East Village IHOP Employs Bouncer To Control The Rowdy

September 21, 2011 6:23 PM

Bouncer at the IHOP in the East Village (credit: CBS 2)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Here’s a sign of the times.

The new International House of Pancakes in the East Village has hired a bouncer.

He stands guard at the “24 hour” spot on East 14th Street from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. He’s reportedly an off-duty police officer hired to keep intoxicated patrons under control.

The IHOP opened Tuesday.

Please offer your thoughts in the comments section below.

East Village IHOP Employs Bouncer To Control The Rowdy

Junnipersmippets

When I eat at Waffle House, I always find an eyelash in my butter.

ToledoCliff

When I eat at Waffle House, I always find butter in my eyelashes

MikeAT

I used to work the Sat night shift for an IHOP just for this reason. We would normally get a rush around 200 am Sunday (after the clubs closed) and occasionally they would get roudy
Van Wehrle

I like IHOP butter pecan syrup.

DOUBLE_CHINNED_PUPPETEER

I LIKE YOU.

lar mason

I like tuttles.

boom

Wow, all of you racists don’t know jack! This IHOP is in the East Village at 14th and 1st, where white hipsters rent studio apartments for more money that most of you earn. And when they get wasted on $15 drinks and several lines of cocaine they cause trouble for the honest staff just trying to make a living.

Veronica

Wow! ‘No Blacks Allowed’ at this day and time!

Maybe only the ‘good ones’ are let in…..(^;]

Freddie

Yeah, white hipsters getting rowdy and breaking things. Doesn’t surprise me at all. The only thing more common than that would be a pack of, let’s face it, BLACK kids waiting around the corner to jump the scrawny, cowardly greens. Frankly, for once, I sympathize. An urban Hipster is like a slinky: good for nothing, but brings a smile to your face when you push one down a flight of stairs.

Still, white, black, hispanic, who cares. They’re all “empowered,” the way the academics want them to be, so that their Clockwork Orange style hedonism will help make the case for ever-greater regulation at all levels of government in all areas of life.

This is the fruit that the 1960s has borne. This is what we reap. I WOULD PERSONALLY TIP THE BOUNCER A $5 NOTE FOR KEEPING THINGS CIVIL!!!

Speak plain

I’m with Freddie, thats my dog.
SamIam

WoW
the words of the prophets are written on subway halls and tenement walls.

Htos1

“Disturbance at the Heron House”.

RicardoCabeza

I would figure the bouncers there to stop the dine and dash. Although I have to wonder who the hell eats at IHOP for the “food”? That dive serves reheated garbage.
Marty

How about not letting drunks into your establishment, & serving them? My lord… I don`t understand why IHOP won`t make a stand on this.

Veronica

Same as always and everywhere. If an establishment denies service to any of these ‘youths’, Al Sharpton and twenty lawyers will show up the next day.

Allie

WE HAVE A BLACK PROBLEM!!!!!!

Veronica

Have yoiu kissed a Liberal today?

Ted Long

How is that revelant?

efo

wow I know Drudge linked this, and that brings out all the racists, but get your facts straight. this is 14th and 1st in the east village – there isn’t a black person living within a mile of there. Rather, it is white hipsters who black out on pharmaceutical drugs that they stole from their parents medicine cabinet.

Freddie

Here’s a drudge guy who hates white hipsters as much as he hates thugs, who almost always happen to be black, and almost always target whites, be they hipsters or not. Why don’t you test your smugness and pay the site a visit. See where they link to. Here’s an incentive for ya: if everything you suspect turns out to be right, you can be even MORE smug.

boom

Drudge Report: not racist, but #1with racists!

Freddie

Wow, so because some screwball out there joins in the chorus denouncing packs of thugs who look for whites to beat up, and because one of these racist screwballs visits drudge, you’re insinuating that we should stop doing that, or we’re racist?

Unfortunately, that line of thinking only works with sheep like yourself. The problem is that your objective is to convince people like me. So this argument only serves for texting your friends during the obama speech you’re not really watching.

Why don’t you take my dare….

