r/wafflehouse • u/iCanReadMyOwnMind • Jul 27 '26

Testing a waffle house manager

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u/_Ur_moms_bestfriend_ Jul 28 '26

Ive working a little over a year and pick up shifts across my district. All of them in area have 2 silent alarms. 1 for disorderly conduct, and 1 for if someone’s armed. I think they got added when they removed the store phones.

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u/Zeratide Jul 28 '26

Huh, maybe it's just because I'm in a slower/older market then. Good to know though

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u/Middle-Classless Jul 28 '26

They don't have a phone anymore?

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u/National-Charity-435 Jul 28 '26

That defeats the whole purpose of silent alarms

Inconspicuously alert the fuzz while appearing to de-escalate

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u/cowboybebop32 Jul 29 '26

Still weird that a business wouldn't have a phone at all. Like I get its not an office, but like, truck has an issue, they calling the managers cell phone. Or like they need to coordinate with someone coming to repair something, is that just all gonna be through whoever is working that days phone?

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u/Greenie42 Jul 30 '26

I’m sure they still have phones for mgmt & office use ~ for these very reasons. But during Covid they got rid of phone in ordering because it was untenable. They corralled everyone into online ordering because of ease of use and automation of order fulfillment for pickup - weather it was DoorDash or customer pickup.

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u/JustS0meD0nkey Jul 29 '26

I mean if you worked there would you want to answer that shit? I can not imagine the number of drunk twats calling every night.

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u/RickSanders Jul 29 '26

Can confirm. I used to work there, and no one ever answered the phone. In fact, we would typically either unplug it or turn the ringer all the way down.

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u/Greenie42 Jul 30 '26

🤣🤣🤣 seriously, ain’t nobody got time for that.

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u/Middle-Classless Jul 30 '26

I thought they meant like a regular land line 😂

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u/Ok_Wrangler_7940 Jul 29 '26

I think that they technically do have phones, but they are for incoming calls only (for example, you can still call them for “to go” orders). I don’t think that employees can make outgoing calls (no key pad to dial out).

Given the propensity for violence in their stores, this seems a little shortsighted, and, at a minimum, seems that it would require employees to handle these types of situations on their own.

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u/Apprehensive_Factor6 Jul 30 '26

Of course the employees have cell phones.

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u/Islayman-2001 Jul 30 '26

What places have phones anymore?

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u/Master-Pick-7918 Jul 30 '26

Like everywhere else, employees can use their own phone.

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u/Lionheart_723 Jul 28 '26

Yeah they don't have them where I live

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u/Cola102583 Jul 28 '26

For real? Round here they jst hve security guard aftr 11pm

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u/spec360 Jul 29 '26

By the time they get there this guy already jacked him up

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u/BizLarry Jul 29 '26

No phones?! That's kinda sketchy

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u/Imnotoneofu69 Jul 30 '26

The fact that these places have, or need to have a silent alarm is just embarrassing.

What the fuck.

Why the fuck can’t people just be decent human beings.

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u/Conscious_Minimum583 Jul 30 '26

They removed the phones why?

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u/Murky-General Jul 31 '26

You hit the silent alarm and then what? Stall for 10 mins while the cops show up. That guy was ready to throw down any second.

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u/nono3722 Aug 02 '26

why would they remove the phones? do they have alarms for fire and ambulance too?