dennys, ihop & waffle house
dennys, ihop & waffle house.
like most folks, i enjoy a nice dining experience. when it comes to sit down breakfast joints i tend to either frequent a mom & pop joint or a chain, notably the big 3: dennys, ihop or waffle house.
all three are open 24/7 and feature full menus all day.
of the three i feel that dennys seems to be my favorite. they offer more food for your buck. ihop's menu is just as expansive with menu choices as dennys..maybe even more expansive.
as far as breakfast goes, ive arrived at the conclusion that dennys serves up better eggs and ihop makes better pancakes. (hence the last letter of their acronym)
dennys pancakes arent airy enough and sometimes feel like youre chewing on rubber.
ihop tends to have more of a confectionary style to their food, esp their breakfast items such as omeletes, pancakes, french toast..something always seems to be garnished in fruit toppings or whipped cream.
waffle house has a very abbreviated menu, and annoyingly enough just about everything you order comes with a spherical hash brown patty. breakfast, lunch, dinner...doesnt matter, its coming with that hash patty.
there are no other side items to choose from. there isnt a vegetable of the day. there arent any season veggies. no buttered corn with peas. there only exists that hash brown patty and nothing else to accompany your burger or whatever you ordered. say it together with me: hash-brown-patty. ...know it, respect it, EAT IT!
but waffle house offers something dennys and ihop doesnt, which is their small, quaint dining atmosphere so you can chat up the day's news with the short order cook at the grill...hey..some folks enjoy that type of thing, thats why they have 12 barstools lined up just for that reason.
waffle house makes waffles, all types, any type. if you want a peanut butter waffle they will make that too. but no matter what you order, it comes with a rather hefty price tag considering the rather low amount of food you recieved. to say they have the largest profit margin of the three isnt too far fetched. esp, since they have the lowest overhead as well.
ihop is good and you can tell they put forth great attention to detail in their food items, but ive also put forth great attention at noticing that just about every location ive frequented seems to have an arabic propreitor. i guess thats why its called iranian house of pancakes, silly me.
just about every dennys out there seems to be located next to a la quinta. not sure if the two have a commercial partnership or if they coincidentally seem to always buy property next to each other, but thats always the way it seems to pan out.
dennys has their classic: grand slam. im not so sure why its called a "grand slam" to begin with. seems theyve latched onto the american subculture lexicon firmly by implying that its "grand". heck, just about every other geographical feature in the united states has grand labeled onto it: grand canyon, grand tetons, grand rapids, etc.
grand slam,.huh...thats about as bad as "dodge ram". i guess when you label something with a colorful adjective and a powerful noun it tends to captivate a consumer's wallet and lures them to spend. maybe i should come up with a product and call it the huge slap, or giant smack.
all it is is just 2 pancakes, 2 sausage links, 2 bacon strips, and 2 eggs. the whole meal costs less than $1 to make, which is why dennys was handing them out for free with an ad saying so during last years super bowl.
anyways. i like all 3 of them, but dennys still is my fave. whats yours?
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Originally Posted by gen70
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