Does anyone here eat at Waffle House?

[racaulk]

A Georgia State Senator who wanted to help his friend Ralph Reed win the GOP lieutenant governor primary this month may have put the embattled politician in more hot water with ethics investigators.

Georgia state Sen. Dan Balfour (R-Snellville), is also a vice president of Waffle House Inc., and in that capacity he sent a July 7 internal company memo to nearly 400 Waffle House locations in the state instructing restaurant employees to display a Ralph Reed campaign sign. The memo bars campaign displays from any other candidate in any other political race.

“Waffle House Inc. has given Ralph Reed permission to put a yard sign at every Waffle House in the state of Georgia,” Balfour wrote.

“No political yard signs are allowed at Waffle House without a letter from me. If other political signs go up, please take them down,” Balfour added.

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Link: http://www.sovo.com/2006/7-28/view/actionalert/alert.cfm


Not that I ate there before, but I'm certainly not going to now!!! :puke:

[Debau2005]

1. I have on occasion

but I will pass them up now. I have been passing up little mom and pop places around the Metro area that had Reed signs in their windows or yards.

[racaulk]

2. Yeah, you're right.

There are way too many good restaurants in the metro area to have to go to Waffle House, although they seem to be everywhere! I know of quite a few excellent breakfast places around, and the locally-owned "mom and pop" places are the best!

Hey, Deb! I haven't talked to you since our movie date! How have you been? :hi:

[Debau2005]

3. HEY racaulk

I am doing well. How about you? I am headed out west for vacation in a little over a week!

I have seen An Inconvenient Truth again since we saw it. Even better the second time.

[racaulk]

4. Hello!

Everything is fine here, I'm just busy as heck. I'm trying to pass the CPA exam and it's becoming somewhat of a nightmare! But life is good on the whole. :)

I'm glad to hear you're doing well. I hope you enjoy your vacation out west. I've only had the opportunity to travel out west twice (once to Arizona and once to San Francisco), and I truly enjoyed it both times. I'm sure you'll have a great time! Where are you headed?

You know, I live right down the street from the Tara and I haven't been back yet to see An Inconvenient Truth. Pretty sad, huh? I definitely need to go see it again while it's still in theatres, just so I can catch anything I missed the first time.

See you later! :)

[napi21]

5. Do you think we can get all Georgians on DU to send Waffle House at least

an Email telling them we won't patronize their establishments any more, and the reason why?

I understand they're not going to go out of business just because of us. Seems like not very many eat there anyway, although I preferr them to Huddle House by far!

I think it might make an impact on their Corp. phylosophy if they received enough emails.

What do ya think?

[racaulk]

6. That's certainly worth a shot!

You're right, it may not make much of a difference, but I'm certainly willing to send an email. Every little bit helps, right?

Great suggestion! :)

The corporate information is:
Waffle House, Inc.
5986 Financial Drive
Norcross, GA. 30071
[phone]
[e-mail]

There is also a form here where you can post comments.

On a side note, I will probably continue to go there once a year, but just to pick up my advance copy of the AJC for the Peachtree Road Race application every March. But other than that, they are officially boycotted!

[burythehatchet]

7. me and my son, every sunday morning

sliced diced and covered.

[klook]

8. Not any more.

I posted this message a while back urging a Waffle House boycott after Balfour pulled this stunt:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1637402