Orland Park is splitting sales tax money brought in by two restaurants, one of which is relocating in the village with the other having opened earlier this year.
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The inducement agreements are meant to help the businesses, both focused on a breakfast-lunch menu, defray the costs of opening, although what is paid to the restaurants is based on how well they perform.
Village trustees approved agreements this week that will split sales tax revenue, for up to 10 years, to The Original Pancake House and Egg Harbor.
The Original Pancake House told customers in April it would move from its existing home, 15256 S. La Grange, to 16153 S. La Grange, the former home of Houlihan’s, which closed in late 2019.
Original Pancake House has been at its existing location more than 20 years.
“It’s wonderful to have Original Pancake House stay in Orland,” Trustee Cynthia Katsenes said before voting in favor of the agreement. “We welcome them into the newer space.”
In the sales tax sharing agreement, Original Pancake House estimates annual sales at the new location will exceed $2.5 million.
The agreement calls for the restaurant to invest at least $2 million to renovate the space inside and out, which included outdoor dining when operated by Houlihan’s.
The restaurant will receive tax revenue up to 25% of project costs, or a maximum of $500,000, over 10 years if needed.
The agreement calls for Original Pancake House to be open by Nov. 18 of this year.
Original Pancake House has four locations in Chicago along with Oak Forest and Orland.
Orland Park Egg Harbor LLC opened in late March at 14301 S. La Grange, at the southeast corner of La Grange and 143rd Street, diagonally southeast of the village’s Main Street downtown project.
Egg Harbor is in a cluster of businesses that includes McAlister’s Deli and took over what had been City Barbecue, a chain based in Ohio, which closed in April 2023 after nearly five years.
Katsenes called Egg Harbor a great restaurant addition for the village.
“A lot of people were excited when it was coming here,” she said. “It’s always real busy.”
Egg Harbor has several other Chicago-area locations, including Arlington Heights and Barrington, and a handful of restaurants in Georgia and Wisconsin, according to its website.
Egg Harbor said, in its sales tax agreement, it expects the Orland Park location to have annual sales of $2.5 million, and that the bill for renovating the space was at least $900,000.
It would get a maximum of 25% of project costs, with a cap of $225,000, according to the agreement.
The amounts paid out in both the Original Pancake House and Egg Harbor agreements has the village cutting checks only after an accounting of construction costs is presented.
No money is returned to the business until they complete necessary paperwork and the village does its own verification of costs, Village Manager George Koczwara told trustees.
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