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December 31, 1997
- "Stolen items:
Carafe-Speedway,IN
Carafe sign-Spdwy.
hot/cold face change coffee mug-Spdwy.
regular old logo and new logo coffee mugs-Spedwy.&Bloomington,IN
salt shaker (2)
Oreo desserts ad
Santa Clause ad All items from INDIANA
cover of dessert menu
inside flap of the above
Strawberry desserts card
sundae glass
milk pot
sugar boats (2)
"get rich quick" french silk pie add
Flavored Coffees ad"
- Tom Souter, Jr.
- "Mr. P.
I used to eat at the Denny's in Galveston, Texas during the early 1990s. We called it Lenny's though. Don't know which of us made that up, but we did it before I ever heard the commercials doing the same thing. I don't recall anything special about this particular location. They did do a great job on the Grand Slam though. We kept going back.
Lewisville, Texas (where I live now) has perhaps the worst service I've ever encountered at any type of food establishment. Slow, chock full of errors, and really bad cooking. What's worse is I've eaten there twice!!! What does that say about me?
By the way, we always ask when we drive by a La Quinta motel, "What does La Quinta mean in English?" Answer: "Next to Denny's""
- Mark Sullivan
- "I'm one of the best Denny's customer when I'm in USA. (Maybe they'll order double as much MOON-OVER-MY-HAMMYS when my ID-Number was checked at airport ;-))) And a few days ago I saw someone with a DENNY's T-Shirt. But the hell - I'm in Germany, we don't have any DENNY's here :-(((("
- Michael Rohde
- "Great Page...And since I work for the company it is truly interesting what the rest of the world thinks of Denny's. I have been with Denny's for 3 1/2 years and it's great. I have so much fun with my co-workers and the people."
- Jan store #151
- "You can't fit seven people in a four-top... but it's discrimination to have them wait and seat parties of four or less?????? (only if they aren't white)
A dennys with a 140 person CAPACITY gets a party of 170 young black children at 2a.m. (have you ever been to a dennys at 2a.m.???? there are only three people working on a week night!!!!) get turned away and that's discrimination????? (I'd like to see three people even try to run four full dineing rooms... but who would cook?)
A dennys in CA has parties of 5 or more pay before their food is served (after 10p.m.) BUT when the party of eight black kids asks everyone in the restraunt if THEY had to pay everyone says no... gee don't ya think they were the only people in there with more than five people???? But because they were black our lovely court system has deemed that as discrimination too.
And the secret service men???? HEY WHO THE HELL KNOWS? I WASN'T THERE. (and I didn't here the details on that one.)
But I do know a couple of things... YOU weren't there either. Nobody needs to here from ignorant uninformed people and I don't care if your skin is green.
Here's a good word of advice. I'm sure everyone has their own horror story about some visit to dennys. You want it to stop??? Teach your kids some responsibility. Like showing up for work!!! (no, you paranoid racial alarmists... this advice is for EVERYONE!!!) I can't remember a weekend at MY dennys when at least one person didn't show up for work. I just dread the day when we piss-off a party of non-whites. "
- Name Withheld by Request
- "Nice Denny's site. I never really looked around the site. I've never eaten at Denny's before. But, boy does your head in the background look cool when I scroll up and down the comments page. Try it sometime."
- Dane Bullerwell
- "Hey! I am an avid fan of Denny's! My friends and I go there about 5 times a week. It's great! We ususally "borrow" their salt and pepper shakers, silverware, and on occasions dishes. See, "borrowing" is different that stealing in the way that brown hair is different than blonde hair. We even "borrowed a chair, and its in my arage as we speak. Congrats and good luck on all of your endeavors!"
- James Cupit
- "I think your "Feedback" page (from the Denny's page) should be the "poster child" for gun control."
- Matt Dubno
- "Very, very impressed with your project... also that bus which you use to travel to all these sites? is it perchance a VW? 'cuz that would be a brilliant touch...
