waffle house

Noun

waffle house (plural waffle houses)

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