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  • Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: Double Date

    Chrissy Teigen and John Legend went on a double date with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West on Saturday night. So where did the two couples go?

    They started out hanging together at the DirecTV Super Saturday Night Party in Glendale, Arizona, where Kanye West performed. The event was hosted by Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban and Live! With Kelly and Michael host and NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan. After the party, the double date kicked into high gear.

    It’s definitely not where one might expect to find people like Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Kim Kardashian, and Kanye West–but the gang was hungry and it was likely well after hours. That’s how the two couples found themselves out for a bite to eat at a nearby Waffle House.

    Each couple sat in their own booth–adjacent to one another–so that all four could chat while dining.

    Kim Kardashian shared a photo on Instagram.

    “Double date at the Waffle House,” she captioned the photo of herself with Kanye West, Chrissy Teigen, and John Legend.

    Can you imagine how surprised employees at the Waffle House must have been to see these two famous couples walk through their doors? How long do you suppose it took them to realize they were waiting on four celebrities? Maybe the fact that Chrissy Teigen was wearing a white gown gave it away?

    Teigen shared a very similar photo of the two couples on her Instagram account, captioning hers, “Every house should be a waffle house.”

    Chrissy Teigen is actually quite a foodie, having launched her own cooking site just yesterday.

    What do you suppose she really thought of Waffle House cuisine?

  • Waffle House Tip: Waitress Finally Receives $1,000 Tip

    Waffle House waitress Shaina Brown was stunned when a customer left her a $1,000 tip on his credit card on Mother’s Day. Unfortunately for Brown, the mom to three is just now getting her hands on the cash due to Waffle House’s tipping policy.

    Brown received a tip totaling $1,500 while working at a Raleigh, North Carolina Waffle House during the wee hours of Mother’s Day. The customer, who wished to remain anonymous, told Brown to give $500 of it away and to keep $1,000 for herself. “He said, ‘I’m going to bless you today,’” Brown said. “He was just trying to show that there are still good people out there.”

    As exciting as it was for Brown to receive such a tip, it is Waffle House’s policy to refund large tips left on credit cards. Considering that a lot of the people that tend to patronize Waffle House during the early Sunday morning hours do so after a considerable amount of partying, it’s understandable that the restaurant would want to verify such tips.

    “When a guest makes a tip of this size, it is our procedure to refund the tip amount and ask the guest to make the tip in either cash or a check,” the chain told Fox News.

    Nearly a month passed with no tip in sight, despite the fact that Waffle House had the customer’s name and should have been able to contact him in that time frame. The Charlotte Observer caught wind of the story and published a write up on the Waffle House tip issue earlier this week. No surprise there, but the news that a single mom was refused a $1,000 tip quickly sparked outrage in social media outlets.

    Fortunately for Brown, The Charlotte Observer writer Josh Shaffer was able to get in touch with the customer. The customer decided to take matters into his own hands and write the mom a personal check.

    Now that Waffle House is getting raked over the coals for their tipping policy, the chain maintains that they always meant for the mom to receive her tip. Why it took a month and a writer for a newspaper to get the ball rolling hasn’t been addressed.

    In a post on Facebook, Waffle House says they will be reviewing their tipping policy to make sure situations like this don’t happen again.

    Post by Waffle House.

    Image via Facebook

  • Waffle House Denies Waitress $1,000 Tip

    Waffle House Denies Waitress $1,000 Tip

    Shaina Brown was overjoyed when a Good Samaritan left her a $1,000 tip while she was waitressing at Waffle House. However, that joy quickly turned to extreme frustration when her employer informed her that she could not keep the money.

    The 26-year-old single mother was working the night shift on Mother’s Day when she met a very generous man, who has asked not to be identified. Brown and the man struck up a conversation where she revealed that she was a single mother of three working two jobs. Little did she know that she would be getting quite a gift upon the man’s departure.

    “I told him I was a single parent, three children, working two jobs, going to school, doing what I have to do,” Brown told TODAY. “And he told me, ‘Shaina, I’m going to bless you tonight.’ At first I didn’t get the weight of the statement. I thought he was joking around.”

