“If Toddle House had offered ownership to the management team, there never would have been a Waffle House,” Joe Rogers Jr. said in a phone interview. But when civil rights protesters arrived outside a Waffle House in 1961, he said, he responded by asking them inside to dine. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“We actually accommodated everybody,” said the younger Mr. Rogers, who worked for his father at a nearby Waffle House at the time. After high school, Mr. Rogers learned to pilot B-24 aircraft in the Army and trained other pilots. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Rogers remained involved with Waffle House into at least his late 80s.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2017 00:08 UTC