The Most Chaotic Restaurant In America: Waffle House
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this is a video about waffle house, waffle house fights, waffle house fema, waffle house is awesome and i get the all star special with scrambled eggs with cheese, white toast, grits, bacon (i dont eat), and a plain waffle. waffle house is better than ihop
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seems pretty unrealistic that the first 5 seasons of The Walking Dead take place in Georgia and those guys never once stumbled upon a Waffle House that was fully staffed and operational
Christ... anyone who's lived in the South knows this is... just accurate
Those were the thickest places where the zombies were man. Duh lol
I love how she made a whole video about waffle House to justify her song for it😂
@@TsukiRaiki it's not the only part of "The South", naturally, Alabama, Mississippi, are as well to name a couple, but Georgia is probably one of the more commonly given examples of a "Southern" state in the US.
Of course, if you're thinking on the country, not the US state, then yes, it's very much so not what I would think of as southern.
If you're not familiar with the US and our general areas, there's "The North", which is generally just the states that didn't secede in our civil war, vs "The South" which is generally the states that did. The "North" breaks up into generally New England, which is the part that's East of the Great Lakes, and the "Midwest", which starts under the Great Lakes and stretches to slightly west of center of the continent. Yes, half of the Midwest is in the eastern half of the country. Don't ask us, we have no idea.
Then you have the "West" and "Southwest", which is actually what you probably would guess the Midwest is, because it's the middle of the Western half and the southern half of that.
And then there's the Pacific Northwest, that one actually makes sense, and just "California", which is in the Southwestern part of the country.
The names of the regions of our country don't make any damn sense, I swear...
Maybe Walking Dead is fictional because Waffle House is real. Like, I legitimately can't imagine how many walkers it would take to overrun a Waffle House in full swing. And you know Rick, Darryl, and Michonne are going to be in there somewhere. There's literally a Darryl in every Waffle House in the a.m.
me, a brazilian who has never stepped foot in the US or heard of Waffle House: finally the content i've been waiting for
É nois
@@greenisnotcreative7685 Mundinho Gabi Belle BR
same, but I'm from Russia
Same but I'm from Canada
INVOCOU OS BR BROTHER
I specifically remember that a Waffle House near me had a driver CRASH into it (The car was half inside the restaurant) and the workers continued to serve the customers that stayed- Secondly, the driver, who had a heart palpitation at the wheel, was SERVED FOOD like he hadn't just crashed into the resteraunt. It was closed for two weeks for repairs then reopened. They kept the front bumper of the car and had it fixated above the bathrooms. Truly a Waffle House win.
That is a top tier Waffle House story
Bro i think you and @bbybovine are talking about the same waffle house
@wendigostudios212 I thought so too lol
Where's it at? Bucket List!
Anywhere else this would be a tall tale, but for Waffle House, it's a Tuesday.
An employee at Waffle House collapsed once. Ambulance was called. She was conscious and they helped her sit on the gurney thing to wheel her out. Literally as soon as she was in the parking lot she jumped off, ran over to her car, and peeled out of the parking lot. All in full view of customers and her co workers through the front windows. We all just stared and looked at one another after sped away. Like that was almost a great plan lol.
Those ambulance rides are expensive, i dont blame her 😭. If its not broken dont fix it.
It’s better to drive yourself to the hospital….. If you do decide to go at all… 😂🤣😂🤣
@@zetharerey3761not better, but cheaper for sure.
Welcome to the US. Where the cost of healthcare will make you want to die.
@@weineraustin7220kind of reminds me of a certain scene from South Beach tow, where Bernice got knocked two floors off of a garage, and she still didn't want to have to take an ambulance ride. I think she told what's his name"my Obamacare ain't kicked in yet" when he wanted her to go to the hospital.
Being able to randomly decide “I want waffles” at 3am, and finding 10 other people who simultaneously decided the same thing, is a beautiful thing.
It’s also a bit sus. Like, why are you all wanting waffles at 3 am? 🧐
3 AM Waffle House Challenge seems like something Jaystation would do
true
@@the-berries-and-cream-dude cus waffles taste good.
Because after a long night shift. Waffles, bacon, and a black coffee is all a person needs to clock in on a dayshift.
Actually, the Denny's Scale isn't used because a destroyed Denny's is indistinguishable from a normal one
BAHAHAHHA
This comment deserves more likes
LAWL
As someone who used to work there, I agree
Also known as being "burger kinged"
Little-known fact, Waffle House was opened as one of the only integrated diners in the segregated South.
Did They had melancias 🍉?
