. >> why did you choose ihop? >> growing up, my dad, brother and i were partners we loved ihop.hoice for me because, you know, grew up loving their pancakes. who doesn't love ihop pancakes, they're the best pancakes in the world? even though as i did my due diligence, number one in family dining f you get in the restaurant industry and align yourself with someone, why not align yourself with the best, in business for 50 years, when you hang their sign ups instant credibility and name recognition? melissa: brandon, is it different from a former professional player when you open a franchise? when we say on the, have to be 3:00 in the morning when the pipe bursts to deal with the problem. i still, hard for me to imagine you guys doing that, necessarily. you're celebrities. you're athletes. are you, are you the nays of it or are you, you knee, the guy with the wrench down there dealing with your franchise? >> i'm hands-on and, i do, i mean i know what you're saying. people ask me that all the time. i'm not a celebrity by any means but, you know, i i haven't had to answer a phone cal

ihop! that's just cruel. (chuckling): actually, it's kind of funny.o hop. i hop. (laughing) tipping your waitress takes on a whole new meaning. (laughing) it's not that funny. i know. then why are you laughing so much? i don't know. dad, something's wrong with uncle charlie. what's going on? (laughing): hey, jake, tell your dad how one-legged girls work at ihop. oh, no. i gave away the joke. i'm so sorry, jake. (voice breaking): i've ruined everything. is he okay? he's fine. his feelings are coming to the surface. oh, like when mom gets pms. well, kind of. hang on, uncle charlie. i'll get you some chocolate. ♪ men. what's he making out there? a lanyard. he's got a lot of free time now, so i gave him one of jake's old hobby kits. you know, so he'd have something to do. i'm surprised he's not making a vagina out of macaroni and bottle caps. over, loop, around. 'round the block and then downtown. (harmonica playing blues) over, over. loop, around. 'round the block, and then... yo, dude, some of us are trying to do crafts here! tyler: what?! can you lay o

it's not something you want to eat, but you got to use your imagination with this, like i'm at ihop oromething. [ laughs ] o'charley's or something. you know, you got to make the best of the crap. mind over matter. you know what i'm talking? mind over everything. >> narrator: soon after jackson's segregation time is complete, he will leave the jail altogether and serve the rest of his sentence in a home-incarceration program, where he will be back with the woman he loves. >> you got somebody as beautiful as her, it's like finding a diamond for the first time in your life. and i finally found my diamond. all the other ones was decoys, preparing me for the real thing, you know? so when you finally get somebody you really love, you got to take care of that person. >> while jackson feels lucky in love, brian voltz found himself locked up over it. though he denies harming the mother of his 2-year-old son, he is nearing the end of a 6-month sentence for domestic abuse. >> we did have an argument. we did have a dispute. but it was never to the degree that it was made out to be. >> narrator: d

lombard street had denies, it had ihop, blockbuster, radio shack, it's not foreign to the idea of formula retail, but in this particular case, there's so much outcry from neighbors who not just live there but work there who are opposed to this, it comes to my attention and it's difficult to make this a no-brainer and approve this particular cu, at this time, i think it's important that the economy's doing well in san francisco but it's important for me to sort of defend san francisco small business at the moment, i'll sort of put this out to audience that's watching this as an opportunity, if you don't like formula retail, step up and open some businesses, fill these stops before somebody else does, be competitive, mr. levy is an excellent businessman, he competed to be where he is now and i applaud him for that, and all of us have the opportunity to do the same thing, i encourage people to step up and follow his business model, so much so that he's almost unwelcomed in san francisco, i don't know if you spin that off into a compliment but there is a compliment there, case by case, addres

i mean -- >> oh, wow. >> when you're at ihop. >> here all week, folks. >> at ihop, stay away from thatalories. >> that's a big deal. >> if you don't do it, you have to do the animal flow for 2 1/2 hours. >> oh, man. >> your choice. >> there you go. i want to say, this is important to know. we reached out to all three restaurants. they said they provide many different options for customers to make their own healthy choices. that's why we have dave to help us. >>> and sam, who provides the commentary and the weather. >> thank you. with the philadelphia police department, who may or may not be serving a warrant on me right now. i'm not exactly sure. is that -- tell me what this is. >> we're actively hiring police officers. >> if you want a job at the philly p.d. you come by almost every year now. thanks for coming by. we appreciate it. keeps me out of parking tickets. rarely do i get pulled over in philly because of this bit right now. let's look at the boards. lara's like, that is so wrong, sam. casa grande, arizona. this is the season to get rain. sometimes the rain will get picked up w

to see some of that on coming in from the golden gate bridge, the walgreens and the gas station and ihop and not very much over there but it is sort of sets the stage on what we are. and if we are going to be or if this legislation was put in to make us a unique city to it preserve the small business, i think that we have look at things like the target store downtown being put in. or the one on masonic and look at it as a broad city, the impact on how it does in the whole .

to see some of that on coming in from the golden gate bridge, the walgreens and the gas station and ihop and not very much over there but it is sort of sets the stage on what we are. and if we are going to be or if this legislation was put in to make us a unique city to it preserve the small business, i think that we have look at things like the target store downtown being put in. or the one on masonic and look at it as a broad city, the impact on how it does in the whole city. one thing to think about. and the other thing that i don't think was addressed was, they had two different formula use and things that came up in the last year or two, and one was sherm an williams store that came in on polk street and another one was orchard supply that wanted to come in on howard street or one of those streets and i forgot which one. and in both cases, the way that the planning department came up with how many other formula stores were around it or how many other similar stores, there was not

early that morning, 27-year-old chester jackson was shot and killed outside a local ihop restaurant.s later, his family and friends have gathered near the scene to hold an impromptu memorial. john and rebecca are on their way to the restaurant to report on the story. >> it turns out one of our assignment editors had some relationships with people who knew chester jackson. so i called her and said what's going on? what's the emotional temperature out there? what can i expect? and she says, well, i've talked to some of the people out there. they know you're coming. they're willing to talk to you. they have a picture of him. and i said who do i talk to? she says anybody. >> rebecca and john arrive at the scene and walk toward the memorial, but they are warned by other news crews that the mood of the crowd of mourners is tense. >> someone had mentioned that it was quite dangerous over there, but we didn't really think that because we had somebody who had told us we were able to speak with these people. somebody from our station who knew the victim told us they knew we were coming. >> und

imagine your average server in an ihop in texas earning $2.13 an hour, graveyard shift, no tips. the company's supposed to make up the difference between 2:13 and $7.25. but time and time again, that doesn't happen. and when a slow night happens, and you don't earn anything, or very little in tips, you often can't pay the rent. and i guarantee you in every restaurant in america there's at least one person who's on the verge of homelessness or being evicted or going through some kind of instability. it's an incredible irony that the people that who put food on our tables use food stamps at twice the rate of the rest of the us workforce. meaning that the people who put food on our tables can't afford to put food on their own families' tables. the other key issue that we find that workers face is the lack of paid sick days and healthcare benefits. two-thirds of all workers report cooking, preparing, and serving food when they're ill, with the flu or other sicknesses. and with a wage as little as $2.13, so reliant on tips for their wages, these workers simply cannot afford to take a