Imagining the poor mute, illiterate Waffle House workers trying to negotiate with an armed robber via slices of cheese and welches grape packets killed me
A 70 year old woman was working security at our local waffle house and got shot in the head and survived. Google Lynchburg Virginia waffle house shooting and she has an interview after her recovery
"Huh, that's weird. There's 2 pieces of hashbrown on the plate but no Welch packet." *shrugs and then proceeds to rub their bare ass checks on the plate.*
Dude, I wonder wtf they do when they actually run out of that specific jelly now 😂 like strawberry jelly means fried eggs or something and the customers get pissed when all their children are served fried eggs instead of ketchup covered scrambled eggs because the Waffle House newbie had no idea wtf to do 😂
@CoperliteConsumer Lol, but 100% there has to have been a Waffle House incident where they ran out of supplies and started handing out the communication condiments 😆
@@retrogrl2449 you save tons of time and you don't have to communicate with your co-workers. It's maybe more for anti-social people lol. Once you have enough time with the rules they become second nature, which basically boils the ticket system down to caveman paintings/charades.
I used to work at Waffle House. For egg breakfasts: Jelly=2 eggs Ketchup packet= -1 Mustard packet= +1 Sides: Grits=nothing Shred of hashbrown=hashbrown Smother=onions Cover=cheese Chuck=Chuck ham Dice= dice tomatoes Pepper= jalapeños Cap=mushrooms Top=chili Country= sausage gravy. Steam=Buttercup under the hashbrown. For dinners Ketchup=sirloin Buttercup=T-bone Upsidedownbuttercup=ribeye(discontinued) Mayonnaise=chicken Mustard=pork chops(2) Upsidedownmustardpacket=country ham Sandwiches: Mayonnaise packet=hamburger patty Upsidedown Mayonnaise packet=chicken Ketchup packet:cheesesteak(A.K.A. shredded steak) Jellypack codes. Vertical: Top of plate=sunny side up Middle of plate=Over medium(white done yoke runny) Left side of the plate=over light(white and yoke runny. Right side of the plate=overwell(bust the yoke and cook it all the way) Bottom of the plate="scrambled" Horizontal: omelet Left side of the plate=plain Top of the plate= ham Right side of the plate=sausage Bottom of the plate=bacon Cheese=cheese Ranch=fiesta UpsidedownMayonnaise=chicken Ketchup=cheesesteak Spoon=old fashion Toast: Grape or strawberry=white toast Upside down jelly=wheat Applebutter=raisin This is just the basics.... At this point, it's just dressing the plate for communication purposes only or for grill ops to reminded of. (For the steaks, the closer the buttercup or Ketchup packet is to the grill, the more it is cooked, example; Ketchup packet at the bottom means medium rare)
@NarNarHD the hours they made people work and the stress pretty much guarantees they'll end up driving them into addiction. Plus a lot of dealers and gang members work at Waffle Houses
Yep. Has happen to me when cooking . Slowed me down by a lot. Coworkers start freaking out because they don't know what order is there's. We were out of jelly bc customers were stealing the holders [so like 40 jellys per table] and also the half used toilet paper rolls [plus the half used airfreshern sticks].
(Puts grape jelly vertically on the bottom of the plate) I summon scrambled eggs in attack mode. (Puts another grape jelly on top of the grape jelly) Then, I will XYZ summon some toast.
"We know people couldn't possibly be more miserable working the graveyard shift at 3am, so we decided all orders would be placed in riddles to keep our employees entertained."
Crazily, at the WH by my house, there’s been two ladies who have worked the graveyard shift for at least 10+ years. They’ve been there since I was in high school. I always wonder what their daily lives are like.
Worked Waffle House when I was a 16 year old high school dropout the pull system is simple and makes a lot of sense I worked at the 3rd busiest in the nation because of the gm 3rd shift 20 years ago. I loved it and it was fun. I don’t know what it cost now or if they do it but for 2:50 a day you could eat as much as you want except bone in ham and steak. I’m sure it wouldn’t pay what I needed but I loved working there
That's how all corporate training videos are I think. Once upon a time I worked at Staples and the training videos looked just as bad if not worse. Especially the copy center ones and general training.
Honestly an animation of workers desperately trying to communicate that there’s an active threat situation going on with the magic marker system would be so goddam funny 😂
I've seen that Meatcanyon guy post on this channel before, so maybe Hunter can pass the idea onto him. Perhaps in mayonnaise and mustard packet cypher.
@oroboros88 I know. I never worked at Waffle House, but another chain diner. Every young (read minor) waitress (including myself) were either dating or had been asked out by cooks in their 20's, sometimes even 30's.
Thousands of years from now, a superior civilization will find thousands of Waffle House ruins, uncover the laminated employee Magic Marker™️ system guidelines and will assume it was our only hyroglyphic communication system, and will try to contextualize our whole culture via just these symbols of condiments.
So as a cook at waffle house, you are not even remotely wrong, I use my own system/memory because they like to change up the marking system so much, and that just creates more confusion.
@@FafnirsDisciple I've said in other comments that I've worked as a line cook at a sports bar, and the idea of being given condiment-coded instructions rather than just order tickets sounds like the most tedious and needless waste of time ever. In the words of another comment, literally just teaching the illiterate staff how to read would probably be easier and more efficient than teaching EVERYONE this marker system.
I work for a multi billion dollar corporation and they told us #1 shareholders, #2 shareholders #3 customers #4employee at our yearly meeting where they rent a center out and the CEO speaks
If the Waffle House you are working at is being robbed, remember to place a ketchup packet upside down at the bottom of the plate with a slice of cheese to the side and two jelly packets at the other side to signal to someone to call 911
I used to work in the Waffle House for a short stint after high school. The door greeter is literally just the old person that the manager is too ashamed to let go, and is too poor to not work.
Uhh, what? My mom did that because after retiring from a corporate onboarding/training career, she was bored to tears. Way to pigeonhole people though!
Write words on paper haard, Waful House says pictograham system better. (But really, I DON’T have ADHD and I would never be able to focus on this system. I’d quit after day 1 of training.)
For me it was the calm before the storm at about 5:30am 😂 at the end of every night shift. That 6am - 7am breakfast rush was ALWAYS hell and of course morning shift workers take their sweet time clocking in...
Bro, as a server I would have dreams that I was still at work calling orders. Sometimes I'd be half asleep and even tho I could see my room I just assumed it became part of Waffle House so I'd keep calling out orders. I served Homer Simpson during one of those dream moments lmao
its likely they often wear gloves, or they wash their hands between every so many orders. Mcdonalds makes it so you take off your gloves and put on a new pair between every set of patties made, while a place like little caesars requires you to wash your hands prior to your shift and after any breaks
Gloves are inferior to simply washing your hands. The issue with gloves in restaurants is that people DONT change them frequently enough. They cross contaminate far more with gloves on. Ive seen people have the same gloves on for HOURS without changing them at some places ive worked. I much prefer no gloves, people have a misperception that gloves are cleaner, but in my lived experience and data shows otherwise
I also imagine there’s got to be cross contamination with placing all of that food (including dairy) and condiment packages on the plate that is presumably going to be used to serve hot food on. One thing is certain, Waffle House could never make it to the Middle East.
I passed out once in the register area (I’m diabetic and had extremely low sugar) and had a coworker claim I was sleeping on the job. Good thing cameras showed me ragdoll to the floor and management then told her to back off
19:09 this is EXACTLY how Dollar General "trains." Two weeks of coming in just to sit at a computer and watch bad training videos, which you're expected to learn/remember everything from in one watch. I worked there 6 months and had to quit before I quit life
"well you see 2 peach jelly packets side by side oriented vertically in the center of the plate indicate a double order of sausage but if you orient them to the side that means there is an armed assailant with a 12 gauge shot gun holding the hostess at gun point, but if they are stacked on top of each other, that means the assailant has an AR style weapon"
I'm having a physical anger reaction to the magic system rn. There is no way that is easier or faster than just reading the tickets and I don't necessarily need my cheese all torn up and dirty jelly packets all over my plate.
