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Thanks for this amazing find!
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Let me know when you find the recipe for the
waffle batter.
Posted 21 months ago.
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Now that's a great discovery! I wish they had
Waffle Houses here in California. I miss
them.
Posted 21 months ago.
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michaelbrutsch [deleted] says:
@TheRogue: At least you've got Chicken And
Waffles!
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Saw this on BoingBoing. Amazing!
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Saw it on BoingBoing as well. What a neat
system!!
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putting manhandled packets of condiments on
the supposedly clean plate before plating the
entree (i use the term entree very loosly
here) sounds more than a bit unsanitary to
me.
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monkey...you're kidding, right? It's Waffle
House. You're not going there to get
sanitary food.
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Brilliant, thanks for posting!
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insane.
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It won't be much longer before you have a
simple LCD display with an image of what the
finished order's supposed to look like.
Forget all the jelly packet shorthand stuff.
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Um, Waffle House is a grease pit, not a
surgical operatory. The cook's hands are
probably the cleanest things in the joint.
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The secrets of Waffle House! I always love
sitting and listening to orders get yelled
across the kitchen. Why oh why can't they
open Waffle Houses in California? I miss
them so.
re-blogged
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Wow. That is really something else.
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Boing boing said something about coming here.
What's going on?
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Who works here in this Waffle House, Peaches?
Who fold them omelets, who turn them
sausages, who clean up the mess, and who just
plain work here... just breathin' in the
grease fumes?
Somebody who don't work here made them
rules. Them rules ain't for us. We the ones
who make up them rules. We makin' our own
rules, every day. Ain't that right, Homer?
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CapnMarrrrk [deleted] says:
How cool! I am totally baffled by the pickle
placement though. What if the plate somehow
gets rotated? Does the layering help just in
case?
My mind is blown, as is my bowels if I eat
at Awful House.
Say it 3 times quick: Awful Waffle, Awful
Waffle, Awful Waffle.
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gotta love codes.
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Friends don't let friends eat at Waffle
House.
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For the record, you CAN eat healthy at Waffle
House! I have eaten there every morning for
over a year and my BFI (Body Fat Index) is
under 15%. My standard meal is steamed
hashbrowns, a grilled chicken breast, and
water with no ice (total $4.39 plus tax).
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I always thought they only hired savants for
cooks. So dissapointed now...
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Once we suss out the code for dry white
toast, we can next work on the code for four
fried chickens and a coke.
This is absolutely fascinating. Soda jerks
at fountains used to have their own lingo;
Waffle House short-order cooks have their own
signal system. I love it.
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coolness!
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Steamed hashbrowns? I'm cold and afraid...
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Nice! I haven't been to a WH in at least 10
years, but as I remember you could find one
about every mile or two on any major street
in Gerogia. Oh and, this has been Dugg.
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Hey,
I WAS a Waffle House cook in Phoenix
decades ago. Back then, you just had to
remember what to do and how it looked. If you
couldn't do that, you could never handle the
rush on a Sunday morning. Are cooks getting
dumber? Are people's brains atrophying?
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cool!
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cool
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Welcome to the digging
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wow, that's crazy.
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My father worked for a time on the front
lines of a robust late 90's economy: he
worked in HR for a temp agency. As a part of
this, he saw lots of people come through
looking for work, and as a part of their
application process the company would inquire
into a person's previous work history.
One day this guy came in, he was a 17 year
veteran as a Waffle House short order cook.
He filled out his paperwork, my father
reviewed it as he sat there. All was pretty
straightforward until he got down to the
"Reasons for leaving last
employment."
Instead of the stock answers he was used to
seeing and expected, he was confronted with
one word:
"Jellypacks."
Seems that this particular Waffle House had
moved to the Jellypack system shown above,
and after 17 years of doing his job day in
and day out he couldn't keep up with the new
system.
Another casualty to technology, I guess.
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awesome. i love me some waffle house.
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my husband and my mom LOVE waffle house... i
should not have learned this little trick.
just the fact that i can see the kitchen
while i'm waiting for my order, and them slip
sliding across the kitchen on greasy floors -
makes me sick.
Now this... makes OCD side of me go nuts -
i'll be looking at the cook's hands now for
sure - if he scratches his balls, picks his
nose, brushes his hair back, slaps a roach...
OMG... the possibilities are endless. hahaha
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Sweet find!
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This is not just happening at Waffle House.
When I was a barista at Starbucks about ten
years ago, we had a similar way of keeping
track of orders (and since this happened to
be the second-busiest Starbucks at the time,
we needed one). You turned the cup upside
down, on its side, with the cup opening
facing you, or whatever to indicate
cappuccino, decaf, half-caf, etc. It was a
neat system but of course has gone by the
wayside as turnover gets worse and automation
takes over.
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timmorgan, that is a great story. i'm glad
the guy (seemed to have) had a sense of humor
about it.
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Thanks for posting this - my visits to Waffle
House will never be the same.
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interesting!!!
--
Seen on kottke.org (?)
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durlando-I thought you just wrote the order
on the side of the cup at Starbucks..why the
other system?
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Of course they communicate using condiments.
