'We're very much driven by having our restaurants open and available for people 24 hours a day. We're just not there yet,' Waffle House CEO Walt Ehmer told CNBC.
Waffle House anticipates operating with limited dine-in service for "some time" as some U.S. states lift restrictions on businesses, CEO Walt Ehmer told CNBC on Tuesday."The Exchange."
Ehmer said the company is excited to give customers who were already going to the restaurants to place a to-go order the opportunity "to just sit at a distance and eat" instead of returning to their cars or trucks to do so.Waffle House has instituted a variety of new operating procedures in order to keep customers and employees safe, according to Njeri Boss, director of public relations for the company.
Most of Waffle House's open locations are operating with limited hours, Boss said, although a few have been able to continue offering the 24-hour service for which the restaurant is known.
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