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Captured 5/28/14, early morning, about a mile and a half from my humble hovel.
Now I'm really getting silly.
What with the countless tons/tonnes of other shots, bursting from my capacious folders, and depicting much more deserving subject matter, I had to choose this dining icon to post up on RR. Go figure. That said, I wonder if they call it the International House of Pancakes just to give it some elite credibility, or if the restaurant is actually found elsewhere in the world, such as McDonalds, or the Apple Store.
Well now, heh, I just checked and found that the company has 1,500 locations across the Americas, where ever those are. And, in August 2012, it opened its first franchise in Dubai as part of a major expansion into the Middle East restaurant market. A second IHOP restaurant in the Middle East opened in Kuwait in February 2013. That's about all I bothered to find on its international status.
Ciao, baby.
Comments (6)
jocko500
hahah that was one of my first places I WORKED AT IN 1970 or 1971? in Lafayette, La. as i was going to school there. I washed dishes lol. cool shots and lot of memory
claude19
they may have 3,000 stores worldwide, their pancakes are never as good as the one we enjoyed in Brittany, in small specialty restaurants ... taste the real flavor can not be manufactured without sophisticated machines! !!!
durleybeachbum
People go out to eat pancakes? Gosh.
Cyve
Very great shot.
MrsRatbag
IHOP, you hop, we all hop...wow, this one is way bigger than the ones around here, which are still those small boxes with the pointy roof. It's not a place I've been very often, not being much of a pancake eater; and yes, I know they have other things too. Mostly I tend to forget about them when I'm trying to decide where to go, and there are other places closer to home that I know and like. That said, excellent captures of the storefront of this international purveyor of pancakes, Harry. Were you there for food or just passing by?
goodoleboy
Just passing by. I rarely go there to eat, and when I do, it's not for pancakes.
anahata.c
Not an easy subject, because there's not a lot of nature around it, it's a lonnnng facade, it's basically a big advertisement for the name, the lawn is one of those typical chain restaurant flat and uneventful lawns, and it's usually hard to see what's going on inside unless we're standing right up against the glass. But somehow you made this a genuine spread, a kind of naked eye abstract; your crop cuts off the edges so we just get this limitless "expanse" in the facade; and somehow that feels right for places like this. There's something stark about these. Your montage goes from one angle to its opposite---basic montage sequencing. But the big expanse of sky and grass---sandwiching the restaurant in between---makes the long building seem like a layer in a big abstract; and the reds stand out against those blues and greens. You've done car shots with this kind of "put it in center and let it speak for itself" treatment, you know how to handle center presentation, for sure; and it shows here in an in our face plainness that's almost a minimalist painting from the 80s. I really like these, for all the commercial qualities these restaurants show in their facades. You've caught it with unblinking eye, and there's something about that that makes us look at it as Art. A fine pair, Harry. I really like the blank, honest, abstract quality to them both.