Answer the following question: Information: - International House of Pancakes , usually known as IHOP ( / ahp / ) is a United States - based multinational pancake house / fast casual family restaurant chain that specializes in breakfast foods . It is owned by DineEquity , with 99 % of the restaurants run by independent franchisees . While IHOP 's focus is on breakfast foods such as pancakes , French toast , and omelettes , it also offers a menu of lunch and dinner items . The company has 1,650 locations in the United States and Canada . In August 2012 , it opened its first franchise in Dubai as part of a major expansion into the Middle East restaurant market . A second IHOP restaurant in the Middle East opened in Kuwait in February 2013 . - Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Its estimated 2014 population was 200,167, making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and the 23rd-largest city in California. It is located about 8 miles (13km) north of downtown Los Angeles. - DineEquity, Inc., formerly known as IHOP Corporation, is an American company that both franchises and operates IHOP (International House of Pancakes) and Applebee's restaurants. The company is headquartered in Glendale, California, and was founded in 1976 as IHOP until after it acquired Applebee's when it changed its corporate identity. International, Inc announced on July 16, 2007 that it intended to acquire the bar-and-grill chain Applebee's International, Inc. in an all-cash transaction that was valued at approximately US$2.1 billion. Under the deal, IHOP paid would pay $25.50 per share for Applebee's. IHOP stated it would franchise most of Applebee's 500 company-owned stores. In 2015, Applebee's had 2,033 restaurants overall worldwide, all operated by franchisees. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'headquarters location' with the subject 'ihop'. Choices: - glendale - los angeles county - north america
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glendale