Fr what the fuck is the point of this. Like hey Instead of just telling our cooks what they need to make with a simple ticket let's fucking create a whole separate secret language that needs decrypting that slows down every piece of the line. I've worked in kitchens for years and if I had to this I'd fucking quit.
The reason is to allow everyone on the line to know what needs to be cooked instead of passing around a ticket, also we at the torn cheese on it for when the cheese is not on the plate but instead in the cheese egg pan for melting.
I may never recover after 21:43 when you had the AK guy walk in and the whole deaf and mute restaurant starts throwing cheese and mayonnaise around. That was the funniest thing I've heard for as long as I can remember.
What’s even better is Hunter was completely right because someone in the comments said an old lady at their Waffle House got shot in the head and survived while working the door
It works cause there is always a point in the shift where the amount of people is insane and there’s either like 10 people doing 10 things at once or 3 doing 20 different tasks. Night shift on a Sunday or Saturday is a nightmare
The crazy thing is I learned this back in the 2010s on a prankcall podcast I would listen too. Because they would call waffle houses and convince them they were from corporate and to turn off all the power to the store.
"But remember: Only perform this placement if your FULLY committed to the great cause. If decline mid way through. We will absolutely, positively, butter me biscuits FIND YOU.😀"
21:52 This whole bit had me cracking up. Poor deaf mute illiterate Waffle House employees attempting to communicate with an armed robber using the magic marker system.
The Magic Marker system is so tedious and convoluted, it's genuinely batshit. Instead of letting their employees use tickets like every restaurant on Earth, they have them signing like Koko the Gorilla to show how many eggs someone wants
@@napalmbukakke If they use tickets, then why add another system that's not only tedious as hell, but wastes time and resources building a "skill" that can't even be transferred to any other restaurant position lmao
Yea plus idk what Hunter is on about with baked beans. If your wife’s been cheating on you for months and you are the AREA VICE PRESIDENT of Waffle House 🤴… you don’t have to put baked beans out in the window. You just go put down the correct number of jelly packets on a plate at Waffle House down the street, and the cook will take care of your problem for you 😉😉… 💀😂 lmao
I remember when I was at a job fair shortly after I got out of the army and a waffle house hr person told me I'd be perfect as a manager. I asked why and they said, "because you were combat arms." You just gotta love it.
It was so spot on! I’ve been in that scenario many times back when I began my journey in the working world Pizza Hut, and then Kmart had a rolling cart with a tv and I was put in this empty, small room by myself to watch videos for a few hours. It was a very new and awkward activity for me. You don’t know anyone working there, your manager disappears for a while before coming back to play a different video, or have you take a tour around the store/restaurant. And you’re coming down from being stoned, so things aren’t as fun & entertaining…but yes, his cutscene doing that had me laughing, he captured the moment well!
This is why every waffle house runs itself and is a lawless american diner. "Put an additional jelly pack for one soft-boiled egg" how 'bout i give them double portions because the bacon's been sitting out for 2 days and they all have serotonin syndrome. Hat guy gave me a camel crush too.
It takes a special kind of employee to be willing to deal with all the bull shit that goes down at a Waffle House. That magic marker system is complete ass.
I mean yea it’s actually more complicated than most management positions making over 100k a year 😂…. The only difference is at Waffle House you don’t have to pass a drug test and it doesn’t matter how many violent felony’s you have 😌 that’s actually a positive to keep the other employees safe lol. Let’s make this a waffle home 🫶
its actually incredible how insanely braindamaged you have to be to understand or even come up with the magic marker system like what drugs you have to take to think up this garbage?? why not just do what EVERY OTHER FOOD PLACE DOES??
@@selectionnstrikes me as the kind of thing some illiterate cook in the 1950’s came up with and the manager thought it was nifty. Next thing you know since it’s Georgia in the 50’s the local news has nothing else to cover but the new wonder cook at the Waffle House that memorizes all the orders. Owner thought it would be cute to institute company wide and now they can’t get rid of it cause the board room thinks it’s “heritage” or “tradition”
I got a Louisiana WH tale. I used to just buy a dollar burger per night around midnight. No tip. No change. No drink. And just loiter, for hours, every night. Totally alone, no friends with me, I was 19. Cut to night 3 or so of my dollar per night loitering. Me and the entire waffle house staff leave waffle house around 1 or 2 am. We're about to hit the town, and turn up. And I mean straight from WH, no showers, they just threw on whatever clothes were in their cars. We all car pool, and of course the most wasted cook was driving, him and the hostess up front, me another cook, and two more waitresses in the back of like, a toyota camry or something like that. We get pulled over (heavy swerving), they make him do the drunk test. He PASSES. The cops, though obviously suspicious, for whatever reason let us go. Drunk cook swaps out with one of the less drunk waitresses. We tear the club up, last thing I remember is being under neon strobe lights in a dark club with mixed whiskey drinks in our hands, we're all grinding on eachother, hard cut to black. No memory of anthing after that. Next memory I have after that, is me waking up in one of the two waitress's beds, in her house, everyone else is MIA it's just me and her at her place, no idea where her place even is or how I got there. We winged....all of this, on what was for all of them a work night. WH is a cultural experience of the deep south, and difficult to explain or convey to those who have not lived or died by the waffle.
fun fact, the magic marker system was created by one waffle house store that wanted to have fun communicating in codes. it was one team that really liked each other and corporate had stopped in and LOVED what they were doing. now we all have been doing it. so the rumor goes
I remember working at a Culver’s (a Midwest fast food chain) and they had something similar to the “magic marker system”. They called it “silent signals” and instead of using plates and sauce packets, they used food trays, burger buns, and slices of cheese. After watching the training videos we had to take a written test to prove we memorized all the “silent signals”, and we weren’t allowed to work in the kitchen unless we passed.Nobody actually used it of course, because it was stupid. So everyone just read the tickets instead off an overhead monitor.
OMG I WORK THERE RIGHT NOW HESLWKDJWNDW I didn't think I'd see another worker here! It sucks there though I've been treated like shit for my disabilities...
Taco Bell has something similar. I couldn't remember their ENTIRE menu (including stuff that isn't on the menu) and wasn't allowed to work until I did.
Having worked in kitchens in my late teens and early 20s, most cooks are either stoned, drunk, high off pcp or acid or just plain exhausted. And not to mention that we would shit talk customers something fierce
The bit with no one being able to speak except through the magic marking while they are being robbed is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I’m crying
Bringing 40 different foods out yea it sucks I was a line cook too the place would be busy as hell Sunday morning and afternoon but you don’t gotta read sign language and “covered smothered and blah blah” I’d lose my mind
But be careful, if the butter packets are all flat with each other, you’ll accidentally activate the sleeper cells we have stationed in Bosnia to take over the country and create a Waffle Republic where the flag will be a plate with jelly packet on its side and a cheese with a corner torn off.
The very first time I went into a Waffle House eight cops showed up because a drugged up guy was causing a disturbance. I recall hearing word for word "if you don't leave sir I'm going to have to taze you" in the most bored, over it tone ever lmfao
As someone who is autistic and used to work for Waffle House I can go ahead and confirm that the little plate codings and order codes were an absolute Hell on Earth to learn. I'm so glad I'll never have to deal with that ridiculous crap again. I remember my boss at the time telling me that I had to learn it because "people are here to hear the cook dialogue and see the show"
Howmuch food is wasted during an order? If 1 cheese equals 1 egg, what do they do with the cheese after the order is complete? Throw it away? Reuse it on a future order that requires cheese?
