PDG Chief Executive Officer Michael Dixson has said the company intends to open seven locations in the Dayton-Springfield area over the next few years, starting with the Beavercreek location. Dixson said this week he was pursuing sites but had no announcements of precise locations.
The minutes of a Trotwood Community Improvement Corporation meeting held in March show that a site near a vacant Target store in Trotwood was under consideration for an IHOP. The tract is near the site where an IHOP restaurant operated in the 1970s and ’80s. Dixson, however, said PDG looked at a Trotwood site and “passed at this time.”
The Dayton area had multiple IHOP locations during that era, including one near Ohio 725 and Ohio 741 near the Dayton Mall and one on Shiloh Springs Road near the former Salem Mall, but those restaurants closed about 25 years ago.
Today, IHOP operates multiple franchise restaurants in the Columbus and Cincinnati markets. But the closest IHOPs to Dayton are in West Chester, Mason and Richmond, Ind.
The new Beavercreek location is still hiring “friendly, reliable, experienced servers,” PDG spokeswoman Jamila Hull said today. Interested persons should contact Julian Mendoza at (575) 649-1222.
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