International House of Pancakes

The hostess might (or in our case) or might not put your name on the wait list when you come here. The staff is rude and unfriendly, and our waitress gave an attitude when we nicely asked for our check. Never coming back to this IHOP again, terrible.

How can a place that says there open 24 hr not have the waffle maker on at 5:45 in the morning when that is a big part of the breakfast menu tables are dirty manager would not accommodate horrible service I will never come back here again

Came here on a Monday morning with my 4 year old, was sat down and apparently I was invisible as well. Almost 20 minutes and wasn’t even offered coffee or water. Got up and walked right out.
I wonder if they noticed…

As a birthday gift, I received a gift card for IHOP via Facebook; just a 19 digit code, with directions stating to print this code out OR have it accessible on your phone, and then proceed to ANY location to redeem it. Apparently, that doesn’t apply to this IHOP. I went to pay for my meal with the code and they told me it HAD to be printed out. Mind you, what they wanted printed out was nothing more than the 19 digit code: no bar code, just digits. The staff member I talked to said it was due to their machine; he didn’t explain any further, just that it had to be printed out. If they manually can’t type the code in, how can they possibly do anything with a simple piece of printed paper (because that’s all I would have had anyways)?! Need less to say, extremely frustrating when I should be relaxing after Sunday breakfast. Clearly not going back to this IHOP because I still have the gift code to use. Get your shit together IHOP.

My server was a twit… The host/​supervisor basically took care of us, the only thing my server did was take my order. I can’t remember his name, but I pulled him to the side and told him I was a restaurant manager and that his service was the restaurants saving grace. wILL DEFINITELY go back, though.

Love the staff here. Always friendly and even when it is full of drunk people.

I went to have a quick lunch with my husband and son and we now that at IHOP’s it is more about quantity than quality. Our waitress seemed to be new, never seen her before, but attentive. At some point I realized that our food was taking too long and that my husband was the only one eating a salad which we all ate from since the wait was long.
While we were waiting for our food, I noticed that the manager (a young guy) was talking to one of the waitress and complaining on how they do not help and blah blah. I thought that was very unprofessional and that made me uncomfortable. Then the manager went back to the cooks area and started telling the cooks to be faster. Only 2 cooks for a full house. Then two employees were arguing with the manager and another trying to calm them down. It was pathetic the fact that my family and I had to witness such behavior. It is clear that the manager could not control the situation. When our food finally came, the waitress who was taking care of us gave me a refill and then I ordered a dessert. I just noticed that the waitress was so mad at the manager that she just asked him to take care of us because her shift was over.
I know we got what we paid for, but these situations need to be between management and employees.

What’s not to like about any good breakfast place, whether it be franchise or not. If my breakfast plate involves good bacon, eggs, and pancakes, you won’t find a problem with me. However, there’s more than one thing I didn’t like from this specific location and the food is NOT the problem here.
My hubby and I came in on a Sunday morning around 11a. m, and of course it was busy, which we truly understand. This however, isn’t the problem, not at all.
–The problem arouses from their management.
I didn’t agree and can’t comprehend the amount of waitstaff they have for only 2 cooks. There were ONLY 2 cooks to about 9 –11 wait staff members.
How is this at all fair to the ones cooking for a FULL-​house?
I give so much credit to the 2 cooks who had the manager lady in between them from the moment we went in to the time we left.
I’m very clear she is the manager, because the name tag she had said so.
I believe she perhaps was only trying to «help» with the big rush, but wasn’t even helping.
She was in between the 2 cooks, and only «helping them» in adding whipp and strawberries to the pancake orders. She was truly in their way. I just felt bad sitting close to one of the booths for those poor men, who were doing a fast fantastic job for an entire full house even with her in between for almost 2 hours.
She only seemed to be bossy and in the way.
Perhaps she should have been doing something else than intimidating and slowing down the 2cooks.
Or maybe just maybe add another cook for such a busy Sunday.
Again, 2 thumbs up for speedy hard working cooks under a lot of pressure.
Overall, the food was good and our male server was kind and attentive.

