I just imagine like, Japanese tourists lining up to take pictures at a Waffle House hoping there will be a throwdown because it's that much of an American experience
As an Australian that's literally my thinking right now. "Damn, next time I go to see my friend, I definitely wanna see what a Waffle House looks like"
that's a joke in the movie "Crocodile dundee 2" there is this fight in a subway and there are these tourists taking selfies of them self and the carnage.
As a former Waffle House employee. There have been plenty of these and most never made it to the internet, unfortunately. You could probably form an entire documentary series on it. I once saw my former employee throw a customer through the glass window of the store. I've seen knives, guns, an even a screwdriver pulled in altercations. It's really the wild west of the fast food world. Which is saying a alot.
The one's at mine have really been "almosts" from the other employees, we had a drunk guy spill his chocolate milk and on his way admit to strangling a woman to death, Popeyes manager pulling up in a Corvette wanting all the smoke, and a man screaming the n word at me because he didn't want one of my cooks to cook his food. And that's just what I remember off the top of my head
Charlie, as a Floridian, you should know that Waffle Houses are known for more than fights… they’re also for gauging evacuation probability for hurricanes. If the Waffle House is still open, you’re good. If it’s closed, start praying whole packing the car.
true i got threatened with a knife working the cash register because someones dog barked at him in the line, we took his money then called the cops, free meal!
The severity of Covid during the pandemic didn't really sink in until I tried going to Waffle House at midnight and they were closed. Top 10 insane things I've ever seen, didn't even know it was possible. Shaken to my core.
I think Waffle House is the perfect introduction to keeping calm in extreme stress. I had 3 friends that worked there and two are now in the military and one is a cop. It prepared them, forged them.
@@DrizzleDrizzleNeverDies When I heard about that from Charlie’s other video I was in shock. Like how utterly oblivious and blind does one need to be to something like that unintentionally and then forget about it on top of that. I forgot what ol boy Charlie said at the end of this video but I hope that cop was charged? Like the victim fucking died didn’t they?
As a former waffle house employee, there is quite literally back up plans for almost any natural disaster. It is something you have to sign a legal document when you do on boarding. There are certain menus for when you're running on generators, the whole thing. It's something we're trained in and, at least when I worked there, if you try to leave/evacuate when the store says they need you they would fire you.
Former WH Server here-we actually have a "No Power Menu" that we serve in case a WH ever looses power for any reason. Also, the broken plates do get replaced! Each WH is supposed to fill out a "dish count" sheet where the employees count every. single. dish. And then the manager on duty fills either fills it out in the system or requests more dishes if they're missing a bunch. So, if a WH is not replacing or ordering new dishes, that's on the manager lol
@@nerdstop5025 I believe so, and probably for the most important things like the grill cause of I remember correctly waffles was not avaliable on the no power menu lol
Specially it is hard to watch these fights when the staff are young folks just trynna make it or taking the job to help the family while their own people trash on them for something as stupid as missing a side item on the order, or not putting enough butter on the waffles. Like WTF. I have a good friend and love her to death, she worked in a Waffle House only for like 5 months until she dealt with this obnoxious big fat whale for no good reason. My friend just said she thinks it was because she was skinny and pretty and the woman was big and ugly (funny as hell). She had to call the cops but the fat gremlin already had left the establishment. WITHOUT PAYING. Worst part was her boss, or manager. He gave two shits about the situation and told her something like "you white folks complain about everything" or some racist crap like that. Almost made me wanna pay a visit to the guy. Anyways. I wouldn't recommend going to Waffle House after 8PM at least. Anywhere. Besides the food is just decent but nothing like out of the ordinary.
Saw a dude with no arms and legs scoot into a Waffle House on his belly on a skateboard, dude did some sort of flip into a booth and the waitress fed him.
Then again, if you manage to flip into a booth with no arms nor legs you deserve literally everything the restaurant could possibly have to offer for free.
Hey, you ever seen a group of people doing a drag race and circles outside the restaurant at night after stealing another customer's food? my god, it was every night. and in the morning, all i would see is tire tracks running around the parking lot with some going near poles. 🤣you know what that means
They do. That’s what the Waffle House index is. Waffle House actually has a whole meteorology department that is well paid and staffed with top meteorologists. FEMA unofficially uses the Waffle House index to judge severity of natural disasters.
As a Waffle House employee, we’re never supposed to close. And I’ve seen some of the most outrageous fights working there. So tired of writing statements😭
@@tannie6115 .. we have a lot of people who come into work high or drunk honestly. Most fights I’ve witnessed have been started or egged on by impaired employees.
