Waffle House & the Georgia Tech Connection

Most Georgia Tech fans are aware of this, but for the other readers of the site, a little side-street trip. Waffle House celebrates its 50 year anniversary, and the current CEO is Georgia Tech graduate Joe Rogers Jr., who brought a bunch of ATO fraternity brothers into the management ranks back int he 70's to run the thing. It was Joe Rogers Sr., his father, who co-founded Waffle House back in teh 50's........... Here's a story on Waffle House and Rogers Jr from a Tech alumni mag........

Rogers recruited a cadre of former Georgia Tech classmates and friends to form a new-era Waffle House management team. Thornton, an Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brother at Tech, was one of the first.


"What Tech people have always had in common is a willingness to work — and a very good, sensible approach to things," Rogers says.

In fact, Joe Rogers Jr. is on the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees......