IHOP is a global restaurant brand with about 1,800 outlets worldwide. It debuted in 1958 in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Toluca Lake, between Burbank and Studio City. The name IHOP was adopted in the 1970s, when the chain was previously known as the International House of Pancakes. The founders were brothers Al Lapin Jr. and Jerry Lapin, who had earlier built a coffee-cart business called Coffee Time. Coffee Time delivered coffee to offices and aimed to improve workplace breaks by encouraging short social pauses. A 1956 report cited the Lapins arguing that sending workers out for coffee could cost employers more than providing coffee service on site.
"IHOP is a global brand with 1,800 outlets worldwide. It debuted in 1958 in the posh San Fernando Valley Toluca Lake neighborhood that sits between Burbank and Studio City. IHOP didn't adopt its acronym until the 1970s and was known instead as the International House of Pancakes, a title that made way more sense with the original menu."
"IHOP's founders were two brothers, Al Lapin Jr. and Jerry Lapin. However, the International House of Pancakes wasn't the brothers' first foray into the restaurant industry. The pair actually revolutionized the way office employees took their coffee breaks with a fleet of coffee carts that offered coffee delivery to businesses around Los Angeles."
"Coffee Time jumped on the bandwagon of the trend popular at the time: Coffee catering, or bringing coffee directly to offices. For intrepid entrepreneurs, this was a great opportunity. In a 1956 article in "Time" magazine, the Lapins are cited as touting Coffee Time as a way for employers to save big bucks."
""If 25 workers each take an extra 15 minutes a day to go out for coffee, argue the Lapins, they may cost their employer more than $100 a week v. Coffee Time's $21.20 weekly charge for serving coffee on the job," the article states."
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