Your boss was full of shit because I'm there to eat I don't give a shit about what's happening behind the counter unless the cook is about to kill the waitress then the show has started.
As an Anonymous Waffle House employee for a number of years, here's a bit of trivia and lore: 1. Many grill ops don't Pull-Drop unless upper managers are there. I rarely did, only for large orders, because most servers call so shitty thats its even worse translating it INTO the marks than to translate what the marks SAY. Most time I'll tell them to just give me the tickets, especially if its only two or three things. It is good also if people want complicated ass orders, which working there I can say, drunk ghetto people are the biggest Karens about their food I have ever met. 2. 19:58, believe it or not Papa, you would fit right in for Door Corps. Its a glorified hostess position that pays minimum wage to seat people, take names, clean the lobby and parking lot, and help (not do ALL the bussing as every manager everyday has to tell the waitresses) bus tables. All the Door Corps I ever knew were either elderly, young kids with special needs, or were Salespeople banished from the back line for the transgressions of not calling in front of the Manager, spending too much time smoking, or being a bitch in general. 3. One highlight about Waffle House is our policy for dealing with customer complaints is the equivalent to "f*ck around and find out." I have been called every name in the book and been threatened both with my job and physically countless times. I've broken up fights between coworkers or involving them and walked with scratches and bruises. I threatened a customer with a chefs knife after he punched my elderly coworker for no reason. If you go into the Waffle House looking for a fight, come heavy. Unless of course its with another customer, then just bring that sh*t out to the parking lot. We don't care. 4. Yes, we are always open. Unless something catastrophic happens, theres a security problem, or no one shows up for work, we're open. And if you walk into a Waffle House and ask if they're open, prepare to be looked at and talked to like you're the dumbest motherf*cker on the face of the Earth.
@@OpinionatedChicken59this comment makes me laugh so hard 🤣 As for the OP- dude, “come to waffle house lookin for a fight? Come heavy” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 reminds me of that police force video “IM EEEESY TA FIAAAAND” 😭😭 Waffle house employees are actually just retired combat vets prove me wrong
Atleast you're a chef who knows when it's appropriate to mark and when ya don't need to. I had so any chefs that wouldn't mark shit, then ask me 5 times again what the order was. I was the main guy the called to pick up shifts at any of the Waffle House's near me, so I worked at 7-8 different ones total. Dude so many of my bad memories come from an unsatisfied customer cause my grill ops kept forgetting the order, or making me stop taking an order to deliver 1 fucking plate of food (Because David would always say "That's not my job, you're the server, I already did my job" and my customers would be asking for drinks and if I got the customers their drinks David would stonewall me and be like "What you don't wanna do what I say, I don't wanna cook your food" like bro, the manager watched this dude threaten to stab another coworker in front of the customers and all she did was say "Stop that" like Velma or some shit. Dude was also slow as shit, I'd always go over to call and that dude would make me wait 2 minutes til he finished cooking before he even would agree to listen to me. David wasn't even my least favorite coworker, there were other stupid mother fuckers too
Damn I got so pissed in first comment I totally forgot to add more context to why I worked at like 6-8 different stores total. What I was gonna say was this. Every Waffle House I subbed in at, the chefs were always atleast 10 times better than my usual chefs. I was always blown away thinking "Why do my home base WH chefs suck so much, and why are they so slow compared to ever other grill operator?" Like it sounds like I'm talkin,g mad shit on 'em for no reason, but if you worked with those fools you'd be bitchin about them like I am right now. How does your Post Traumatic Waffle Disorder treat you now-a-days?
@@michaelboyle7281 First, WH doesnt employ chefs, only cooks. Second, cooks like David are also a pain in the ass to other cooks. I helped my servers as much as I could and they returned the favor. But there were times I had to work with temps from other stores who would actively try and disrupt our teamwork like some real cunts
The whole section about the greeting dude getting gunned down by a random person and them communicating with jelly packets and cheese had me CRYING laughing. Jesus Christ.
That weird jelly code sounds like something you would have seen at a cafe in Germany during WWII used by the allies as a front to transfer information between the military and spies. "Ah three jellies, we air strike at dawn."
Worked at Waffle House less than a year. During one shift a man threatened to shoot our server in the back of the head after we asked if he was person that shit in the trash can in the bathroom and if it was him hitting the door and yelling loudly. Then the server walks over and says “I dare you” then they found out they were in the same gang and became friends. One time a guy dropped his pistol on the ground picked it back up as he is walking in wow was my adrenaline going that day. He ended up leaving didn’t order anything. One time a manager showed me a video that happened in his store of this guy yanking his chicks hair pulling her to the ground then knocking the other guy they were arguing with out cold. He threw some dishes at the staff and windows. cops came had to taser and arrest him. I think the girl had to go to hostpital hope she made it. If you want to work at Wafflehouse you better have a will and your affairs in order. Seriously watch the fuck out
I actually worked the night shift at waffle house and it was surprisingly peaceful, except the time a group of kids threatened to beat the baby out of a pregnant employee, or the time a new hire got arrested exposing himself to a minor in the women's bathroom, or the time a manager got fired for doing heroin in the back... Maybe it wasnt so peaceful actually.
"You have to be a juggler, a smooth-talker, an Olympic sprinter, and an entertainer. This position pays minimum wage." Gee, I wonder what happened to the door corps™️? 🤷♂️
As an ex wafflehouse employee all i can say is extra crispy hashbrown smothered. You wont regret it. Also the magic marker system is no longer used, its call and response now.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Idk what to say they didn't use it in the location I worked at. Maybe the gm there just didn't want to bother training due it's high turnover there, if it's still used over all then I apologize. That location told they stopped doing it.
The archaic fast food lingo is the funniest thing in the world. Its like going to those hotdog joints and the employees are back there screeming "I NEED A JOHNNY IN THE POCKET, GARDEN STYLE, FLIP IT KOWABUNGA" And its just like. A hot dog with mustard and fries with gravy.
how insane could the food code combinations get?? "I'd like 3 jelly packets for my one scrambled waffle, a raw egg, two bacon, active shooter, i drive a red toyota camry"
I was too pissed off to try and make sense of this by the time they hit the jelly packet. It's almost like they want their customers to fist fight the staff.
I work in retail and can tell you 99% of my coworkers would fuck up this system most of the time, and I would come off as this obsessive compulsive pulling my hair, screaming "you put the jelly pack face down Brayden! That means wheat toast!!"
@chrisbuttonshaw2088 Let me be more specific, I work in a big box store with a bunch of people that give zero fucks. I spend an inordinate amount of time fixing the same errors from the same people every day. It's order pickup, so people are messing up customer orders. I've worked in high pace food service, and these kids would have been fired or kept in the dish pit where they can't cost the business a bunch of money fucking up orders.
Stop torturing yourself and get Opera GX: operagx.gg/PapaMeat3
don’t tell me what to do.
ok papi
tell me what to do papa
You better come to the Stalker preview in Dallas or for fucks sake, I will shit myself.
no.
Imagining the poor mute, illiterate Waffle House workers trying to negotiate with an armed robber via slices of cheese and welches grape packets killed me
I’m literally fucking crying laughing
Same. Made me laugh harder than anything else this year
I laughed so hard I got the hiccups
This is actually a great animation fuel
Dude, I'm stoned, and I was not prepared for that imaginary scenario. I haven't laughed that hard in a really long time lmao.
If he says one negative thing about Waffle House I’m quitting the show
Lmfao understandable
rip creepcast 🫡
How dare he spew such sacrilege
Iceberg boy
But if it's true, then it's just fact reporting. What, you hate FACTS? OK Mr Weller.
A 70 year old woman was working security at our local waffle house and got shot in the head and survived.
Google Lynchburg Virginia waffle house shooting and she has an interview after her recovery
Hell yeah.
