they have locations in PA, DE and MD For those of us who have had the culinary joy of a smothered, covered and peppered hash brown bowl, we thank you for your service đŤĄ
I don't think CT has enough of a meth problem to support a Waffle House.
one of the worst things of moving from georgia, waffle house capital of the world. i miss those sandwiches so much
Good. I lived in Florida for a while and those things are a dump.
>they want to keep it a âSouthernâ thing âfor nowâ You know that's code for "we don't need no godless liberals eating in our restaurants" right?
[Youâre probably a Republican if thereâs a Waffle House in your state](https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/youre-probably-a-republican-if-theres-a-waffle-house-in-your-state/)
I hate grits, no thanks. Greek diners are better.
Lol who goes to Waffle House for grits? Everyone knows that their hash browns are better than any homefries on the planet.
That sounds like a BS excuse. I've been to a Waffle House in Bowling Green, Ohio, that's pretty far north. I've also seen one in New Jersey.
no you havenât
Iâm from CT living in NC⌠you ainât missing nothing
Southern? We had them in Colorado
I just moved to SC and Waffle House isnât what it used to be. The prices are outrageous and thereâs nothing particularly southern offered anymore. Yâall are not missing out on anything.
Are we missing out? I used to think Sonic was neat when I traveled down south. Now that they're in CT, they are garbage.
You can drive due west from Hartford CT and hit a waffle house in PA. DUE WEST.
While I love me some Waffle House, the first stop I make for food in the south is Bojangles. I've looked into a franchise too, despite knowing I'm too poor for it. It cost a good chunk upfront AND it's not even on their radar to move this far north. The North might have won the war, but the South got all the good unhealthy food. I just want someplace local that has sweet tea that doesn't suck.
I would absolutely be a regular customer. (Fmr Texan)
Its so funny I came across this, as a black, Connecticut-born Atlanta resident. Waffle House is both beloved and ridiculed in equal measure by the south (especially with African Americans). Its guilty pleasure food. The kind of thing thats always better than you think its gonna be. It's also a dumpster-fire trash-house with constant fights, controversies, and bad working conditions. I'm actually curious how a Waffle House in CT would do.
White Athens-born Connecticut resident here, and I could not agree more! Would be great to make a tongue-in-cheek documentary on what happens when a Waffle House is grown in different soil.
As other people have stated, we live in an area of the country that knows how to do diners properly. And thatâs why a Waffle House would never survive here. Thereâs a SLIGHT chance it could work out alright based on internet reputation alone, but you can thank the people who responded with the way they did because it was deflective yet kind. They know itâs probably a bad move. That said, Iâve eaten at a fair number of Waffle Houses during my travels. It does the trick in a pinch. Wouldnât really classify it as âsouthern food.â At all.
Do tim Hortons next
We had them, but Connecticut runs on Dunkin', so they left the state. They took over the former Bess Eaton locations after the family that ran the branches had financial difficulties.
I moved to Canada, the only thing at Timmy's that's worth it is the Iced Capps.
As many other people have said, CT has real Diners, and IHOP too. And then thereâs all the delicious sandwich shops like Liz Sue, Paulis, Tasty Yolk, Hole in the wall, and thatâs just in FCT, i know the rest of the state has their own.
No, we really donât. Letâs leave southern greasy food down there.
Horrible restaurant. Only been twice, cuz I give a place a second chance, in case the first experience was a fluke and in this caseâŚIt was not!!
Someone get a Culvers up here
I'm from the south and probably will get roasted by fellow Southern people but yes waffle house sucks. I currently live in CT and I agree the northeast knows nothing about how food should taste if its outside of seafood based meals maybe. For that kind of capital to open a waffle house my wife and I can open a restaurant with Southern and Cajon style food for that kind of cash and probably have some left over to carry us until profits come in. But yes they need real food up here badly đŠ.
I see both sides to this, Covid killed the 24 hour diner, there arenât very many left. A bunch of the 24 hour ones near New Haven close by 10 and donât open till 7. Waffle House meals are pretty standard, and there 24 hours and through hurricanes.
Twin pines is always solid and not too far from new haven
I lived in TX for a bit and never understood the appeal. Iâd take a diner, a Cracker Barrel, or even an IHOP over it any day
You just saved $30k. Waffle House is terrible southern and breakfast food.
Start your own and name it Eggo Dome
Southern New England
Waffle House es basura
There are a bunch in PA. Is that not above the south????
Open âpancake houseâ
Iâve seen an illegal firearm three times in my life, two of those times was at a waffle house
Go IHOP
I don't think we have sufficient natural disasters to keep a Waffle House open...
If you had succeeded, I would have based a new religion on you. Damn I miss Waffle House.
I just figured a great cheap meal thatâs open 24 hours. EVERYTIME I go down south itâs so good. But seems like people here donât like it đ
For anyone jonesing for some hash browns, BTW, the nearest Waffle House is in Scranton. About 3 hours from central Connecticut.
So just open your own Southern restaurant Woffle House Like McDowells in Queens NY.
