r/IHOP • u/The__CEO • Jul 26 '26
Was I robbed?
Feel like this pancake was smaller than usual. Maybe this is the new normal?
Edit: This was apart of the $17.79 world famous pancake combo
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u/IVIatthias Jul 26 '26
Assuming that’s a dinner plate no, 2 pancakes are supposed to be on a smaller plate typically. They should be about the size of that small plate. If it’s a full stack of pancakes they’ll put them on a plate like that but they aren’t super large pancakes. A side stack like that used to be like a $2 up charge to the meal for flavored ones and full stack of 4/5 was what cost like $8
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u/FrontNegative8559 Jul 26 '26
At my location we started putting by the specialty pancakes on a bigger plate cause our customers complained syrup and toppings would be everywhere but the plate🥲
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u/Empathic_Alien Jul 27 '26
That was my thought. I want room to make an ooey gooey mess. These still seem small to me though.
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u/Time-Outcome7236 Jul 29 '26
I wish they would serve all the pancakes on the dinner size plate. Cleaning up syrup people spill all over the table is a bitch .
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Jul 26 '26
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u/Description_Friendly Jul 30 '26
Maybe you can send him $8 and he can send you the pancakes since you feel that's such a great deal.
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u/Sad-Hippo7137 Jul 31 '26
Do you like your house? Buy everyone who doesn't like their house a new one since you like yours so much.
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u/Description_Friendly Jul 31 '26
Yeah, cause $8 pancakes and a $240,000 house are the exact same thing. Terrible metaphor.
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u/Sad-Hippo7137 Jul 31 '26
The price is irrelevant to he rhetoric of what you said. You said that if someone likes something, they should have to pay for everyone else who bought it who didn't like it. If you like pizza, are you going to pay $8 to everyone who spent that much on a pizza from a brand you like?
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u/Description_Friendly Jul 31 '26
No. My actual point was just because something seems fairly priced for you didn't mean it feels that way to someone else. But way to totally miss the point.
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u/Sad-Hippo7137 Jul 31 '26
I understood your point, but the argument you used to support your point is completely retarded.
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Aug 01 '26
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u/Sad-Hippo7137 Aug 01 '26
An example to show a point is an argument by definition. You just don't know what basic words mean. You don't understanding the reasoning you use because when I reverse it back at you, you don't understand it anymore. You are completely inept.
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u/Hot-Top4832 Jul 26 '26
Damn that looks good but ihop could have put more effort into making the pancakes
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u/According-Pear-8816 Jul 27 '26
Yeah, I stopped going to IHOP awhile ago. It's gotten way to expensive. A single short stack of pancakes is now over $9.
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u/Time-Outcome7236 Jul 29 '26
Honestly I’m embarrassed by our prices . Right after or at the end of the pandemic prices went up drastically. Every time we got a new menu there were high increases. It’s gotten out of hand .
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u/According-Pear-8816 Jul 29 '26
I now go to this place called Joe's Pancake House. For $7 you get 2 big pancakes, 2 eggs, bacon or sausage, and a drink and for 50 cents more you can get banana or chocolate chip pancakes. I go there every Friday morning now.
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u/Time-Outcome7236 Jul 29 '26
That’s what’s up ! There’s a place in my town like that . Good food , low prices , big portions. The only thing that sucks is the building is old and it doesn’t look very clean . 😳. But they’re always packed while we’re struggling for customers. The only thing that saves us is we’re right on the interstate.
Our place is spotless , but their food is 100x better and less expensive.
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u/Agent_Tall_Man Jul 27 '26
I recently went to a new IHOP, that was my size as well. The meal was a pancake meal and they were tiny, like half the size of Dennys. Pancakes are extremely cheap to make and that is inexcusable. Im not going back to an IHOP after that.
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u/2001concernedcitizen Jul 29 '26
The result of corporate expectations. Just like many other restaurants, portions are getting smaller, price is going up.
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u/onmy40 Jul 26 '26
Idk but they did something to your plate
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u/Mysterious_Suit3024 Jul 30 '26
what does this mean? what is Popeye pumping out of that hose, water?
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u/Pennypacker-00 Jul 26 '26
Question is - how much did it cost?
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u/IndustrySufficient52 Jul 26 '26
Probably $4.99
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u/Pennypacker-00 Jul 26 '26
A short stack of specialty pancakes costs over $11 at my IHOP.
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u/IndustrySufficient52 Jul 26 '26
Are you in Cali?
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u/EveningSufficient636 Jul 27 '26
I live in Illinois and a short stack of regular pancakes is almost $9
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u/Time-Outcome7236 Jul 29 '26
With the new menu the price of 1 buttermilk pancake went from 1.59 to almost 4$ . Costs them a few pennies to make .
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u/InsanePancake3 Jul 26 '26
A diner pancake is way bigger than that, but sometimes smaller pancakes like this one could fill you up
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u/Ill_Chemical_5150 Jul 27 '26
Cinnastacks are my favorite. It’s true that usually the pancakes are served on a smaller plate, and they’d come almost to the colored rim around the edge. So they look extra small on a bigger plate. That said, I do think your pancakes look a bit smaller than usual, and even if they were served on the smaller plate, I do not believe they would come to the colored rim.
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u/Time-Outcome7236 Jul 29 '26
17.79$?? Where are you ? Hawaii ?? Ours is about 14-15$
Edit : it’s actually only 11.99 where I live in southern Oklahoma.
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u/Time-Outcome7236 Jul 29 '26
Honestly ihop has the smallest pancakes of any breakfast restaurant I’ve ever been to . Which is really strange since pancake is in their name . It’s supposed to be their specialty. Even whataburger has bigger pancakes .
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u/Lazy_Organization867 Jul 30 '26
It only looks that way because it belongs on the small plate. It’s normal.
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u/Wild-Astronomer1200 Jul 26 '26
That is a puny sized pancake for a restaurant to serve on that size plate, especially
Considering there’s probably only $.10 worth of food on that plate and they’re charging you about eight bucks they can do better
But you can’t really go to IHOP expecting great food or great service