    When the man finished his meal, he retreated to the counter to pay for the food. After paying with his credit card, the man left a $1,500 tip; $1,000 for Brown and $500 for another customer that looked as though they could use a pick-me-up.

    When Brown saw the ticket she wasn’t sure what to do. “I didn’t shout for joy right then because I didn’t want to seem all dorky,” Brown said. “But I did after he left!”

    Brown remained ecstatic until her manager arrived the next morning and revealed to her the chain’s policy to refund large tips in case the amount is later disputed. Brown was obviously devastated.

    “When a guest makes a tip of this size, it is our procedure to refund the tip amount and ask the guest to make the tip in either cash or a check. We follow this procedure in the event the customer decides to dispute the credit card charge and ask for a refund for the tip amount at a later date,” Waffle House representative Kelly Thrasher-Bruner said in an email to the Huffington Post.

    “In this case, our Management contacted the customer within 24 hours, explained the procedure, and then refunded the tip amount to his account,” she added.

    Despite Waffle’s House attempt at keeping the money from Brown, this story does have a good ending. After hearing all the fuss over his tip, the man returned to Waffle House to simply write Brown a check for the $1,000. Although everything worked out for the best, Brown says that she still feels humiliated.

    “It wouldn’t be different if the man landed cash on the table, and the manager had snatched it away and said, ‘You can’t have it!’ Brown said. “It was very humiliating.”

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Waffle House Robbed By Man With Pitchfork

    Waffle House Robbed By Man With Pitchfork

    Reality is stranger than fiction, and sometimes you have to creative with the robbery process.

    In Norcross, Georgia, police are searching for Jeffery Wooten, a 50-year-old man that robbed Buford highway’s Waffle House with a pitchfork on Thursday night.

    Surveillance photos unveiled Mr. Wooten with a purple ski-mask and pajamas (some Hugh Hefner outfit) yielding an iron pitchfork with a wooden handle and pointing it across the counter; he forced employees into the backroom and then moved to the cash register.

    “When he realized he couldn’t get the cash register open, he took the whole cash register and exited the store… with his pitchfork,” Norcross police Chief Warren Summers told Channel 2 Action News.

    When the swindling was through, Wooten stumbled out of the restaurant, realizing the cumbersomeness of a cash register in one hand and an agricultural tool in the other. According to WSB-TV, he dropped his weapon, and dashed on the sideway for his truck parked near a Rite Aid.

    After realizing Wooten unequipped his mighty weapon, the employees at Waffle House wanted their revenge.

    “Once he didn’t have a pitchfork, he wasn’t as brazen. I know that,” Summers said.

    Norcross Police said that two of the employees ran after Wooten, picking up and yielding the very weapon that herded them earlier. The back window of the truck shattered into sparkles of glass, and Wooten himself received a few blows from the pitchfork. Wooten managed to flee temporarily, with detectives issuing warrants for his arrest for armed robbery.

    “It wouldn’t be an offensive weapon in your garden, but it was in a Waffle House,” Summers said.

    According to police, Wooten took the pitchfork from a relative’s house of which he’s staying at, which isn’t too far away from the Waffle House he robbed.

    As of Friday afternoon, Wooten is currently in custody.

    Image via WSBTV

  • Whitney Houston and Waffle House Trending

    Whitney Houston and Waffle House Trending

    Getting Twitter reactions to Whitney Houston’s funeral was an odd enough task to start with. Most Twitter reaction material is about weaves, political races, and that sort of thing. I figured it would be a bunch of sad comments and lyrics, with some dark humor thrown in.

    Then came Waffle House.

    Um… what?

    I understand a business wanting to get some sort of discussion flowing, which hopefully would include their own hashtag, but the cognitive dissonance of #wafflehouse and #whitneyhoustonfuneral in the same tweet was too good to pass up. Maybe it has something to do with the initials matching?

    Here we go…