As a former employee of Waffle House, I confess to getting into a food fight in the store. We just used eggs and water, but it was one of the most joyous occurrences I remember from working there.
During a particularly bad snowfall in southern Appalachia, my brother once spent 6 consecutive days spending the night at the waffle house he was managing. He was the only one cooking for 80% of that time and was bathing with restroom sinks and ate only eggs for the duration. I'm in the industry and those places are true warzones if you get sucked in.
Imagine a Waffle House Throwdown during an escalating yellow to red alert during a Category 4 Hurricane. Sounds like an incredible experience. You could just watch the fight while chowing down on waffles and enjoying the sights and sounds of the storm outside, soon to be inside.
That definitely sounds like a Tekken stage, or maybe even a Mortal Kombat stage if you throw in some Aztec architecture and a few impaled skulls. The next time I"m at Waffle House, I need to check the doors and see if they have waterproof seals. Surely that would be the only way for a Waffle House to stay open during a knee-deep flash flood, right?
@@flyingstonemon3564 I think I'd give it to Waffle House. Waffle House employees, especially the night shift ones, have to know how to fight to some capacity if they plan on working there and being respected. The better you are at throwing punches, the more respected you are on staff. Popeyes employees just give you that "fuck off" look, they don't typically expect you to come at them, while Waffle House employees act nice and reasonable, but are *FULLY* expecting you to snap at the slightest thing.
As a Waffle House cook. It baffles me when people really try to fight the workers. I have never seen my coworkers loose. And tbh. I won’t let them loose to nobody.
As a overnight Waffle House employee, we stay open during all emergencies because it’s SUPPOSED to be a family friendly place for all people. But honestly I completely understand why other employees fight customers because some of the shit people do at Waffle House are way worse than any other restaurant I have worked at
Worked at Waffle House for 5 years and no joke we were still open during a hurricane with no power just wind up flashlights and still continued to cook food for customers. Working there is unpredictable to say the least.
I went to a waffle house like once, and it was great. There was no one else there. I ordered a couple of eggs and a couple of pieces of bacon and also a couple of waffles. I went at 3 AM and they gave me two extra eggs and two extra pieces of bacon for no extra cost. It was absolutely like the best restaurant experience of all time.
Waffle House is a very unique and underrated restaurant. I've seen fights happen with outdoor ashtrays, I've seen people be high in illegal states, I've seen men fall from the ceilings. There are a lot of good, poorer waffle houses that have the kindest, most bizarre workers that could cook the best hashbrowns you've ever had. Never underestimate a Waffle house, and always check the prices -- drinks add up fast.
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Waffle House gets a lot of criticism for their food, but the quality completely depends on the specific cook. If you walk in at 3am and see a grumpy old dude with a stained apron and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth working the griddle you know you're about to have some FIRE.
The first rule of Waffle House Fight Club - You do NOT steal handfuls of the complimentary packets of maple syrup while everyone's attention is on the combat taking place.
There's nothing like ordering a Steak and Eggs with chocolate milk at a Waffle House at 3am. The best part is when the sweet lady behind the counter gives you a free refill even when they are supposed to charge for it. Its not a Waffle House, it's a Waffle Home.
The first and only time I went to a Waffle House, the staff was at each other's throats, screaming at each other and everything. I took refuge at one after my girlfriend broke up with me and after I explained what had happened they quickly became super nice to me. It was like a complete 180. Was really thankful to them for letting me stay there while I got my shit together and figured out a place to stay.
that's strangely wholesome how they can go from a whole melee, plate projective combat to just being super nice and accomodating for your circumstances. Best place to see fights and feel welcomed man.
Waffle House is the most powerful institution in America. It's always open, even during natural disasters, always slightly dirty, the food is consistent, and the employees are ready to engage in combat against belligerent drunks at a moment's notice. It's a magical place, and I'll take a triple scattered hashbrowns smothered, covered, and chunked.
In regard to the Waffle House Index, it actually makes a lot of sense because they are a very consistent example of what a well prepared private entity looks like. If Waffle House is closed, it means private scale preparations, even ones laid in advance, are simply not good enough for this situation and a more involved scale of relief is going to need to be required. If Waffle House is closed, that pretty much signals the difference between "the unprepared are not doing great" and "nobody is okay."
