Free Pancakes at IHOP February 27!

WHAT: For the 13th consecutive year, IHOP® restaurants nationwide will offer each guest one free short stack of its famous buttermilk pancakes on National Pancake Day in an effort to raise awareness and funds for charitable organizations like Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network, is the children's hospital for New York's Hudson Valley and Fairfield County, Connecticut and our local Children's Miracle Network Hospital. Since all donations to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals stay local, contributions made on National Pancake Day at area IHOP restaurants* will benefit Maria Fareri Children's Hospital and help improve the care of the region's most seriously ill and injured children. Area IHOPs have raised more than $175,000 for Maria Fareri Children's Hospital since 2013. In 2017 alone, the 11 local IHOP Restaurants raised nearly $50,000.

WHY: For every short stack of buttermilk pancakes served on National Pancake Day, IHOP guests are encouraged to make a voluntary contribution to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Donations benefit local children's hospitals like Maria Fareri Children's Hospital, which use Children's Miracle Network Hospitals funds to build new, state-of-the-art facilities like this Fluoroscopy Imaging Suite. To learn more and to donate online, please visit the hospital's Facebook event page or MariaFareriChildrens.org/npd.

WHEN: TUESDAY, February 27, 2018, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Kacey Morabito Grean from 100.7 WHUD's "Mike & Kacey in the Morning" radio show will broadcast LIVE, 7 a.m. – 9 a.m., from the Newburgh, NY IHOP location*; patient families are scheduled to visit all 11 IHOP locations throughout the day.

WHERE: IHOP^® Restaurants in the Hudson Valley and Fairfield County participating on behalf of Maria Fareri Children's Hospital include:

• Dutchess County: Poughkeepsie (Route 9)
• Orange County: Middletown (Dolson Avenue); Monroe (Larkin Drive); *Newburgh (Route 17K)
• Rockland County: West Nyack (Palisades Center); Spring Valley (Spring Valley Marketplace)
• Westchester County: Hartsdale (S. Central Avenue); Larchmont (Boston Post Road); Mohegan Lake (1745 East Main Street); Yonkers (Central Park Avenue)
• Fairfield County: Stamford (Summer Street)