text: I have certain expectations walking into a hr IHOP at on a Friday night Bland perhaps improperly prepared food glassy eyed customers and service wavering between lackadaisical and perfunctory Maybe someone will speak English nnSo I was kind of bowled over when the teen and I stopped in after an ASU ballgame and were immediatey greeted by a cheerful young hostess who obviously enjoyed her job Call me a rube but I am a sucker for a kid like that who strikes up a conversation and makes you feel welcome in what is otherwise let us face it a pretty dreary restaurant Two stars just for hernnAnd a star for our polite attentive waiter Elias who got everything right the first time suggested and brought condiments I would not have asked for on my own brought refills etc nnThe food Hey it is an IHOP My club sandwich was okay ordinary the kid did not finish his eggs The onion rings were perfect hot incredibly crunchy and greasy enough to require a napkin We finished those nnOne thing I did not like and the sort of thing I half dread at a discount Friday night hangout is the blonde cashier spent her time between sales seated in an adjacent booth while her hormonally challenged BF rubbed himself against her person I like foreplay as much as the next guy and if it was a couple customers I would not feel so indignant But I just loathe employees who cannot seem to separate rudimentary work etiquette from their breathless allencompassing personal lives nnBut the reason I bothered to writeup this IHOP was to give a shout to our waiter and hostess neither of whom I know who both really took pride in their jobs You do not always see that late at night in a pancake house and I would come here again just because of them You should too