IHOP confirms 200-seat Winnipeg restaurant

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A popular U.S.-based restaurant chain — International House of Pancakes (IHOP) — has confirmed it will open its first Winnipeg outlet next year in the Seasons development in southwest Winnipeg.

John Sikking, a restaurant operator with IHOP, said the new 5,500-square-foot outlet is scheduled to open late next August in the nearly one-million-square-foot retail/office/hotel/residential development now under construction across the street from the IKEA store, at the corner of Kenaston Boulevard and Sterling Lyon Parkway.

Sikking said in a written statement the new outlet will seat nearly 200 people, and will have a staff of about 100.

“IHOP is very excited to be opening in Winnipeg! We have been looking for a site for nine months…,” he said. “We are looking to open more locations in Winnipeg in the future.”

Sikking was commenting after local media reported on Friday that an IHOP Restaurant was included in the latest site plan for Seasons, which is being co-developed by Regina-based Harvard Developments Inc. and Forster Projects Inc.

Other tenants announced so far include the city’s first premium fashion outlet mall (the $200-million Outlet Collection Winnipeg), a four-star, 127-room hotel (the Hilton Garden Inn Winnipeg South), a Porsche Centre Winnipeg dealership, an Audi Winnipeg dealership, a 400-unit apartment complex, an assisted-living seniors’ complex and a Good Earth Coffeehouse. The outlet mall and the Audi Winnipeg dealership are scheduled to open next spring, and the hotel is expected to open next summer.

The first IHOP outlet opened in California in 1958. Since then, it has grown to more than 1,700 restaurants in nine countries, including 24 outlets in three Canadian provinces — British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. The company is part of DineEquity, which also operates Applebee’s restaurants.