Probably one of the worse ihop I have ever tried on a consistent basis. I am not sure if it is only their steak that taste horrible or what. Today, I had the Big Steak Omelet with hash browns and New York Strawberry Cheesecake Pancakes for an extra charge. The steak was horrible and was very chewy. The New York Pancakes were really good though.
Another time, I ordered the Sirloin Steak Tips Dinner because the picture looked really good on the menu. When it came, it still looked good, but the steak was once again… awful. It reminded me of reused and rewashed steak that was cooked again.
Lastly, we have never received «good» service here. Every time we come, the service is pretty bad and we always have to ask for refill on waters or pretty much anything else you need. At best, the service can be okay.

If I could give this place Negative stars I would.
EVERY time I have been there I have had terrible service, overly long wait times (like cmon its Ihop 30 Minutes for eggs and pancakes is asking a lot), and to top it off cold food.
And when complaining to the managers they dont even act surprised about our issues, if you know your producing terrible outcomes for your patrons maybe you should try and fix it.
If you live close to here I would suggest passing it up. If you really want IHOP (which I often do because its really good) Go to the one in Boystown. That location is superb!

I honestly prefer a couple of other locations in the city over this one, but this location is near my pad. Service sort of sucks and the food is just IHOP good.
Honestly if you have $ 20ish bucks for breakfast, there are a ton of awesome other restaurants in the area that you’ll get more bang for your buck.
It a no thrills pancake spot like all other IHOP’s.

(I wish i can give it NO stars)
This IHOP f@cking sucks donkey d! ck. Avoid at all cost! Worst service ever. Every time they brought our individual meals, they’d f@ck it up and we would have to send it back. The worst part is that we would have to wait another 20 minutes for our less-​than-​stellar food. Is it so hard not to burn bacon to ashes and add cheese on eggs without taking an eternity? They screwed up our food 3 times. Really, why does it take 20 minutes to get a kid a new batch of burnt over seasoned fries? They topped off the sh! tty service by charging us an extra plate of crap we didn’t order. I got a refund. And for the first time ever, I didn’t tip. F@ck this place. Anyone liking this place has either been extremely lucky or just delusional. FYI, the manager is a total douche.

Not much has changed since my last visit but they really frosted my ass on this last visit. We had a coupon for a buy one meal and get one free. We ordered two meals and I ordered a soup with my meal. I didn’t realize it until later but they used the coupon for a free meal for my freaking soup! WTF!!! Soup was not my meal you cheap ass pricks. i wish I would have paid closer attention when I paid. I guess it serves me right for not paying attention. I will never set foot in here again as there are other IHOPs that will properly honor my coupons! My ass is getting me more frosted as I write this.

I’ve been to IHOP many times and I prefer the one on Lake st in addison, illinois.
Yes, I was drunk when I went here, but still.
Our waitress told my friend to be quiet because she was too loud… its 4am, there is no one there so why you ask? because she couldn’t hear the phone! haha
The service was poor, but with great friends it was a great night.

I’m also reviewing this IHOP. It’s terrible. I live a block away, so it would be REALLY wonderful to have a good old fashioned breakfast place sooo close – but my experiences here have been so bad that I will never go back.
The restaurant itself is designed so that you’re packed in, and the aisles are so tight, that you can’t walk by someone. Envision an airplane-​style seating.
Waiters were abrupt, rude, and un-​caring. I ordered a «Fruit Salad» cup off of the menu, and was served Fruit Cocktail. The pancakes I had were kind of bizarre and stale tasting. Finally, when we got the check back, I was *shocked* to see my cup of fruit cocktail was $ 7?!? When I asked the waitress, she said that they were out of cups, so she gave me a bowl. So weird. And you would think she might have have asked before serving something that would be more than double the price.
So done with this place.