I'm from Southern California myself, and two years ago we began a project of our own... every winter Solstice, we spend 24 hours in a local Denny's... just to make sure that yes, the sun will return, and yes, Denny's is *still* really open for 24 hours a day... after all, they could close for a couple of minutes at 4:30am or so...
anyhow, having transplanted to Boston for college, this project is now going bi-coastal... are you aware of any Denny's in the Boston area... i hear that they don't exist within the city itself, but there's got to be one nearby..."
- Austin
- "Fascinating...but where do you get the money to spend days on end travelling to Denny's? Almost anyone from Pittsburgh will tell you to skip Denny's and hit all the Eat 'n Parks in the area. There are only about 80 of 'em, but the food is better, the service is friendlier, and the coffee absolutely kicks ass. I've only been to about half of them...but then I have to work for a living..."
- Christopher Collins
- "After the party, before denny's, who was it you were with?"
- Anonymous
- "Hey - I haven't heard from the Denny-philes in a while. What's going on? I'd sure hate to think that one of the absurdest cult pages on the web had died from lack of interest or motivation, or something (monetary and mundane reasons are understandable) In any case - if the Project lives, let me know - and put me back on the old mailing list."
- Michael D. Lynch
- "A fellow employee told me about this page, so I could check it out. I love it. I work at Denny's # 6644, in Tempe, AZ. I have also worked for 2 other stores in Tempe. This web page is awesome and I just want to tell you that I was really amused by your comments on our store, although I have no idea who Tracy is, because she is not working there anymore. So, if you want to come back and meet the newer staff we have, you are most welcome to show up at our door. Who knows? You might get cooler stuff from us. "
- Anonymous
- "i recently got hired at a dennys in spokane , WA and then last tues i found out my dad ( who i havent seen in about 20 yrs ) is dieing from cancer ,, and wants to see me,, so i decided to go and i told my boss i needed to leave and why. ive given him just over 2 weeks notice on this and what he does is cut back my hrs from 5 days to 2 days ( i told him when i got hired that i needed to buy a ingagement ring for christmas and i would just like as many people as possible to know that denny's doesnt care about the general public or its employees and so u know im still going and ill figure out someway of getting the ring"
- Anonymous
- "Had lunch about a month ago at Denny's #7043, the day before it opened in Whittier California."
- Max Nelson
- "I'm disappointed that the voyagers did not recognize the value of my favorite dish, the Moons Over My Hammy. It is excellent, and its restoration powers are not to be underestimated."
- Lucas W. Boyken
- "hey jason whats up?i'm matt jamie's bro. i like your web site, you know, we have a great dennys in ramona. come visit us on the la trip. i'll send you a map if needed. ramona isn't very big, but is got a denny's.
Jason--i'm having a rockin thanksgiving weekend here in ramona california. we really do have a groovy denny's. ithink yoou should include san diego county in your LA trek. I can also highly recommend all the denny's along I -15 in Utah, except the one just off I-15 on about 6th south...I used to go free0-bithday-meal-grubbing in my early college days! well..I've gotta go play.see ya at work, say hi to amie."
- Anonymous
- "I had no idea that the second Messiah had come until I saw your page, but what else could you be but a messenger of God Himself? I shall be your desciple from now forth.
My goal is not quite as ambitious as yours. My goal, as well as that of eight of my friends is to visit our local Denny's (there are 2) once a week, each week dressing up according to the prearranged theme of the week. We are the local Denny's club. Actually it all started on Homecoming night. We were all dressed in formal clothes riding around town in our limo, when we decided, Screw Homecoming! So we went bowling and to Denny's instead. I assure you, we were the only limo in the Denny's parking lot (imagine that).
And being that we are all the leftover drama buffs we get a little sick of the boring nightly cast parties...so well, to make a long story short, we always end up at Denny's. It's kind of become a tradition now.
One quick thing I have to add in: Try to call ahead and get the back room...the one we got had the twirly stools...I know: say no more!
One free thing you can get: Parsely. Now undoubtedly the waitress will look at you a little wierd, but say, "the green stuff and she'll understand." No extra charge!