They picked the right person for job god damn
I was there
Legend
She ate the bullet like a god
"Huh, that's weird. There's 2 pieces of hashbrown on the plate but no Welch packet." *shrugs and then proceeds to rub their bare ass checks on the plate.*
omg im legit cry laughing rn
Hahaha you made me laaaugh
Customer is always right.
that caught me so off guard
"I'll have an order of eggs"
"Sorry, we're out of grape jelly"
Dude, I wonder wtf they do when they actually run out of that specific jelly now 😂 like strawberry jelly means fried eggs or something and the customers get pissed when all their children are served fried eggs instead of ketchup covered scrambled eggs because the Waffle House newbie had no idea wtf to do 😂
@@teamepicforce7662 fr
@@teamepicforce7662they always make sure to not give away the marker packets silly!
@CoperliteConsumer Lol, but 100% there has to have been a Waffle House incident where they ran out of supplies and started handing out the communication condiments 😆
Stupid video, 12mins in and still hasn't shown shit
"If there's a fire in the kitchen, place a hot sauce packet at a 45 degree angle at the top of the plate. If the fire is spreading rapidly, place 2".
💀💀💀
I laughed way to hard at this comment 😂
… Vertically face down, if face up, this indicates the customer has asked for their eggs over easy
Only if you care about safety👍
Omg this shit is do fucking stupid. They make everything difficult and confusing. I would quit before I started. This shit is so dumb
Imagine thinking your employees can't read or write, but can understand the 'magic marker system' with ease
“Do you know what syntax means, sir or mam that can’t read or write?” 😂
its mainly for autistic people and it does help them
@@souljaboy.6668 I'm autistic and that system seems extremely complicated lmao, also where are you getting that from?
@@souljaboy.6668 I don't find it helpful at all. It's a nightmare!
@@retrogrl2449 you save tons of time and you don't have to communicate with your co-workers. It's maybe more for anti-social people lol. Once you have enough time with the rules they become second nature, which basically boils the ticket system down to caveman paintings/charades.
I used to work at Waffle House.
For egg breakfasts:
Jelly=2 eggs
Ketchup packet= -1
Mustard packet= +1
Sides:
Grits=nothing
Shred of hashbrown=hashbrown
Smother=onions
Cover=cheese
Chuck=Chuck ham
Dice= dice tomatoes
Pepper= jalapeños
Cap=mushrooms
Top=chili
Country= sausage gravy.
Steam=Buttercup under the hashbrown.
For dinners
Ketchup=sirloin
Buttercup=T-bone
Upsidedownbuttercup=ribeye(discontinued)
Mayonnaise=chicken
Mustard=pork chops(2)
Upsidedownmustardpacket=country ham
Sandwiches:
Mayonnaise packet=hamburger patty
Upsidedown Mayonnaise packet=chicken
Ketchup packet:cheesesteak(A.K.A. shredded steak)
Jellypack codes.
Vertical:
Top of plate=sunny side up
Middle of plate=Over medium(white done yoke runny)
Left side of the plate=over light(white and yoke runny.
Right side of the plate=overwell(bust the yoke and cook it all the way)
Bottom of the plate="scrambled"
Horizontal: omelet
Left side of the plate=plain
Top of the plate= ham
Right side of the plate=sausage
Bottom of the plate=bacon
Cheese=cheese
Ranch=fiesta
UpsidedownMayonnaise=chicken
Ketchup=cheesesteak
Spoon=old fashion
Toast:
Grape or strawberry=white toast
Upside down jelly=wheat
Applebutter=raisin
This is just the basics....
At this point, it's just dressing the plate for communication purposes only or for grill ops to reminded of.
(For the steaks, the closer the buttercup or Ketchup packet is to the grill, the more it is cooked, example; Ketchup packet at the bottom means medium rare)
This makes me angry
@@CosmicBaconCat I hate the fact that I that I remember this.....
The sacred codes
What’s the symbol for active shooter
@@brain9395 You give them the money and don't be a hero.
"I'm sorry about the raw sirloin, sir, someone bumped the plate and the grape jelly was flipped horizontal."
excellent comment lol
Bro I read this comment before I watched the video, I was VERY confused lol
@@sethr.c1065 actually that would turn an order of eggs into an omlette 🤣.
Raw sirloin would happen if the ketchup pack slid down the plate
@napalmbukakke bro stop😂😂
Could have been worse. A thing of mustard could have slipped onto the plate, which is the code for "douse the food with weapons-grade laxatives"
Friend started Waffle House for money. Left with a coke addiction and emotional instability.
I had some friends of friends who worked at Waffle House, every single one of them did coke lol
@@NarNarHD Sorry to both of you, man. 😭
@NarNarHD the hours they made people work and the stress pretty much guarantees they'll end up driving them into addiction. Plus a lot of dealers and gang members work at Waffle Houses
Where do I sign up then
I hope your friend gets help!
God forbid Waffle House ever runs out of Welch's jelly packets, their whole system would break down real quick.
Yep. Has happen to me when cooking . Slowed me down by a lot. Coworkers start freaking out because they don't know what order is there's. We were out of jelly bc customers were stealing the holders [so like 40 jellys per table] and also the half used toilet paper rolls [plus the half used airfreshern sticks].
Additionally, if Waffle House closes all locations, Welch's stock will plummet.
Hold on how do they bill orders if there's no paper trail?
Corporate idiocy at it's finest
@@captainLoknar cooks don't bill customers
They just dig em out of the trash.
(Puts grape jelly vertically on the bottom of the plate) I summon scrambled eggs in attack mode. (Puts another grape jelly on top of the grape jelly) Then, I will XYZ summon some toast.
Link summon a wheat toast LV2.
I am absolutely crying at this lmfao
The plate sign language is so ridiculous. How can you expect your high and exhausted employees to remember all of that?
Not gonna lie I have not seen this.. I usually just see people writing things down. 😂
As a former employee, it aint that hard.
I just feel like that this was made just to fuck with people.
Well, ya do it about 400 times a shift, so you either learn that system or make your own
Dude they are MAD lmao
"We know people couldn't possibly be more miserable working the graveyard shift at 3am, so we decided all orders would be placed in riddles to keep our employees entertained."
Crazily, at the WH by my house, there’s been two ladies who have worked the graveyard shift for at least 10+ years. They’ve been there since I was in high school. I always wonder what their daily lives are like.
@@mohnjayerthey are definitely either best friends or never want to talk to eachother, no inbetween
Worked Waffle House when I was a 16 year old high school dropout the pull system is simple and makes a lot of sense I worked at the 3rd busiest in the nation because of the gm 3rd shift 20 years ago. I loved it and it was fun. I don’t know what it cost now or if they do it but for 2:50 a day you could eat as much as you want except bone in ham and steak. I’m sure it wouldn’t pay what I needed but I loved working there
I bet it's way less hectic than a dinner rush at least
I can't "👍🏼" this it's at 666, as it should be...
I get why the employees are always mad now cuz that plate marking shit would piss me off too 😆
Really? It's made for illiterate people, so what's it say when you can't handle a pack of mayo
It pissed me off just watching it be explained lol.
I Will never allow myself to become frustrated at a waffle house again.
I would just wait and let anyone in a restaurant take as much time as they need
@@Snake-pg2jh you can stay as long as you like
i actually think becoming literate would be easier than deciphering the waffle house cheese-jelly code
I explain it to customers all the time. They seem to get it the first time. I even offer discounts if they mark their plates correctly for me.
Once saw a guy get completely rocked by waffle House employees on Christmas. After he left, they put his broken glasses on the Christmas tree.
😂😭😂
That's like not even farfetched. I can totally see this happening multiple times in multiple locations lol
That's fuckin metal if true
Another tribute to the War Gods
😂
Blink once if you need emergency help. Blink twice if you want your eggs over easy.