When he started talking about how waffle house is built for brawls and how you can go in and scope out your weapons of choice, I just imagine a nutty action-comedy about a street wise spy who knows he's being tailed deciding to go into a waffle house and tipping the server some serious green to initiate an all out brawl to cover up his personal beef against the antagonist. I'd pay to watch that scene alone.
When I was a young kid my dad brought me and my older sister to Waffle House in order to teach us “how most Americans live.” One of the most strange moments in my life
Where I lived in Pensacola, FL., there was a Waffle House right outside one of the malls ... and another one three blocks away. You could sit in the Waffle House and watch people going in and out of the other Waffle House.
The only time I went to Waffle House it was 15* F outside and the inside of the building was easily 5* F or less. We stood outside and waited for our food
I also have a waffle house fight experience. Someone pulled a knife on my uncle at waffle house because he asked them to stop cursing in front of his kids (my cousins). The person then pulled a knife and started to shout threats. Police were called but I don't think they were arrested. The manager of the waffle house was very apologetic. The food still slaps
Hell yeah that's the thing often overlooked in people learning of this. Waffle House is actually pretty good. As far as good old fashioned American breakfasts from a chain go Waffle House is the best.
When I was in high school, a bunch of us were at Waffle House after a football game celebrating a win. Some of the guys from the rival school's football team walked in and started squirting enemas on the open grills where our food was being cooked. Not only did we all dogpile on the guys that did that, but the entire Waffle House location got shut down for 3 days in order to clean and sanitize the food prep area from the enema attack.
The weird thing about Waffle House fights is that they never happen outside of the Waffle House. The parking lot of a Waffle House is the safest place in the world. The closest thing you get to a fight outside of the Waffle House is someone kicking the door in to get inside of the Waffle House
Hi Charlie, I live in the South where there was literally a Waffle House across the street from a Waffle House. When Hurricane Michael hit back in 2018, we were travelling along the road to find a Waffle House employee trudging through sidewalks of water in his uniform, and we hitched him. We asked where he was going and he said "home, finally." Apparently, in the middle of the hurricane, he stayed clocked in and hunkered down at the restaurant until everything subsided days later. They're not joking about staying open, come hell or literal high water.
The one and only time I've been to a waffle house was on a trip to Atlanta. There was a shootout outside the restaurant and 7 (gang members probably) were shot. They even stole someone's car after the fact to drive themselves to the hospital. 10/10 average waffle house experience
@@danihascrabs When ever me and my family were in Atlanta to eat, there was a shooting where a kid got fatally injured and died in the same area we were in that night. Atlanta is bonkers.
As a native Floridian I gotta be real their bacon /egg/ch melts & hash browns are a gift from the heavens when hungover, there's always a chance of you having to fight for something so wondrous, way of the world.
Former Waffle House employee here! I would like to inform you that YES we do actually hire professional announcers to start and sustain fights within our buildings.
"And coming in from the right corner is METH HEAD MIKE! LETS GIVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR OUR BOY!! Aaaand coming in from this corner is the BRUTAL BUMPKIN BUTCHER, weighing an impressive 250 pounds and full of discount beer and waffles, this tank sure can take a beating. And now without further ado, LET THE FIGHT BEGIN!!!"
I went to a waffle house only once in georgia while traveling for work and this dude cooked the best breakfast I've ever had, that shit had to have had drugs in it or something because I'll literally never forget it
One of my grill cooks almost lost once, but it was a two on one. It nearly became a shooting when they went for weapons. Then two of our regulars joined in and helped beat ass on the attackers and saved him. Then they hopped in a vehicle, went around the building twice shouting slurs, and then sped off.
I remember reading from an employee that if you plan on working any night shifts, you HAVE to know how to fight to some capacity. All the fights and rachet shit that happens at a Waffle House happens at night.
I unironically really like eating at waffle house. It's always good to enjoy the breakfast meals while someone's head is getting slammed against the counter next to you.
This makes me remember this one Twitter post saying that an Atlanta, Georgia Waffle House parking lot would be a banger fighting game stage and people proceeded to make stage themes for it and someone posted a picture of the Waffle House being modded into Melty Blood: Type Lumina.
