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How many people are you sacrificing to the poorhouse?” “If we let this economy keep going the way it's going, we are leading people to ruin. “When you lose the Waffle House, you're losing the local economy,” he said, noting that quarantine and shelter-in-place measures will leave the restaurant industry, along with the broader economy, in a state of disrepair. He’s in the camp of business leaders who are questioning whether “the cure is worse than the ailment ” when it comes to dealing with the spread of COVID-19, putting him at odds with scientists leading the effort to stop it. So far, he’s getting the opposite, he said, and the staunchly right-wing businessman is not the least bit happy about it. “We might need a little of that in reverse now.”Ī Waffle House restaurant in Thornton, Colorado, sits closed after the restaurant chain closed at least 420 locations due to the COVID-19 crisis on March 26, 2020. “As we tried to show them the love over the years in those disasters, it hasn’t always been easy, ” said Rogers. The manager refused, and the firefighters ordered 15 meals instead. A fire department in Georgia tried shutting one location down after Irma struck the state in 2018. When Hugo hit Charleston, Rogers duked it out with a National Guardsman who wanted them to shut down, until the guardsman realized it was the only restaurant open in the area that was able to feed 3,000 emergency workers.
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During a crisis, it is a source of comfort food, freshly brewed coffee and community for regulars, drivers trucking supplies and first responders, even if they don’t quite get it at first.
“We might need a little of that in reverse now.”Ī throwback diner with a devoted cult following that returns over and over, at all hours of the night. “We tried to show them the love over the years in those disasters,” said Waffle House’s Rogers. “We don't have the most creative restaurant concept you've ever seen. “ Most of why we are here today is learning what not to do,” said Rogers. Rogers had planned to open around 80 new locations this year, while Burger King, which franchises 99% of all locations, added 1,000 last year. It fits the slow-growth strategy he has pursued from the start. And he ended the company’s reliance on debt. He created an employee ownership plan that now provides 3,500 workers with a piece of the business. He changed all of it five years later when a financial crisis hit and gas shortages were looming, first consolidating ownership within his family, which now has a controlling share. He was 26 in 1973 when he took the helm of the company that had four family ownership groups, mounting debt and control of only 30% of the locations. He found that when he showed up to help keep the bacon sizzling and the coffee pouring, so did lots of other employees. FEMA’s appreciation for the chain took route a half-century ago, when Rogers took over and began chasing every hurricane, snowstorm and tornado that affected a location.
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