When one of the demands is for $25 per hour minimum wage?

For workers now making far less, even though $15 isn’t really enough to live on, especially if you’re a parent.
I don’t know where this country lost its way.

The automatic wage deduction is unfair, especially if they don’t get a meal break. There should be a discount on meals or a credit each day, say about $10. The employee can get $10 worth of food and pay the difference if their choice goes above $10. And if they don’t eat an in-store meal that day, the credit simply gets cancelled for that day.

Now I don't think I ever will.

want to eat their meals they can buy at employee discount. I have never quite understood how a country like the US could even allow such a low hourly wage to begin with. Our servers are paid the same as other industries and also get tips. To me that low rate is slave labour, if a business cannot afford to pay employees a proper wage then they should not be in business.

companion was fond of them. At least until that meal she had been. It was awful, and we won't even talk about the service, or the mess in the place. We determined never to go back. And now for absolute certain never going back. And that was the first time I had been in one in about 20 years.

If I want really good waffles, I go to Black Bear Dinnet, or one of several excellent local restaurants.

of a restaurant that charges their staff for meals. In certain places I couldn't eat the most expensive thing (ex.: shrimp) but, my God, how stingy!

Anthony Bourdain is introduced to the Waffle House for the first time, after a night of drinking with fellow chef Sean Brock...

"This is better than The French Laundry."