It’s Feb. 13. You have nowhere left to turn. You’ve run out of ideas and the clock is ticking away, counting down the seconds until you have to finally make a choice and stand by it. You’ve given everything you have and are ready to quit. You get in your car and drive looking for something, anything, and then you see it: a bright yellow sign. Suddenly everything makes sense, and you realize it was there staring you in the face all along.
For the ninth consecutive year, select Waffle House locations will offer customers a Valentine’s Day dining experience that attempts to shed the appearance of the regular diner and transform itself into a five-star restaurant.
You can say goodbye to the paper napkins, wooden tabletops and regular menus, and say hello to cloth napkins, white tablecloths adorned with candles and rose petals, and specialty menus with new meals specifically for Valentine’s Day. You even have to call ahead to reserve a table.
Valentine’s Day doesn’t always have to be a huge ordeal where you go to a fancy restaurant and order $30 lobster bisque. If you and your date both love breakfast food, why not enjoy breakfast food? Besides the regular menu items like waffles, eggs, bacon, sausage and hashbrowns, you can order a special Valentine’s Day T-bone steak. What says love better than a juicy steak and some bacon and hashbrowns? Probably adding a chocolate chip waffle as well.
Instead of getting all dressed up, driving to Little Rock to wait for 40 minutes to be seated at a super nice restaurant and paying $50 for a meal, you could make it a cute, simple date by reserving a table and eating some waffles.
In Arkansas, Waffle House only offers the Valentine’s Day special at select locations in Malvern, Hot Springs, Bryant and Morrilton, but why not make that into a fun trip and drive there?
Imagine: Valentine’s Day comes. You pick your date up but don’t tell them where you’re going. You told them to dress casually but come ready with an appetite. You drive listening to the radio, cracking jokes the whole way there because it’s a fun, stress-free evening, but your date still doesn’t know what’s in store.
You pull into the Waffle House parking lot, get out of the car and lead your date inside. You sit at a booth, look your date deeply in the eyes, and say, “Happy Valentine’s Day. What kind of waffles do you want?”