@@samfire3067perhaps
What is an integrated dinner
@@sotch2271 You seriously don't know this? I understand a lot of people from other countries don't know our history. If you don't know, I'll explain it.
@@theylied1776 Explain it, I don't know it too.
I have a chronically ill child, so we spent many a long evening in the ER. Most times we were cut loose in the very early AM, so when they told us we were being discharged once they had all our paperwork, we would call ahead for pick-up at the Waffle House. Burgers, hash browns, drinks, all delicious; wandered in looking a mess (sometimes in PJs), no judgement, just a friendly smile, always left a good tip. WH definitely has your back (as long as you don't mess around, per the glorious song at the end).
Wholesome comment made my day, I hope you and your child are doing well
I had a coworker who managed a waffle house in the panhandle of FL for two years. He told me that a car literally drove thru their store and they just continued making people's food. Easily one of the wildest people I've known, but hey if anyone came in swinging I knew who had my back.
The driver probably: "Hey, do you guys have a drive thru?"
Waffle House employee: "No, you gotta come in the restaurant."
The driver: "Okay."
Their patience deserves an award man
I've actually experienced 2 waffle houses being closed on multiple occasions before. the waffle houses in blacksburg and christiansburg VA are often closed simply because they dont get enough customers. Its really annoying actually.
@@twentysparrow1019 yeah, it can be, but those two seem to be different from other waffle houses in general though.
never thought I'd see comparatively local waffle houses on the internet
@@twentysparrow1019 Not surprising. The Waffle Houses are awful in Virginia.
I once described my childhood to a therapist "it was like a waffle house at 3am on a Saturday, for 14 years"
That's freakin' brilliant
okay I appreciate this so much because dang. me too. I have no better possible phrase to say it
Damn I’m sorry
Oh...
Oof
My family went to a Waffle House last Christmas because it was the only thing open. I was kinda hoping for a fight but instead this little kid danced to the jukebox the whole time which was adorable
One of the funniest stories I’ve heard in my life is when four of my classmates decided to drive over an hour down to the nearest wafflehouse, in another state, during school. They had 3 free class periods (~3 hours) and managed to drive, eat, and drive back in those 3 hours.
Not gonna lie, the Waffle House experience is basically a metaphor for America itself.
whoa.
Wait a damn minute
As a Swede who never been close to a waffle house, can you elaborate.
@@crooster1 no
@@Brax025 That bad, huh
A healthy Waffle House staff could go toe to toe with the Avengers.
And that is because none of the employees (or employers tbh) are mentally sane
I’m taking a Waffle House staff with prep time over the JL
I'm not even an MCU fan, but hands down I would watch the shit out of an Avengers vs Waffle House movie/series
Key word: "Healthy"
@@simplykathrynrebeca to consider working in waffle house you gotta be somewhat insane.
It would be pretty funny if Waffle House's disaster preparation gets so advanced that FEMA has to stop using the Waffle House Index because it stops leaving the green during major disasters. I can imagine a headline: "Asteroid strike in Georgia, FEMA responds, Waffle House Index indicates yellow level event."
I took a girl on a date to Waffle House. We ended up dating for about 2 years before we peacefully split up so she could go pursue her dreams. We got kicked out by a homophobic chef who refused to let us back in. We had already eaten all of our food though, and he kicked us out before we could pay for the food. Good times!
That almost sounds intensional, like he was saving you from something worse
I’m Canadian, I went to Atalanta last November for a concert and the only food available after the concert was Waffle House. I met some concert goers there and we watched two homeless guys brawl A few feet from us. They assured this me it was just part of the experience
It really is. Either people are fighting or your waiter is just having the worst time ever. But any way, you’re getting Dinner and a Show.
After a night at a bar, my friends and I went to Waffle House at 3 am and saw people screaming at each other in the parking lot. We went inside quickly to get away from them and while we were ordering they came in all bloody and went to the bathrooms to wash it off. Then the cops came and asked us if we saw anything lol.
Nashville I had the most amazing experience it was strange like everyone knew I was Canadian and was acting on best behaviors
I am at that Waffle House right now
I am from Atlanta and this checks out, this is indeed just part of the experience
Waffle house at 3am is like a guaranteed fight. It's sorta similar to how romans went to the colosseum to see gladiators tear each other apart, except with more meth-induced rage
thx gooby
sometimes with audience participation
u mean crack... because only blacks tear each other apart and destroy their local infrastructure
If the Colosseum had the winning combatant bring the audience their food afterwards they would still be in business.
