How Waffle House Trains the Night Shift

Before you can join the night crew at the beloved Southern institution known as Waffle House, you must first master "the way of the waffle." Then - and only then - will you be able to catch a chair hurled at you by a customer.

[InvidiousIgnoramus]

That "smoke break" part was really true for me once. I pulled up to a waffle house at 3 am once and I was not only the only customer there, but I was sitting in it by myself for almost 20 minutes before I even SAW an employee.

[drewforsberg]

This is dead accurate. Waffle House kicks ass and is my favorite of all the breakfast chains. When you just want a mountain of gravied-up hash browns for cheap, you can't go wrong with them.

My local Waffle House a few suburbs over just so happens to be in Eastlake, OH.... Which is the absolute most appropriate place for it. Eastlake is the 12-4AM Waffle House of northeast Ohio.

[ccl]

I work nights at the hospital and it’s amazing how similar this is….
The big difference I see is the lack of syrup but yeah. Same

[sagrammyfour]

I am a retired nurse who worked most of my career on the night shift. I still keep those hours which has provided me with hours of spine-tingling entertainment on the Waffle House night shift. I learned a lot about scantily dressed women who work at night and take their breaks at the WaHo. They arrive by limo, dressed like they're going to a Hollywood red carpet premier, only outshone by their pimps, who are in outrageous uniforms--it's a parade! I enjoyed listening to their gossip, ranging from everyday stuff just like any other mom with kids, to low down, trifling men, to hair and nails. Several times, though, serious looking, scary gang types arrived, some looking for more than waffles. They were spoiling for a fight with each other, rivals, and sometimes the WaHo staff. When they arrived, rather than stick around for too long, I usually left, occasionally without my waffles. When I got home, Inwatched the news for reports of mayhem at the WaHo. Good times.

[lanefunai]

I'm shocked that there aren't more Florida Man stories involving a Waffle House.

[HuckBuddies]

#0:02 his hat is more jacked up, than a homemade toaster. 😂😂😂

[iforgot]

Brave Waffle House employees❤️
We appreciate y’all!

[dakkenblah]

Watching this reminds me of all the fun nights I had working at the waffle house off I4 in Lakeland FL. You haven't lived until you've had some fall down drunk cougar asking you to add your special sauce to her food.

[keasstudio]

I'm too northern to have ever seen a WaffleHouse before, but breakfast all day sounds amazing. I do wonder about all the drunkards though. Funny video! Lolol

[southernsiouxsie]

I live across the street from a waffle house in a dry county and it still always has drunks in it during those hours. Also always an employee sitting outside smoking. Is it a requirement that you must be a smoker to work there or does working there make you take up smoking to calm your nerves?

[J]

Half the number of ways you can catch these hands! 😆

[colleenfischer]

The Waffle House has found it’s new host

[annethompson]

Haha so true. I worked 3rd shift for 3and half years. Fun times.

[FoxygamerX]

The Waffle house has found its new host

[merpius]

Keep your pants on for at least half the meal.... :D That is a pretty low bar, and yet... it seems to be regularly violated.

[galindobbqanddeli]

Waho smell a whole slough of skits with this American legend

[jonathanfox]

My favorite waho memory came after a party in Athens, Ga. One of our buddies didn’t sleep at all and drank the whole night. Dude was green as grass sitting in the booth. As soon as the breakfast smell hit him he sprinted out in to the parking lot and projectile, like Exorcist level, vomited all over the dumpster. The waitress saw this and gave us a coffee and water to go saying “get this into him when he stops”. They really do know their customers

[ffjfvfhu]

I was working 3rd shift when all of a sudden it got real quiet inside, I turn around to see someone holding a gun, they pointed it right at my head, my neck, and then the back of my head so I could open up the register for them. Once I got it open, the dude fumbled the money, ran outside while my team recorded and belittled him, and finally I had to work overtime while the ones who didn’t have a gun pointed at them left early.
TLDR; yeah, Waffle House is like that. Go on and get your smoke break.

[junamay]

This video is worth the comments alone

[Boonslayer]

As a former Waffle House third shift waiter, can confirm that everything in this video is real other than the lack of mention of crackheads.