Why Is Waffle House so Popular? - Cult Following 

If the floors aren't sticky and employees aren't fighting each other then the food isn't gonna be good.

It's greasy, cheap, and ALWAYS open. It's a after the club must in the South!

When I was being discharged from the Army, my first meal back in the states was Waffle House. (Then got off the plane at home, and had dad drive to Krystals.)

Growing up in Tennessee, some of my best memories are of me and my friends at Waffle House in the middle of the night. From road trips to stumbling in after a night of partying to getting up on a Saturday morning and eating breakfast at 11:00 am, Waffle House will always hold a special place in my heart.

The food is consistently good, it’s generally clean, however the staff is always questionable

I spend a huge amount of money eating out, sometimes cheap, sometimes expensive. I'm a bit of a connoisseur. And without a doubt, Waffle House is my very favorite restaurant in the world - that is, any one of 96% of them (there are a handful of lazy lame ones). This is based on food quality, speed, attentiveness of service, friendliness of service, consistency and price. I'm very serious. They have high quality and the employees take it seriously. In almost every store. I know some of you are rolling your eyes. But it's true.

I’m from Los Angeles and when i took a vacation to Florida in the summer of 2014, i went to waffle house every day for breakfast it’s waaaaaayy better than ihop.

When you enter a waffle house you feel like you are at home. It gives you that warm feeling when you walk through the doors, kinda like going to your grandmother's home for a meal.

It's been my default road food for years. The only thing I've ever gotten from WH that was outright bad was when I tried to go a little healthy and ordered a grilled chicken breast sandwich. It'd been marinated in soy and was way too salty. All-Star breakfast platter is about the most food you can get anywhere for under $7, if you can handle all the carbs. They make great cheeseburgers, patty melts and hashbrowns. You can even get a half-ass decent t-bone steak there. I love it. You go there late at night, you see all kinds of things. I once saw the head waitress stop an armed robbery with her pistol to the head of the perp.

Waffle House - 24Hrs, GREAT food, NO judgement, cozy and feels like family! Blacks, whites, Asians, old, young, everyone is here and welcomed!

1:50 If I'm not incorrect I can see three other people that are a little more worthy to be named than Kim K

To visit a place and order food which is on the menu for a very long time and eat it while you relive those memories is quite a good feeling.

Waffle House is one of my favourite restaurants. It’s always open in the 20 years I’ve been going there and the food is consistent. I know if I order my bacon, chicken & cheese hold the garden with hash browns scattered, covered and chunked I get exactly what I ordered. Some nights are better than others but I’m always satisfied.

Gosh. It's been years since I've been to a Waffle House but I thought their early success was due to strategically being located only at exits along the Interstate. Seeing that huge yellow sign at night on I-95 a hundred times, you're bound to stop in eventually. Do not like their waffles actually but love their hash browns - scattered, covered, chuncked and sometimes topped. 👍

WAFFLE HOUSE'S WAFFLES ARE SOO GOOD THAT I STOP PUTTING SYRUP ON THEM A COUPLE MONTHS AGO!

Waffle House is amazing, it's part of my race day tradition every time I go to a NASCAR race in person. Since Daytona in 2018, every race I go to, I eat at Waffle House for breakfast, and I get the same thing, Patty melt with grits tobasco sauce, and keep the sweet tea coming.

Some mornings with my fellow rampers we would go out to eat at the waffle house just next to the airport. Even nights when I get off at 2 Am. I'll head over and get a hot meal. Something that's rare when you work nearly 24/7.

Waffle house is the result of two WW2 vets opening a diner franchise 1:simple but effective at what it does 2: either insanely clean or a doctor's nightmare 3: always there for you when you need it, no matter the time. 4: accepts most people that walk through the door, both in front and behind the counter.

I went to Georgia this weekend and yes my 1stop was the WAFFLE house...as expected it was too die for.....I stayed 4 days and those 4 days I went to eat my fave breakfast ii also got my cali friends addicted to it...no shame in our game...love the WAFFLE HOUSE nothing changes..all hands up for them

Waffle House - America's last resort. No matter what happens to you, to your community, or to your country... Waffle House will be there for you.

Old joke from younger days: What has four legs and three teeth? The night shift at the Waffle House! (It was about true in some locations)

0:48 is that diarrhea being smootherd on my eggs???

lot of people sleep on Waffle house burgers, but they are legit some of the best burgers you'll ever eat.

Waffle House is ultimate “greasy spoon” especially down south

I dunno about cult but there is truly a life experience going to a semi-busy waffle house around 2am on a Friday night. You can really get to talking to some people about things you'd just never heard or speak of otherwise. Just casual conversation about life over simple food.

They use their flattop to great effect in making omelets, they really spread the egg mixture out, add the internals and then they roll them up. They also make GREAT has browns, with lots of options. Tripled, Scattered, Peppered, Well.

That flip at 0:23

2:09 I dont know what's worse- the clear lack of Covid fear(I know it was two years ago, keep up) or that he really thinks that stuff is Maple Syrup.....

The patty melt with A1 sauce is a must try.

People don't go to great lengths to eat at Waffle House. You are just drunk hungry and it's 3am.

