STACKED Pancake House Eyes Summer 2017 Opening in Crestwood

CRESTWOOD, IL -- After five successful years in Oak Lawn, the popular STACKED Pancake House is expanding to Crestwood. The owner hopes to be open in a brand new building this coming summer.

Since STACKED opened in 2011 at 5273 W. 95th St. in Oak Lawn, the restaurant has become one of the most popular breakfast-and-lunch places in the south suburbs.

“We’ve been courted by a lot of places to bring our brand and our concept to those communities by it wasn’t always a good fit,” the restaurant's owner Tom Demacopoulos said. “Crestwood is a great hardworking community.”

The Crestwood location will be built on the site of the former funeral-home-turned-steakhouse House of Hughes at 143rd Street and Cicero Avenue. The site is being redeveloped by Matt Ebert, president and CEO of Crash Champions Collision Repair Centers.

Ebert, who is opening a new collision center on the property, asked Demacopoulos if he would consider bringing STACKED to Crestwood.

“There is a big need for a restaurant like ours in Crestwood,” Demacopoulos added.

Plans for the Crestwood STACKED call for a new, 5,000-square-foot building that seats 95. The Oak Lawn location only seats 75.

“We’ve been working for two and a half years to get Tom to open here,” Mayor Lou Presta said. “There are no breakfast and lunch places in Crestwood. Now we have one.”

Demacopoulos said he would like to turn the STACKED brand and concept into a franchise opportunity, with plans to bring his son Dino, a hospitality major at DePaul University, into the family business.

“We do have inquiries from franchisers,” Demacopoulos said. “The sky’s the limit.”

Demacopoulos said it would take four or five months to to finish the new building. He anticipates opening in Crestwood sometime over the summer.

The restaurant would have the same hours as the Oak Lawn location, 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

Cover photo: Tom Demacopoulos, owner of STACKED Pancake House in Oak Lawn.