eater.com/2017/3/6/14832948/joe-rogers-senior-waffle-house-dies >Joe Rogers Sr., the restaurateur who founded 24-hour diner chain Waffle House with his partner Tom Forkner, died on Friday. He was 97. As a young man, Rogers worked as a short-order cook and manager at the now-defunct Toddle House chain. He opened the first Waffle House with his neighbor Forkner in Avondale Estates, Georgia, in 1955. Forkner once explained how he and Rogers started the chain: “He said, ’You build a restaurant and I’ll show you how to run it.’”
>Rogers and Forkner decided to call it Waffle House because waffles were the most profitable items on the menu.
>The duo expanded slowly, opening just a few more locations during the restaurant’s first decade in business. But growth accelerated in the ’70s and ’80s and now the chain has more than 1,900 outposts, most of which are located in the South. Even though he was the co-founder, Rogers liked to hop behind the counter from time to time.
>With an all-day menu of inexpensive American comfort food, prepared to order, Waffle House developed a loyal fan base over the years — several high-minded chefs and food writers continue to sing its praises. John T. Edge once summed up the chain’s appeal: “Waffle House is a company that manages to be a national presence that still generates local pride, and that’s tough to do. Boysenberry syrup from IHOP is not in our vernacular.” Late at night, Waffle House is often a hotbed for bizarre criminal activity.
>Waffle House is a privately held company, and Rogers’s son, Joe Rogers Jr., is now the chairman. Rogers is survived by Forkner, who is currently 99. In a statement, Joe Jr. notes: “My father genuinely loved every customer who walked into a Waffle House, and customers immediately understood that... The customer always came first for him, and he made sure the customer came first for everyone who worked with him.” Pay your respects Sup Forums
F Waffle House is delicious, I wish we had them in Jew York
Cooper Rivera
F
Henry Smith
F
Disappointing. WH has some fucking good food.
Christopher Howard
F I've only been to Waffle House once, I wish we had them in the NW.
Jeremiah Morris
F Waffle House is great hangover food. Pecan waffles are my shit. Also a major hub for nig activity/crime. It is like WorldStar HipHop LIVE!
Leo Hill
F
Jacob Anderson
No it doesn't its bottom of the barrel ingredients
Henry Moore
Cracker Barrel is better
Carter Price
This. I used to love Waffle House until I ate there sober one time. Never again.
Jackson Bell
They serve two very different clientele, not comparable.
Jordan Garcia
No. F waffle house is god tier.
Aiden Diaz
By God, that's an American institution right there, love it or not Joe must be Smothered and Covered by now You Waffle House people will get it
Nathaniel Morris
Checkd
Elijah Green
f
had mixed experiences--one good, another terrible.
Kevin Sullivan
It's not even the same kind of restaurant
It's more like a short order Shoney's
Robert Parker
In St. Louis, a city of 3 million people, there is literally 4 Waffle Houses in the entire fucking city, and 3 of them are within 5 minutes of each other.
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE KIKES AT WHEN YOU ACTUALLY NEED THEM TO BE MILKING THE GOYS
Kayden Myers
I moved to ATL 2 years ago and every time I try to go to Shoney's it's closed
Cameron Reed
They probably don't want to put a waffle house in the ghetto m8
Michael Rogers
If I had access to the full vault 7 leaks I'd be using your oven to burn your fucking house down right now.
Oliver Turner
f
hating Waffle House literally makes you a commie degenerate
Michael Sanchez
Just got back from Waffle House after a late night of studying with my gf
F
Brayden Sullivan
Is Southwest St. Louis nice?
I'm not sure if you know but Waffle House is notoriously popular among blacks. It's nice fast comfort food when the store is located near white neighborhoods, but they tend to be very dark.
Jace Wright
HOW IS THIS Sup Forums RELATED FUCK OFF
Nathaniel Stewart
I actually have so many memories at waffle house. Teenage years and all. i'd be coming down from being strung out on ecstasy at 4am and get some nasty greasy food i'd vomit back up. Crazy times...
Parker Sanders
what is waffle house is that in Iraq?
Isaiah Sanders
Lego my Eggo
Lucas Myers
Maybe his penis was circumcised. Mods seem to believe anything penis related is magically political.
