One weekend, 10 kegs, and 3 hours at IHOP
Written: May 08 '01
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Pros: Bring a paper, eat by yourself and everyone will leave you alone
Cons: Bring a pen and paper and hand your orders directly to the cooks
The Bottom Line: 24 hour oasis.
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| elastica's Full Review: IHOP |
I recently discovered cream cheese. Well, I didn't "discover" it, I just recently found that I liked it. Up until that point, I was convinced that the only thing I needed for breakfast was a Kellogg's breakfast bar (Not the apple ones because I OD'd on them in college). After cream cheese, omolettes became a more recent discovery.
I went to school surrounded by Waffle Houses so I never needed to go to an IHOP. In fact, the first time I heard the acronym I had to tuck my tail between my legs and ask, "What's eye-hop?"
Party of 8
If you've ever tried to get a table for 8 at 11 AM on Sunday morning you know that you have to show the same patience you exibit at the DMV. To pass time, I manned the door and held it open for senior citizens, people carrying baby car seats, and unshowered, greasy, yet attractive young women.
When finally seated, we were pleased to have a server quickly serve us with carafe's of chilled, low pulp orange juice and metallic water. We placed our orders with great varation. Some wanted peppers, cheese, no onions, 4" diameter pancakes, potatoes cut in triangles, salt substitutes, etc... To our amazement, the waiter didn't write anything down! He was memorizing our order!
As he left, we marveled in the lack of pen and paper. We were asking ourselves, "Why does he work at IHOP? He could work anywhere! This is going to be amazing."
We passed the time chatting about the party from the night before and bragging at the fact that we kicked 10 kegs.
The arrival of the food brought another surprise. He got all of our orders wrong. After the food was placed in front of us, I kept waiting for him to spin the tables and everything would be perfect and we would clap and whistle and chant the waiters name like he just pitched a no-hitter.
The manager came running over and managed to fix all of our orders and I bet he's been trying to get our waiter to "discover" the wonders of the pen and paper.
We left with full bellies and minimal expense. So, to that, I am thankful. But next time I'm going to write my order down and hand it directly to the cooks.
Recommended:
Yes
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elastica
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Member: Eric Lastic
Location: Falls Church, VA
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