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Waffle House cook explains restaurant's complex marking system in viral video

Patrons waiting inside Waffle House
Patrons waiting inside Waffle House
Henry Taylor via Imagn Content Services, LLC

Waffle House is a haven for greasy, delicious breakfast food, and no doubt we all have ridden the smothered and covered train before.

A Waffle House employee has gone absolutely viral after releasing a video explaining the restaurant's complex marking system explaining how all the cooks prepare orders to each customer's exact specifications.


Rather than waiters relaying written communications to cooks to complete orders, Waffle House utilizes a marking system using various condiments to signify not only different food items, but how they should be prepared.

Southern Living wrote in a 2017 article that the system is as an "intricate code of condiments" with a "lexicon of visual cues.

TikTok user Suwupcanz has already racked up over 380,000 views and 23,000 likes with his viral video.

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