Blink three times to summon Bettlejuice
😂😂😂😂
@@ChefYoshiJones-xm6sp WAFFLE HOUSE! WAFFLE HOUSE! WAFFLE HOUSE!
I like how the harassment video was filmed in the age of smart phones but still has the same look and feel of a late 80s - early 90s training video
That's how all corporate training videos are I think. Once upon a time I worked at Staples and the training videos looked just as bad if not worse. Especially the copy center ones and general training.
I remember waking up to this video at the part with the codes for orders, and almost had a panic attack, thinking I had a stroke in my sleep.
Honestly an animation of workers desperately trying to communicate that there’s an active threat situation going on with the magic marker system would be so goddam funny 😂
Please
I've seen that Meatcanyon guy post on this channel before, so maybe Hunter can pass the idea onto him.
Perhaps in mayonnaise and mustard packet cypher.
Fr lol
Oh man I really gotta head south n get me some of this waffle experience
This "magic system" seems like a great way to make a worker's will to live ✨️disappear✨️
who actuallly thought of that, just write a ticket, why would anyone ever make that
@@balkaba3927It's for illiterate people
Between that, and working the crackhead hours. It don't take much lol
Like an Isakai.
I tried to learn this shit. It’s so fucking stupid
What they really need is a video telling the 21 year old cooks not to try to date the 15 year old waitresses.
Like Ace family
This sounds oddly personal
Grass on the field...? Play Ball!
Ewww, somebody get Sneako outta here 😂@@agentdas
@oroboros88 I know. I never worked at Waffle House, but another chain diner. Every young (read minor) waitress (including myself) were either dating or had been asked out by cooks in their 20's, sometimes even 30's.
"Remember to use a Coleman lantern to signify multiple attackers weilding knives."
Two if they're coming by sea, of course.
The Magic Marker system creates so many more problems than it solves that it feels like an SNL or Mad TV skit.
Thousands of years from now, a superior civilization will find thousands of Waffle House ruins, uncover the laminated employee Magic Marker™️ system guidelines and will assume it was our only hyroglyphic communication system, and will try to contextualize our whole culture via just these symbols of condiments.
@@caitchri2426 literal condiment-based hieroglyphics just to order generic breakfast diner food.
So as a cook at waffle house, you are not even remotely wrong, I use my own system/memory because they like to change up the marking system so much, and that just creates more confusion.
@@FafnirsDisciple I've said in other comments that I've worked as a line cook at a sports bar, and the idea of being given condiment-coded instructions rather than just order tickets sounds like the most tedious and needless waste of time ever.
In the words of another comment, literally just teaching the illiterate staff how to read would probably be easier and more efficient than teaching EVERYONE this marker system.
It would be easier to learn and read and write was is needed rather than this shit
*a paper plate with a crack pipe rotated 40 degrees and a fryer knob covered in butter* "THEY HIT THE SECOND TOWER"
Lmaoo 😂
💀💀💀💀
A series of plates with various jelly's and condiments "furst towa secont towa....and da octagon???"
Imagine being a waffle house employee being handed a plate with cheese slices and jelly packets and being like “Dear god not the pentagon” 💀💀
@@juanitoarcoiris5824 AHAHAHA
"Sir, a second Welch's jelly has hit the centre of the plate."
i am dead
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Holy shit lmfao
this made me giggle out loud
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What kills me is that for food safety, they list protecting the brand as the number one priority and “it’s the right thing to do” last.
I work for a multi billion dollar corporation and they told us #1 shareholders, #2 shareholders #3 customers #4employee at our yearly meeting where they rent a center out and the CEO speaks
“Hold on and order slowly, I need to decorate the plate”
If the Waffle House you are working at is being robbed, remember to place a ketchup packet upside down at the bottom of the plate with a slice of cheese to the side and two jelly packets at the other side to signal to someone to call 911
@@cameronpeterson6734 wait, is that a robbery or a ham sandwich?
@@RandomPerson-nd2eyBoth. You make a ham sandwich for the hungry emergency workers
I used to work in the Waffle House for a short stint after high school. The door greeter is literally just the old person that the manager is too ashamed to let go, and is too poor to not work.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Uhh, what? My mom did that because after retiring from a corporate onboarding/training career, she was bored to tears. Way to pigeonhole people though!
@@Freek3143 How could being a door greeter at Waffle House be less boring than being retired?
@@MatthewTheWanderer Because you have things to keep you busy? Genius question, dude.
@@Freek3143 Huh? There's very little to keep door greeters busy, There's a lot more to keep retirees busy.
The ordering system is actually infuriating me more as the video goes on
I've already stopped paying attention. I'd never make it through the training process with my adhd.
@@ContactsNfilters Oh no as soon as they start explaining it im out of that building
Write words on paper haard, Waful House says pictograham system better. (But really, I DON’T have ADHD and I would never be able to focus on this system. I’d quit after day 1 of training.)
How is anybody supposed to memorize all that?!
Most restaurants have “markers.”
I’m crying, pissing, shitting and farting over the mute cashier negotiating with a gunman via slices of cheese and Mayo.
Former WH cook here. I had to quit when I woke up expecting to see all the food I cooked, only to find out i was just dreaming it.
For me it was the calm before the storm at about 5:30am 😂 at the end of every night shift. That 6am - 7am breakfast rush was ALWAYS hell and of course morning shift workers take their sweet time clocking in...
I didnt work at WH but I had nightmares about the telephone ringing for months after I quit.
As an ex chef, this order/ticket system is giving me 2nd hand PTSD.
Bro, as a server I would have dreams that I was still at work calling orders. Sometimes I'd be half asleep and even tho I could see my room I just assumed it became part of Waffle House so I'd keep calling out orders. I served Homer Simpson during one of those dream moments lmao
@@michaelboyle7281
They’re concerned about food safety yet their whole “system” has employees putting their grubby mitts all over your food and no one wears gloves.
its likely they often wear gloves, or they wash their hands between every so many orders. Mcdonalds makes it so you take off your gloves and put on a new pair between every set of patties made, while a place like little caesars requires you to wash your hands prior to your shift and after any breaks
Gloves are inferior to simply washing your hands. The issue with gloves in restaurants is that people DONT change them frequently enough. They cross contaminate far more with gloves on. Ive seen people have the same gloves on for HOURS without changing them at some places ive worked. I much prefer no gloves, people have a misperception that gloves are cleaner, but in my lived experience and data shows otherwise
I also imagine there’s got to be cross contamination with placing all of that food (including dairy) and condiment packages on the plate that is presumably going to be used to serve hot food on. One thing is certain, Waffle House could never make it to the Middle East.
To remember a customer requests gluten free, pour a bag of enriched flour on the plate.
Gloves are breeding grounds for bacteria. However I also don't trust them to wash their hands so either way it's bad
I passed out once in the register area (I’m diabetic and had extremely low sugar) and had a coworker claim I was sleeping on the job. Good thing cameras showed me ragdoll to the floor and management then told her to back off
It's crazy how she'll say, "They're sleeping on the job!" when literally you collapsed to the ground, I - 💀
@@anothercarttogo1819 from then on she’d be pissed if I ever said I needed something with sugar or needed a break for a snack
@@blondecyclops6795 Bruh, the casual ableism 🙄
what an absolute scientologist. I can't stand people like that.
@@ReeferMusic lol
19:09 this is EXACTLY how Dollar General "trains." Two weeks of coming in just to sit at a computer and watch bad training videos, which you're expected to learn/remember everything from in one watch. I worked there 6 months and had to quit before I quit life
"well you see 2 peach jelly packets side by side oriented vertically in the center of the plate indicate a double order of sausage but if you orient them to the side that means there is an armed assailant with a 12 gauge shot gun holding the hostess at gun point, but if they are stacked on top of each other, that means the assailant has an AR style weapon"
I'm having a physical anger reaction to the magic system rn. There is no way that is easier or faster than just reading the tickets and I don't necessarily need my cheese all torn up and dirty jelly packets all over my plate.