Nicholas Adams
I'm amazed how fast food chain founders die above 85. F.
Parker Cruz
Rest in peace. I always stop by waffle house when I'm south of the M-D
Jayden Flores
F
Parker Bennett
I've only ever seen waffle houses in the ghetto. Nigs love it.
Eli Phillips
F I'm going to waffle house later today
Jordan Bell
The green area is downtown STL which during baseball season can be very profitable. The problem is STL's tax policies are pretty punitive and no one wants to put up with their horse shit inside the city limits which is the grey circle. Homeless people are pretty frequent here.
The blue square is the midtown area where there's SLU and Wash U, Wash U is one of the 10 best schools in the nation. Lots of young hip areas. Lots of residential enclaves surrounded by city commercialization. This can be a pricy area as well but unlike the downtown area this plot isn't a total shithole and can actually be profitable are more than just game nights and the weekends. The Clayton area is where all of the high rolling new money lives, as well as most of the pro athletes in the area.
Everything in purple is mostly middle America suburbia. There are some nicer places and some shittier places but I would qualify it as the American Mean. You see pretty much everything here but with some few exceptions and I think you could use pretty much any standard market metrics to cut out at least a quarter to a half dozen locations where a WAHO would be profitable. The southern locations are pretty country ghetto (trailers, hicks, meth, etc) but nothing you haven't seen in any other lower class area.
The gold area is a bit more complex. It's mostly retirees and people that are conspicuously rich. Think upper class suburbia. Think roughly $1 per square foot, 800-100 dollar per bed room type averages for half the places you could buy and then probably double and triple that for the rest.
Thing is, that "home town pride" thing could really do well here because of all the elderly.
Everything outlined in Red is a shithole and or niggertown and needs to be nuked.
Adrian Bennett
F
Mason Wilson
...
Carter White
This is the saddest day in the South since Obama won in 2008.
Cooper Wood
Never been to waffle house. Tell me about them
Easton Torres
In North County, Downtown, and South City, which is just inside the grey circle, is where your largest collection of niggers are. West Co is where all of your whites are. WestCo has had pretty idiotic business tax policies for awhile as well. Businesses have literally closed up shop just to move an eighth of a mile down to road to a different municipality.
Nolan Perez
niggers ruined that place for me.
Nolan Davis
Cracker Barrel is expensive as fuck for what you get and it takes forever to get your food.
Jose Davis
I always liked going to waffle house piss ass drunk at 3 in the morning so I could shit my brains out as soon as I got home. Good times.
Thomas Sanchez
best goddamned food in america
Matthew Harris
this
James King
delicious
Camden Murphy
My dad knew the guy. They skied together once or twice, and he offered to fly my dad to Utah on his jet because the snow was better than Colorado that day. He declined the offer because I was very young and my mom was pregnant with my little brother. True story.
Andrew Brooks
it's like a mini ihop
Wyatt Sanders
you didnt have to say it twice faggot
Luke Thompson
They removed "dancing queen" at my local WH jukebox after I got it to play for 6 hours every time I came in
Ethan Peterson
got a waffle house a mile away guess I'm gonna go there tomorrow.
Jaxson Gomez
This.
The waffle house is known here for having atleast 5 chimp outs on the weekends.
Ryan Thompson
They're like an old school diner, but focusing almost exclusively on breakfast they have some good deals where you can get two waffles (not the Belgian kind) and coffee for 5 bucks (a few other options just as cheap). They're sort of hit or miss. A good Waffle House is almost ALWAYS good. A bad one is almost ALWAYS terrible. Not much between.
Aiden Carter
> Late at night, Waffle House is often a hotbed for bizarre criminal activity.
rip it a great place to go during the day but avoid at all costs at night and when you see a ton of blacks
Caleb Myers
>avoid at all costs at night and when you see a ton of blacks
Pretty much is advice to live by for anywhere. Niggers at Nite don't mix.
Michael Bennett
they are avoiding niggers m8
Jaxon Butler
Lived in tennessee for a spell, did not like anything meat related, I understood tvis is a staple among the southern and modwest people. Still love the idea but its akin to your ihop or dennys
Dylan Gutierrez
Never heard of waffle house
Christopher Hall
nobody cares about your faggot nigger city faggots
