Many have debated online about the cause of Waffle House brawls, where one person said in a Reddit discussion on the topic, “They are open 24/7, it’s relatively cheap, workers are not the same kind of people as those who would choose to work in fine dining (no offense to any who might read this), so the rules feel relaxed. Plus they have a reputation for it, so it doesn’t seem as out of place compared to if someone had a fight at a nice steakhouse”
“It’s open late and offers inexpensive, filling food. This combination tends to attract intoxicated people. Intoxicated people have lower inhibition and judgment skills than when they are sober, and thus are more likely to get into some kind of altercation,” one person opined.
Another person said, “There are no more fights in Waffle Houses than there are anywhere else drunk people congregate.There’s a whole lot of Waffle Houses in the south and they are all open 24 hours. Where I am, there’s 7 in my small city of about 150k people. When bars close, you’re probably within a mile of one so you can go there to eat something and sober up before driving the rest of the way home.”
Watch the fight below:
https://x.com/FightHaven/status/1639009123873472513
Another person listed off possible causes for the incessant brawls:
- Waffle House is open late, after drunk people are leaving the bars. Drunk people leaving bars without having met someone to go home with may be angry drunks.
- Consuming a lot of alcohol increases your triglycerides, stimulating galanin production. This makes you crave high calorie foods, especially with lots of carbs and fat.
- Waffle House is a well-known, inexpensive chain with brand recognition. If a one-off Brazilian steakhouse where the menu was $65/plate was open until 3:00 am, you wouldn’t see fights break out.
So Waffle House is the perfect storm of the food that drunks crave, open when the bars close, and cheap enough for trashy, low-class drunk a******s to afford.
Another person said, “With Waffle House it’s pretty obvious it’s an alcohol fueled problem but what’s led to the similar behavior spreading to almost everywhere else? Were people that thrown off bc their normal lives were changed in some ways? Did the increasingly polarizing politics turn people into constant dicks? Was this a result of people becoming stir crazy or forgetting how to interact with other people? Either something different is causing the same Waffle House instincts to come out, or many more people picked up drink / drug habits during the pandemic or there’s another thing going on that’s causing this. Perhaps some sort of mental exhaustion, I don’t know.”
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