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This Is What Made IHOP's Original Menu International By Joe Hoeffner Oct. 20, 2025 3:20 pm EST

It's an awfully lofty-sounding title for what's essentially a diner, isn't it? "International House of Pancakes." It sounds like what they'd call a cafe in the basement of the United Nations building. What makes it even stranger is that there's not really much that's "international" about IHOP's menu, at least not to modern eyes. Although there are locations in 14 different countries, these restaurants don't offer anything more esoteric than crepes, Belgian waffles, and mediocre pancake tacos . Well, it just goes to show how far we've come: when IHOP first opened, its offerings were, in fact, a good deal more exotic than what other diners had to offer, as with "Kauai Coconut

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