I used to love Pamela's because the chocolate chip hotcakes taste exactly like big, warm chocolate chip cookies, but the last time I ate here, I had such a bad experience that I lost all interest in ever coming back.
I understand that diner-y restaurants use a lot of butter. In fact, I think that all restaurants use a lot of butter, but the last time I ordered the chocolate chip hotcakes, they were so buttery that there was a butter foam ring 2" wide around the rim of each hotcake, and pressing on the hotcake with my fork caused wet liquid butter to ooze out. The hotcakes just tasted like a stick of butter. Disgraced chef Paula Deen has taught us that butter is the best, but this was just ridiculous and completely turned me off of Pamela's.