Dine Brands’ latest strategy goes beyond menu revamps, restaurant redesigns, and social media campaigns, according to its CEO, John Peyton.
Instead, the company is focused on strategically combining its morning-focused brand, IHOP, with its evening-centric one, Applebee’s. The goal is to create a dual-branded model that allows it to capture and serve customers throughout every daypart – breakfast, lunch, dinner, and late night – in a way that, as Peyton puts it, “no other restaurant company can.”
By merging Applebee’s and IHOP under one roof, Peyton told FOX Business that it had created a more profitable dual-branded model, which it now plans to expand nationwide.
The company first launched the concept overseas and already has 20 locations open across the Middle East, Mexico, and Cana