Now if your site was named wafflehurricanetracker.org it would have probably survived trademark issues. The scraping issues would have been better if they were

Now if your site was named wafflehurricanetracker.org it would have probably survived trademark issues. The scraping issues would have been better if they were anonymized - it wouldn't necessarily be obvious that it was Waffle House (TM) that you had scraped, but if you suggested it was made by slow scraping websites of one or more popular breakfast establishments, then it wouldn't have been obvious.