Nick Panos Buys a Big Boy

and is opening a pancake house

by Tony McReynolds

posted 1/13/2010

When it comes to pancakes, some people think globally, as in the International House of. Nick Panos thinks locally, as in Nick's Original Pancake House, which was on schedule to open in the former Lohr Road Big Boy in mid-December. "It's not corporate," he says of his new restaurant. "It's locals running it hands on."

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