waffle house

plural waffle houses · alternative wafflehouse

1. A restaurant specializing in waffles, breakfast, chicken, and soul food.

   And she did not take her foot off the gas, zigzagging over the southern areas of the country—that vast anti-Alaska of waffle houses and sunshine, cattle ranches and swamplands.

   2013, Leigh Newman, Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 31

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   [I]n the fall Miss [Alice] Hinton expects to thoroughly renovate the building and open a waffle house to be known as “Alice’s Waffle House.” Miss Hinton’s many friends wish her continued success as an Andover business woman.

   1921 July 22, “Hinton’s Ice Cream Farm to Continue Business”, in The Andover Townsman, volume XXXIV, number 41, Andover, Mass., page five

   Batter ran down the sides of the waffle maker, puffing as it came into contact with the hot iron. / A sweet, yeasty cake smell filled the kitchen. “You could always open a waffle house,” Lizzie said. / Elyse flipped the pan and then scraped off the drippings with her fingernail and popped them into her mouth. “If I did, I’d be as big as the moon and then no one would ever love me.”

   2014, Courtney Miller Santo, Three Story House: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 95