Ah.  The reliability of a chain that isn't too chainy.\n\nYou know what I mean.  You go to IHOP and you kind of get some smelly booths and those IHOP uniforms... oh sure the pancakes are tasty and they've got a few 24 hour operations but its got a distinctively chain feel.\n\nNow you go to what a friend of mine used to call OHOP (although I now realize that is inaccurate) and the place does a good job of pretending to be a somewhat nicer joe schmoe breakfast diner - IE clean and non smelly booths no matter how many darn kids are in the place.  On the other hand, I've been to a few of the Original House's in Chicagoland and now this one in Charlotte and you have the good parts of being a franchise -the same tasty coffee, the same delicious and slightly yeasty pancakes.