Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Breaking: IHOP sign going up on East 14th Street


Between Second Avenue and Third Avenue aka — Pancake Place.

Previously.

[Photo via Jennifer at Xoom]
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10 comments:

  1. Marty WombacherAugust 24, 2011 at 1:09 PM

    Now that's an offensive sign! I'm already imagining the crowd in IHOP on their iPhones staring at iPads and listening to their iPods. I-yi-yi!

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  2. Lux LivingAugust 24, 2011 at 1:38 PM

    I already feel bad for the waitresses of this forthcoming frat hole. If Lisa Ling wants to see real exploited and abused women, put down the sexy Taiwanese babies for a minute and visit an IHOP, any IHOP.

    The waitresses will make $3 an hour on the books and their tips will consists of a few dimes left by the college kids who will hog their tables and torment them into the wee hours of the night trying to chew away the forthcoming hangover.

    IHOP is slave labor.

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  3. Ken MacAugust 24, 2011 at 5:02 PM

    so this is a bad thing?

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  4. EV GrieveAugust 24, 2011 at 5:05 PM

    Hi Ken.

    Depends on who you ask!

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  5. AnonymousAugust 24, 2011 at 5:19 PM

    I grew up eating their pancakes and have to admit I am excited to have one in the neighborhood. I am happy for anything that isn't a bar.

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  6. CallAugust 24, 2011 at 7:09 PM

    It's bad if you live in the building, especially the first few floors above it. The smell of grease and bacon all day and night in every corner and fabric of your home is nightmarish.

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  7. AnonymousAugust 24, 2011 at 7:57 PM

    well, only if you live in a dirty broken old tenement. modern apartment buildings have duct work to convey fumes and smells up to the roof.

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  8. KurtAugust 24, 2011 at 9:27 PM

    @Lux Living - How is what you described any different from any other server job in this neighborhood?

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  9. ShawnAugust 24, 2011 at 11:15 PM

    There goes HopStop's NYC SEO right out the window...

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  10. LuceAugust 25, 2011 at 3:52 PM

    The venting equipment IS on a roof, but the roof is the second floor of the building. The whole back section of several buildings is doomed to get fumes and noise. Nobody is happy about this who faces the back.

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