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- mwsherman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+56Be careful. If someone abroad reads this, you can go to jail for revealing an American encryption scheme.
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35It's "Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Chunked, Topped, Diced & Peppered"!
I KNOW my Waffle House hash browns! - jwelchtex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27@nsummy
Do you have a McDonald's training manual. I'd really like to take a look. - drmangrum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20You don't go to waffle house because it's healthy. You go to waffle house at 3am when your drunk, hungry, and don't really care.
- john570, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19IHOP sucks. $5 bucks for your meal and another $4 bucks for your orange juice. Food isn't as good either.
- RatherDashing, on 10/12/2007, -10/+26I think thats pretty damn interesting!
Waffle House > IHOP. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@RatherDashing
There's no iHOP where I live, but there's a WaffleHouse and I must tell you that it's great -- especially if it's 3AM and you're drunk. - raynar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15scattered smothered covered and chunked. Can't tell if it descrbies the hashbrowns going in or coming out.
- smacksy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13This is *****. I ran a Waffle House for a couple years in college and this is completely untrue. You pull the plates, put the food on the grill, and that's that. No cheats, no shortcuts...you just get good at it. The best cooks cook at the busiest times. Perhaps the methods have changed in the ten years since, but to say that there are cheats is to diminish the actual talent they acquire.
Why did I manage a WH? Because it was the best paying cooking job in the area. They started me out at 2 dollars an hour more than anywhere else I could find.
One late-night (3rd shift) I saw the waitress jump up on the dish sink, egg pan in one hand and steak knife in the other, screaming at some drunk black ***** that had thrown a ketchup pack at server. Good times.
To the guy asking about fries: There's not enough room for fryers, thus no fries. - violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13"Some people might care that the cooks speak so little English that something like this is necessary..."
This is the "code" the cooks use to know what to cook at a quick glance, much easier than writing it down. The orders are still communicated to them in English (usually very fast, by a waitress with a southern accent, in a fairly noisy restaurant). Feel free to continue being a bigot though. Jackass. - WhiskeyTango, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I'm really surprised to see so many people reacting so negatively to this story. I think it's really interesting, and fairly ingenious how they're using what's available to them, to quickly and efficiently organizing information so that multiple sources can be quickly accessed. Just because it's bacon and egg's doesn't mean the theory behind it isn't pretty cool.
- RatherDashing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Those hashbrowns are def. not on the Atkins diet, but absolutely worth it.
- violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The fact that you can't see the kitchen in Denny's or IHOP scares the ***** out of me. What is it they're doing back there with my breakfast? Wafflehouse clearly has nothing to hide.
- Alphateam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9informative, but useless.
I'll be sure and remember if I change my profession to short order cook.
Thanks! - geniusj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I recommend a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich on texas toast at WH.. It is stellar :-D
- violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Dugg for your honesty and citing your reference, there's not nearly enough of that on the internet.
- daedalus1982, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@iceperson
"Some people might care that the cooks speak so little English that something like this is necessary..."
have you been to waffle house during a rush? the cooks have 3 plates each backed up that wooden counter they use.
how would you prefer them indicate on the plate what your order is? papers get lost and mixed.
Now if it wasn't for you comment indicating you haven't been to Waffle House in a long time, i would ask you when you last remember them EVER messing up an order. - MrBabyMan, on 10/12/2007, -10/+16Credit where credit is due. The link is direct to the source, but the above description comes from a blog post on Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/03/06/condiment_codes_of_t.html - picaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I live in NYC and I have no idea where the closest WH is.
But I'm convinced that if someone opened a WH in Manhattan, and staffed it with drag queens, they'd make a friggin' fortune. - lilzaphod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Come on. Think of the fun hacking your waffle house order.
Since when did Digg have to be relevant?
Bunchapantywastes.... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@adamprawitz
Greasy? Thank you Captain Obvious! I've never seen any health nuts there. - chefsam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I've been kicked out of a Denny's at 3AM, IHOP isn't open at 3AM...
but every Waffle House I've ever been to is just happy to have me!
Waffle House trumps all comers for late night/early morning drunken stomach fortification!
Scattered, Smothered, Covered, Peppered!!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Anyone questioning the intelligence of Waffle House cooks: Two of the smartest dudes I know work at Waffle House. One of which is my best friend, the other is a computer genius and has a computer science degree...but he chooses to cook instead because it's his passion.
