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8:52 pm EST

IHOP food

My husband and i went to the ihop on i-40 and ross osage tonight(jan 1 2019) and very disappointed my biggest complaint is the side salad, omg i was ashame all the money the company makes u cant afford to give the customers a good salad, with more than just romain lettuce, 2 slices of tomato and 2 slices of onion ? the waitress apologized for the looks of the salad, she said it wasnt them who had to make the salad that way, its corporate 's idea ! well corporate sucks ! my husband ordered country fried steak and had to get doubled mashed potatoes because they were out of corn, ! both our meals were cold, that sucked !the coffee was warm, not hot in the coffee pot brought to the table and cost $2.59 each for small glasses of iced tea and chaege for coffee, to seniors? u ihop is outrageous! we wont be going there !

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8:08 am EST

IHOP employers

The ihop on University Parkway in winston salem are very rude and disrespectful to some of the employees. While other servers are fussing an cussing they only fuss and bicker with certain individual about their job performance and not focus on anyone else. The GM told me she had to keep an eye on me for whatever reason when I have no history of violence and also tried to diagnose me with a mental health disease that I do not have. I have spoken to a lawyer about the discrimination and will be taking action!

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9:50 pm EST

IHOP very bad manager

This manager chelby of liberal Kansas Ihop isn't Doing his job the right way and is coming to work drunk and leaving work to go next door to Applebee's to drink then coming back drunk. Chelby the manager also is very rude and mean to customers and the employees. He will stand there with a customer complaint and laugh right In there face and yell at them. He would treat all his works like they are nothing. He expect his works to do everything for him even when they have other jobs or things going on in there life. He would scream in ur face telling u how u mess up and never show u what u messed up on. He would also go around picking favorite and letting them do what every they want. He would scream at u and not give u the days off u need. He would say that we can't havw any days off that we need because he don't care what we having going on it our life's that we put this job first. He didn't care if u has a family emergency and need to get somewhere he would fire u for needing days off. U never get a day off. To me this isn't how u run a restraute. He would have tables walk on because he would go out there and yell at them for wanting special orders or something different add in there order. He isn't doing his job right showing up to work drunk. Opening the store late when we're supposed to be there at 5 and he would show up with the keys till about 6 then yell at u for it which his the only one with a key.

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11:09 pm EST
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I am a Food Inspector for the federal Government, and we have about 14 Dining Facility on the military Base. I inspect food codes, and sanitation. I took my wife to one of your location after we return from a late flight at 1200am on 12/26/2018 at: IHOP CULEBRA RD 10622 Culebra Rd San Antonio, TX 78251 [protected] That restaurant is disgusting, and it...

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11:34 pm EST

IHOP staff member at ihop and experience

Im going to send you my facebook post which makes tonights visit quite comical when in fact it wasnt. But i dont like negativity on my page nor the others it will go on. This post is nothing compared to all that occured tonight. Christmas... No one wants to be at work but your customers dont want to be exposed to this either. I hope you take the time to read this. Look into it and address it. As funny as my post is it surely will be shared but everyone who knows me knows the seriousness behind it. Your one waitress tonight violated some health codes like long hair down playing with it, long fake nails that were dirty. We saw that when she couldnt hold a rag to wipe a table down and her hand was turned over. She couldnt atay put of her wallet or purse ( one with sequence all over it) putting money in it... Many times. From 9:15 pm - 10-20 ish we laughed so hard. Not because it was a great time to male memories but because we just cant figure out why this place cant keep it together.

