# Waffle House is closing stores due to Corona Virus **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 26, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waffle-house-is-closing-stores-due-to-corona-virus/850292 "2020-03-26T00:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waffle-house-is-closing-stores-due-to-corona-virus/850292/1 "2020-03-26T00:42:15Z")
How will we know how bad the tornadoes are now? > **[Waffle House closes 420 locations amid coronavirus pandemic | CNN Business](https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/business/coronavirus-waffle-house-trnd/index.html)** > > Waffle House just became the latest restaurant chain to shutter some of its locations amid the nation's novel coronavirus outbreak. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waffle-house-is-closing-stores-due-to-corona-virus/850292/2 "2020-03-26T12:50:30Z")
On a recent trip South, we had breakfast at Waffle House almost every day. Sure wish they would expand the chain to New England! ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waffle-house-is-closing-stores-due-to-corona-virus/850292/3 "2020-03-26T14:53:20Z")
It’s one of my favorite eating places. Sad to see them closed ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waffle-house-is-closing-stores-due-to-corona-virus/850292/4 "2020-03-26T14:59:22Z")
Closing 420 locations. That’s less than 1/4 of all their locations. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waffle-house-is-closing-stores-due-to-corona-virus/850292/5 "2020-04-09T16:54:25Z")
And they quickly sold out of their waffle mix online, too: [Waffle House sold out of its waffle mix online in just four hours | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/us/waffle-house-mix-sell-out-trnd/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waffle-house-is-closing-stores-due-to-corona-virus/850292/6 "2020-04-10T00:37:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > And they quickly sold out of their waffle mix online, too: [https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/us/waffle-house-mix-sell-out-trnd/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/us/waffle-house-mix-sell-out-trnd/index.html) I saw that on the news today and i wondered what makes their mix better/different then the mix I buy at the store? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waffle-house-is-closing-stores-due-to-corona-virus/850292/7 "2020-04-10T01:13:04Z")
> [@pirviii](#): > > I saw that on the news today and i wondered what makes their mix better/different then the mix I buy at the store? And can it beat Krusteaz? And their [Praline Waffles à la Mode](https://www.krusteaz.com/recipes/praline-waffles-la-mode)? ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waffle-house-is-closing-stores-due-to-corona-virus/850292/8 "2020-04-10T03:11:13Z")
Bummer. Simply because I like their food plus its the one restaurant chain where they cook right out in the open and you know nothing happens to your food like stuff being dropped on the floor and a cook putting it on a plate. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/waffle-house-is-closing-stores-due-to-corona-virus/850292/9 "2020-04-10T05:05:00Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Bummer. Simply because I like their food plus its the one restaurant chain where they cook right out in the open and you know nothing happens to your food like stuff being dropped on the floor and a cook putting it on a plate. Most places I eat, I kind of prefer the cook putting the food on a plate. YMMV, I guess. 😃