Atlanta-based 24-hour restaurant chain Waffle House Inc. has won a challenge to a Florida federal judge's denial of a motion to compel arbitration in a class action employment lawsuit.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled in favor of Waffle House with an opinion released Monday. Judge Stanley Marcus wrote for a panel that included Judge Frank Hull and Judge Raymond C. Clevenger III of the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation.

The unanimous panel reversed District Judge Roy Dalton Jr. of the Middle District of Florida and remanded the case with instructions to compel arbitration.