"Give them waffles and circuses" ~ Some Roman emperor probably
I've never seen a brawl or confrontation at a Waffle House. Ever. In fact there have been three nights past midnight when I was tired and depressed from work and got pulled out of my depression by a glass of apple juice and a calm conversation with a friendly Waffle House employee.
Listen. Nothing is better then studying for exams at 3am, getting snacky, and getting a bunch of people in your dorms together to decend upon an unsuspecting Waffle House.
As a current 3rd shift supervisor of waffle house, I can confirm the 5 years ago when I applied at 16, I was asked the following question on the application: "if you found yourself in an aggressive situation, and were forced to defend yourself, would you be able?" I was also asked to name 3 weapons I could use in the kitchen to do so.
The safest work environment requirement:
cast iron pan gotta be in the top 3. defense and offense in one.
HAHAHA yea they take the ‘defend the waffle’ part of the job so seriously. I remember at my store we had so many issues that if the cops weren’t already present and someone stepped on our tiles, it was a part of your job to defend your store. Any weapon is free game. I miss it every day 😂
@@lilaculots those cheese egg skillets are no joke, and they are easily throwable for sure
They practically asked you if you would be able to become jackie chan if the situation called for it.
Remember kids. It’s not a Waffle House.
It’s a waffle home 💜
in a super southern accent 🚨🚨
Real 🫡🤧
Yes.
Well freaking played!
I'm from FL but live in CA now, and every time I go back east to visit family I ask if we can go to the "awful waffle" but because I only visit every few years the answer is always no. "We gotta go somewhere special." In my head, I'm always, "But Waffle House IS special. To Me." I've been to these lil diners all over FL, in GA but outside of Atlanta, and in Alabama - and it doesn't matter if it's 6am, 6pm, 3pm or 3am. Food is usually pretty standard, servers are the kind of people who're ride-or-die, and if you trash talk the wrong person you're gonna get your ass beat and aint no one gonna say a damn thing. I unironically love this place.
Ayyy during the pandemic WH in my town was selling basic grocery items like eggs/milk/bread/bacon/coffee/etc with curbside pick up in addition to their normal menu.
It's not just an index for hurricane damage but the severity of southern snow storms too.
Also, the late Anthony Bourdain gave it his stamp of approval.
As a former Waffle House Grill Operator; it is wild but they will give you a job when you NEED it and paid better than the food chains. I honestly loved working there. There is something special about helping people during hurricanes.
This comment is so wholesome. I love it.
What would the expectations be for employees during a disaster? Are the employees were paid well for it? Especially one like Katrina, since I'd assume their own homes and lives were badly affected by the hurricane as well. I'd be pissed if my house was flooded or worse, and I was expected to go to work at a fast food chain to 'be there for the community'. Who is there for the employees?
@@PutRandomNameHere Depends on management like anywhere else. If you can make it you are paid as long as you are there. It was extra but I don't thing anything wild but if you lost stuff our store pooled together to get stuff for people.
This is correct, as a former Waffle House Grill Operator. And it WAS wild. I'm convinced we used the little cast-iron skillets for the scrambled eggs and cheese just because they were handy in a fight. Those things were clutch.
I love an establishment that will give people second chances.
As someone that lives in southern US, we love Waffle House and it truly is iconic. I just wish they would give their workers a raise because between fighting off drunks at 2am and staying open during severe weather- they’ve earned it. There’s literally ALWAYS something going on at the Waffle House. 😭
I disagree, waffle house at 4-5 in the morning, after the fights and thunder dome, when everyone leaves, it is the most quiet and surreal experience, a single hungover guy in the corner and a single worker. It's a whole form of zen
What’s crazy is I’ve never seen a fight at Waffle House and I go there so often 😭
no no you see giving people good wages to deal with shit work would mean they have to cut into profits. they can't do that. if it was a good job, it wouldn't be open during a hurricane.
Truly couldn't tell if it was a joke lol
@@savanna8898 I guess you go during the tamer hours lol
as someone who used to work at a waffle house, I can tell you this video brings me both joy and abject fear and nostalgia
This is one of the most glorious things I've ever watched on YT. Top tier Murrica content, fr.
About 4 years ago, I dated a canadian girl, and she came to visit America (the states) a few times. The first time she was here, I took her to a waffle house. She almost marveled at the idea because she had heard so much about waffle house but never seen one. It was a short walk from our hotel, so we went. The table we had chosen was a booth style and had a family of 4 seated at the connected booth. Within 5 minutes of being seated, one of the 2 men seated behind me started having a heart attack in the middle of eating a steak. An ambulance showed up very quickly and they took the guy out on a stretcher. She never wanted to go to a waffle house again.
