A few years ago, a Palestinian immigrant I know was running an IHOP in lower Alabama along with his Palestinian brothers. They had tried establishing their own Mediterranean cuisine restaurant, but it did not last long. Anywho, they were given an opportunity to have their own franchise somewhere in Louisiana, but I don’t know if that worked out either. I heard about some terrorist connections to an IHOP in northern Alabama during this timeframe. The last I heard, they were driving white box trucks for some delivery service.