I miss their all you can eat menu. I usually get scrambled eggs, sausage, sometimes grits, at least one waffle, and coffee. I like to play rock and country on their digital box. I've played "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath, "Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult, and "Another Piece Of My Heart" by Janis Joplin, as well as many others. I can't find the Waffle House anthems on the new boxes, however. I'd like to find "Special Lady At The Waffle House" and "Raisins In My Toast". To any Waffle House staff that reads this, are the anthems still there, and if so where?

The Waffle House - A Fine Dining Experience When I walked into the house of waffles and was snortled at by a server with neon red hair, I knew I was in for something. I didn't know what yet, but I knew that this would not be the standard American dining experience. Sami, think Cleveland Brown but in a Waffle House uniform, quickly whipped up our food(?). I say food(?) as I'm not sure what I consumed. I'm not going to spend long critiquing the food(?), as what is most striking about this restaurant is the characters you find here. For example, as pictured we have the girl with the green bob cut, who sat sulking in the corner staring into nothing, yet everything at the same time. I think it's important to note that for every 1 person that entered the "restroom", 5 people came out.

I loved the Waffle House on 183 & Euless Main in Euless, Texas back in the 1990's. Excellent food. Just excellent.

I worked at Waffle House and I moved to a state with no Waffle House and I still miss it so so much 😭 I think I’ll always miss it.

I was in AL for a few months. I wasnt a burger person. Since burgers from where I am from may visually look delicious and presented the taste is usually not as good as it looks. I love waffle house so much that when I got back home I genuinely miss it so much that I tried every single burger place I havent tried in my country just to fill the void. But alas, no luck. Its been 3 years.

I love you mommy .. I miss going to waffle house with you .. love you so so much

The secret is it Taste good! you see when they make your food and they never close! I love the chili there it makes a great meal on a cold winter night along with a glass of orange juice...

I used to live right across the street from one. And not but 200 ft away there is another one across the bridge.

Why do I live in the UK...

A must stop on our way to Florida for years...Love the waffles!

Getting kicked out of ihop, waffle house is better! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-riBlkmv3E2M.html

I want those waffles! I live in South Jersey. I'd have to drive like two hours in one direction to get to the closest location. All the places around here only serve Belgium style :/

2:23 If chubby Southern Kendrick Lamar says it's good, it must be good.

Many of the Waffle Houses are in the South. But there is some of their restaurants In states like Arizona and Pennsylvania

Love the smothered and covered hash browns, but they always come out scattered and splattered.

I only eat there when one person cooking

1: it’s pretty good food 2: it’s cheap 3: cooked to order

I searched for this video to tell one story. One time I was in Waffle House in Florida with my family and I wanted a waffle for the first time eating at this place. They told me they had no waffles. I don’t know if this is common or not, but a Waffle House without waffles? That’s like Starbucks without coffee beans! Anyway another day we went again and there were waffles and they were delicious but I’m still mad

I work at a Waffle House, I think the food is alright, I figured my location is popular since it’s so close to Disney world. I hear people all the time say the food is the best they’ve ever had.

If I can’t smoke w a worker outside I don’t want the food

When you said Colby Bryan I felt that

Because waffles are AMAZING!

Title: Why is waffle house so popular? Me: because people fight there dumb a-

2% of eggs and 89% of the worlds butter produced go to Waffle House

It's what's left of the old hole in the wall diners... and man the food is awesome! You will never find food as good as theirs, not any more. Never gonna let you go Waffle House!

Food arrives smothered and covered.. Comes out scattered and splattered!!

Waffle House is headquartered in Norcross Georgia and has 2,100 locations in 25 states Here are the locations by state Alabama:154 Arizona:15 (Waffle house in the desert) Arkansas:44 Colorado:10 (is there any in Denver?) Delaware:3 Florida:173 Georgia:439 (This is where Waffle House is headquartered in) Illinois:2 (I wonder where these 2 are) Indiana:23 Kansas:4 Kentucky:63 (Would you eat at a Waffle House location in the Application mountains?) Louisiana:94 (I bet New Orleans has one) Maryland:10 Mississippi:88 Missouri:40 New Mexico:2 North Carolina:182 Ohio:77 Oklahoma:16 Pennsylvania:11 South Carolina:169 Tennessee:130 Texas:117 Virginia:63 West Virginia:6

Cheap good food, good service, they have a jute box and they are always open. What more could you want.

Country ham & eggs scattered and peppered with an iced tea half and half. Damn I'm hungry!😁

man... i didn't even know waffle house existed... Canada problems

Is popular cause of three things 1.its open 24/7 so u can go there at anytime of the day 2. It’s really tasty 3. It’s has great and fast service

Their waffles are horrible. But I love their eggs and friendly employees. They need to bring more of these franchises to the north because Denny’s and Bob Evan’s is boring.

I recently moved from Florida to Massachusetts and I already miss The Waffle House

We LOVE them,,granted some are a LOT better than others,,,luckally,,,mine here is WONDERFUL!!!!

THAT EGG FLIP THO!! THE JIGGLE

I miss the comments about Serena, this ain't the same anymore.