I mean at least no one pulled out a gun. Hope they're alright.
Standard Wednesday at Waffle Home
you gave her a full american waffle house experience, she just wasn't ready to accept it
Skill issue
If she can't handle the heat then get out of the country. 😤💅
I worked at Waffle House for two years as a teenager for my first job and I did overnight. It was wild I have some many stories. a man was overdosing on the side of the building and at the same time a man inside was harassing customers and talking into empty space. The place was packed with police as they tried to take care of the situation and we just kept cooking and serving lol. I finally quit though when someone pulled a gun on me cause I wouldn’t give them a waffle.
WAFFLE NOW🔫😡 that just funny to imagine im sorry💀😭😭😭
@@snowandfrogs I have zero doubts that he quit, not because he was in danger, but because he could somehow parry the bullet and redirect it to the customer. Waffle house employees are super humans man
The world could be ending, and yet the employees of waffle house would remain unbothered
@@heronekkotheanimer7386 might want to check ops username, or just not assume everybody else is a he
Brrooo wtf 😢😂😂😂
This is gonna get poetic but waffle house has been there for me my whole life. From visiting after shows or football games for a scrumptious chocolate chip waffle, to brunching with friends while we watch the snow fall outside. I've been to birthday parties, hangouts, breakfasts, and a whole plethora of events at the single waffle house in my home town. I'm going to miss having such a homey place right around the corner when I move away in the future.
Your musical arrangements are always S O damn good! Every time you include a song in one of your vids, it's an earworm for hours!
Love you gabi ❤
my cousins do a thing called the "waffle house challenge" as a punishment for losing bets. you have to spend 24 straight hours in a waffle house. this only works because apparently at their local waffle house, the staff won't force you to leave under pretty much any circumstance. you can get 6+ hours of sleep in there.
Given that they're open around the clock, I don't see why they'd give someone the boot as long as the person in question is quiet and periodically ordering food. (I was once allowed to sleep overnight in a Denny's; the staff members were all really kind about my situation, which I will grant you was not a bet)
I cooked at Waffle House for five years, with at least three of those years being overnight shifts. I can now cook bangin food and fight with improvised weaponry, thanks Waffle House 🤘
Question: how good is the improvised weaponry in melee combat?
@@Zanophane_GamingReally good for the tight quarters. Boiling grits or the ever-present pot of Lo-Melt make for excellent napalm, the dishes are really heavy and shatter well into long spear points, and there are bacon weights as well as handy little cast iron skillets. The one I worked at favored full-length heavy chef's knives, maybe 16", and also a steel about the length of your forearm that weighed maybe two pounds. But of course, the _real_ weapons are your regular customers. Maintain those, and any intruder will get a close look at what a zombie outbreak feels like.
@@MrBendylaw So what you're saying in that last sentence is basically:
*_⚠You have alerted the horde!_*
@@Zanophane_Gaming Yep. On third shift, a lot of your clientele is at least partially wasted. So you make sure you take care of them, and insist on some basic ground rules, and you hook up a few key regulars with bigger hash browns, extra eggs in their scramble, whatever. They'll have your back if it gets crazy.
Waffle House: we’ll give you the skills you need.
I have to say this is *literally* the most american thing I've ever heard! 🤣
Also actual banger song at the end there. Color me surprised!
Kudos!
I can’t explain how much I loved this video. I had no clue about the music and your song had me cracking up first thing in the morning lmao
Fun fact: my mom found out she was pregnant with me at waffle house. She was eating food and all of a sudden she ran to the restroom and puked. She did the baby test later on that day and realized she was pregnant with me.
Cutest story ever!
My mom’s number one craving when she was pregnant with me and my twin sister was Waffle House pecan waffles. She went so much that they started making her food when they saw her in the parking😂
This is the most American thing I ever heard😂
congratz your dad for the creampie.
Why would your mother ever tell you this
I am still amazed how angrily yet calmly that now former Waffle House worker caught that chair MID AIR & discarded it like it was an empty bag of sugar...
The focus, the strength & the reflexes, she should do a martial arts something in the future!