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So... Mark had to yet again work Christmas and decided ihop is where we would run to unwind before coming home. So he Daniel and I went.
Our waitress is one weve had on many occasions and shes great. Now we all know no one really wants to be at work on Christmas but she was just a happy little elf. But, as we all know on the other end was the abnominal snowchic... Another waitress who was not only rude but for sure not health department cleared for waitress nor serving, with the attitude straight from well... Anyhow, we placed our orders and told them there was no rush. The poor cook was doing all he could and seemed to be doing great. One shoulder was the sweet waitress aka his angel and on the other was HER. Anyhow, i wont go into details on how the cook put food up for serving and she took her bare hands with long dirty fake nails and removed food off the plate bare handed, put it in a bowl then still served the food. Nope i wont tell you the gross stuff we saw or that i announced it and how it was disgusting (there was alot of things to see). But anyhow, my potatoes were for sure long over due for the trash. Yes they saw better days, probably days ago. But again the poor guy was working so hard there was no way we were saying a word shy of thank you.
So i took my spoon and flipped them and really didn't have to so much but decorate the face with burned bacon and a hard potatoe that was missing the peppers and onions. Again, its Christmas i wasnt going to complain and no way were we sending anything back to this poor guy. In the mean time, the abnominal snow chic was being rude and disrespectful to the waitress we had. Again i get it no one wants to be at work on Christmas. So i made a little one too. When i was done, our waitress came over and was laughing so hard. It was great to see her smile and laugh. She said it was the first time since the abnominal snowchic arrived being rude that she was laughing. So for the sake of laughter, i gifted her this masterpiece to help her make it through the night.
See the little things in life matter to many.
I can make it something to laugh about when i share it but others wont.

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1:51 pm EST
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Hou charged me for an order that i never placed. Your website kept giving me error messages while running extremely slow and it kept duplicating every item i added to my cart. I ended up having to close the website browser and placing my order as guest instead of logging in. I finally got the order to go thru on your website 45 minutes after your cashier...

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1:51 pm EST

IHOP food

My family and I came for the grinch pancakes. When ordering the waitress said they were out of the green whip cream. I said ok and was happy I was still getting green pancakes. 15 min later my waitress comes back to tell me I have to order something else due to the fact they ran out of green pancake mix. Upset, I still ordered pancakes. Unhappy with my experience here.

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7:18 pm EST

IHOP service

Ordered online..See Receipt.. On the way to pick up the order the when I received a phone call saying the store was closing due to No Manager or Cook was at the store. I asked was my order canceled because I already had paid online. The person I spoke with said they couldn't do it. I continued to the store being I was on my way to pick up the order anyway. The staff was very disrespectful and unprofessional. As a customer I felt the situation was handled horrible. As of today I still haven't received my money back. Will NOT BE PATRONIZE THIS ESTABLISHMENT EVER AGAIN.

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11:33 am EST

IHOP grinch advertised special

I recently visited the Ihop in Stuart, FL on Rt 1.
I was visiting my grandchildren from out of state and we were having a "Grinch Day."
After leaving the Grinch movie we headed to Ihop for a Grinch meal. The kids were very excited as they had seen many advertisements on TV and the posters were hung on the entrance to the restaurant. When we were seated we were told they did not have any of the Grinch meals and would offer no substitutes to accommodate us because of their lack of supplies. They would not honor the Kids eat free from 4-6.
The waitress informed us they had not had any of the Grinch products in days and had lost a lot of business because of it. The waitress seemed very embarrassed. She was very nice but management made no attempt to speak with us or accommodate us in any way. Frankly, I don't understand why they just couldn't get some green food coloring to satisfy their customers.
This was such a fun promotion by your restaurant and it is a shame this branch was not honoring it.

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10:09 pm EST

IHOP poor management

I was working there only for two weeks the GM was always very mean and always with bad attitude . I give my two weeks notice but I want to report this I Hop to the labor department because I had to work on my brake always because I was the only server in the afternoon . She make me take a brake if not we get a write up. Very unfair... I don't recommend this place to work for no body this is very unprofessional place with very poor management skills

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Update by Araceli T
Dec 16, 2018 10:16 pm EST

This information is for the owner she is the worts GM 3 people already quit in two weeks. Hope they get better GM very disappointing to work for thisI Hop. I never meet a GM with so much poor skills

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8:20 pm EST

IHOP customer service and food

We visited the IHOP in Manchester, CT yesterday at about 5:30pm with our grand daughter. We arrived and were seats in a few minutes. There were only about 7 or 8 tables occupied. After ordering our basic meals, it took about 30 minutes to get our soup and salad appetizers. By that time I had finished my water and was not offered another. It took about another 20 minutes for our meals to come out. My boneless fried chicken was over cooked and the mashed potato's were instant with a dried crust around the outer edge. Not butter was added to the buttered corn. My husband didn't even have enough country gray to spend over his country fried steak. We should have gotten our grand daughters meal free with a paid adult entrée, we didn't. No one was around to question this to or even take our bill payment. We left our $ and left. This is our 2nd bad experience at this location and will NOT return again.

