Hawaii’s first Applebee’s restaurant will convert to an IHOP


Hawaii’s first Applebee’s restaurant will close on Sunday night and undergo six weeks of renovations before being rebranded and reopen as an IHOP restaurant.

The Ewa Beach Applebee’s, which opened in October 2016 in the Foodland-anchored Ewa Town Center on the corner of Fort Weaver and Geiger roads, will close at 10 p.m. on Sunday, and reopen in mid June, Vince Espino, president of Union MAK Corp., the master franchisee for Applebee’s and IHOP in Hawaii, told Pacific Business News.

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