I actually did receive a freebie here, but that’s mainly because I signed up to their newsletter to get a free breakfast.
I’m not going to review IHOP, I’m going to review this IHOP, and it’s a pretty good one. The service was good (I certainly left a tip, despite it being a free meal), and the food was as good as diner food I’ve had anywhere.
I had eggs, links and hash with toast. Toast was good, links were fine, hash was very nice, eggs were perfectly over easy, just the way I wanted.
Honestly, what more could you ask for from your breakfast place? To be perfectly honest though, I don’t think I would pay the money to eat there normally (ie: if I didn’t have a free coupon), but it was still a good breakfast.
But that’s an issue with IHOP, rather than this IHOP. For the fact that it’s open 24/​7, I’d pay the premium if I was to go there at 3 in the morning, probably not otherwise.
I saw some interesting specials with Mexican/​Hispanic flavor, which I’m curious about, but didn’t try. I would try it if I went back. Maybe when I get a free birthday meal.
Anyway, figured the least I could do was leave an honest review. I hope they get reimbursed by corporate for the promotion. But that’s what happens when you offer stuff for free.
Guess they’ll have to be happy with me simply now knowing where my local IHOP is, since I didn’t really before. That’s worth $ 6, isn’t it?

Decent food. Crowded, but seating doesn’t take long. Small and a bit cramped.

The other thing about IHOP is you can probably expect to be seated at a table that’s still sticky from the last diners. Damn the syrup station docked at the side of the table and improper table wipedowns!
We have gotten enthusiastic service on our last 2 visits from the same waitress though.

OK, I’ve been here five times. Since I work overnight, myself and 3 other bosses always want to meet up for a late night/​early morning breakfast. Since we did not want to go to The Golden Nugget we figured what about Ihop since it is open ²⁴⁄₇. So we started going here.
The first 3 times we all enjoyed our food and went on early Friday mornings. We typically had the same thing; I had the skillet without meat and pancakes. It was good and the other guys enjoyed their steaks and steak omelets. We all enjoyed it and we had one of two waitresses each time that we went. Although Ihop wasn’t the best, it was our only option with parking at 3am.
So now the last two times we went were on a different day; Tuesday mornings. The first Tuesday there was this horrible odor when we came in. We sat down and couldn’t take the smell and left. This different waitress was trying to explain to us why the smell was OK. NO, I mean I don’t know about you but I can’t eat when I am smelling sewage.
So we decided to try it one last time; again on a Tuesday morning.
The second time we walk in and I swear we could still smell that odor but we decided to stay. We all changed up our order and this is no joke but our waitress really smelled. She seemed a bit slow and didn’t give us anything that we ordered. 2 of us had to send back our food because it was wrong. I changed what I usually order and ordered a vegetable omelet; it came back with some sauce and when I asked her what this sauce was and what was in it she said «nothing,»…Nothing? I looked at my friends and we were holding in our laughs. how is the sauce going to have nothing in it? Then she says to try it and if I don’t like it she will get it remade. I told her it wasn’t what I ordered, I ordered a veggie omelet without cheese or any sauce.
Not only were we not happy about our meals and 3 out of four of us having to send it back we weren’t happy with our service. I’m not making fun of the woman but not only did she smell she simply didn’t get any of our food correct. Everything that she rang up was incorrect.
We just stopped going after the smell and the incompetence of our server. We now go to Meli since it opens at 6 AM and are more than satisfied. I don’t think I will be back to this Ihop.

Cheap breakfast and low prices! What more could you want?
I’ve always been a big fan of IHOP so I was so excited when we moved into a new apartment and realized there was an IHOP two blocks away! It used to be a 20 minute drive, minimum.
Good service that is always quick. On the weekend mornings there’s always a good number of people in the restaurant and the staff is always very friendly and efficient in getting everyone in and seated.
Food is always good and very nicely priced. Good for one on a budget. You can get eggs, hash browns, bacon and pancakes for $ 7. Yum!
We come here fairly often, especially with friends, because it’s close, convenient and friendly. They even let you split the bill between friends at the register and pay with separate credit cards. Now that’s convenient!