IHOP® Breakfast in Los Angeles, CA on 2912 S Sepulveda Blvd (2025)

FAQs

When did IHOP open in California? ›

The first IHOP opened July 7, 1958 in Toluca Lake, California. IHOP was founded by brothers Al and Jerry Lapin.

Discover the History of IHOP. 65 years of smiles. And counting. International House of Pancakes® began making people smile in 1958 when it opened its doors in the suburbs of Los Angeles.

There are 1,699 IHOP restaurants in the United States as of April 03, 2024. The state and territory with the most number of IHOP locations in the US is California, with 225 restaurants, which is about 13% of all IHOP restaurants in the US.

History. Jerry Lapin, Al Lapin, and Albert Kallis founded International House of Pancakes in the Los Angeles, California area in 1958 with the help of Sherwood Rosenberg and William Kaye.

IHOP is owned by Dine Brands Global, also parent company to U.S. casual dining restaurant chain Applebee's.

International House of Pancakes, LLC is a subsidiary of Dine Brands Global, which is publicly traded (NYSE: DIN).

IHOP is a subsidiary of DINE while Denny's is it own publicly traded company, and are in no way “owned by the same company.”

The first Denny's location (named Danny's Donuts) opened in 1953 as a donut and coffee shop in Lakewood, California. IHOP was founded in 1958 in a suburban area of Los Angeles, California. Today, both are international chains known for their Grand Slam breakfast and large variety of pancakes, respectively.

In 2007, IHOP scooped up the bar & grill chain Applebees, forming Dine Brands Global. And now, after fifteen years of filling bellies, Dine Brands Global is adding another new restaurant to its lineup.

Every year, IHOP also serves 214 million eggs, 100 million cups of coffee, 32 million pounds of bacon, sausage, and ham, 14 million gallons of orange juice, and 1.5 million gallons of syrup. IHOP was founded in 1958 in Toluca Lake, CA.

How many is in a full stack of pancakes at IHOP? ›

At IHOP, the popular pancake chain that offers away a free short stack of pancakes on their National Pancake Day every year, a short stack is always a serving of three fluffy pancakes, while a full stack is five.

Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A, the nation's second-largest quick service chicken restaurant chain based on sales, opened California's first Chick-fil-A restaurant in 1981 at Los Cerritos Center, Cerritos.

Located in the heart of San Francisco's Financial District, Tadich Grill is the oldest, continuously run restaurant in California, and third oldest in the United States.

His name was Glen Bell, and he opened the first Taco Bell restaurant back in 1962 in Downey, California.