Waffle House closes 365 locations across the U.S.
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They are usually open 24 hours and there are reasons why we have a Waffle House Index.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105662
You can't have too many hash browns. That's just not a thing.
(Please do not actually take my dietary recommendations. My body isn't normal and eating like me might kill a normal person.)
One hundred percent agree with you. That said, finishing off a triple topped is enough to make a shred of doubt cross your mind. You then just have to wash that doubt away with a refill of Mr. Pibb and move on to the bacon and peanut butter waffle.
You win this one. I"m not even going to compete.
Finishing it though is less about appetite and more about stubborn refusal to accept defeat and acknowledge the loss of my twenties.
That said, a triple hashbrown is nothing. My potato stomach is still going strong and near bottomless. What puts you over the edge is the chili. With a triple foundation to support it, they load up far more than you'd get with three single topped orders.
Bodies change as you get older.
And adjusted my (overall) eating habits to minimize heartburn (not an easy feat, given the type of Italian cooking I grew up around).
But so far, my mind has refused to cede authority over my once-in-a-blue-moon Waffle House trips to my body's newfound limitations. It's definitely a battle that's going to be lost soon, but not quite yet.
For me, it's Waffle House.
people also swear by popeyes down here. and yet i like chick-fil-a better.
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.
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.
Could be hype or truth, but both storms and pandemics require lots of prep and recovery.
“They [Waffle House] have good risk management plans in place and are great examples of how their supply chains get affected in two different ways. On the one hand, your own supply chain is exposed,” he continued. “At the same time, your stores are supposed to be the first to react and provide the basic supplies. Your supply goes down, while your demand goes up.”
In the context of this pandemic, the essential components for treating patients (N95 masks, respirators, tests, other PPE) require supply chains that span across multiple countries; of which are dealing with their own responses and can't act as net exporters of these materials. The US response of tapping into its stockpile may give a faster immediate response, but there's practically zero domestic manufacturing capacity at a time when they're needed most. Governor Cuomo of New York said the federal government offered 400 ventilators, when the state needed nearly two orders of magnitude more than that [1]. Flattening the curve will take much longer if patients and providers don't have access to these tools.
[0] https://www.ehstoday.com/emergency-management/article/219068...
[1] https://twitter.com/MichaelSkolnik/status/124248080874252288...