A Waffle House Waitress Went Viral After A Secret Photo Revealed What She’d Done On Shift

At the Waffle House in La Marque, Texas, Adrien Charpentier was struggling. It was a Saturday morning, and the place was bustling — meaning the wait staff there were being rushed off their feet. Adrien’s plate risked going cold before anyone came to his assistance. But amid the hubbub, one young waitress answered the senior’s timid request. And after her actions were secretly caught on camera, the photo quickly went viral...

Wonder waitress

That waitress? She was called Evoni Williams, and she lived in Galveston, Texas. She was a high school graduate saving up for college, and she had started working at the Waffle House a month after turning her tassel. And the folks who knew her described her as cheerful and always with a smile on her face — despite everything the job threw at her.

Just out of hospital

Then, one day, Evoni was serving an elderly man in her section. Nothing unusual about that on the surface — plenty of seniors piled into Waffle House every day. This guy had an oxygen tank, however, and he had only recently been released from the hospital. And he made small talk with his waitress as customers shuttled about and the grills sizzled up made-to-order breakfasts.

One of the regulars

That man was Adrien, who had a seat at the bar on that busy Saturday morning at the La Marque Waffle House. The 78-year-old counted himself as one of the regulars at the restaurant. And it wasn’t just the wait staff who knew him well. Adrien had a reputation with the people in the town, too.

Hello, Mr. Karaoke

Waffle House employees knew Adrien as “Mr. Karaoke” as he regularly hit the stage at the local senior center to sing tunes. But, unfortunately, he hadn’t been able to belt out his songs for a while. As Adrien told CNN in 2018, he had been sick for a few weeks before returning to his usual breakfast spot.