IHOP is good too!
If I were Waffle House, I would be thinking "hm. This is a one person project; what are the odds that it will break/go down eventually, and people will assume it was ours and get angry at us? Could write a clause about rights returning to us, get the code in escrow... but then we might wind up maintaining some random project using a stack that isn't part of our core competencies..."
And then I'd try to work something out anyhow, cause this is a cool project. But I sadly get the caution.
It is a cool project but probably imagine they wouldn’t want the escrow idea either, right? I mean they are a restaurant chain, they don’t want to go anywhere near anything that looks at all like providing emergency notification services, right? Even as a joke…
And I mean, do they even want to lean into that reputation to hard? I’m sure they don’t want to have some managers get somebody hurt by not closing a restaurant out of a misplaced sense of pride or bravado based on the reputation (I mean, I know almost nobody would do that, but somebody might!)