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52 years after Atlanta-based Waffle House opened its first restaurant, plans are underway to restore the original restaurant and turn it into a museum.

The doors to the one-and-only Waffle House had just opened on East College Avenue on Labor Day 1955. Jack Eidson, now 90, was one of the first customers to walk through the doors. His order was classic.

“Waffles, I love them. And on Sunday afternoon we'd always come here and have lunch or dinner,” said Eidson, who is friends with the restaurant's co-founders. “I've been a customer for 50 years.”

The original restaurant has been closed for some time -- 30 years, in fact. Now, though, it will no longer exist only in the memories of customers like Eidson. The restaurant's co-founders, Tom Forkner and Joe Rogers, Sr., are restoring the original Waffle House into a private museum.

The laminated menus, the vintage uniforms, and everything else from the original Waffle House will all be restored and displayed as it was in 1955. "If you know it works, don't mess with it," said Forkner.
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