The quiet rage on display. Masterful.
kavmega way of the waffle
An absolute MARVEL
and yet she sadly got fired. Unreasonable, if you ask me
Always ends like this @@TheGasMaskGuy96
The songs such a bop for no reason😭❤️
I was hoping to all heck you would mention and use the Dennys video and you did not disappoint 😂
As someone in the UK, waffle house sounds like a insane fever dream and I am here for it
@@AIopekis inorder to get the peak experience, go between midnight and 5 in the morning
You definitely need to experience it in your life
If you haven't fought your own crackhead in waffle house parking lot in coming back from the club have you even Americaned? I think not 😂😂😂😂
That's cause we have Greggs instead
*Remembers that iconic photo of a guy being arrested in front of a Greggs*
as someone from asia, waffle house sounds absolutely wild, and i honestly want to visit one in the future.
I worked at a waffle house during a code yellow! it was because I live in georgia in an area that hardly ever gets snow and there was like 3 or 4 inches of snow on the ground as well as the roads iced to we were declared a state of emergency until the roads could be fixed. people will walk to still be at waffle house, some people road 4 wheelers. you really can’t stop the waffle house patrons.
oh also- my mother did/ does think kid rock is hot. he’s like her biggest celebrity crush.
You, my friend need to tell me your entire life story, because this just intrigued me, and I did just smoke 😅
@@Softbee13 LOL waffle house really was a trip. one time an old lady had a seizure and threw up all over the lower bar area, fire fighters and ambulances were called. she was fine ultimately, and we literally only blocked off the booth that got the puke in it (i cleaned the puke 😭) the rest of the waffle house went about business as usually. literally people eating like 5 feet away from a seizing puking woman.
and this happened on a weekend morning, and for those who don’t know; weekend mornings are BUSY for waffle house. to the point where most of them will have someone who’s only job is to stand at the door and take the ‘reservations’ as people come in and have to wait. they’ll also serve coffee to people waiting.
so it just added to the chaos and people didn’t turn away or leave despite puke being all over the booth and floor.
my waffle house was also held at gunpoint but it was during the night shift, so I was not there at the time. whoever did it fired a few shots in the ceiling and the last time I went there (years after this incident) the bullet holes were still there. last I heard, it was a coordinated inside job with one of the employees too. I don’t remember which one or if it was ever proven, I wasn’t super close to the night cooks because I rarely saw them.
@@brittanylikesmemes_ that’s insane thank you so much for sharing 😂😂 I’m glad everyone was safe tho that night geez!! And that the lady was okay too 😩😂😂
some other fun waffle house tidbits- the servers manually price the items on your tickets (and are expected to do it by knowing the prices by heart. like you are not suppose to use the menu to price your tickets because it ‘takes too much time’) and then they manually do the math to add in tax and all that. so if you notice that your regular order is always a different price, that’s probably because the server misremembered a price and did it wrong. I accidentally over charged and under charged people basically daily. they audit tickets every month or few months to see just how bad the price mess ups are, it’s nothing crazy and usually balances out for the most part. (like I would accidentally overcharge someone by $2, but then in the same day accidentally under charge by $2 so the company was like whatever).
also if you’re a server or a cook you basically learn a second language. the cooks have to learn ways to ‘mark’ the plates before they cook while the server is calling (so like if I called an order of scrambled eggs with hash browns, they would set down a specific sized plate and put a tiny piece of hashbrown at the top to signify hash browns and then a particular sauce packet at the bottom facing a certain way to signify specifically scrambled eggs. this is a very bare bones overview) this is so they can look over at the plates they have set up, and remember exactly what they’re cooking. they even have marks for things like “no onions” and for specific cooks (like medium, rare, well done). different marks would be like different sauce packets meaning their own meat, or placement of the items on the plate meaning if it’s a meal or a burger or something. also it’s been years since I worked there so this is all from faded memory lol.
then as a server you have to learn a specific way to ‘call out’ the orders so the cooks can mark the plates. you go in a certain order, and you use phrases and terms to shorthand the process. it’s all created to be very fast and efficient but it’s so stressful until it becomes like second nature lol. as a server you literally take a 3 full work day class where you just sit and memorize everything. it can be intense.
I'm jealous of exactly two things America has: the First Amendment, and their fast food chains: Waffle House, In N Out, and Taco Bell but Australia FINALLY got that in 2020
The existence of our first amendment fluctuates depending on the majority party in the White House, universities, and media in any given administration.
@@stringercorrales6627 Even at its worst you can still say what you like. In Scotland you can now go to jail for calling a man a man.
@@No_True_Scotsman It's a hate crime law, it's specifically designed to protect your version of "the first amendment." To protect it from people like you, who would, if given the chance, trample free speech.
