http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/02/when-disaster-strikes-fema-turns-to-waffle-house/

Waffle House makes front page of Fox News!!!

Love WH!

Posting from the Waffle House on hwy 17 in Charleston. It's glorious... The hash browns are crispy, the waffles are huge and we can look out across the river at the Citadel campus and all the early morning boaters.

B/CS needs one of these already.

Th wife had to order hers with chocolate chips!

broaden your desire for food.

Now, Jim's restaurants in SA are jumping on the Chicken and Waffles bandwagon. What's going on?

Updates to follow:

As a teaser, from my OP...

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She states that there are no plans to build any additional Waffle House restaurants in TEXAS for at least 2 years, and they are not currently adding any franchise owners.

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That was not true, and there are new Waffle House's about to open in Texas, and I'm in contact with one of the franchise owners.

More to follow...

We might have something

There are Waffle Houses all over Colorado including one in Fort Collins. Maybe the SEC needs to add Colorado State.

(There were two in Fort Collins, but the one right across from the campus closed.)

College Station needs a Waffle House!

There are Waffle Houses around each corner it seems in the upstate (of SC btw).

But the thing is, a recruit declined to go to clempson because Auburn has a Chick-fil-A. No lie. But you all do need a Waffle House to be the perfect fit with the SEC.

Ohio State just got a Waffle House on campus!!

http://www.thelantern.com/campus/waffle-house-welcomed-to-high-street-24-7-breakfast-diner-s-first-osu-location-1.2872071#.T8fHRbC0ynl

I just realized that we are 24 days from the SEC and this s**t still isn't taken care of! Email Jeff Cole at jeffcole@wafflehouse.com. I've emailed him twice and will do it again this afternoon. This b@stard can't ignore me forever!

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HOW IN THE HELL DID WE GET INTO THE SEC WITHOUT A WAFFLE HOUSE?

WE NEED A WAFFLE HOUSE BEFORE THEY CHANGE THEIR MIND.

MAKE IT HAPPEN

So. Just called to see if I could any way buy a franchise. No dice. i don't understand it. They will put one on any corner in Beaumont, but not CS. Just doesn't make sense.

Its a no brainer.

Employees from Bryan + customers from College Station = profit.

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he's a crazy idea...let's open our own 24 hr breakfast place. call it Local House of Waffles. model it after waffle house and get this done.

Um no...

Bump

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444138104578032462978749952.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Waffle House hates us!

Waffle House a subsidiary of ESiPN? Stay tuned for breaking news...

JFF said he could have hung 80 on Arky if he would have had waffles for breakfast...

The waffle house article is pretty funny. That may actually help your cause. Though i am not particularly a fan, I'll applaud all of your efforts and hope we get one for all of you.

It is clear however that you don't exactly understand the franchise or real estate process. It's not a fast thing sometimes, and I can tell you what really happens to your emails and phone inquiries at any given real estate office if you really want to know The cliff notes version is you find a few sites..do due Dilligence to find the right one based on your parameters...try to negotiate the deal...get corporate approval....get financial approval....negotiate the lease...engage construction...get your approvals and permits fom the city...construct it...open...profit hopefully it can fail or be postponed at any point. It's kind of like that new Dodge commercial explaining how "easy" it is to put a new vehicle out there or redesign and old one.

I don't know how they run their operations, but can assure you that either corporate or each franchisee has their own pipeline for development. I'd imagine it to be 1-2 years forward-looking for them depending on the type of build. Your goal would be to get on it, so you need to get them a site or two. That's usually handled by either their broker for that state/region, a real estate manager or both. If it's franchised it will either be the franchisee who does this (with or without corporate approval) or their own broker.

Again, I didn't read all this thread or know about WH specifically, I'm just in the business and most companies are run in a similar way.

Allow me to suggest you try a few things....find a local developer (you have seen signs I won't name any) and lobby them to contact the franchisee or corporate if they have a space in mind. WH does freestanding sites and would need enough parks as well.

A simple search will give you Russ Holland on lkd-n ( not sure I can type site on here but you know what I mean). He apparently handles the site selection for Texas. That is the man to talk to.

If all else fails, get the local city to contact them (good luck) or local news station to do a media request. I think they will listen if a news article shows the community support for one, because it is supposed to be one of their principals. It will all come down to capital and franchise/corporate territories or things like supply. Don't just think it is because of unemployment or rooftops or people wanting

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If you really want me to I suppose I could try and work a few things on my side, but not during my work hours

Go, pwonk, go!

This is considered cruel and unusual punishment. Waffle House is being unconstitutional!

I love waffle house! And I hate Waffle House because they refuse to open in B/CS!

Will victory this Saturday bring us Waffles? I hope so!!!

Bring the hate and they'll bring the waffles?

Drove from Atlanta to Auburn last night. 90 miles give or take. I lost count at 12 Waffle House's we passed. Stopped at two of them last night because you can never have too much WH. They are literally every few miles over here.

WTF Texas?

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