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10:29 am EST

IHOP sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is something that needs to be taken seriously. The Longview Texas IHOP has a problem with this. There have been numerous reports and the manager is aware. There are witnesses to these actions. The manager has aloud the people involved to continue to work the same shifts and they have been told to work it out until further notice. The is unacceptable! This needs to be handled correctly now. As a reminder the Supreme Court has issued rulings to make employers liable for these incidents. Please correct this problem ASAP! Thank you.

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5:46 pm EST

IHOP cold food and bad management

I visited this location on saturday dec 8th. So first off my waitress acted like she didnt want to be there. She barely paid any attention to myself and my husband. Then we get our food and i ask for a side of honey mustard and she comes back with a little black container that had about a drop in it LITERALLY. So then i go to eat my burger and its cold. I tell my waitress who mind you i believe was the manager on shift because she had the different polo shirt then the other waiters that my food is cold she's like well the best i can do is make another one. So my husband is suppose to sit there and eat w/o me or wait and have cold food who mind you had a small portion of food...no thank you ill just suck it up and eat it. I told her i wasnt impressed. She had nothing to say. She didnt even offer to take off the bill. She also didnt even give us her name because she didnt introduce herself to begin with. I never complain to corporate but this is the most displeasing experience i ever had. I heard other guests complaining about the bathrooms being disgusting. Im not on here trying to get her in trouble but i need this to be addressed if anything. They can not have a shift leader/manager that is like that. She needs to pay more attention to her guests and act like she cares about her job. Very unsatisfactory. Thank you have a nice day!

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Update by Kerri3298
Dec 11, 2018 5:50 pm EST

Btw this is the brockton location in the Westgate mall.

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6:58 pm EST
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IHOP store#3105, I ordered the whoville french toast combo, item was no longer available. However, no one bothered to inform of this, the cooked instead took it upon themself to substitute my order without notice or permission. No my ticket was not adjusted. Very dissatisfied with everything but the waitress. My check# 3392 Dec 8, 2018 @ 3:47pm. Definitely would not recommend the Shelby, NC IHOP.

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9:07 am EST
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My wife, Darlene, and I went to the Erie, PA, IHOP location on Peach St, yesterday, Dec 7, 2018, about 1100. The hostess, I do not know her name, seated us. As my wife has Celiacs, and other food allergies. She has to be very careful what she eats and how it is prepared. We have eaten at this IHOP before with no problems. The hostess seated us and Darlene...

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12:57 am EST
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IHOP service and possible fraud scheme

My boyfriend and I went to the Northridge IHOP on Tampa and Nordhoff. Our purchase was
A cup of soup 3.99
Stack of 5 pancakes 8.99
1 crepe dessert. 4.99
2 cups of coffee. 7.18
25.15
x 9.75% tax = 2.45
27.60
Explain why we received a receipt with sandwiches, iced tea, lemonade and other items equaling 29.70. We explained to the waitress, Dora, that the bill was wrong. "The manager will take care of you at the front", Dora said. We pressed about the bill being wrong. Still added up incorrectly. He offered 20% off our bill. Still came to 27.07. Gave him 30.10. Change of 3.03. They're running a scam there. Giving wrong receipts and people are not noticing because the receipt quality prints very faded. Thank goodness my eyes are sharp. I'm warning everyone on Yelp. IHOP send in the shoppers to spy on this.

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10:20 am EST
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I was served an iced mocha from IHOP in Springfield Ohio. A dark liquid had settled on the bottom of the glass while the rest of the drink looked like a mocha. After tasting it I realised I was served a spoiled milk drink. I am very unhappy that the correct action was not taken to prevent this event. I am concerned for public health. One cook was wearing...

