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The 5,000-square-foot restaurant — the first of a wave of IHOPs that will re-establish the chain in the Dayton region after a decades-long absence — will seat 187and will employ about 120, according to the spokeswoman for Prestige Development Group Inc. (PDG), the company developing this region’s IHOPs. Las Cruces, New Mexico-based PDG is a nationwide developer specializing in restaurant, retail, and medical properties.
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.
The Dayton area had multiple IHOP locations in the 1970s and ’80s, 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.
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