IHOP required photo ID to seat customers...

Red Orbit: "John Russo has been a victim of identity theft. So when he was asked to fork over a photo ID just to be seated at an IHOP pancake restaurant, he flipped. "'You want my license? I'm going for pancakes, I'm not buying the Hope diamond,' and they refused to seat us," Russo said, recounting his experience this week at the Quincy IHOP. "

Just because it's the INTERNATIONAL House of Pancakes, a passport shouldn't be required for entrance... Apparently this 'policy' was the result of one lone employee trying to dissuade dine-and-dash incidents.. But since the employee usually doesn't have a stake in the final tab at any real level, so it could also be that iHOP is throwing a worker under the bus on this lame lame practice.