If you know me... you know I love Free. I'll take almost any free things I can get. Yesterday was National Pancake Day presented by the good people of International House of Pancakes. The gimmick of the free pancakes is to donate $3 for every stack of cakes to Children's Miracle Network. Obviously you could give more and you weren't even forced to give anything. The beauty behind such a gimmick is that, my local IHOP was packed. And I've eaten at IHOP for dinner and for breakfast and never have I seen it that busy. It must be great news for the owners of these franchises, because these places were full of frugal minded friends, flipping out for flapjacks. (Got my alliteration in for the week.) But people weren't just eating the pancakes. I looked around the restaurant to see people eating eggs, sandwiches, burgers, salads, lots of things off the menu. What they lost on the free pancakes they probably more than doubled their regular earnings with all the extras everyone else ordered.
My lovely lady and I not only eat our delicious FREE FLAPJACKS, we also split a breakfast entree, first time I ate eggs over medium. I enjoyed it greatly and I hope IHOP keeps this on going celebration. They have raised $3,100,000 since 2006 with a goal of $5,000,000 in total for the past five years. Just another way to give back and get something for it.
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