Waffle House

Good southern food ! Customer service was excellent all around a wonderful trip to this waffle house

Waffle Houses tend to vary a great deal in their quality level and this one was on the low end of the spectrum.  It also happened to rank pretty highly on the trashy run-down scale.  
In order to walk into the restaurant we had to walk past a couple of employees who were smoking in front of the door with a few other people.  Upon entering we sat down at a table and a toothless waitress yelled at us that she would be with us in just a minute.  When she finally came over we ordered drinks and I ordered a waffle and a hashbrown with cheese.  My boyfriend ordered a waffle and a hashbrown with ham and cheese.  Our drinks were brought quickly.  Eventually our hashbrowns were brought without our waffles but his only had ham and mine had a slice of cheese that was barely melted and torn up pieces of cheese that were not melted at all on it.  I've eaten at tons of Waffle Houses and this is not the way that they make their smothered hash browns .  He sent his hash brown back to have it remade with cheese.  I tried to ask about the nonmelted cheese on mine and the toothless waitress ignored my question.   A few minutes later they brought out my boyfriend's new hashbrown.  Still no waffles.  We waited and waited and watched as the timer expired on the waffle iron and finally as the cook yelled at the waitress that the waffles were done before our waffles were brought.  Luckily she got them before they burned and they were decent Waffle House waffles.  
While we ate we got to hear the waitress go on and on to the cook about how one of the other employees who wasn't there thinks that they are the only one who knows how to cook there.  Kind of reminded me why I always used to refer to eating at the Waffle House as "dinner and a show".

I honestly hate chain restaurants and found myself at the Waffle House when no other options were readily available.  

The place was so crowded we had to sit at the counter.  The menu is like a large laminated place mat with a little $5 special laminate upright on the counter.  The place was very clean but unfortunately Indiana allows smoking in restaurants so try to stay as far away as possible.

I was a bit overwhelmed at the menu but not as bad as the behemoth at the Crapper Barrel.  There were a lot of choices that seemed mysterious but I jumped in an ordered the All The Way Hash browns.  It is a pile of fried potatoes with onions-tomatoes-jalapinos-cheese-chili-ham-sausage gravy and other stuff I can't remember.  It is on the $5 menu and comes with a refillable beverage.  It was... weird and wonderful.  Great hangover food.  

The cook was amazing.  The grill is open and the waitresses just call out what they want and he makes it - no notes, never seems to ask and no mistakes.

I always like local flavor (i.e. where the real people eat) and this Waffle House had it.

They gave us a senior discount without asking and the bill came to under $12. I hope Mom was the one they based the discount on.  We 50somethings are too young for the SD.  Right?