This scheme they use for this is surprisingly complicated, and you probably couldn't figure it out. It's much harder to learn than say, pounding on keyboard or being a moron who sterotypes. But you can do both at the same time, so you're obviously talented and full of smarts. - cblalock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@nsummy
You'd better respect el casa de waffle. You hear me? RESPECT IT! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6What I want to know is why the HELL Waffle House doesn't have any french fries!!!
- DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Am I the first ex-Waffle House employee to post?
As a server, the order entry process is pretty frustrating. You have to stand in a certain place and say your order in a certain way. No, you can't say "hash browns with cheese." You must say "covered."
Money was good though, and lots of free food. - sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@iceperson: Have you SEEN my handwriting? I don't know a single person who would prefer to decipher my chicken scratch over looking at a plate and knowing what to do.
- Xarou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I could get a McDonald's training book... heck I may still have one at home.
- AaronTyler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Now if they could only have codes for cleaning those greasy ass floors.....
- Karyyk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Blocked for being an assuming killjoy. Get bent...
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If your friend is truly a genius whose passion is cooking, and that's his choice, why is his choice to cook at WAFFLE HOUSE?
- BitBucket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Communicating with condiments. How interesting. This type of thing is what keeps me coming back to digg. A fascinating thing that I would never know about unless the community dug it up.
- Dhalsim007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Damn DMCA! Does this apply now because the photo is digital? :-) WaffleHouse will sue all our asses!
- dvpdziyn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Waffle House is awesome. I live just outside Chicago and can't stand that there's no Waffle Houses nearby. However, trip to Indianapolis? Stop at Waffle House? Family going to Orlando - Waffle House - check! Trip out to Colorado Springs...helloooo Waffle House - I just love me some scattered hash browns!
- inkyblue2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2thanks a lot. now i am seriously craving waffle house, and the nearest one is 45 minutes away. :(
- geniusj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maryland area? I remember that being the case when I lived there.. Just a guess.
- antitrendy17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In case you guys wanted to know the answer to the flickr description - "I am not sure how to mark "dry" for the toast..."
You put a butter packet on the jelly packet to indicate that you need to "take out" the butter. Also right side up jelly is white. Upside down is wheat.
- My roomate is training to be a WH manager - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So instead of roughing it for a while with the potential payoff of becoming a chef or owner of a classy restaurant, he's going to have a dead-end job as a diner cook for the rest of his life?
- noncn4mst, on 04/15/2009, -0/+2huddle house > waffle house
thicker coffee mugs AND FRIES - chefsam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2why don't you go ahead and draw me a diagram of two eggs sunny, hashbrowns scattered, smothered, covered & peppered, sausage and buttered white toast?
I'm timing you. Begin. - smokeygo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is it just me or does this seem like an overly complicated and error-prone system? TOO clever for their own good.
- KicktheDonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where do you live that the nearest one is 45 mins away? Hell, there are three 10 minutes from my house. And at both interstate exits north and south of me, there are two each.
- GLJones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now you've done it...broken the secret WH code. Now they have to go and change it again, at the cost of thousands of screwed up orders during the transition.
- picaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Bacon, egg and cheese plate, double the plate, scattered, smothered, and covered".
That's what the waitress used to yell when I ordered, and I got a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich with a double order of hash browns, with pickle slices and a packet of mayo.
Now most WHs have the &$)%*#) point-of-sale idiot-button machines like all fast-food restaurants, and that Waffle House lingo that was such a 3AM comfort is slowly dying out. - po43292, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So which one was crazier?
- DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let me clarify... money was good for a part-time job while I was in college, but only on weekend mornings. The customers don't care about you bs-ing with them and giving them a good restaurant experience. You turn tables real quick and have a lot of them. $3-5 tips add up real, real quick on Sat / Sunday mornings.
That being said, when I was going back to school, they offered me a management job... which paid $22,000 and no overtime. Managers frequently worked 7s (7 am - 7 pm). - GRTWHT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, this is proof of the concept: http://www.digg.com/tech_news/How_to_Become_a_Digg_Top_User_without_doing_anything_shady
The OP is even referenced in the article: "Out of these five - Digg user mrbabyman would be the best one to target as a friend due to the fact that he diggs the most and is still very active on the site." - MindStalker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@drmangrum I initially read that as drunk, horny, ...
And was very scared.. - Karyyk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1People do what they have to do. It's always assumed that you can judge how intelligent a person is by what job they happen to have, and that's just not the case. Maybe some people will realize that when they lose their job and have to take what they can get just to scrape by...
- rewqas, on 10/19/2007, -0/+1http://dream-kitchen-makeovers.blogspot.com/
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