Waffle House’s Secret Ingredient? Racism | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Go to http://joinhoney.com/casket to get PayPal Honey for free. Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Waffle House is an American classic—an oasis on the highways in the South. However, no matter how delicious their bacon may be at 4 am on a long winding road, their scandals are anything but. From salacious tapes, alleged harassment, discrimination, and charged confrontations, Waffle House’s reputation may not be as clean as you think. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/bx5ud Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a warm yellow glow, a beacon of hope and salvation, inviting the hungry, the lost, the seriously hammered, all across the
0:15.8	south to come inside a place of safety and nourishment.
0:20.6	That's how Anthony Bourdain, a famous celebrity chef, has described Waffle House.
0:25.0	At this point, it really is an American icon in a classic, though I'm not sure I'd call it a place of safety.
0:31.0	Can I get a Waffle? Can I I get a waffle?
0:33.0	Can I please get a waffle?
0:35.0	Can I please get a waffle?
0:37.0	I want more.
0:42.0	More than state, more than this town.
0:45.0	More than me.
0:47.0	No, no, no, shit.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:50.0	I don't understand.
0:52.0	And all right, that last clip may have been from S&L, but there is some truth to the satire.
0:57.0	Things do get wild at waffle houses.
1:00.0	Not only have those first two clips become viral and memeable, but it's proven one indisputable fact.
1:06.5	Don't mess with a Waffle House employee.
1:09.7	They will become superheroes, deflect chairs, and embarrass the hell out of you all at the same time.
1:15.6	No matter how many fights you've seen, this Waffle House employee has definitely seen more.
1:21.1	And sure, this is bound to happen when you're open all night because even delicious breakfast food can't stop drunk people from brawling when they really want to make a dumb decision.
1:30.0	But why is it that Waffle House fights always seem worse somehow?
1:35.0	Is it truly just as the employee Haley Booth has said,
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