Nate Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Ugh! I have never liked Ihop. **Not much cachet**. I have a very low opinion of it.

saf Says:

April 26th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
**Oh vile.**

“lack of urban identity” What does this even mean?
Times Square is full of chain stores…

I just wanted to let all the readers know that IHOP is being asked to begin a phase-out period of battery cage eggs with an introduction of cage-free eggs. Many of their competitors have been able to do it (Burger King, Denny’s, Brueggers, Quizno’s, Wolfgang Puck’s restaurants, Ben and Jerry’s, Hardees, four-hundred universities (the list goes on)). So the question becomes, “why can’t IHOP?”

Consumers are not requesting that much from them, honestly. These are just basic humane standards of care. Cage-free systems offer hens a higher level of animal welfare than do battery cage systems. Making these transitions over time are very reasonable steps in the humane direction.

Unlike battery hens, cage-free hens are able to walk, spread their wings and lay their eggs in nests. It is also extremely practical to still produce the same amount of eggs as would be produced in battery cage systems. Most importantly to the American population, the sanitary conditions are greatly improved in a cage-free system. Alarms should be raised over the severe food safety concerns involved with IHOP’s egg production. In the video of IHOP’s primary supplier, Michael Foods, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4YZt9zFMnY), one can see dying and decomposed chickens laying on the eggs.

Evidence shows there is more Salmonella risk in caged flocks compared to cage-free flocks. In fact, factory farming is considered the reason Salmonella emerged as such a major egg pathogen in the first place.

According to the CDC, eggs now infect 50,000-110,000 Americans every year. Data shows that operations which cram thousands of hens into tiny cages are not surprisingly up to 20 times more likely than cage-free facilities to harbor Salmonella infection.

Please call IHOP at 1-866-444-5144 and politely ask them to begin the phase-out of battery-cage eggs.
Thank you for your time.
-Emily J. Spivak

I don’t really care to refute 40 different non-sequitors that they threw out, but anon 4/28 might be the biggest food snob ever. Michel Richard has said DC is a very good food city, so I’ll take that opinion over yours. Of course we arent New York, no one is. But give this city some credit. Perhaps you just don’t like anything?!?

Quite simply it’s because none of the cities you mention had MLK riots like we did in 1968. The riots shut down all local businesses for 10 years, roughly. We are closer to Detroit, South Central/Watts, Newark, etc in that regard.

I was at a meeting of tech entrepreneurs around 2000 when I realized that three of the guys had the same story- they saw their grandparents run a business on 14th st that got burned down and promised themselves they’d start their own business.

What would be different if all the small local businesses weren’t destroyed withing 4 days in 1968? Well, everything.