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Fun fact: @WaffleHouse is known for its disaster preparedness and resilience, so much so that @fema uses the #WaffleHouseIndex to measure the severity of natural disasters.
WaHo open w/full menu 🟩
WaHo open, limited menu 🟨
WaHo closed 🟥
Why WaHo? Waffles & Resilience, a 🧵
WaHo open w/full menu 🟩
WaHo open, limited menu 🟨
WaHo closed 🟥
Why WaHo? Waffles & Resilience, a 🧵
From its company HQ in Georgia, @WaffleHouse monitors severe weather in its very own "storm center," which also serves as a base to communicate with restaurants in the path of severe weather, monitor the company's supply chain, & quickly deploy "jump teams."
These quick-response teams, which include contractors, utility experts, restaurant operators, suppliers, and others, travel to hard-hit areas with portable generators, gasoline, essential personnel, & more.
And, they help hold down the fort & fill in so local staff can recover.
And, they help hold down the fort & fill in so local staff can recover.
Wow. Hurricanes can’t stop them but this pandemic has. As a Floridian, lemme tell you, this is serious. 😟#WaffleHouseIndex
Damn. We’re at a nationwide code red. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_Ho…
looks like most still open but this is definitely the biggest location closure ever. sad.
The Waffle House Index is an informal measure of disaster severity.
Waffle House has incredible resiliency plans including limited menus to maintain minimal operation. So for them to close? Like, actually close?
That’s a Big Deal.
Waffle House has incredible resiliency plans including limited menus to maintain minimal operation. So for them to close? Like, actually close?
That’s a Big Deal.
I know it sounds ridiculous.
But Waffle House isn’t a normal restaurant chain. It’s one that serves Hurricane Country & practices its disaster plans at least annually. It’s a chain that has trailer-restaurants ready to roll into devestated areas to restore service ASAP.
But Waffle House isn’t a normal restaurant chain. It’s one that serves Hurricane Country & practices its disaster plans at least annually. It’s a chain that has trailer-restaurants ready to roll into devestated areas to restore service ASAP.
365 Waffle House locations closed would usually mean 365 locations at Level Red on the Waffle House Index.
But the index is for storm damage, where closing down is a proxy for severe damage & flooding.
It hasn’t been calibrated to a pandemic before.
But the index is for storm damage, where closing down is a proxy for severe damage & flooding.
It hasn’t been calibrated to a pandemic before.