I just discovered your channel and have become OBSESSED with your videos and you as a person. Love what you do, love your personality and vibes. Keep it up you just got a new sub
As a Canadian, i have unfortunately never had the experience of a Waffle House. But now this video has convinced me to sell all of my belongings and chase after every hurricane just to see the beauty that is Waffle House
Trust me, you're missing out.
I’m a Canadian and one time I’ve been to one. It was a very unique experience
As an American I cannot recommend coming to the US 😢😂
(Pls help us)
@@SkyTruckeypls shut up American
4 years ago my family had to take an emergency flight to florida on christmas day, and we ended up having our dinner at a waffle house, in florida, on christmas day, at 9pm. you absolutely cannot imagine the assortment of people that were there.
As a Floridian I can imagine.
I once went to a Waffle House at 1 a.m. after a live-action Rocky Horror Picture Show, our group fully dressed in gothic pinup regalia. While there adding extra flavor to the Waffley scene, we witnessed two groups of apparent rival prostitutes and their respective pimps having an rap insult battle that escalated to weave-ripping, all while either a drug deal or a foursome was going on in the men's bathroom. (Guys just kept going in there without any ever coming back out. It's a single stall restroom.
I promise, I can imagine.
I'm from FL and my family spent one Christmas Day in an IHOP after checking me out from the psych ward
@@psychotophatcat woahhhhhh, you got to tell us the rest
Which prostitutes group came out on top?
Does the pimp's rap fire?
Did you participate in the foursome/drug deal?
And how did the employees reacted to all this?
Please tell us more about this surreal moment!!!!!!!!!!
I haven’t laughed so hard in a while, thank you!
I love waffle house , I went there at like five am after my bf broke up with me and the workers did not even look at me weird even though i was a crying mess , they just gave me my waffles , a worker even asked if i was ok 😭❤️
As a Katrina survivor I cannot tell you how vital Waffle House was following the storm. Many of us weren’t able to get food or water and the only available food other than Waffle House was shitty FEMA rations. Waffle House gave us our dignity (as backwards as that sounds) to eat food that wasn’t essentially prison food from a packet.
as someone who's not in america, i consider watching this to be a form of science
As someone from American who's never seen one, same
you are unironically correct, friend. welcome to anthropology 101.
@@sithdude2436
Same 🤷🏻♀️
You forgot the part where your dishes are cleaned right below you as you eat, too lmao
I was a cook at Waffle House for a time in my early 20s. All told it was less than a year, but damn I have some memories. I used to get off work and be getting drunk on the couch while my roommate got ready for work... at 7am. I fought several customers. I was in 1 all-out brawl. I got into god knows how many shouting matches with customers, I also got high in my car in the parking lot w/ some of those same customers. If you ever need to "find yourself" do so by working at Waffle House, you will learn *so* much about yourself and what you can actually do when needed. Also, when you're getting off 37 minutes late because 1st shift overslept it is SOP to pool money with the servers and dump like $20 into the jukebox to play "Waffle House Christmas" on repeat as you're walking out the door... they wont be late again!!
When your sister came onto the screen and said "verified millennial" I cracked up. So glad you brought her on to explain Kid Rock. 😂
Fr. I was super hoping when she described his look that it's evolved to be every dude at 7-Eleven
I’m from California and the first time I ever went to a Waffle House (at 2am on an extremely snowy night in a random part of Ohio) I felt like I had been changed. I don’t know what it was. but it was nothing like Dennys at 2am (an isolating experience). I was in that teeny tiny building surrounded by…. community (strangers)
@Ching Vang Lived on the west coast and southeast coast and I can tell you the only difference in Denys and Waffle House is that Waffle Houses are usually smaller, have a much more basic menu, are not as overpriced and the breakfast food is a little better but the sandwiches and lunch items at Denys are better. The drunken brawls go down in both and a lot depends on location. Plenty of sleepy dead Waffle Houses and Denys out there in the middle of the night but the ones near any club or bar scenes are like some kind of arena of drunken stupidity.
I used to live in Georgia(where there is a Waffle House)and now I live in California. I miss Waffle House man. Such an experience.
I'm in California and denny's is usually fairly busy after midnight
Once every couple months me and friends who work odd shifts will go to Waffle House together. Always a great time, and I always meet interesting folks.
As another Californian, I now really need to go to a Waffle House
Heeeey , so I found your channel watching GUNNARTV
AND LET ME SAY WELL WORTH IT !
AND YOUR SONG AT THE END WAS THEEE BEST WAFFLE HOUSE SONG IVE HEARD LOL.
