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Mall "food court" brawls are not unheard of here in Augusta. One more reason to avoid malls IMO.

Waffle House food was....nothing special. The only memorable part of eating at one was to finally understand why y'all gave Dayton so much shit for getting sacked from one after three days.

Malls in general have been on the decline since the early 2000s. People are doing more online shopping, plus the bad economy has squashed plenty of construction on new shopping centers.

I was in a mall near Jacksonville where literally half the building was abandoned. Like, there was the active part of the mall, and then this dead part where you could see traces of what used to be a Mrs. Fields or a Victoria's Secret before their Pink logo upgrade. The only thing on this side of the mall was the hair salon I was looking for because the parent company was too cheap to move the location another 200 fucking feet.

Garden State Plaza in Paramus NJ. When I was in my 20s, it was a nice little outdoor mall with a great book store, a head shop, a World Imports, some clothes stores and one big chain store. Over the years, it grew, and grew, and grew. Two levels, underground parking, fully enclosed food courts, a 20-plex theater... It's a fucking monster now, right at the intersection of two of the busiest highways in the area, and I haven't cared to go near it for at least a decade.

I've eaten at a Waffle House maybe...two...times?

I didn't see pancakes on the menu.


I mean, if you're going to eat a White Person Breakfast, pancakes are far better than waffles.

No pancakes? Weird I eat at Waffle House whenever travelling and have never heard of that. Not that it matters to me, I generally get omelettes anyway.

3 days? Holy shit that's bad. At the one closest to me, there was a girl who managed to screw up orders, forget about customers, and so on. She lasted about 4 months.

Don't they all do this?

The one by my hotel I was put up at had waitresses and none of them wrote orders down. Both times they'they'd forget something I asked for.

Others at different hotels on my ship later told me they all did this. There was even a WFer here who was hired at one and was told NOT to write the orders now.

Not writing orders down? I'd last about five minutes with my short-term memory loss! Anyway not writing orders down is very common in Germany. Matter-of-fact when it's time for the bill they start asking you exactly what you ordered. With a family? Give me a break! Hmmm....did my daughter get the peas? Wait I think she switched to an extra side salad. Did my son have two sodas or three? Here's a thought when catering to us non-"Rainman" types/dumb Americans.......KEEP FUCKING TRACK OF IT YOURSELF! Crazy inventions called ink & paper might facilitate that.

All the ones I've been to the waitress will write the order down on her pad, that way they know what to charge you for and you also have something to look at to make sure you were charged the right prices. The cooks on the other hand, don't write it down they are told what to cook and have to go by memory.

I agree. If I want to see that shit I will go watch the TV. I do not need to be near it. I do not want any flying body juices hitting me.

Down here in florida they put in a preschool in the old abandoned space.

There is the pallisades mall up there. It has four floors, and lots of things to look at. It is also pricey shopping, but you can make a day of it and they have a lot of choices for food. They also have a movieplex and a hockey rink. The movieplex actually gets a lot of movies other places don't get along with the bockbusters. It was the closest place we could get a lot of the ghibli films when they were released over here. For those who do not know ghibli is like US disney only a lot more creative and magical.

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! Thank you, I'll be here all week.

Apparently there's a very elaborate system for cooks to remember orders:

http://kaizenfieldbook.com/marksblog/archives/2843

Impressive in a way ... although I suppose it could also have been developed as a way to accommodate employees who don't know how to read ...