SamIam

Do not blame them for they know not what they do.
jm

Can’t get away from the truth, Freddy. Liberal entitlement programs have steered minorities away from work and into rage driven ideology. Black youth have no responsible leadership, just Sharpton and Jackson. The ihop invasions are a symptom, not the disease.
mac

VERY WELL SAID!!!!

efo

alright gentlemen, relax. first off, i am not a democrat who believes in entitlement programs. actually, i have voted republican the last 3 presidential elections. second, i check drudge every day. i may not agree with his stances all the time, but as someone who likes to be educated in that day’s news, i understand that the news cycle begins and ends with his site.

third, i was simply pointing out that the whole ‘bouncer in an ihop in east village’ is not indicative of the problem this country is facing with thugs starting late night fights. while most of the articles he links to actually go right to the problem, this one does not. i live 2 blocks from this area. i have been to the ihop twice since it has opened. i guarantee you that this is a not a “WE HAVE A BLACK PROBLEM!!!!!!” (as our racist friend Alli so eloquently put it). rather, its a rich white kid problem.

that is the problem with you ultra right-wingers. you make very valid points, but you don’t pick and choose your battles. rather than save your ammo for a few fights here and there, you throw everything, including the kitchen sink, at anything that comes close to smelling political. the end result is you looking foolish and, for a lack of a better work, like a bunch of kooks.

franklin ben

overcooked pancakes?

zatom

question… off duty cop pulling another full time job… thinking someone sleeping on one the jobs

phil

why must you assume that people who work 2 eight hour shifts…must be sleeping on one of them? The cop likes the extra money, pure and simple…and, he is willing to WORK for it, rather than stay at home and play X box. Try it sometime.

Rick

Go to any “Third World” country and you’ll see Armed Guards at every business!
danp1

We are going toward Mexico and the third world. The “bouncer” will soon have an AK. Get your canned goods and water in stock
HansJurgen

They need to change their name to IHIP since the blacks are now their customers and want more identity as their primary customers. I haven’t been to an IHOP since they changed their name – and that’s been years – don’t miss it.
not impressed

So what? Diners in Bay Ridge have had bouncers on the weekends to deal with the drunk after-bar crowd for years. People drink, they do stupid things. It’s not the sign of a bad neighborhood, it’s just smart, proactive thinking when you know you’re going to have a lot of liquored up idiots coming through the door..

lukuj

I believe eating is a bit difference than drinking alcohol. One doesn’t expect wild, silly, or dangerous behavior from eating too many pancakes, and it is sad that people can’t control themselves at a restaurant – no matter what restaurant it is and no matter where it is.

Freddie

News flash: When you drink, you get hungry! What planet do you live on? Correction to your comment: YOU don’t expect wild, silly, or dangerous behavior from eating too many pancakes.

I take it you don’t drink…

lukuj

Newsflash! if you get hungry,either behave yourself at the restaurant or go home to eat (not driving if you have been drinking, of course). Pancakes don’t make people rowdy. NO ONE expects pancakes to elicit rowdy behavior who is in their right mind, so am I to assume you aren’t in your right mind or simply have no self-control. I do drink – a glass of wine occasionally or a margarita. I have found I don’t need alcohol to have a good time or be witty and social . I have no issues with people who drink more than I do as long as they behave acceptably and don’t endanger others in any way. Both my son and husband drink more than I do, but they do so responsibly. I hope you do too. I truly feel sorry for people who have to rely on excessive use of alcohol to have a good time. It doesn’t say much for their own confidence or for their personalities or lack thereof.

Metara5

Maybe not the sign of a bad neighborhood as much as the decline of a decent society. Many people 40 and under have grown up with the last 20 years of steadily declining behavior exhibited 24/7 on tv. I’m 54 and remember (fondly) of when people were actually kind and many even exhibited a little class. So sad what a small group of Hollywood elites along with a few other groups can do to a good society. I miss what our country used to be -when people were actually proud of it and when there was dignity in earning a living even if it wasn’t a lot…

Joe Goad

They do the same thing at the Ferguson IHOP in St. Louis, MO. They do it on Friday and Saturday nights to keep people under control, I’m an off duty officer and work there secondary occassionally

Freddie

Thank you.

