Waffle House is opening dining areas for hundreds of locations that had previously only served take-out orders in Georgia and Tennessee. Workers wear face masks, condiments are no longer placed on tables, and certain tables will be marked as off-limits for customers. Restaurants have plastic bags over stools, to keep people seating at the counter from sitting too close to each other.
Waffle House sales plummeted by 70% across the chain during the pandemic, with some locations seeing even greater losses, according to Boss. Waffle House closed up roughly 700 locations, Boss said, "simply because the restaurant traffic dried up in those areas." As sales plummeted, 28,000 hourly Waffle House workers lost their jobs, with the chain going from 40,000 workers in 25 states pre-COVID-19 to roughly 12,000 today.Corey Brooks, right, orders food at a Waffle House restaurant in Savannah, Georgia.Without workers "this country is going to be insignificant trouble," Boss said.
Boss says bickering and arguments over if health or economics should take priority need to end, as states begin to reopen businesses. As it becomes clear that the coronavirus will not disappear until there is a vaccine or successful treatment, governments and businesses need to find new solutions that equally weigh both financial and public health crises.
I was dragged into a Waffle House in Bama one of the few times I have been down south and what a mistake. How do they make money selling cardboard?
Business dying or actual person dying? Hmm . . let us ponder 🤔
Not only economic..... It will change the world like never before..... Socially, economically, personally, politically...... Next few months will give more trends..... Thanks
we need to bring in the Actuaries and price in the cost of this the same as we do on every level of insurance and federal policy to understand where we are robustly on cost/benefit lines CostBenefitonCovid
thank you Kate_H_Taylor