That is horrible and I’m glad they don’t do that anymore. I should’ve been more specific—I was just fangirling about coming across a (former?)Waffle House employee!

lol and i'm just blabbing because hurricanes bring out the ptsd. i was raised in WH because my dad was a maintenance man covering an entire division along the gulf coast from LA to AL. i worked there for 14 years myself, from 1994 to 2008, on the MS coast. i still have many friends working there.