Waffle House Index Measures Hurricane Recovery – WSJ.com:

“In a recent academic paper, Panos Kouvelis, a business-school professor at Washington University in St. Louis, pegged Waffle House as one of the top four companies for disaster response, with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Home Depot Inc. and Lowe’s Cos”

Impressive. Would have never guessed Waffle House in the top five, much less the top ten.