IHOP gives away free pancakes for charity Tuesday

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.newsinc.com/single.html?WID=1&VID=24323908&freewheel=69016&sitesection=selatimes&w=600&h=400" width="600"></iframe> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><span class="byline" style="color: #292727; display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><br /></span><span class="byline" style="color: #292727; display: block; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">By Tiffany Hsu From http://www.latimes.com</span></div><div class="date" style="color: #930000; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: normal; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0px;"><span class="dateString" style="display: inline;">February 5, 2013</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: white; display: inline; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-left: 6px;">, </span><span class="timeString" style="display: inline; text-transform: lowercase;">6:00 a.m.</span></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Early bird today gets the pancakes. A stack of them. For free from <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/economy-business-finance/ihop-corporation-ORCRP007634.topic" id="ORCRP007634" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="IHOP Corporation">IHOP</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">And it's all in the name of charity. The restaurant chain is trying to encourage diners taking advantage of the complimentary meal to donate $3 million to the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, which raises funds for 170 nonprofit children’s medical centers.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The company, owned by Applebee’s parent DineEquity in Glendale, has been hosting the giveaway for eight years and has raised $10 million. <br /><br /><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The more than 1,500 IHOP restaurants will offer a complimentary tower of buttermilk pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. IHOP has dubbed Feb. 5 to be National Pancake Day -- a holiday it says is based on a tradition several centuries old of making pancakes to use up all the dairy products forbidden during Lent.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/miss-america-pageant-EVHST0000159.topic" id="EVHST0000159" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Miss America Pageant">Miss America</a> 2013 Mallory Hagan is scheduled to help flip and serve pancakes at a Hollywood IHOP location Tuesday.</div>Other food-service chains have recently begun to test business models that include do-gooding.<div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/economy-business-finance/panera-bread-company-ORCRP011770.topic" id="ORCRP011770" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Panera Bread Company">Panera</a> Foundation, an offshoot of the popular sandwich company, now has five "pay-what-you-can" restaurants in the country that operate on donations. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Within two weeks of <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/economy-business-finance/starbucks-corp.-ORCRP014398.topic" id="ORCRP014398" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Starbucks Corp.">Starbucks</a> launching its Create Jobs for USA Fund in 2011, customers had donated more than $1 million. The effort raises money for loans to small businesses to boost employment.</div></div></div>

IHOP IHOP gives away free pancakes for charity Tuesday

By Tiffany Hsu From http://www.latimes.com February 5, 2013 ,  6:00 a.m. Early bird today gets the pancakes. A stack of them. For free from...

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