Woke up on a Sunday morning with the craving of getting some pancakes. Me and my girl were both on the same page with going to get breakfast at the local IHOP. Haven't been to the location for about a year prior due to not a good experience but I gave this place a chance the same way people gave Donald Trump a chance to somehow become our president. Well look what happened, the outcome was what we didn't hope or expect.
This can be said for the whole portion of time coming to dine in at IHOP. To start off, the front desk was full of people and not able to occupy the overflow of humans. When the desk was finally clear, nobody was found to be there. Eventually someone had showed up, and kept to themselves before 3-5 of awkward silence had passed to them greet us. They then showed us to our booth and disappeared to wherever they go to hide away from other diners.
I took a seat and engaged in some casual conversation about breakfast related items, thinking in my mind about how I will get my combination of many great breakfast choices all in one meal. As stated before, this was a Sunday morning and I did expect to have to wait a few minutes to be served and have our orders taken. My expectation of a few minutes had turned into 10 minutes of staring out of a window and looking through the menu about a solid 4 times. Now I know what everyone is thinking, why wouldn't I have just said something to another waiter or waitress when they walked by? It was as if they were all running a marathon and trying to speed walk as fast as possible by the tables, they were in the zone like a major league gaming montage of Counter Strikes top 10 plays of the week.
As painful as waiting at the DMV, the waitress had finally make it to the promised land of Jurassic Park or should I say the booth we were seated at. I had seen this particular waitress walk by the table multiple times and to begin her conversation, there was no mention or apology of the wait and delay. My girl had mentioned the delay we had experienced, for the reason of just letting the waitress know we have been patient customers and had felt we were getting ignored. The response recieved was in the rather "I really wish i weren't here right now tone" and was as follows; "Oh yeah, well it is busy." This exact response had added to the shaping of the unpleasant looking sculpture that was in my future of receiving.
The next piece to the sculpture was to start ordering our breakfast meals and beverages. Since we both had so much time, more time then required to complete the task, as any construction job in taunton goes, we were eager to place our orders. The drinks were a simple task, suprisingly, but for the food portion it had a set of rules I was not aware of. My order in my mind planned was to get a single pancake, 2 scrambled eggs, some toast and bacon. I take my breakfast selections serious, and like to get around the breakfast pyramid to get all my essential breakfast choices in one meal.
My girl places her order of some french toast and a water, painless. I begin to place my order starting with the pancake, an immediate roadblock is hit. A single pancake cannot be ordered, only in 3 or more can they be had, which I was given an attitude, an attitude that is given when a joke is made towards you by that kid in the class who has never met you and thinks he is all of a sudden the class bozo the clown. To many this is not a big deal, but with how my experience was going thus far, it did not make me so happy. I had to change up my choice which was quick and then the order was placed.
To fast foward alittle in time, the order was recieved and we began to start eating. Right away I noticed the toast was burnt and the eggs were rather iffy in the warm department. The French toast was also a little questionable in it's quality. What really grinded my gears was when I took a forkful of my rather chill eggs and my eyes darted towards you will never guess, but yes, low and behold a single pancake on it's own plate. I'm not sure what hell broke loose in the back kitchen but someone was feeling like a rebel serving a single pancake, breaking up from that group of the minimum required 3 that needs to be ordered in that fashion.
I'm betting the chief who sent that out was feeling the same way people do when you go into a test you didn't study for but you just think to yourself hey it's just 1 test it's not that big of a deal. The splitting of that pancake to that chief was rather painless and quick, but to this waitress, this was treated like her line was on the job, and this single pancake separation would not go unnoticed and not look good at all. Bottom line and final recap of this experience; IHOP has been around for quite some time now and has proved themselves in the breakfast community. With all the deals and specials advertised to the extreme close- ups of there quality food in their commercials, the food looks to be a great choice and nice place to eat. 3/5 read more