But also, it's just getting your hands everywhere on the plate for nothing. I would have a meltdown if I had to work there.
Fr what the fuck is the point of this. Like hey Instead of just telling our cooks what they need to make with a simple ticket let's fucking create a whole separate secret language that needs decrypting that slows down every piece of the line.
I've worked in kitchens for years and if I had to this I'd fucking quit.
The reason is to allow everyone on the line to know what needs to be cooked instead of passing around a ticket, also we at the torn cheese on it for when the cheese is not on the plate but instead in the cheese egg pan for melting.
Hunter absolutely needs to make a cartoon about the waffle house robbery scenario.
I'm pretty sure my waffle house here in Florida just uses tickets
I may never recover after 21:43 when you had the AK guy walk in and the whole deaf and mute restaurant starts throwing cheese and mayonnaise around. That was the funniest thing I've heard for as long as I can remember.
oh my god same i almpst blacked out it was so funny
Dude same I was struggling trying to not wake up my wife.
I'm in tears after laughing so hard after that bit
One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen
What’s even better is Hunter was completely right because someone in the comments said an old lady at their Waffle House got shot in the head and survived while working the door
Teaching the employees to read would be easier than explaining the marker system
As someone who has worked in the food industry for years I’m having a panic attack 8 minutes about this magic marker bullshit.
I'm getting aggravated just at the idea that anyone has to learn this bullshit.
😭
It works cause there is always a point in the shift where the amount of people is insane and there’s either like 10 people doing 10 things at once or 3 doing 20 different tasks. Night shift on a Sunday or Saturday is a nightmare
Fr this actually has me mad thinking about having to learn that for a job. Never did I think I would be happy for tickets
I did too! I worked in kitchens most of my life, that was the craziest 💩 I've ever seen.😢 No thanks.
A cool thing is that during a natural disaster, the government will judge how bad it is based on the operational status of a wafflehouse in the area.
Reminds me of the pizza meter (formerly the Washington pizza index)?
Yup, it seems to be a thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
@fL0p I wasn't lying, lol. But thank you for actually taking your time and supplying the link.
Well, you learn something new everyday
The crazy thing is I learned this back in the 2010s on a prankcall podcast I would listen too. Because they would call waffle houses and convince them they were from corporate and to turn off all the power to the store.
In other news, Isaiah has canceled the Creep Cast tour for Hunter insulting his place of worship.
FAX NO PRINTER
When did he? Was it in like a couple video
@@happyfoobleit was a joke bro
These "scenarios" feel like full on comedy skits!
And im LOVING IT!
Little known fact: if you place three plates with three jelly packs at the 3 o’clock position, you are then invited to join the free masons.
Worked. I now own 23 percent of Blackstone. Thanks, now get back to work peasant.
So THAT'S why I got invited to that human sacrifice ceremony and even got my own black robe and an insignia ring!
Do you mean the three masons?
"But remember: Only perform this placement if your FULLY committed to the great cause. If decline mid way through. We will absolutely, positively, butter me biscuits FIND YOU.😀"
21:52 This whole bit had me cracking up. Poor deaf mute illiterate Waffle House employees attempting to communicate with an armed robber using the magic marker system.
I was hoping someone commented this 😂. His laugh makes it even better too. I don’t normally laugh at videos like that
yeah that shit was hilarious
100% lol I was out of breath laughing and crying during this bit. Pure comedy
My sides were gone after that bit! Too hilarious and pure gold! His laughter sold it perfectly as well!
Bruh I almost choked and died on my damn food laughing so hard 😂
Imagine having to do Terrance Howard math every time you made a fucking omelet. No wonder everyone here is always pissed off.
I came here to write this thought, lol!!!
It's easily the worst place I have ever worked!
You have no idea how badly I wish we lived in the world of these fast food restaurant training videos.
The Magic Marker system is so tedious and convoluted, it's genuinely batshit. Instead of letting their employees use tickets like every restaurant on Earth, they have them signing like Koko the Gorilla to show how many eggs someone wants
KOKO THE GORILLA IS TAKING ME OUUUTTTTTT
What makes you think they dont use tickets 🤣
@@napalmbukakke the magic marker system does.
@@ThePimpinator tickets are used dawg -_-" the marking system is for the cook only.
@@napalmbukakke If they use tickets, then why add another system that's not only tedious as hell, but wastes time and resources building a "skill" that can't even be transferred to any other restaurant position lmao
The marking system is so batshit crazy.
fucking insane.. god forbid someone bump the plate and slide your jelly packet to the wrong spot
It’s making me irrationally upset
I live in Canada and grainfields does this too. I was so fucking mad I only worked there for 2 weeks.
Yea plus idk what Hunter is on about with baked beans. If your wife’s been cheating on you for months and you are the AREA VICE PRESIDENT of Waffle House 🤴… you don’t have to put baked beans out in the window. You just go put down the correct number of jelly packets on a plate at Waffle House down the street, and the cook will take care of your problem for you 😉😉…
💀😂 lmao
Also yea legit insanity trying to remember all that lmao
I remember when I was at a job fair shortly after I got out of the army and a waffle house hr person told me I'd be perfect as a manager. I asked why and they said, "because you were combat arms." You just gotta love it.
a rage quit being you just plow through all the staged plates on the way to the door
Your cut to sitting in the back room watching orientation videos is so dead accurate and you have absolutely no idea how fuckin funny that is
I died laughing at that, oh the good ol days of fast food service 😅
It was so spot on! I’ve been in that scenario many times back when I began my journey in the working world
Pizza Hut, and then Kmart had a rolling cart with a tv and I was put in this empty, small room by myself to watch videos for a few hours. It was a very new and awkward activity for me. You don’t know anyone working there, your manager disappears for a while before coming back to play a different video, or have you take a tour around the store/restaurant. And you’re coming down from being stoned, so things aren’t as fun & entertaining…but yes, his cutscene doing that had me laughing, he captured the moment well!
Reminds me of the movie Waiting
*waiter spends 20 minutes assembling random condiments and cheese slices on a plate* "Wow, how did they remember everything?"
The cook is the one who marks plates and they only do it if orders are backing up beyond what they can remember
I have been WAITING for someone with a sizable audience to talk about the plate code. It's so unhinged
wtf why? Lmao idk but that sounds so unhinged lmao 🤣 Jesus go outside
Moist did a video or stream a few months back, but Meat Man did it better.
@@PourItIn_MyTrophies You sound unhinged.
@@KronosOnPC you throating that man for what?
They don't even do it at the one in my town. They just write it down like normal folk. Lol.
This is why every waffle house runs itself and is a lawless american diner. "Put an additional jelly pack for one soft-boiled egg" how 'bout i give them double portions because the bacon's been sitting out for 2 days and they all have serotonin syndrome. Hat guy gave me a camel crush too.
This looks like something I'd create when I'm manic to stop the CIA from understanding me.
Hahahaha
Lmao😂
It takes a special kind of employee to be willing to deal with all the bull shit that goes down at a Waffle House. That magic marker system is complete ass.
I mean yea it’s actually more complicated than most management positions making over 100k a year 😂…. The only difference is at Waffle House you don’t have to pass a drug test and it doesn’t matter how many violent felony’s you have 😌 that’s actually a positive to keep the other employees safe lol.
Let’s make this a waffle home 🫶
Fr that shit is like learning a new language except without patterns and continuity that languages have
its actually incredible how insanely braindamaged you have to be to understand or even come up with the magic marker system
like what drugs you have to take to think up this garbage?? why not just do what EVERY OTHER FOOD PLACE DOES??