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0:40 got troom troom flashbacks from this music
It's so weird to think that most people in this world will never know the greasy, grungy, comforting certainty of a yellow Waffle House sign in whatever dark place you've happened to find yourself in, either literally or metaphorically. I don't think I have ever been to a Waffle House in a good frame of mind, but I do always feel better after I leave.
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as a non-american, my first exposure to waffle house was from the book let it snow, you know the one netflix adapted in like 2019, and i never understood why waffle house was so important to the plot. also, in that, their waffle house had the w letter stop glowing so it looked like it said "awful" house, so that's what I've been calling it. and literally last week snl had a waffle house skit. so this is really making me understand the cultural significance of it lmao
people will throw rocks to known the W out 😩😩😩 The one by my parents house was “affle house” for a solid 5 yrs and the W was shattered
I always called it ‘Awful Waffle’ it’s pretty apt.
@@gateauxq4604 yep my mom always calls it that too
Yoooo I remember picking that book up from a Recicle bin and being like, "why would anyone throw a book away?"
After reading it I also wanted to get rid of it HAHAHAHA
I love that movie
"Beatdown Sneako for the rest of us"
Fantastic, and way easier to accomplish than one would suspect.
0:08 you know you're a regular when you are asking for a waffle during a "disagreement"
When I told my Floridian mother that I had never been to a waffle house (nor knew what it was) she gasped so loudly she choked. Now she is insisting on taking me to one next time we’re in a state that has one. One time I made the mistake of asking her to describe a waffle house, and she said “it smells like cigarettes, it looks like a cigarette, but the food is so good that you don’t even notice some drunk guy in the booth next to you tapped his cigarette on your food.”
There are Waffle Houses all over Florida.
@@nomadmarauder-dw9re
I know..? I don’t live in Florida. My mother just grew up there, hence why she’s Floridian.
This would be a great premise for a family road trip movie: 1000 miles to Waffle House
Man they must be different down south, the like 2 we have in CO are awful tasting
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I wouldn’t be surprised if they were tbh. But I’ve still never been to one, so I couldn’t tell you. 🤷♀️
As a guy who doesn’t live in the US, it amazes me how a restaurant chain known for the fights between their employees is also regarded as one of the most effective metrics to determine the destructiveness of a natural disaster
God bless America 😂😂
Whenever I’m animating or drawing, this is one of two videos of yours that I watch for background noise (the other being the blender infomercial reaction and )
Y’all should go on Halloween night 🤣 Best thing ever.
I did this once a long time ago. That was a really weird night.
Gabi dropping a whole bop at the end was very unexpected, yet it was the bop we needed not the one we deserved 👏🏼
We also need menthol cigarettes but dont deserve them 😂
She literally told us it was coming, lol
I have been to Waffle House 3 times in my adult life, and upon each of those visits i have been visited by the grim specter of the worst food poisoning i’ve ever had, each only outdone by the next.
I shall visit again. Not blind to the consequences, but braced for their impact.
i’m screaming 😭 the grim specter of food poisoning, i can’t 😭
sentences that go hard as fuck
I’ve had the same experience with IHOP.
@@hamburger7243 i'm about to go to ihop for a cast party, i don't wanna hear it 💀
Beautiful
I need you to know that a guy was in my house installing internet today, I had your videos playing, and he kept laughing and asked for your channel name, so you probably got another sub. this video is a masterpiece and I've watched it like 5 times
Gold as usual, Gabi. I thought you were going to do a fake out with the song but NOPE! That's a jam and respect for the guitar playing!
As a southerner and college student, I can confirm that's there's not much better than having a drink or two, going to the club, and then devouring some hashbrowns and cheesy eggs at the Waffle House.
As a college student who works nights at Waffle House, I can confirm there’s not much better than joking around w drunk customers! They tend to be much nicer even BECAUSE they’re drunk (younger ppl at least) and like to chat which makes time go by faster!
I genuinely love that you started the video talking about the Waffle House Index. My brother and I actually went and ate breakfast at a Waffle House the morning after Hurricane Michael. My hometown didn't really get hit all that badly, but the index was yellow, so they were serving a limited menu. It turned out, a lot of people had the same idea as us. The Waffle Houses over in Panama City were heavily damaged, but they actually reopened about two weeks later, operating out of food trucks until the buildings were repaired or rebuilt.
I remember that hurricane like it was yesterday. That was horrible.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thanks!
needing a grid of waffle houses to assess damages of natural disasters instead of, you know, anything else (?!) is the most on point american thing ive heard
Especially because they're not even everywhere!
