{"id":17376,"date":"2020-07-02T00:24:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T04:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=17376"},"modified":"2021-06-07T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T02:19:32","slug":"international-house-of-pancakes-5571-sunset-boulevard-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=17376","title":{"rendered":"International House Of Pancakes, 5571 Sunset Boulevard: March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640554.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640554_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640554_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640554_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640555.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640555_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640555_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640555_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640556.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640556_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640556_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640556_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640557.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640557_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640557_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640557_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640559.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640559_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640559_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640559_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640560.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640560_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640560_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640560_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640561.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640561_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640561_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640561_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640562.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640562_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640562_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640562_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640563.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640563_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640563_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640563_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640564.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640564_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640564_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640564_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640565.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640565_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640565_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640565_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640566.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640566_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640566_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640566_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640567.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640567_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640567_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640567_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640568.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640568_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640568_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640568_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640569.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/07\/p1640569_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1640569_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1640569_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coladaily.com\/business\/ihop-permanently-closes-downtown-columbia-lexington-locations\/article_4664ff1c-aa66-11ea-a726-e34bf58371df.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share\">ColaDaily<\/a>, corporate is reluctant to declare this location gone for good, but everybody else agrees that it is another permanent casualty of the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> crisis.<\/p>\n<p>I believe I have only eaten at this <i>IHOP<\/i> once.  As I mentioned in my closing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=17325\">Assembly Street location<\/a>, I started having constant issues at the downtown store after the rebuild, so one late night I drove out to Lexington instead.  I found it a much more pleasant experience, but the distance involved meant I did not do it again.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Heath)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 7 June 2021<\/b> -- As mentioned, this place is somewhat unexpectedly open again under new ownership:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710014_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1710014_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1710014_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710042.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710042_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1710042_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1710042_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/5571+Sunset+Blvd,+Lexington,+SC+29072\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ColaDaily, corporate is reluctant to declare this location gone for good, but everybody else agrees that it is another permanent casualty of the COVID-19 crisis. I believe I have only eaten at this IHOP once. As I mentioned in my closing for the Assembly Street location, I started having constant issues at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[3037,3005,389,1125,3,374,356],"class_list":["post-17376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-5571-sunset-boulevard","tag-covid-19","tag-lexington","tag-pancakes","tag-restaurants","tag-sunset-boulevard","tag-us-378"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}