After 2 false starts, Beavercreek IHOP opens

Local News
By Mark Fisher
Oct 12, 2015
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IHOP’s first restaurant to open in the Dayton area in nearly three decades is scheduled to open at 6 a.m. this morning, Monday Oct. 12, at 2460 N. Fairfield Road.

The restaurant, located in an outlot in front of the Target store across from the Mall at Fairfield Commons, has missed previous projected opening dates on Sept. 14 and Sept. 28. But both franchise owner Teo Regalado and Michael Dixson, CEO of the company developing this region’s IHOPs, said via email Sunday that today would indeed be opening day. They have declined to comment on the reasons for the postponements.

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The 5,000-square-foot Beavercreek restaurant seats 187, employs about 120 and represents the first of a wave of IHOPs that will re-establish the chain in the Dayton region after a decades-long absence. Plans call for opening seven locations in the Dayton-Springfield area over the next few years, starting with the Beavercreek location, Dixson has said.

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.

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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About the Author

Mark Fisher, a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University and a 1976 graduate of Beavercreek High School, is a third-generation Dayton-area resident who has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1983. He covered higher education and K-12 education accountability issues for nearly 20 years before taking over the food and dining beat in 2006.