Bites Nearby: The Waffle House

Each week, Barrow Patch picks a great restaurant or food business either in the county or nearby that is worth checking out. Here's this week's choice:

Customer service is what it’s all about at the Waffle House. Joe Rogers Sr., co-founder of the iconic chain of Southern restaurants, said, “We are not in the food business, we are in the People business.” The Waffle House has been serving good food to generations of regular customers since 1955 and prides itself on giving the customer his or her food, his or her way. Its hashbrowns have achieved cult status and can be ordered “all the way,” scattered on the grill and smothered with sautéed onions, covered with melted cheese, chunked with grilled hickory smoked ham, diced with grilled tomatoes, peppered with spicy jalapeño peppers, capped with grilled button mushrooms, topped with Bert’s Chili or country–sausage gravy. Waffle lovers will find bliss here. The menu features the house waffle, a buttermilk waffle, a double waffle, and customers have the choice of adding toppings: apple cinnamon oats, chocolate chips, pecans, blueberry or strawberry. Eggs, biscuits, grits, sausage, bacon, country ham, sausage gravy and an assortment of breakfast wraps are also among the breakfast selections. The Waffle House can accommodate your breakfast needs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. But the restaurant is not only about breakfast. Try Bert’s Chili or Walt’s Soup, trade-marked Waffle House foods. T-Bone and rib-eyes steaks, Angus burgers, pork chops, chicken, sandwiches and salads are also on the menu. This Georgia-based company believes in supporting the communities that have supported it. The website states, “Waffle House community involvement efforts are accomplished through sponsorship of events, partnership and in-kind donations.” Whether you like your hashbrowns scattered or smothered, you have to like the way the Waffle House does business.

19 W. May St., Winder. Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 770-307-1738. Pricing: Reasonable.