“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That’s really bad.” — Craig Fugate, the former head of FEMA, on the Southern chain's use as a barometer for disaster recovery
The Georgia-based diner icon, beloved for its breakfast food served in abundance across the South and in other states, is known for being open around the clock, even in times of extreme weather and natural disasters. Waffle House locations are so rarely closed that even the federal government takes its cues from the chain as a barometer for disaster recovery.
“If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That’s really bad,” Craig Fugate, the former head of FEMA, has said in the past,
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