Punches window 5 times and realises "this is why my daddy encourages child support".

It's kind of weird how waffle house seems different depending on what time you go to waffle house. During the day is completely different compared to being there at like 1:30 in the morning.

I for one am really enjoying the boost in quality that the lack of Serena provides

When my sister lived in Manteca, Ca. we would always go to the Waffle House at least once during a visit. I love it! Great food, great service.

pecan waffle and country ham -- if only they had real maple syrup

I'm sooooo annoyed that they don't have one in San Antonio. Austin and Houston have them, why not us?!!!

My Waffle House gripe is: They keep the air conditioning turned up way too high, and I'm freezing cold - in the summer, when I don't have a coat. 2D gripe: My Waffle house traded their full menu for a much smaller menu. I want the full menu back. --- What's good ? Just about everything else. The chicken is salted perfectly, best pork chops ever, love the Bert's Chili, All Star Breakfast is the best full breakfast, patty melts - a blast from the past, and of course, eggs any way you want them (except Eggs Benedict). All on a real plate. The pickles are amazing little salt bombs - ask for some.

The waffle houses up here in Pennsylvania still out do the iHops and where i live there is no Denny's, but there's 3 waffle houses and I wouldn't have it any other way. What else am i supposed to eat at 2am?

How come there isn’t one in New York at the moment?

Serena reading the comments to throw eye-lazers at her haters. If you see this, I don’t hate/dislike you. 🤗

I want to go to Waffle House since we go to Dallas/Fort Worth/San Antonio área sometimes but we don’t because my dad doesn’t like it. Idk why. I’ll ask him the next time we go

2 am : Best show in town.

Some perspective for this report. I grew up in Charleston SC. As a young adult I was deeply involved in theater and opera. After an opening nights performance, I would get up early and go o the local Waffle House to read the reviews when the early edition was delivered. I also enjoyed breakfast there. However, when I moved to Tampa, Florida, someone had gone to the expense and trouble of reviewing most of the restaurants and published them in a booklet that was organized from best to worst. The very last entry was for Waffle House which simply said "some people eat here, I don't know how." That surprised be because of my own experiences. Now I live in backwoods Gold Rock NC. I met some friends for breakfast there and what was supposed to pass for food was inedible. In short, I don't think you can make reviews such as you have done here and expect them to be valid across the board.

The awful wauful. And I say that all lovingly . Not sure why that stuck with all of us at home but it was definitely the after , after hours spot

Too bad we don't have Waffle Houses around Chicago. For some reason, when I take road trips, and I discover that there is a Waffle House in the area, I instantly become happy!

The food aint bad and as a single guy, I don't get the "Why is that guy eating here alone" vibe from the waitress or customers like you do in some establishments. It's a place you can relax, be yourself and enjoy your meal.

they are the norms of the South. good cheap food and always open , what's not to love.

The ordering at 1:00 or so, thats not a Waffle House thing so much as it is the tradition of the short-order diner, but the language used would be different in each region or even each diner. WH being a chain uses standardized language, but that just for WH.

I love eating out and trying new food

Texas style melt, scrambled egg, bacon and Diet Coke is my order

Me in New York having gone to waffle house like twice is wishing I lived in the South. (also Bojangles Chick Fillet, and Dairy Queen)

Thought this was Serena and was going to honestly compliment her, but from comments it seems to be another host (Whitney Filloon?) Not sure if this is true, but regardless of who's narrating this format and style of hosting is a lot better than previous cult following, because it gets to the core of what makes the restaurant special in a consistent and steady way, instead of awkward conversation pieces interlaced between short clips and people repeating each other.

People steer clear of the ones in Tulsa. No regulars. Mostly just travelers. Bad waitress. High prices. Nasty floors and little cleaning.

Never been there

Proud employee!

In the midwest we wonder what the south considers "food" after being told waffle house was good and a southern staple, I'd rather get breakfast at Wendy's

Texas cheese steak sandwich with hash browns and a sweet tea for me, please.

The "All Star Breakfast" ...that's why! And don't forget the grits!!!!

pop filters are cheap bro

I Hate Waffle House Now because one employee Said I'm Sorry Sir But There's No More Chocolate Milk Left And she Said Your food Is Coming Baby.

Here in Salinas Ca we have a waffle shop similar to this

No Waffle House here in the northeast. But at the diner I go to I always get the same thing every single time: 2 eggs over medium with sausage, home fries, rye toast, a glass of ice water, a bottomless cup of coffee, a bottle of Tabasco and a few extra napkins. And I read the paper while I eat (yes, some people still read the actual paper and I don't mean online). Can I get this at Waffle House? If so, and if they would expand up here to the northeast, I would definitely give them a try.

They might be called Omelette House because while the waffles are tasty the omelettes are insanely fine. I've been eating the Ham and Cheese one for decades and it's been perfect all along. I'm telling you: perfect. Every single time. The genius of Waffle House is not changing for the sake of change. They have perfect formulas, and they don't mess with them.

All those 2am trips to wafflehouse after a night of party and drinking, wafflehouse always came in clutch. #scatterAlltheWay