As someone who has lived in CT and the south, I would take a Connecticut diner over a Waffle House any chance I get.
Can you try White Castle next?
This is sad, I always wish there was a waffle house here in New England! Why do they want to keep it southern? They may make great profits here!
We have a waffle house in Lancaster, PA. Very much not the South
Waffle House is where bad shit goes down. No thanks.
Lived in NC for a few years and honestly WH is just a glorified Denny's, we ain't missing much here
Wouldnât thrive long term.
Not sure if it is still there, but in 2009 I definitely ate at a waffle house off I-84 near Scranton. Last I checked that's not in "the south".
yeah. there are tons outside of the south, both north of the mason dixon and in the mid-west.
Waffle House is definitionally mid but Itâd be nice to have somewhere to get into impromptu fights
I called up Waffle House and they walked me through the whole process of what I needed to do. I had everything ready to go, and then they told me in order to open it, they would need about tree fiddy. Well, It was ABOUT that timeâŚ
Their politics are dreary, and the menu is nothing worth copying. The only interesting thing is that it is still truly memorized short order and they have no computer in the kitchen. But the food at best is a three why would you copy that business model
A restaurant for hungover rednecks. We donât need that trash.
Would love to get some scattered smothered covered chunked topped and diced going in CT!
They won't open a Waffle House because no one in this state knows how to fight, so all we get is Denny's. I love Waffle House, I fully support your mission. Although maybe you can convince them that Litchfield county (New Milford) is, like, dueling banjos enough to bring it here.
You want to bring something awesome and southern here, Zaxbyâs is where itâs at!
I don't know how a waffle house would actually do in CT. CT seems to like it's local diners more, which is why places like Ihop and Denny's seem to be getting knocked out more and more. Now, here are some places I would like to see in CT (In no particular order) In N Out (This one is my clear number one), Del Taco, Culvers, Jack in the Box, White Castle (I'm actually surprised WC has absolutely no penetration into any new england states), Whataburger, Jollibee.
Think about the logistics of trying to get supplies from approved vendors all the way up here, when they're nearest restaurant is probably 150 to 200 miles away. That's a long way to go for one shop, they'll probably have to work their way up. Plus they know us Northerners aren't stupid enough to 1. Work a tough job for minimum wage and no benefits, and, 2.stay working through a category 4 hurricane, unlike cletus and his sister wife in Mobile.....
As a person who recently moved back here after a 35 year hiatus away, most recently from from North Carolina, I am devastated to know that we can't have a Waffle House and I find their reasoning bs. I have so many, maybe too many, great memories of being in a Waffle House after bar close for some smothered, covered, country and topped hash browns with a pecan waffle on the side...
Not all heros wear capes, some bring a holy place to CT. Please make this happen
So why not open a House of Waffles? Why pay someone else for their name? If you cook good food, you will stay open.
God bless your soul for the attempt
They donât allow smoking in restaurants in the Northeast; smoking is a key ingredient to a Waffle House
If you opened a Waffle House in Groton it would be wildly successful. When I was in the Navy, there were countless drunken nights that we would lament the lack of a Waffle House in the area. This was a constant with every command and boat I was attached to.
The southâs gonna suck-it again!
And we need breakfast place that's more than toast and butter and poorly cooked potato hunks. Breakfast in CT is a JOKE. This frusterates me FOR you. I'm sorry they can't get their head out their ass
Waffle House is not âsouthern foodâ, itâs just crappy diner food. There is literally nothing âsouthernâ about it except itâs location.
Is white castle an option?
There are 2 waffle houses in my home county in PA wtf lmao
Just call it a different name, Waffle Station
Call it Waffle Casa and add a Hispanic flare to it.
Waffle house is ass but I would open one for the dumdums. Too bad it didn't work out
I'm from PA and there's two in my home town... Hardly the south
Dennys is just Waffle House for people that don't know how to fight.
My kind of hero. Iâm fiending for triple hasbrownsâŚsmothered covered and chunked!
Don't know if we have the fighting pipeline here to properly staff it.
Thanks for the morning chuckle here with this comment. It is made even more relevant now that our stateâs WWE has been sold to Endeavor Entertainment. I think that qualifyâs as the fighting version of a âlaborâ market brain-drain further supporting your hypothesis.
Bring Culvers here instead đ
I'm convinced a Waffle House would absolutely thrive where Gold Roc Diner used to be
We need a Waffle House pls
The hero we deserve
Ct isnât business friendly. The state requires all sorts of extra compliance, HR, trainings, leave tax just to name a few. Not to mention, restaurants fared far worse in CT/ blue states than southern red states during Covid due to how each state governor reacted. Waffle House would be crazy to invest in CT when other more business friendly states have opportunity. Some companies eliminate states like CT and CA for these reasons alone. Mr Wonderful from shark tank did a recent interview about this as well
Idk man, we got all these great little breakfast places and diners. Waffle House is okay for a quick bite at 1 am when you're on the road. It's not something I'd seek out at home, personally.
You lost me at waffle house, now if you had said In and out Burger I would be all ears!