I like how waffle House doesn't sugarcoat anything. They embrace what they are. They know what they are and they are fine with it
5:15
that sneako line earned you a sub
I have been having trouble sleeping for the past few weeks. My power went out at 12:30 at night, and I decided on a whim to drive 10 minutes to my local Waffle House. I sat at the counter drinking decaf coffee. It was just me, the staff, and two tweekers sitting in a booth on the other side. The cook had prison tattoos covering his arms. We started talking; about what I don't remember. He seemed like a really nice guy. I stayed until about 2AM. For some reason to me, it all felt comforting.
girl I think you found limbo
As a Canadian, going to a Waffle House is now on my bucket list.
The peak waffle house experience is any time between midnight and 5 am
Good, because the food will kill you.
@@LonesomeTroubadour I'd expect nothing less
It's so fucking banger at Waffle House
I just pooped my pants
Watched 3 of your vids now and this one made me subscribe. Premium content, keep it up!
Delightful and informative! Subscribed!
Waffle House is such a constant in life when you live in the southeast. You can go twice a week or twice a decade and it’s always the same. The only difference being what level of violence you’ll see. It’s oddly comforting
thanks gabi, I now know what to think about the popular southern food chain Waffle House. I previously did not know but now i know. thanks!
That woman should not have been fired she should have been promoted. Also her manager has balls of steel for being able to manage to fire her and have her not just deflect the firing.
What an absolute banger of a song
My bf’s brother used to work at a Waffle House and he said that one night at 2-3am a couple came in and then shortly after a man came in and started going tf off at the couple bc the woman was his wife and she was cheating on her husband w the dude she came in with. The guys ended up going outside and started boxing over someone that obviously isn’t worth fighting over and the woman was trying to pull her side piece away instead of her own husband…🤦🏼♀️😂😂
That's just a regular Tuesday for WH😂
14 years ago I sat in a booth at Waffle House, chain smoking and drinking coffee for hours chatting with this super cute guy. Since then we've been inseparable and now we have a family.
A few years prior to that, I used to roll into that same Waffle House drunk AF and breaking up/sometimes getting into fights with randos.
Much love to Waffle House.
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I love their hash browns with grits and eggs overeasy & with free flowing coffee, bliss 😊
God im so glad I found this channel. Great song at the end too
As a kid I worked at Waffle House and when high schoolers and college kids swamped the place at nite my boss would give me a roll of quarters to go to the juke machine and take requests it was fun. Sometimes we played the Waffle House music if arguments broke out
That lady who caught the chair is an actual beast. I love her.
12:21 i live right above atlanta, and i cant drive for 5 minutes without seeing at least 1 waffle house
I know this isn't as wild as some of the other stories, but once when we went to a waffle house we walked in and it was just.....empty. Like the lights were on, the door was unlocked, but no one was there. We went to another one across the city and told them about the restaurant and the manager look really confused.
This channel is what CZcams was meant to be. The early youtube vibes combined with the production value, it's just... it's beautiful.
I remember Katrina... That waffle was the most amazing thing I've ever eaten. There was a time when the human race came together, and my goodness it was at a waffle house.
I have vague memories of being at Waffle House but it wasn’t after Katrina, or was it? It wasn’t in Louisiana though I know that for-… man I was 7 at the time I don’t know.
"Do you have a criminal history?"
"No..."
"How about a black belt in a martial art? We accept those too..."
The Waffel House fights are so common that Tekken fans want a Waffel House stage in Tekken 8! Hell, the desire for a Waffel House stage is so insane that Harada-San, the producer of the game asked for more information on twitter xD
"Can I _please_ get a waffle?" too much to ask 😂
I’m fully convinced now that any song made by Gabi is going to be a banger.
i am too now, how was that so good lol
I was about to say why is no one talking about how amazing this song is
The chorus slaps
okay but why is ur song a certified banger 🤣🤣😭
In Orlando, 80's it was Denny's. Never had the cops called at our 3 AM antics. Always tipped well.
The chair lady deserves her own Netflix cartoon. Waffle Warrior ❤
That was some DBZ shit for real
As a Brit, our equivalent is the pastry shop Greggs. This is such a well put together and insightful look at an American institution and a great song at the end.
T E A M A N
Greggs absolutely bangs!! Although I think the American bakery Panera would be more like our good ol' Greggs.
Our Maccies at 3AM when Order 69 gets called out and everyone is pissed or Maccies in General most kids have a fight there
Literally the other day some man walked into greggs, stole like 5 cokes and a sandwich and walked straight out.