Nothing beats Saint Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast.
Since when have restaurants cared about what’s healthy or not?
So if you’re stuffing yourself right before Lent (begins March 1 this year), you’ll have to pay full freight. 
I ate 16 this morning. Everybody was gaping at me.
They’re so nice and fluffy brown…
Obligatory Monty Python Mister Creosote reference here ---- insert your favorite.
Some people take All You Can Eat as more of a challenge than an offer; I remember when a group of friends hit a Chinese buffet and one guy did plates until he broke out into sweats and looked on the edge of losing it. But there are enough people who don’t abuse it that the joints make money. And in the ELCA Lutheran Church, all you can eat pancake dinners are a staple of fund-raising and fellowship. The big ones are often Shrove Tuesday with the local Pastor doing at least some of the cooking. The inside joke is that’s where we get all the ashes from for the services the next day. 
In a row?
Hey, try not to eat any more pancakes on your way through the parking lot!
While we’re on the subject of IHOP all you can eat pancakes, does anyone have any idea who is doing the voice-over on the ad? It sounds really familiar but I just can’t place it.
I wonder if you could order only one meal and share it with another person. I can only eat about 4 pancakes and be stuffed .
I had a coworker who took his girlfriend to an all-you-can-eat buffet, where they ate off the same plate, and couldn’t understand why the buffet took umbrage.
believe it or not theres a seriously set psychological formula on how an all you can eat buffet or even weekend special makes money that even takes into an account on how to physically set one up … its also why the cheapest items are in front and the moxt expensive is in the back …
As for sharing some places don’t care but its state laws that don’t like people eating off the same plate … just like you cant use the same plate twice …
To be honest, this always worries me when, say, I order the salad bar or the buffet, and my partner doesn’t (but does order something else). I’m not sharing, but sometimes I want to say, “try this pineapple!”
47
As an 18 year old at a fundraiser pancake feed, I ate 47 in one sitting. No bathroom, just a little syrup and lots of water. It became a challenge and the pancake guy was literally flipping them out to me after I hit 20. They weren’t jumbo sized by any stretch of the imagination, but the initial serving size was 3 and most people didn’t go back so they weren’t small either. My mother will vouch for me.
When I saw this commercial, I thought it was sheer genius, and that they should just do it all of the time- Make a brand around it like Little Caesar’s did with the buy one free get pizza back in the 90’s.
I am an average sized guy- 6’0, 185lbs. If I had done labor all day and was famished, I might be able to put back six IHOP-sized pancakes. I could probably stuff in a few more if I were looking at it from the “All-U-Can Eat!”, standpoint. What’s that? Possibly $1-1.50 in labor, food, and controllable costs. This is a massive profit venture that they should continue
No thanks…glucose overdose, especially with all the syrup on top.
Pancakes are dirt cheap. It costs them a few cents to make a pancake for you. And how many are you going eat? Four, probably. Or if you’re really hungry, six. Or if you’re a teenage boy, 47. But that’s one teenager. His mom and aunt and kid sister and grandma and dad and uncle Chuck are only going to eat a couple each, and besides they’ve got to get back home before the game comes on.
So they really should just offer “pancakes”. You order pancakes, we make the pancakes for you, no questions asked. As long as you point to your plate and want another, we’ll slap another one down. Oh, another pancake? That cost us 12 cents to make, we’re ruined! Or maybe you pay us six bucks and there’s no way you can actually eat six bucks worth of pancake. Unless you’re that one teenager.
At least 76. In 1976 one of my classmates set a world record in the Pancake Day (sorry, IHOP, you did not invent Pancake Day, and it’s INTERnational, not just national) pancake eating contest at age 16. I don’t know whether that record still stand, but it did as of 1982.
Cite:
I believe that world record is mentioned in the episode of Review mentioned earlier in this thread.
And thus the popularity of pancake breakfast fundraisers for schools and such. Really cheap to make so more money for the charity. You’re not likely to see a bacon and eggs fundraiser.
The butter would be a cost concern but by using whipped butter (lots of air), you can cut costs there, too.
(As far as I remember those pancake breakfasts were all you can eat.)
Jason Lee