HairyHerry

I’m happy that IHOP is doing this. Whatever works to keep out undesirable riff-raff, no matter what their color. Alcohol tends to be a gigantic truth serum. There are people who can’t control themselves under it and have no ****ing business drinking another drop.

I can agree that some Dennys eateries have issues. Those in the smaller towns not so ghetto tend to do much better. My experience is the larger towns generally suck at service if you’re a white guy, especially alone – except at certain truck stops where a Dennys is set up.
suibne

iT’S a black thang…..you wouldn’t understand

kilo7

oh we know….we know.lol

Bill Poje

Which sign of the times is the artcile referring to? In my life I have known of many late night eateries who have always had drunks and disorderlies to deal with. One would think this is a new activity the way this written. What a joke!

http://www.poje.biz
Attack Watch

Soon you will need bouncers everywhere and we’ll be a third world country like Jamaica who has armed security guards at gas stations albeit in a chair leaned back and half asleep http://www.attackwatch.me

Tex A. Montana

Or like Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia Zaire, etc., etc.

wow

Zaire hasn’t existed since 1997.

Roger Sterling

Why would anyone go to IHOP?

bubble boy

to get the bouncer’s autograph. . .

tubby

big deal, people have been buying fried chicken from behind bullet proof glass and iron bars in bad neighborhoods for 30+ years that i know of.

efo

wow I know Drudge linked this, and that brings out all the racists, but get your facts straight. this is 14th and 1st in the east village – there isn’t a black person living within a mile of there. Rather, it is white hipsters who black out on pharmaceutical drugs that they stole from their parents medicine cabinet.

ZeroTolerance

Shut up, efo and kiss me where I sit.
Kenny

WOW efo, guess that means that blacks aren’t allowed in that neighborhood? I highly doubt that’s the case. I’m not saying that blacks are the problem, especially since all indications are that this area is mostly white. But to say that it can’t possibly be black is assinine. Now grab your ears and pull real hard…POP!! There you go, feel better now?

efo

i never said they are not allowed in the neighborhood.

a beer in this area costs $10 minimum. a well liquor is costing you $14. this ihop as upped their prices to correlate with the bar prices. (insert Zero Tolerance’s comment here about black people not paying)

all i am pointing out is this area is not a black area. whether living there or socializing. rather, its one of the most expensive parts of the city to do either.

that is the problem with you ultra right-wingers. you make very valid points, but you don’t pick and choose your battles. rather than save your ammo for a few fights here and there, you throw everything, including the kitchen sink, at anything that comes close to smelling political.here – drudge linked it because it smelled political. in the end, it wasn’t. i know that may be shocking to you because Lord Drudge would never dare mislead his readers, but trust me on this one, as someone who lives a couple blocks from 14th and 1st, you guys are just flat out wrong.

the result is you looking foolish and, for a lack of a better work, like a bunch of kooks.

Stanley

Its pathetic how certain people act in restaurants.
American

just those canadian yuts at it, again
Lee Yarbrough

Sorry Joe but just because others have to do it does not make it right. It is a sign of the times that Americans no longer respect others or take responsibility for their own actions. IHop hiring security? That is just pathetic and shows how low Americans are letting things get. It is not the leaders, it is the people that have brought us to this point.
Nick 9075

Where on E 14th street is this?? certainly not by union square, would be too ghetto & downscale for that new upscale neighborhood & shopping district
Joe McReynolds

This is standard for all sorts of 24 hour eateries, in all sorts of places… good places, bad places, wherever. It’s not a “sign of the times”… this is amazingly lazy blogging/writing.

JC

I wouldn’t say “all sorts of places”…. I daresay most Dennys’ throughout the country don’t have independent security. Either it’s a bad place, or there’s a bad clientele.

Mark

Is he really there for the intoxicated people or the “youths”?

Mark

Hes there for the “intoxicated – youths” that stumble in, are loud and rowdy while in there…just now they’ll get a few knucks on the noggin for their idiocy