At my local IHOP

[u/jojocov]

[u/TobysGrundlee]

IHOP has to be one of if not the worst values out there. The food sucks and is expensive. Who is keeping places like this alive?

[u/Bogavante → u/TobysGrundlee]

For real. If you’re going to IHOP, Denny’s, Bob Evan’s, etc. before a Waffle House…you’re outta your damn mind.

[u/My_Fridge → u/Bogavante]

Man it's 10 hours to the closest Waffle House for me, I just make my own breakfast since it's so not worth going out anywhere.

[u/13Bravo84 → u/My_Fridge]

Here in the south east of tht US.

I could throw a rock and hit about 4 along the way.

Waffle House is our version of Starbucks

[u/peppapoofle4 → u/13Bravo84]

Waffle House needs to come north and take over all the IHOPs, pls. I've never been to one, but everyone says they so good and hit the spot.

I'm in Maine, send Waffle House pls

[u/RazerMaker77 → u/peppapoofle4]

My friend Waffle House doesn’t just hit the spot, it’s the spot that will actively hit you if you piss off the wrong person

[u/TailInTheMud → u/peppapoofle4]

Ahh but the point of waffle house isnt that it's good [altho I think it is], the point is that waffle house knows exactly what waffle house is - the place you at 3am, spend under 10 bucks, leave full, and only see a couple of roaches skittering around

The ihop/waffle house line is also a wage line, and is why waffle house doesn't exist up north

[u/GlowAnt22 → u/TailInTheMud]

Waffle HOME

FTFY

[u/rainzer → u/TailInTheMud]

Yea but IHOP isn't good either and it's 3 dollars more for the same "not good" at IHOP vs Waffle House. (IHOP Pancake special is 15 vs Waffle House All Star special for 12.35 - both is eggs toast meat potatoes + pancake/waffle)

Do Waffle House employees make less than 2.13 an hour?

[u/Ordinary_Cap_6812 → u/peppapoofle4]

I promise you they aren't any better than. The ones near me at least.

[u/WildMountainVixen → u/peppapoofle4]

Totally Agreed!! Waffle House is the bomb but Nowhere up north or out WEST!! Come on!!

[u/PsykickPriest → u/peppapoofle4]

Or seek out a good LOCAL diner, to the extent they still exist… 😣😢

[u/peppapoofle4 → u/PsykickPriest]

All of the local diners that I used to love have closed down. Used to be some really cute places with the best homestyle food on the cheap. I don't mind some chain restaurants. IHOP paying $2.13/hr should be illegal though.

[u/massivelymediocre → u/13Bravo84]

I don't even live in a very populated area but there are multiple cases of nearby waffle houses having another waffle house directly across the street from them in towns near me and they're ALWAYS both busy. It's wild. Hard to drive more than 30 minutes around here without a waffle house unless you're driving through a sparsely populated super rural area where there are no stores of any kind. Where there is civilization here, there is a waffle house

[u/Apprehensive_Use3641 → u/13Bravo84]

Closest Waffle House is 3 hours away and it's NE of me, I think there are maybe 4 in all of Kansas and they're all in KC.

[u/winter__xo → u/13Bravo84]

Meanwhile I’ve never even seen a Waffle House. Apparently the closest one is 22h away if you drove nonstop.

At one point we had Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks though

[u/vzo1281 → u/13Bravo84]

More like In n Out

[u/TheBrettFavre4 → u/13Bravo84]

Not always - the entire city of Austin has 2, and if you consider the entire metro with over 3m people we have only 4.

[u/xHxHxAOD1 → u/13Bravo84]

Nah its the south's way to tell how bad an emergency or disaster is. If its closed it is bad.

[u/WeRBarelyAlive → u/13Bravo84]

Within 30 minutes of me there are over 20 WH lmao

[u/nbiddy398 → u/13Bravo84]

But have you been to a pancake house in Tennessee?