This video reminds me of a story I heard once on Inside Edition, which btw the thumbnail of that story was conveniently shown here at 1:08. Let me tell you all that story. There was this guy named Alex Bowen, who visited Waffle House at 3 am to eat there. As he went inside, there was no one there to take his order, since the overnight employee was sleeping. When he first saw this, instead of waking the employee up, he decided to take matters into his own hands by walking into the kitchen to make his food for himself. He cooked himself a Texas Bacon Cheesesteak Melt. While doing that, he also took selfies/pictures of the place and send them to social media(including the sleeping employee). Once his meal was done and he finished devouring it, he left without paying. The next day, the Waffle House management finds the photos on social media that Alex posted and they were not happy, and because of this course of action, the sleeping employee got suspended and on that same day, Alex went back to pay for the meal that he made.
@@jonathanspalding6973 According to the report, this story took place in West Columbia South Carolina, at least that is what Inside Edition says. Hope that answers your question.
@@madridforever933 Man, if it's taking a few thousand of you to "find dirt", you must not have much going on, lol. Someone needs to go touch some grass.
This isn’t Waffle House but, I remember seeing a comment image of someone saying that iHop is where children have birthday parties while Denny’s is where they’d meet a hit man. I’m assuming Waffle House is the same as Denny’s in this regard, lmao.
Reminder: The Waffle House index is a scale of how bad a storm or disaster will affect an area. This because Waffle House supposedly can go into disaster relief or low supply mode waaay before closing. Waffle House closed? Run.
On the bright side, at least we know that people actually call the emergencies when a fight happens. I was suspecting that people only record when this happens.
Some guy in the comments said we need a Waffle House fight simulator. I would add in an occasional natural disaster incident where you have to prepare and serve waffles on a generator while the roof is getting torn apart by a hurricane.
As a former waffle house cook and host, you really see some of the funniest things happen in a waffle house. From random fights to someone smacking lips together in the bathroom to singing random songs. Food is very good still!
I had 2 meth heads try to go into the women bathroom to get high one time. Told them they got me meth'd up and need to get out my bathroom now. Thought I was gonna have to fight two meth heads at once, but by that time 4am I was tired of the bullsh*t so I didnt care.
Waffle House isn’t just for fighting, it’s for the local residents to know whether or not they need to evacuate their city or town immediately based on the Waffle House Index.
I work for a heavy equipment company that does disaster relief when it comes about, and we decide when and where to deploy based directly on Waffle House. If Waffle House is still open, we're staying in a hotel and using 4WD vehicles to get to and from the nearest operable branch. If Waffle House is closed, we're probably camping out at the branch and cooking hot dogs with an industrial propane heater
Waffle House: The basis of emergencies since whenever they started working. But honestly, props to you and your coworkers and executives for doing all that.
As a former cook for waffle House I can attest to everything that has been shown in this video. This is completely accurate as well as the hurricane index I worked through hurricane Irma a couple years back myself.
Yes we are always open, I had to continue to work in a hurricane with no power or water and only functional equipment was the gas grill. And of course being the loving state of Florida is, we still had the whole store packed of customers😅
I’m so glad someone told Charlie about the Waffle House Index. I actually thought it had 4 levels instead of 3. Green- The Waffle House is open Yellow- The Waffle House is on a generator Red- The Waffle House is closed Black- THE WAFFLE HOUSE IS GONE 🤣
i remember going to waffle house once and there were some workers already fighting when i walked in but the rest of the staff was completely ignoring them and serving patrons like everything was normal 💀
Watched a waffle house waitress freak out because she spilled water on herself and then she proceeded to throw a full pitcher of water towards the back. It truly is a waffle home
Waffle House are quite known for being very responsive in emergency disasters. The state agency of emergency management often use waffle houses after natural disasters to feed people.
I literally just got in a fight at a waffle house a few days ago. I work at as a manager at a theater and I often times don't get off work until early hours of the morning. It was about 1am I had just gotten off work and I was hungry so I drove to the nearest wafflehouse. When I arrived I noticed the place was unusually busy and there seemed to be some kind of commotion. That's when I found out that just moments before I had arrived the cook had walked out in the middle of service and quit. So now there was no one to cook the food. A group of customers decided in retaliation that they were going to try to steal cups and napkin dispensers and basically anything they could get their hands on. That's when I stepped up to the group and told them to put that stuff back. Next thing I know one of them starts swinging at me. In the end I got them their stuff back but I unfortunately went home hungry.
Ok I got to know as I find this quite strange can you tell me why is it so important they stay open during hurricanes etc and why only after full destruction do they close?
I worked at waffle house and we all just casually watched as a woman put her husband through a window because she walked in to confront him while he was there eating with a woman he picked up at a bar. One of our other server's continued to take an order while a plate flew behind his head.
