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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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