{"id":10975,"date":"2017-01-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=10975"},"modified":"2017-01-09T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T22:00:00","slug":"waffle-house-restaurants-mark-61st-holiday-season-of-being-open-on-christmas-and-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/waffle-house-restaurants-mark-61st-holiday-season-of-being-open-on-christmas-and-new-years-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Waffle House Restaurants Mark 61st Holiday Season of Being Open on Christmas and New Year\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\ndiv#keypoints {\n  margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;\n}\nli#takeaway1, li#takeaway2, li#takeaway3 { \n}\np#quote {\n  background-color: #AFEEEE; color: #333333; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; font-style:italic;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">People have come to rely on Waffle House to be there for them. For Christmas Eve, for Christmas, for New Year&#8217;s Eve and New Year&#8217;s Day, for Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and even for Festivus. And come what may, whether it&#8217;s rain, wind, snow, hurricanes, or even abominable snowmen Waffle House is there for you to provide a fun, family atmosphere with good food served fast and friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">For the 61st year in a row, all Waffle House restaurants will be open Christmas and New Year\u2019s Day, continuing a tradition that started in Avondale Estates, Ga. in 1955.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">Joe Rogers Sr. and Tom Forkner opened the doors to the first Waffle House on Labor Day 1955 and since it was a seven-day a week, 24-hour restaurant, they never thought about closing on Christmas and New Year\u2019s Day.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">People have come to rely on Waffle House to be there for them. For Christmas Eve, for Christmas, for New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day, for Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and even for Festivus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;People have come to rely on Waffle House to be there for them. For Christmas Eve, for Christmas, for New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day, for Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and even for Festivus. And come what may, whether it\u2019s rain, wind, snow, hurricanes, or even abominable snowmen Waffle House is there for you to provide a fun, family atmosphere with good food served fast and friendly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.restaurantnews.com\/waffle-house-restaurants-mark-61st-holiday-season-of-being-open-on-christmas-and-new-years-day\/\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.restaurantnews.com\/waffle-house-restaurants-mark-61st-holiday-season-of-being-open-on-christmas-and-new-years-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have come to rely on Waffle House to be there for them. For Christmas Eve, for Christmas, for New Year&#8217;s Eve and New Year&#8217;s Day, for Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and even for Festivus. And come what may, whether it&#8217;s rain, wind, snow, hurricanes, or even abominable snowmen Waffle House is there for you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}