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I don't think Waffle House has locations in any major Urban location. I really wish we had them in Boston also. It is an experience that even other diners don'
by nerdjon 3y ago
I don't think Waffle House has locations in any major Urban location.
I really wish we had them in Boston also. It is an experience that even other diners don't really replicate.
Especially the price, I am always shocked when I go to visit parents just how much you get at Waffle House for multiple people for what I am used to spending on just myself.
But it is more than that. The size, the layout, the code words for how you want your hash browns, etc.
- skyyler 3y ago>I don't think Waffle House has locations in any major Urban location. Columbus, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia both have Waffle Houses. I don't think it's universally a rule that they stay out of cities.
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- selimthegrim 3y agoAlso New Orleans (by the VA Hospital). And I recall eating at one in on the northside of Dallas (which may or may not be "urban")
- madcaptenor 3y agoHere's their map: https://locations.wafflehouse.com https://locations.wafflehouse.com Waffle House started just outside of Atlanta, and you can still see that. In other big cities they seem to stay outside of the core - I suspect they don't want to have locations without parking. (But off the top of my head I can name two Atlanta-area Waffle Houses that don't have their own parking, namely the one right off Centennial Olympic Park and the one in downtown Decatur.)
- flyingswift 3y agoThe one at Georgia Tech also doesn't have parking
- rootusrootus 3y agoGood for people watching, that one is. We went there for breakfast every single day when I was in Atlanta to retrieve my OMSCS degree (we were staying in the GT hotel in the same building, so it was super convenient). I'm easy to please, and my waistline is better because we don't have Waffle House in the PNW. Maybe I'd grow tired of it, but no guarantees.
- CatAtHeart 3y agoTo your first point, they are prolific throughout the South. Very prominent in Atlanta
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- gte525u 3y agoIt may vary on your definition of major - but they definitely do in the southeast and lower midwest.
- notaustinpowers 3y agoCome to Atlanta, down the street from me are two completely separate Waffle Houses built right next to each other that share the same parking lot.
- madcaptenor 3y agoThis sounds possible, but where is it?
- bombcar 3y agoA quick Kagi found a few of them, apparently a Waffle House has to be a certain size, and if they can do more business, it spawns another one.
- notaustinpowers 3y agoThey're on Chamblee Tucker Road right off of I-85 in NE Atlanta. Here's a screenshot from Google Maps: https://ibb.co/0tdBRR1 https://ibb.co/0tdBRR1
- madcaptenor 3y agoNow that I think about it I actually used to drive past them sometimes! Only one of them shows up on Waffle House's own map, though. Here's an article talking about double Waffle Houses, from 2019, when the older of the two at Buford Highway / I-285 closed: https://www.tonetoatl.com/2019/07/Waffle-House-Closed-Buford-Highway-Doraville.html#google_vignette https://www.tonetoatl.com/2019/07/Waffle-House-Closed-Buford... - they mention the pair on Chamblee-Tucker. Apparently one is catering-only, which probably explains why it doesn't show on the map. They also mention pairs that used to exist at Clairmont Road near I-85 and Lawrenceville Highway near I-285. Apparently WH is trying to reduce the number of these.
- jrochkind1 3y agoHow do you decide which one to enter?
- CPLX 3y agoDowntown Atlanta for sure. There was also one near me when I lived in downtown Colorado Springs, which has half a million people.
- brodouevencode 3y agoEvery large city in the southeast.
- chrisdhal 3y agoThey have quite a few in Houston, only the 4th largest metro area in the US.
- madcaptenor 3y agoIf you look at the map (https://locations.wafflehouse.com https://locations.wafflehouse.com) they seem to avoid the central part of Houston though, roughly anything inside Beltway 8. Generally they have locations in the suburbs of big cities but not in the big cities themselves. Except Atlanta, as has already been pointed out. (Disclaimer: I have never been to Houston except to change planes in its airport.)
- packetslave 3y agoIt's a running joke that any driving directions in the Atlanta Metro Area will include the words "go down Peachtree" and "when you see the waffle house..."
- madcaptenor 3y agoWhen we first moved into our house the neighbor kid made sure we knew where the nearest Waffle House was. It’s on Peachtree (Industrial).