Houston residents used the fast-food chain's map to see which of its 24-hour branches were closed, indicative of the power conditions and status of essential…
"When Whataburger has a better-functioning power outage map than Houston's largest electricity provider," wrote Houston Chronicle's editorial board,"something is terribly wrong.
About one in four Whataburger locations were open in the Houston area Tuesday afternoon, the day after Beryl made landfall in Texas on July 8, according to"Whataburger is that friend by your side in good times and bad," the company's president and CEO Ed Nelson said in a statement."We're glad the Whataburger app has been helpful to Houston residents to understand where power is available in the city.
While the Whataburger map was not a perfect metric for power, it seemed to do the trick in the absence of Centerpoint's map — which, even after its launch, was reported to have inaccuracies, This isn't the first time restaurant chains have been beacons of light during extreme weather events. After Hurricane Charley in 2004, the Waffle House Index was born as an informal way to gauge the severity of storms.
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