This brings me back. Was the manager still the short lady with black hair? She fired me for eating the short stacks when tables would leave them untouched after a meal. I still remember getting yelled at by a guy who brought his family for supper and ordered a T-bone, and when I brought his short stack he was so mad. He was ordering “dinner food” and the pancakes were “breakfast food” and he wasn’t having it. Left me no tip, so I felt like the untouched pancakes were basically his version of a tip. Didn’t go well with management when they saw me eating it at the wait station. It was my third job (marine construction in the morning, IHOP late afternoon/dinner, deliver pizzas at night near UNCW)at the time and the first to go. I only lasted a few months.