The Waffle House

I usually go here on some weekend mornings, or really late at night if I'm just getting back into town after a trip. The service is usually pretty quick here, and the people are friendly. I have been in before when it was full of northerners and ended up just walking out because it was so crowded and I had waited there 10-15 minutes without anyone even knowing I was there. That's only happened once though.

I really don't know how any Waffle House passes health inspections, but I for some reason, I still love to go to them and eating the food. I don't know what it is. It's just good breakfast food! This is a typical Waffle House and I'll continue to be a customer.

No better cap to a 5am flight from BOS to RSW, than this first sign of extraterminal "humanity," the Awful Waffle.

Truth be told, once past the buzzcut manager who politely requests you stay single file in the line of waiting chairs (yes, there is a wait) and the tongue-in-cheekery that's preserved last night's party contents since 1955, you will acknowledge two very important truths:
1) It's practically impossible to spend more than $7 on a meal here.
2) The sole cook as yet to fail the over medium egg test. Two, three or a Gaston portion of ova, they will boast perfectly solid albumen and runny yolks. No gelatinous skin hanging around, primed to sog your toast or worse, slide through the tines of your fork en route to the boca. Appetite killa.

So while it's definitely patronized (tolerated?) more so when you're pleasantly tipsy, the simple, fast and cheap breakfasts at the Awful Waffle are entirely undeserving of the poetic nickname.

Pro tip: play the original Waffle House songs on the jukebox. If "They're Cooking Up My Order" by Alfreda Gerald doesn't get your steadily-expanding ass moving, NOTHING WILL.

Heard a cook on the grill say "5 second rule".  Welcome to Waffle House, where the employees are under paid and under privileged, and the customers are never under weight.  If you are in Fort Myers, and want the BEST breakfast, try "Crave".  Or better yet, use Yelp, and search nearby breakfast, use the filter, and use the highest rated category.  You will never find yourself eating factory farm food again.