Thanks for the notes...
Our youngest child has a big problem with chewing/swallowing food as certain textures and tastes really bother him. He had absolutely no problem with the pancakes and almost cleaned a big stack of them off before Argie and I had finished our meals. The boy tucked it in - it was good to see.
Some restaurants put corn meal in their pancake mix - thankfully that wasn't the case at Jitters. The grit from corn meal is too much for the youngest Argelet... he can't hack it.
However, the pancakes at Jitters were a little tougher on the outside than I'd have liked - like they'd been flipped an extra time or two - but not as leathery as the poster at Yelp described. They went down well!