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7:15 pm EST
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IHOP service

On 12/3/18 at 7:00 pm my husband and I were at Ihop in Alexandria Louisiana. When we walked in no one acknowledge us. One girl stood up looked at us turned and spoke to another girl said something to her and the seco s girl said I don't know and went back to doing what she was doing (playing on her phone). We were never told "Someone will be with you shortly". We stood there for 10 minutes before we turned and walked out. They were not busy at all. There was only two tables that had other customers. It is very disappointing when you choose a restaurant to eat at but can't get service.

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9:22 am EST
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I placed an to go order around 7:26AM and no was there around that time (no other customers); only people that have ordered and eating. After placing my order I left and went to the store. I came back around 7:40 stood there while my order sat on the counter until 8:05. A worker stated that someone will help me in a moment. Then finally the worker came and...

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On 12/1/2018, Walter James and myself (Donevette Evans), went to IHOP, on 2430 173rd St, Lansing, IL 60438, about 5:30 PM, at 5:55 pm when Walter James was eating his pancakes a trick piece of glass was in between his teeth. I took a video of it and then I got the Manager, when she came she looked at everything on our table to find out where the glass came...

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About IHOP

IHOP, also known as the International House of Pancakes, is a popular American restaurant chain that specializes in breakfast foods. Founded in 1958, IHOP has grown to become one of the largest pancake houses in the world, with over 1,600 locations in the United States and around the globe.

The restaurant chain is known for its extensive menu of breakfast items, including pancakes, waffles, French toast, omelets, and breakfast sandwiches. In addition to breakfast, IHOP also offers a variety of lunch and dinner options, such as burgers, sandwiches, salads, and entrees.

One of the unique features of IHOP is its commitment to providing a family-friendly atmosphere. The restaurant chain is known for its bright and cheerful decor, as well as its friendly and attentive staff. Many IHOP locations also offer a kids' menu, making it a popular destination for families with young children.

In recent years, IHOP has expanded its menu to include a variety of international flavors and dishes. For example, the restaurant chain now offers Mexican-inspired breakfast items, such as churro pancakes and breakfast burritos, as well as Middle Eastern-inspired dishes like shakshuka.

Overall, IHOP is a beloved American institution that has been serving up delicious breakfast foods for over 60 years. With its extensive menu, family-friendly atmosphere, and commitment to quality, it's no wonder that IHOP remains a popular destination for breakfast lovers of all ages.

IHOP Customer Reviews Overview

IHOP, also known as the International House of Pancakes, is a popular American restaurant chain that specializes in breakfast foods. The restaurant has been in business for over 60 years and has over 1,600 locations worldwide. IHOP is known for its extensive menu of pancakes, waffles, omelets, and other breakfast items, as well as its friendly service and affordable prices.

Overall, IHOP has received positive reviews from customers. Many customers praise the restaurant for its delicious food, generous portions, and affordable prices. The restaurant's pancakes, in particular, are a favorite among customers, with many describing them as fluffy, flavorful, and perfectly cooked.

Customers also appreciate the variety of options available on the menu, including gluten-free and vegetarian options. The restaurant's service is also highly praised, with many customers noting the friendly and attentive staff.

However, some customers have noted that the restaurant can be crowded and noisy during peak hours, and that the wait times for a table can be long. Some customers have also reported issues with the quality of their food, although these complaints are relatively rare.

Overall, IHOP is a popular and well-regarded restaurant chain that offers delicious breakfast foods at affordable prices. With its extensive menu, friendly service, and convenient locations, it's no wonder that IHOP has become a favorite among breakfast lovers across the country.

Overview of IHOP complaint handling

IHOP reviews first appeared on Complaints Board on Nov 20, 2006. The latest review Terrible service was posted on Mar 6, 2024. The latest complaint manager karen ellyson unethical behavior was resolved on Dec 02, 2019. IHOP has an average consumer rating of 1 stars from 908 reviews. IHOP has resolved 58 complaints.
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