Have you ever tried understanding their
words? It's not easy. :)
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This makes me hungry.
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insanity! Don't they have pens/paper?
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For what it's worth, I'm not sure they
actually do have a way to indicate dry toast.
It often takes a couple of tries to get it
right (with the server eventually having to
stand by the toaster and grab the toast
him/herself before someone else comes by and
automatically covers the toast with butter).
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dry toast is a butter cup on the jelly.the
pickles indicate what is on a breakfast
sandwich, such as bacon, sausage etc.
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Now if they'd only clean up their kitchens. I
stopped eating there a couple years back
because it was always so dirty.
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cmill603 -
You're ALMOST right. Dry toast is marked
with a butter cup UNDER the jelly packet.
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It's cool to see this... and even though I
can't believe I'm about to say this, I miss
Waffle House. I guess when you grow up eating
mostly gross food in a hostile environment
surrounded by the dregs of humanity, you
learn to love it in a way.
And durlando stole my thunder with the
reveal on the old Starbucks way. I worked at
one in 1994, and it was amazing how that
simple little stacking system allowed me to
keep track of 6, 7, 8 orders or more at a
time. Of course, back then we didn't have
even a quarter of the drinks they have to
make now, so I'd imagine that's why that
system gave way to writing the order on the
cups. And don't get me started on the fact
that no one knows how to properly pull a nice
shot of espresso these days, since all those
lackeys have to do now is press a button.
Um, sorry. My mind wandered. Where was I?
Oh yeah, cool pic. :)
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I love me some waffle house. I am actually
toying with the idea of a franchise... we
moved to Alexandria, VA recently and I can't
believe how much I love the WH!
how is it that the woman cooking seems to
be the same person in Shreveport,
Williamsburg and Greensboro? are they
cloned?
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that Bucks thing is the coolest ever!
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dry white toast
one jelly pack on top of a butter pack on
top of a small upside down plate
<master grill op at waffle house :D
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4am falling out of the Bar/club drunk. Whats
the most beautiful site in the night time
sky???? A well lit Waffle House sign. Chicken
Melt, fresh coffee and hash browns.
I love the south!
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This system is really neat. I thought there
were supposedly one or 2 other rival systems
that a small minority of Waffle Houses use,
in addition to this system. Maybe someone can
clue me in, if there actually are any other
rival cooking systems that certain other
WaHos use(or not, and if this is the standard
one in all locations).
I thought timmorgan's story was interesting
too about a former WaHo cook quit his job,
since they switched away from the former way
of communicating orders to the
"jellypack" system.
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Dry toast is indicated by putting the jelly
pack on top of a butter cup. right side up
jelly is white, upside down is wheat (I think
you said that earlier anyway). A single
hashbrown on the plate means it gets them,
versus nothing for grits because eggs
automatically come with grits unless they are
a plate. 20 years managing WH and I have seen
three different systems including just
cooking by memory when I started. The latest
incarnation is most definitely easier.
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Also, we didn't "switch" from the
former way, just added to it. Orders are
still called out, but by adding to the system
it makes it easier to remember. The only
cooks that had a hard time with it were the
ones that were already having problems
remembering stuff to begin with.
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the way to mark dry toats is a butter cup
under the jelly pack the placement of the
pickles has no relation to what is being
cooked if a server calles a grilled cheese
plate the cook will put 2 pickles on the 3
oclock position of the platter and a few hb
on the 12 oclock to maek hb if the pickles
get moved to the 6 oclock position it would
not mean a bacon grilled cheese becouse the
server did not tell the grill op to pull 1
bacon. im a seasoned WH waitress and
grill op any more questions jusk ask!
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I really miss the good ol Waffle House folks
and the food. Nothing
like it.
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It is illegal to take pictures of Waffle
House... supplies such as menues and tickets
and 'cheat sheets'. Not that I particularly
care-just to let you know.
If a plate gets turned-what ever is marked
is what gets made. So a new order has to be
made if the wrong one was there.
I used to work at the awful-waful; it was a
great experience to further me on towards the
rest of my life. It was clean, fun, and
sometimes the old 'regulars' cheerfully say
hello when they happen to see me.
Every chain of restaurants or franchises
have a few bad, which does not make all of
them bad.
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@amandapatria: Maybe they told you employees
that it was illegal, but they would have a
pretty tough time winning in a court of law.
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i was a waffle house master grill op. for
over 10 years. it was an awsome experience it
was a blast. it aint for everybody
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I am a Waffle House cook/ assistant manager.
Dry toast is a buttercup under the jelly
packet. Anything else you would like to know?
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called American English, and we'd love to have your photo added to
the group.
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If you think it's discusting watching your
food being made go to a resturaunt where you
can't see the cooks and what they're doing
with their hands.
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I take the T-Bone ;-)
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In regard's to the comment about not sure how
to mark for dry wheat toast....I am a Waffle
House Grill Operator and the way you mark for
that is a jelly pack upside down on a butter
cup. That is the way we mark for dry wheat
toast!
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after 18 years and doing every job from host
to district manager you see a lot of changes
and boy was this marker system worth it
Posted 2 months ago.
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