Waffle House closes 365 locations across the U.S. [View all]

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Source: WAFB CBS News Affiliate Louisiana

By Josh Carter | March 24, 2020 at 5:21 PM CDT - Updated March 24 at 8:35 PM

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Waffle House has now closed 365 locations across the U.S. due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The breakfast-chain announced the news on their Facebook page Tuesday morning.

While more than 300 locations have closed, 1,627 remain open.

In a Facebook post on March 15th, Waffle House said that they were attempting to keep their customers safe and keep nearly 45,000 employees employed...

Read more: https://www.wafb.com/2020/03/24/waffle-house-closes-locations-across-us/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index

The Waffle House Index is an informal metric named after the Waffle House restaurant chain and is used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to determine the effect of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery.[1]

If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That's really bad...[2]
—?Craig Fugate, Former Head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

The measure is based on the reputation of Waffle House for having good disaster preparedness and staying open during extreme weather, or reopening quickly afterwards...