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title: "Waffle House Closes 30 Restaurants Due to Hurricane Michael"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/522e49bb-3339-4d66-9a8c-8b51339760a8
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/waffle-house-closes-30-restaurants-due-to-hurricane-michael-2708149
category: "Bakery & breakfast"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Bakery & breakfast"
published: 2018-10-11T20:15:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:33:44.494Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/0999ae876fe206b93619247514b11a5b5454.jpg
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# Waffle House Closes 30 Restaurants Due to Hurricane Michael

**TL;DR:** Waffle House closed 30 restaurants in Florida and Georgia due to Hurricane Michael. The brand is known for its resilience in the face of extreme weather, with FEMA developing an informal index named after it.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-10-11. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/waffle-house-closes-30-restaurants-due-to-hurricane-michael-2708149).*

## Story

Waffle House has become so synonymous with resilience in the face of extreme weather that FEMA developed an informal index named after the brand to gauge the severity of a natural disaster’s impact on an area.

In the face of Hurricane Michael, however, 30 of the brand’s Florida and Georgia locations in the path of the storm were shuttered as of Wednesday night, according to an article in USA TODAY. At least one location suffered significant damage, the article noted.

Hurricane Michael made landfall on Wednesday as a Category 4 storm with wind speeds up to 155 mph, just two miles shy of a Category 5.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Florida (location)
- Georgia (location)
- USA TODAY (company)
- restaurant closures (topic)
- Waffle House (company)
- FEMA (regulator)
- hurricane impact (topic)
- natural disaster (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/waffle-house-closes-30-restaurants-due-to-hurricane-michael-2708149). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/522e49bb-3339-4d66-9a8c-8b51339760a8).