A buddy of mine was craving pancakes for dinner the other night (9/22/09) and asked if I wanted to go…I immediately thought “New Bathroom!” and agreed (I must be getting old or too into this Bathroom Goodies thing…). He ended up getting the New York Cheesecake pancakes (they have little bits of cheesecake cooked in, which must be terrible health-wise but sure taste good—I’d had em before). After much deliberation between the slab o’ ham and mini blueberry pancakes, I settled on the pancakes. I like ham, but restaurant ham tends to be overly fatty (I’m not a health nut…that’s probably pretty obvious by now…but I’ve never liked eating fat or gristle…yuck). Ham and filet…gotta be careful where you get ‘em. Pork chops, too.

So…the bathroom. First, red seems to be the prevalent color (if we don’t treat white as a color…and in fact, in paint, it’s the absence of color, so…), which really surprised me at first. Blue I could understand, since there’s so much blue in IHOP’s logo, design, etc. (maybe they felt the need to balance it out, or maybe the womens’ bathroom is blue…hmm). On further consideration, it makes perfect sense…IHOP uses red to accent their logo (and, as you can see here, the mens’ restroom). Check out the fourth picture for instructions on hand-washing (they provide the instructions in both Spanish and English…but not Spanglish). They even give you pictures, just in case you don’t speak either. Look closely and you’ll see someone autographed the soap dispenser…BRILLIANT! The fifth and final picture shows what I think are light switches (maybe key-controlled?). If anyone knows how these work, please share! Three-and-a-half rolls for a clean well-designed bathroom (especially with the red accent reflecting the logo), crazy light switches, and an autographed soap dispenser.

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