The hotel’s Pancake Selfie Express truck is coming to Adams Morgan next week.

Drop everything and start thinking about that boysenberry syrup. Tomorrow is National Pancake Day, so forget your lunch appointment and break out the extra roomy jeans, because IHOP will be serving up free short stacks.

According to Stephen Bennett, the director of operations at the IHOP in Columbia Heights, March 1st is National Pancake Day and the chain’s Columbia Heights location will be offering up free shortstacks of buttermilk pancakes. (Well, I know where DCist will be publishing from that Tuesday morning.) You may be wondering: was this post just an excuse to feature staceyviera‘s Rooty Tooty pancake porn? Uh, maybe.

A crowd of approximately 100 people were hungry this morning. Hungry for pancakes. A line snaked around the entrance to the new IHOP restaurant in Columbia Heights this morning, the promise of free pancakes for those with the patience to wait out the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The long-awaited IHOP, located inside the DCUSA development in Columbia Heights, has officially opened for business. (And yes, we do believe that the easy availability of pancakes at any hour is one of the few acceptable reasons to use all caps in a tweet.)