# IHOP to IHOB **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539 "2018-06-06T14:19:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jim\_Peebles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Jim\_Peebles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_Peebles)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/21 "2018-06-06T17:56:55Z")
I thought all along it was a publicity stunt to get free advertising when it is discussed on tv/radio shows and social media/life. But I just got the feeling that they are never going to go through with the name change. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/22 "2018-06-06T18:05:22Z")
But will they still give you pancakes with _everything_? Once I went in just to use the restroom, and someone handed me a plate of pancakes. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_Peebles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Jim\_Peebles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_Peebles)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/23 "2018-06-06T18:09:40Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > But will they still give you pancakes with _everything_? Once I went in just to use the restroom, and someone handed me a plate of pancakes. That was an overtired employee working another job at Starbucks. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/24 "2018-06-06T18:20:08Z")
The Starbucks in the restroom? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/25 "2018-06-06T19:03:12Z")
Okay with me if they change it. IHOP sounds like a rabbit made by Apple. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/26 "2018-06-06T19:20:29Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Do branding name changes EVER help? First thing I thought of when I saw this was the attempted renaming of Radio Shack to “The Shack” some years back. It sounded like some square dudes in a boardroom said “we need a name that’s hip, let’s try ‘The Shack’” > [@kunilou](#): > > It would have helped [Sambo’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo%27s), if anything could. Unfortunate name, straight from the pages of the “niggardly” book, it was made from the founders’ names. The one in my home town _was_ rebranded, in fact–it was called “The Jolly Tiger,” and I have fond memories of that place from when I was a child. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_Peebles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Jim\_Peebles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_Peebles)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/27 "2018-06-06T19:39:50Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Okay with me if they change it. IHOP sounds like a rabbit made by Apple. Yeah, drop the I because of Apple. HOP! That sounds a million times better than anything above. (Hey IHOP: I will let you use it for half what you payed your marketing team that came up with IHOB.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/28 "2018-06-06T19:50:17Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > KFC? Everyone knows they were forced to change their name because the genetically modified foul they cook could no longer be called “chickens”. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_Peebles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Jim\_Peebles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_Peebles)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/29 "2018-06-06T19:54:05Z")
> [@Jim\_Peebles](#): > > Yeah, drop the I because of Apple. HOP! That sounds a million times better than anything above. (Hey IHOP: I will let you use it for half what you payed your marketing team that came up with IHOB.) New slogan: hop on over to HOP! Instead of flipping the p to a b, we flipped the i to a !. Heck we added a !, and now the i is the other side of the “international” i !. Again, IHOP, you can use all of this for half what you payed your IHOB marketing team. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/30 "2018-06-06T20:31:00Z")
IHOB sounds and looks weird but then again I never thought I would get used to Boston Chicken becoming Boston Market. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/31 "2018-06-07T15:07:14Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > IHOB sounds and looks weird but then again I never thought I would get used to Boston Chicken becoming Boston Market. Or MasterCharge becoming MasterCard. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/32 "2018-06-07T15:17:00Z")
Int’l House of Bankruptcy? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/33 "2018-06-07T16:02:17Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Next door to the brew pub called Senators’ Most Excellent Grog Made in America. [SMEGMA](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/smegma?s=ts)? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/34 "2018-06-07T16:18:35Z")
Crap, now we can’t tell the joke anymore about IHOP being the place where one-legged waitresses work. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/35 "2018-06-07T16:22:25Z")
> [@Jim\_Peebles](#): > > New slogan: hop on over to HOP! Instead of flipping the p to a b, we flipped the i to a !. Heck we added a !, and now the i is the other side of the “international” i !. Again, IHOP, you can use all of this for half what you payed your IHOB marketing team. Yes definately get rid of the I. Who wants all those socialist international pancakes? They donothing but add to our trade deficit. There should be tariffs on on all pancakes except the good old American flapjacks god intended. MAGA! ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/36 "2018-06-07T16:35:56Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Yes definately get rid of the I. Who wants all those socialist international pancakes? They donothing but add to our trade deficit. There should be tariffs on on all pancakes except the good old American flapjacks god intended. MAGA! There’s an old Dennis Miller routine, before he went all hard right, that goes: ‘The International House of Pancakes? What makes this International? As if I’m going to be strolling along the Champs Elysees and eat this shit!’ ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/37 "2018-06-07T16:40:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [This news article about the viral campaign](https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/ihop-tweet-hints-at-changing-name-to-ihob-starting-june-11/ar-AAygQA8?OCID=ansmsnnews11) says that the change is not to “IHOB” but to “IHOb”, and I think the clue concerns that last “P” being inverted to a “b”. That’s not inversion, it’s retrograde inversion. Doesn’t anybody study Schoenberg properly these days? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/38 "2018-06-07T16:46:06Z")
The story I read (and sadly can’t find the link for) is that IHOP is introducing a new line of steakburgers, so for a brief period of time, they’ll be running a campaign calling themselves the\* International House of Burgers\*. They’re trying to drum up more evening business. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/39 "2018-06-07T16:53:52Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Seriously?? Next, you’ll be telling me that Taco Bell has other food besides tacos. > > And that Red Lobster has other food besides lobster. > > And Olive Garden has food besides olives. > > And Applebee’s has food besides apples. > > And Hooters has food. You missed the punchline. It should have been “And Hooters has food besides milk.” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539/40 "2018-06-07T18:06:02Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Do branding name changes EVER help? Well, expect Coke to make oodles more $$$ by changing Coke Zero to Coke Zero Calories, because people are apparently too goddamn stupid to make the connection that simply naming it “Zero” means it’s a diet drink. Likewise, IHOP thinks its clientele are such morons, no amount of advertising will make them aware of IHOP’s varied breakfast offerings. “Oh no, I won’t go there because I don’t really like pancakes.” :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ihop-to-ihob/815539.md?page=3)