Few local servers are as slickly and professionally trained as the staff at Houston's, where those fresh faces in starched shirts and aprons are so friendly, unflustered, and accommodating, there's a slight robotic quality to their movements. But in the case of Sherri -- who has charmed the fussiest of irritating customers easily and soothed the stress of a single mother dining with three rambunctious little boys with a Zen-like calmness -- it's all in a day's work. Asked by one patron how she learned to be so quick, so attentive, and stay centered, she answered: "I used to work at the International House of Pancakes."
