We get fewer gross food stories than you might imagine here at Consumerist, and this one made us cringe. Reader Richard saw a maintenance person scrubbing down some ceiling tiles while standing on a food prep counter… that was in use. Yeah. Ew.
IHOP Agrees That Workers Shouldn't Scrub Ceiling Tiles Directly Over Your Food
By March 12, 2008
National Pancake Day! Free Pancakes Today Only At IHOP
By February 12, 2008
Hey there hungry, broke people: A free short stack of pancakes can be yours today from 7am to 10pm at IHOP.
IHOP To Abandon Trans-Fats By Year End
By October 1, 2007
IHOP has announced that they will be going trans-fat free by the end of the year. The chain said they’ve found a replacement oil that tastes the same as the old heart-killing trans-fat oil.
IHOP Buys Applebee's for $2.2 Billion
By July 16, 2007
The move comes as mid-priced sit-down restaurants are trying to pull themselves out of one of the industry’s worst slumps in several years. A second consecutive summer of high gasoline prices, coupled with declining home values, has eaten into the wallets of the middle-class customers on which Applebee’s built its dining empire.
IHOP is planning on selling all 500 company owned Applebee’s and other real estate in the hopes of cutting costs and to offset some of the debt they had to take on in order to purchase Applebee’s.
Starbucks Soon To Equal Coffee?
By May 3, 2006
Over at Branding Post, we saw this quote about a grim dystopian future in which the word coffee no longer exists: when you pendulously breasted IHOP waitress emerges in a puff of brown cigarette smoke from the kitchens to demand your order, you won’t ask for a cup of coffee. You’ll ask for a Starbucks.
Bite-Size Kvetches & Kudos
By April 4, 2006
We received several complaints and consumer stories in the past few days that, while heartfelt, weren’t epic. Ergo, we put them all together into one package and post them after the jump.
