For nearly two years there’s been a running gag in the Tekken community, with fans begging producer Katsuhiro Harada to put a Waffle House stage in the game. If you’re unsure why that would be a thing, or you aren’t local to one, the Waffle House is where you can go to get a deeply cheap but filling meal at 3am — but it’s also notorious for fights. You can find dozen of low-res TikToks of fights at Waffle House, including the incredible one where a worker parries a chair. Hilariously, it seems like Harada actually took those recommendations to heart, and reached out to Waffle House to try and feature it within Tekken. Yes, he really did.
In a post on X, Harada responded to a fan asking where the Waffle House stage was, by saying, “If we can’t get that ‘House’ name license, how about we call it ‘Hustle House’ stage?”