@@selectionnstrikes me as the kind of thing some illiterate cook in the 1950’s came up with and the manager thought it was nifty. Next thing you know since it’s Georgia in the 50’s the local news has nothing else to cover but the new wonder cook at the Waffle House that memorizes all the orders. Owner thought it would be cute to institute company wide and now they can’t get rid of it cause the board room thinks it’s “heritage” or “tradition”
Lots of corporations use purposely punitive dumb procedures just to filter out smart people
If I got hired and seen this, I’m quitting during orientation
Yea fuuuck that noise lmao I will feel less duped with a simple printed label to see if they got the order right tf is this heigrolyphic food making.
The Magic Marker system is genius for a lone short-order cook that has to handle a swarm of partiers' orders at 2:31 in the morning. Jussayin'
"You'll have to be a smuggler, a smooth talker, an olympic sprinter, and an entertainer."
What is this, Ocean's 11?
Schönes Profilbild ♥️🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
I got a Louisiana WH tale. I used to just buy a dollar burger per night around midnight. No tip. No change. No drink. And just loiter, for hours, every night. Totally alone, no friends with me, I was 19. Cut to night 3 or so of my dollar per night loitering. Me and the entire waffle house staff leave waffle house around 1 or 2 am. We're about to hit the town, and turn up. And I mean straight from WH, no showers, they just threw on whatever clothes were in their cars. We all car pool, and of course the most wasted cook was driving, him and the hostess up front, me another cook, and two more waitresses in the back of like, a toyota camry or something like that. We get pulled over (heavy swerving), they make him do the drunk test. He PASSES. The cops, though obviously suspicious, for whatever reason let us go. Drunk cook swaps out with one of the less drunk waitresses. We tear the club up, last thing I remember is being under neon strobe lights in a dark club with mixed whiskey drinks in our hands, we're all grinding on eachother, hard cut to black. No memory of anthing after that. Next memory I have after that, is me waking up in one of the two waitress's beds, in her house, everyone else is MIA it's just me and her at her place, no idea where her place even is or how I got there. We winged....all of this, on what was for all of them a work night. WH is a cultural experience of the deep south, and difficult to explain or convey to those who have not lived or died by the waffle.
We don't have waffle houses up here. When I don't care about getting into a fight or getting stabbed, I have to go to popeyes.
Why isn't this top comment?
Waffle house waitresses are indeed easy. Will verify.
Hell yeah man.
This sounds like some wild ‘80s story 😂😂
I’ve run some fancy kitchens and we have little signals.
That Magic Marker system is pants-shitting insane.
they definitely paid some dude whos never been in a kitchen to come up with that system.
fun fact, the magic marker system was created by one waffle house store that wanted to have fun communicating in codes. it was one team that really liked each other and corporate had stopped in and LOVED what they were doing. now we all have been doing it. so the rumor goes
I love how they invented a secret language instead of...
Writing the orders down.
This is genious
I remember working at a Culver’s (a Midwest fast food chain) and they had something similar to the “magic marker system”. They called it “silent signals” and instead of using plates and sauce packets, they used food trays, burger buns, and slices of cheese. After watching the training videos we had to take a written test to prove we memorized all the “silent signals”, and we weren’t allowed to work in the kitchen unless we passed.Nobody actually used it of course, because it was stupid. So everyone just read the tickets instead off an overhead monitor.
I used to work at a culvers for the past 2 years. Our franchise luckily never did that bs. But then again I worked everywhere BUT the kitchen
OMG I WORK THERE RIGHT NOW HESLWKDJWNDW I didn't think I'd see another worker here! It sucks there though I've been treated like shit for my disabilities...
Taco Bell has something similar. I couldn't remember their ENTIRE menu (including stuff that isn't on the menu) and wasn't allowed to work until I did.
Lmfao! I love this story. I will never be able to not think about this every time I go to Culver’s now
I have also had a similar experience at Chipotle and been back sense. You are not alone 😂
I nearly suffocated from laughing when he was talking about all of the employees talking to each other with cheese on plates.
Maybe I shouldn’t divulge this information, but I laughed until I peed a little
Hunter please I’m begging I need this to be a meat canyon video, the robbery while the back is frantically communicating with packets and cheese
Having worked in kitchens in my late teens and early 20s, most cooks are either stoned, drunk, high off pcp or acid or just plain exhausted. And not to mention that we would shit talk customers something fierce
It feels like it'd be easier to just teach the employees to read than deal with this system
Yes but readers are not what business wants. This is about freeing them to cut education without consequence to their bottom line.
The bit with no one being able to speak except through the magic marking while they are being robbed is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I’m crying
On my YT page. There is Saturday video that was definitely removed by papa Meat himself. It's on my public Playlist
The Plate code has to be the craziest business practice I have ever seen. Every joke about them having to communicate with that had me crying.
Have you worked fast food or restaurants? This is very common practice
@@whatever3145 Used to work at Culver's. Can confirm.
Actually crying in laughter 😂
"Stack the jam when a gunman enters" 😂😂😂
I was legit in tears @22min the idea of the employees communicating through a stick up using only plates killed me
Bro im literally carrying, just stopped at 22:
I worked as a line cook at a very busy breakfast restaurant and that system has to be the most confusing shit I’ve ever seen.
Bringing 40 different foods out yea it sucks I was a line cook too the place would be busy as hell Sunday morning and afternoon but you don’t gotta read sign language and “covered smothered and blah blah” I’d lose my mind
If you'd like to quit your job at Waffle House, simply arrange the butter packets on the plate in the shape of a crude middle finger and walk out.
But be careful, if the butter packets are all flat with each other, you’ll accidentally activate the sleeper cells we have stationed in Bosnia to take over the country and create a Waffle Republic where the flag will be a plate with jelly packet on its side and a cheese with a corner torn off.
The amount of times I hilariously laugh from Papa is insane. Literally some comedy podcasts don’t make me laugh as much as his videos do.
Could you imagine the confusion caused by these stacked welches packets getting tipped over? “Two eggs” just becomes “kill your family” very quickly.
“They want ….one egg? No ! The jelly !It’s on its side … oh my.. they want.. they want me to kill the KIDS?!?..alrighty then 😞”
The very first time I went into a Waffle House eight cops showed up because a drugged up guy was causing a disturbance. I recall hearing word for word "if you don't leave sir I'm going to have to taze you" in the most bored, over it tone ever lmfao
That cop had been there so many times and was over it .
This is the most american thing ever. God bless my country and Waffle House 🇺🇸 🦅 🍳
When he was talking about workers communicating with a robber via cheese and welches grape packets literally had me crying
Splatoon!
Heh - maybe they could spell SOS in mayonnaise?
I have not laughed that hard in a minute holy hell
i would be fired well before i remembered all the plate codes.
As someone who is autistic and used to work for Waffle House I can go ahead and confirm that the little plate codings and order codes were an absolute Hell on Earth to learn. I'm so glad I'll never have to deal with that ridiculous crap again. I remember my boss at the time telling me that I had to learn it because "people are here to hear the cook dialogue and see the show"
The plate code gave me psychosis
lmao "see the show" were all shitfaced or hungover, just give me waffles n coffee mannn
Howmuch food is wasted during an order? If 1 cheese equals 1 egg, what do they do with the cheese after the order is complete? Throw it away? Reuse it on a future order that requires cheese?
Such bs all that anyone at waffle house wants is their cheap, greasy food to be served ASAP 😂
Your boss was full of shit because I'm there to eat I don't give a shit about what's happening behind the counter unless the cook is about to kill the waitress then the show has started.
As an Anonymous Waffle House employee for a number of years, here's a bit of trivia and lore:
1. Many grill ops don't Pull-Drop unless upper managers are there. I rarely did, only for large orders, because most servers call so shitty thats its even worse translating it INTO the marks than to translate what the marks SAY. Most time I'll tell them to just give me the tickets, especially if its only two or three things. It is good also if people want complicated ass orders, which working there I can say, drunk ghetto people are the biggest Karens about their food I have ever met.
