Say Grace Before Pancakes

Hey everyone (all ten followers, including myself). I have been slacking tremendously with the blog posts, for that I apologize and will attempt to make it up to you with some hard-hitting, non-depressing news and maybe add a badass profile picture. But before I get too far ahead of myself let’s talk about IHOP v. IHOP, the bout for the fluffy weight title. “What?!” you may ask yourself shouldn’t it be IHOP v. Bickfords, “No!” I reply indignantly to myself because Bickfords threw out its bid for breakfast supremacy when it became a bar & grille years ago and has been dead to this blogger ever since. This story right here pertains to something other than just the most important meal of the day, this story has to do with arguably a more important food, and that is food for thought. The International House of Pancakes has filed a lawsuit against the International House of Prayer? Which do you choose pancakes or prayer, isn’t that an interesting way of starting your morning as opposed to Folgers in your cup? The International House of Prayer is located in Kansas City, Missouri and was founded in 1999 where as the IHOP with about five different flavors of syrup has been around for over 50 years and has approximately 350 locations in the United States. Now I’m no district attorney but I think it’s pretty safe to say that the House of Pancakes has this one wrapped up. It’s not even fair really, I mean not only is IHOP a million dollar company, it also displays no fear in the face of God.

The church has yet to respond to the lawsuit, however pancake IHOP spokesperson Patrick Lenow has been quoted, “We are compelled to protect the 350 small-business owners who own IHOP franchises and the IHOP good name that's been around for 52 years” and when asked why it took them so long to take action he responded, “They've expanded - and now some of the branches are serving food”. Seriously Pat, that’s the huge concern? Maybe it’s just me and someone please correct me if I’m wrong but anytime I have had food in church I didn’t pay for it, unless it was some charity bake sale and even then the food sucked.

Really, I would have much rather paid the $10.99 for a Colorado omelet. Is this the case of doing something to help the franchise or is it the House of Pancakes just being a conglomerate bully and not playing well with others? Honestly I love everything about the House of Pancakes, especially how they are open at four in the morning when I am craving a Belgian waffle but guys you should have let the House of Prayer slide on this one.