After a look at the Harvey House restaurant chain’s secret cup code, Rachel in Minnesota points to Waffle House’s plate-marking code, used by servers and cooks to track orders without written tickets. In the system shown in a Waffle House training...
In the late 1800s, waitresses at the Harvey House chain of restaurants at railroad stops across the American West employed a cup code. One server would ask customers about their preferred beverages, then briskly arrange their cups on the table...
