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Mon, Sep 15, 2008

IHOP

Posted at 10:04 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

There are a number of restaurants in the shopping area around Costco and my local Whole Foods. One of them was an IHOP for several years after it was first built. Then it was empty for a while.

Then it was Mama's Cafe for at least a few years. It is right next to the the main road that goes through the shopping area and leads to my house in one direction and to the main road and highway in the other, so I drove past it many times. Every time I drove past, I wondered if the proverbial advice to "never eat at a place called Mom's" applies to a place called Mama's Cafe.

I suspect it does, or lots of other people had the same concern: recently, the building has been empty again.

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that it is, once again, open as an IHOP. Now I'm wondering why they think it will do any better than the previous incarnation. I haven't eaten at an IHOP in years, and with my new dietary restrictions I'm not likely to ever do so again, so I won't be joining their clientele.

It's actually a fairly boring IHOP: the architecture was required to blend in with the rest of the shopping center. For years there was an IHOP in Boulder with a tall, A-Frame shape and a bright turquoise roof. The sail-plane pilots taking advantage of the updrafts along the front range used to use it as a landmark because it was visible from a long way away.

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