2. 19:58, believe it or not Papa, you would fit right in for Door Corps. Its a glorified hostess position that pays minimum wage to seat people, take names, clean the lobby and parking lot, and help (not do ALL the bussing as every manager everyday has to tell the waitresses) bus tables. All the Door Corps I ever knew were either elderly, young kids with special needs, or were Salespeople banished from the back line for the transgressions of not calling in front of the Manager, spending too much time smoking, or being a bitch in general.
3. One highlight about Waffle House is our policy for dealing with customer complaints is the equivalent to "f*ck around and find out." I have been called every name in the book and been threatened both with my job and physically countless times. I've broken up fights between coworkers or involving them and walked with scratches and bruises. I threatened a customer with a chefs knife after he punched my elderly coworker for no reason. If you go into the Waffle House looking for a fight, come heavy.
Unless of course its with another customer, then just bring that sh*t out to the parking lot. We don't care.
4. Yes, we are always open. Unless something catastrophic happens, theres a security problem, or no one shows up for work, we're open. And if you walk into a Waffle House and ask if they're open, prepare to be looked at and talked to like you're the dumbest motherf*cker on the face of the Earth.
The marker system makes me angry
@@OpinionatedChicken59this comment makes me laugh so hard 🤣
As for the OP- dude, “come to waffle house lookin for a fight? Come heavy” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 reminds me of that police force video “IM EEEESY TA FIAAAAND” 😭😭
Waffle house employees are actually just retired combat vets prove me wrong
Atleast you're a chef who knows when it's appropriate to mark and when ya don't need to. I had so any chefs that wouldn't mark shit, then ask me 5 times again what the order was. I was the main guy the called to pick up shifts at any of the Waffle House's near me, so I worked at 7-8 different ones total. Dude so many of my bad memories come from an unsatisfied customer cause my grill ops kept forgetting the order, or making me stop taking an order to deliver 1 fucking plate of food (Because David would always say "That's not my job, you're the server, I already did my job" and my customers would be asking for drinks and if I got the customers their drinks David would stonewall me and be like "What you don't wanna do what I say, I don't wanna cook your food" like bro, the manager watched this dude threaten to stab another coworker in front of the customers and all she did was say "Stop that" like Velma or some shit. Dude was also slow as shit, I'd always go over to call and that dude would make me wait 2 minutes til he finished cooking before he even would agree to listen to me. David wasn't even my least favorite coworker, there were other stupid mother fuckers too
Damn I got so pissed in first comment I totally forgot to add more context to why I worked at like 6-8 different stores total. What I was gonna say was this. Every Waffle House I subbed in at, the chefs were always atleast 10 times better than my usual chefs. I was always blown away thinking "Why do my home base WH chefs suck so much, and why are they so slow compared to ever other grill operator?" Like it sounds like I'm talkin,g mad shit on 'em for no reason, but if you worked with those fools you'd be bitchin about them like I am right now.
How does your Post Traumatic Waffle Disorder treat you now-a-days?
@@michaelboyle7281 First, WH doesnt employ chefs, only cooks. Second, cooks like David are also a pain in the ass to other cooks. I helped my servers as much as I could and they returned the favor. But there were times I had to work with temps from other stores who would actively try and disrupt our teamwork like some real cunts
The whole section about the greeting dude getting gunned down by a random person and them communicating with jelly packets and cheese had me CRYING laughing. Jesus Christ.
same dude. Haven't laughed so hard in a while
That weird jelly code sounds like something you would have seen at a cafe in Germany during WWII used by the allies as a front to transfer information between the military and spies.
"Ah three jellies, we air strike at dawn."
"Let's use all our ingredients to represent completely different ingredients" - a fvcking madman.
Worked at Waffle House less than a year. During one shift a man threatened to shoot our server in the back of the head after we asked if he was person that shit in the trash can in the bathroom and if it was him hitting the door and yelling loudly. Then the server walks over and says “I dare you” then they found out they were in the same gang and became friends. One time a guy dropped his pistol on the ground picked it back up as he is walking in wow was my adrenaline going that day. He ended up leaving didn’t order anything. One time a manager showed me a video that happened in his store of this guy yanking his chicks hair pulling her to the ground then knocking the other guy they were arguing with out cold. He threw some dishes at the staff and windows. cops came had to taser and arrest him. I think the girl had to go to hostpital hope she made it. If you want to work at Wafflehouse you better have a will and your affairs in order. Seriously watch the fuck out
Meat, the way you make fun of the pull drop mark system is spot on. Why the fuck they didn’t just give us tickets I’ll never understand..
You deserve a purple heart
PLEASE animate that mute scenario. That shit is fucking hilarious.
I can’t think of the last time I laughed as hard as I did during the door corps lmfao thank you papa.
I actually worked the night shift at waffle house and it was surprisingly peaceful, except the time a group of kids threatened to beat the baby out of a pregnant employee, or the time a new hire got arrested exposing himself to a minor in the women's bathroom, or the time a manager got fired for doing heroin in the back...
Maybe it wasnt so peaceful actually.
That sounds mostly peaceful to me.
"You have to be a juggler, a smooth-talker, an Olympic sprinter, and an entertainer. This position pays minimum wage."
Gee, I wonder what happened to the door corps™️? 🤷♂️
As an ex wafflehouse employee all i can say is extra crispy hashbrown smothered. You wont regret it. Also the magic marker system is no longer used, its call and response now.
We still absolutely use the marking system, but we also call back the whole mark to the salesperson
@@tangentlime4180 ok well we didn't at the one I worked at, too the point management even just skipped that part of the training.
Amen to the extra crispy hashbrowns. All the way if you're high.
It's still used. I worked at one until last week when I finally quit and it's 100 percent still used
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Idk what to say they didn't use it in the location I worked at. Maybe the gm there just didn't want to bother training due it's high turnover there, if it's still used over all then I apologize. That location told they stopped doing it.
4:24 Maybe my favorite moment in a Papa Meat video.
I'd be fired so quick, don't think I could remember that plate demonstration stuff even sober.
Its hard to get fired from a Waffle House I am told. As long as you show up on time and sober or at least functional your fine.
@@warlockd thats any restaurant pretty much
The archaic fast food lingo is the funniest thing in the world. Its like going to those hotdog joints and the employees are back there screeming "I NEED A JOHNNY IN THE POCKET, GARDEN STYLE, FLIP IT KOWABUNGA" And its just like. A hot dog with mustard and fries with gravy.
bro just throws out the most random crazy awesome content and im here for it
I'm not gonna lie when ol boy came in with the AK and he started tlkn about the employees putting mayo packs and texas toast on the register I lost it
how insane could the food code combinations get?? "I'd like 3 jelly packets for my one scrambled waffle, a raw egg, two bacon, active shooter, i drive a red toyota camry"
I was too pissed off to try and make sense of this by the time they hit the jelly packet. It's almost like they want their customers to fist fight the staff.
I work in retail and can tell you 99% of my coworkers would fuck up this system most of the time, and I would come off as this obsessive compulsive pulling my hair, screaming "you put the jelly pack face down Brayden! That means wheat toast!!"
😂😂😂😂😂
I've worked retail 17 years and been manager of 2 stores now..... this is gibberish. the F
Put that packet in defense mode now.
@chrisbuttonshaw2088 Let me be more specific, I work in a big box store with a bunch of people that give zero fucks. I spend an inordinate amount of time fixing the same errors from the same people every day. It's order pickup, so people are messing up customer orders. I've worked in high pace food service, and these kids would have been fired or kept in the dish pit where they can't cost the business a bunch of money fucking up orders.
This made laugh so hard