Pancakes Are Back! How Did We Start It?

The flyer for our first pancake night of the Fall 2023 semester

For those of you who knew me from last semester or prior, you'd know that in Spring of 2023 my fraternity, Phi Mu Delta, began doing this new event called PMD Pancake Night. This was a brand-new event that we created to reach out to the greater Ohio Northern University community and provide a service that was needed, late night food on weekends. And provide we did.

This event took considerable planning to set up for the first time. We had never done an event of this scale before so we had to consider numerous details. We researched griddles to use, batter to use compared to cost, how much syrup we needed and more. But by the time we were done we had a well thought out plan capable of feeding hundreds of hungry college students on a Saturday. 

Our first pancake night was on February 18, 2023. Going into that night we had no idea the turn out we would generate. Would it be 20 people including members? Would it be 50 people? To our surprise, we brought in over 100 people that night and served every single one some sweet sweet hot pancakes. It made us so happy to see a chance we took pay off in such a big way. 

We continued to do one pancake night about every month for the spring semester. Each time around we brought in 100 or more people to eat our pancakes and spend time with the brotherhood. And each time we gained progressively more notoriety on campus for our cooking and hospitality. Our fraternity was scantily known before this event for anything in particular, but this event put us on the campus map.

Now, starting early on we already hosted our first pancake night of the new semester called "PMD Pancake Night: The Return" which brought in a whole new crowd of students to meet us and our cooking. We hope to continue this trend with providing Saturday night pancakes to the campus for years to come.