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A lot of these articles announcing closings don’t make it clear whether it’s temporary or permanent. This one is no exception. While I would assume it’s tempor
by jader201 7y ago
A lot of these articles announcing closings don’t make it clear whether it’s temporary or permanent. This one is no exception.
While I would assume it’s temporary, I’m confused why this is front page on HN. Several businesses are closing temporarily due to Coronavirus. Not sure why this is news.
Unless these are permanent closings, which would be (sad) news indeed.
- teraflop 7y agoIt's news because, as pointed out by a number of other comments, Waffle House is notorious for staying open even in dire circumstances.
- jader201 7y agoNot sure anybody here has seen more dire circumstances than what we’re seeing today, so still doesn’t seem that surprising. Maybe it could be argued that these closings suggest that indeed these are the direst of circumstances, but I think that was already known a week or two ago.
- downshun 7y agoNo. It's news because people are using their brains for hipster drama and not critical thinking. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22682636
- ohiovr 7y agoI bet the wafflers are making a disaster plan for pandemics and they will be ready to come back soon.
- zenexer 7y agoIt’s relevant in this case because Waffle House closings are used to measure the severity of disasters. It’s called the Waffle House Index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index
- ChrisArchitect 7y agorelated previous HN discussion about the Waffle House Index https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105662 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105662