No Pancakes for You

Ever been wasted after the bar and found your way to an IHOP for some really early morning breakfast grease to soak up some of tomorrow's hangover before it hits? Yeah, neither have we. Riiiight. A staple of always open pankakey goodness the IHOP is understandably plagued by dine and dashers. Perhaps they realize that their last $12 dollars went to those couple of Jager shots that really made the evening a winner, or maybe with a little buzz getting out of a bill seems to have more thrill (and, of course, you're invincible when drunk). The Quincy local decided to enact a policy to curb the practice – hold a ransom on the meal. The policy was enacted without corporate approval, a no-no in the franchise world, and had a security guard collect the driver's licenses, and likely at least a few state IDs, of patrons before they ate. The IDs were returned upon payment of the bill. Great to cut down on their problem but it irked the civil libertarian in everyone. They're no longer asking for IDs from diners in Quincy, or any other IHOP. An to be perfectly honest we're not quite sure of the facts of this stories, from the reports we've read they could have been doing this to the lunch crowd.