When I was in Vancouver B.C. I was told that there were only 2 Denny's in Canada. Now, that could be pure myth, however, would it not be neat to say that you have visited every Denny's in the entire nation of Canada...and you would not even have to let on that there only happens to be two!
One last question, do you speak German? I speak some, in fact I went on an exchange deal, and I plan to go to school there, but I'm going off on a tangent, I just saw a few German words on your page, excluding "Das Bus" and so I wondered. But if you worshipped Denny's and spoke German, that would be two weird for me because that would mean....
Before parting, although I'm sure I've already bored you to tears, and for that I am most sorry, I would like to say why I love Denny's. One reason is the Superbird. At first the idea of eating something by such a name disturbed me to say the least, but after a while I realized that it makes for a great topic of conversation (man, you gotta really be bored if you talk about Superbirds!) and they were easy...so easy that I can make them at home in 5 minutes or less (a definite plus!) But of course, mine would never be as good as Denny's and I will never master the art of the seasoned fry, which just pretty much mails the dinner invitations for Superbird himself. And one last thing...although I'm talking to the master here, so why am I telling you? But anyhoo, while they may be reluctant to admit it to someone of your age (as I'm sure you are most obviously over the age of 10) Denny's does serve a Kiddie-Sundae= $.95! Please send me a quick note and say "hey I got your mail successfully" so that I can rest assured that my Denny's expertise, which if I may say so is meager compared to yours, was not shared in vain.
On a goodbye note, I hope Denny's gives you funding and uses you in commercials, they don't know what a good thing they have. And if you ever plan to visit the Portland OR/Vancouver WA area Denny's, do tell me please!"
- Adele Carpenter
- "I was wondering if i could get on your list of cool Denny's things. Also I was wondering when the site was going to be updated."
- Erin
- "Ahhhhhhh!!! Project: Denny's is SO COOL!!!!! I can't imagine anything in life being more joyous than doing the "poor-hippy-traveller" thing, and to add a mission to that would be the joy to end all joys!!!! I think I love you guys!!!"
- Katherine Tyrol
- "Dear Mr. P7A77, I would like to share my Denny's experiences with you. The following are a small sampling of the Denny's I've visited during my short 20 year career on this planet. Ironically, and maybe you can address this, there is someone working at every Denny's I've visited that looks like "Weird Al" Yankovich... Any help?
The Denny's that I've visited that are not on your list are:
Roseville, MN
Burnsville, MN
Bloomington, MN
Eden Prairie, MN
Further, I would like to pay homage to the Denny's that is no more in Superior, WI... I spent my high school years there, and when I left town they shut down suddenly. Nothing left but fond memories and a high cholesterol count... Oh well....
Good luck with the cause!"
- Anonymous
- "You guyz rule!"
- Anonymous
- "Dear Mister Pizazz: You're definitely missing out on the Denny's in Houston. There's one along the freeway (actually, on the service road to the side of the freeway) that, if approached from the north, has a sign from another building leaning such that the Denny's sign looks for all the world like Lenny's. I'll take a snapshot next time I'm in Houston... "
- Daniel Grambihler
- "Dear Mr. P7a77, You guys missed the Denny's in Sonora, California. I've worked there since they opened in October 1994. Come by and visit my friends and I. My name is Mike and if you ever make it out to Sonora, I usually work Thurs. thru Sun. evenings."
- Mike Krauss
- "I just had to compliment you on this page. My friends and I love Dennys' too. We have decided to add Denny's to our "weekend trips" scedule. This where we go to Weird Al concerts (though this is unavailable until he gets back out there!), Rocky Horror Picture Show and anything else along with way. We have been to San Luis, Arizona, Ventura, and other places. Oh by the way, I was wondering what you thought of this... you know the WAY theory? Well my friends and I frequent many 24 hour diners and have found WAY at almost all of them. So, maybe the WAY theory is a 24 hour diner theory. Yes/no? Anyway, keep up the good work. Tons of praise goes your way. Maybe my friends and I will run into you some day at our local Denny's or at a Weird Al concert! "
- Josie Lea
- "I've never eaten at Denny's. I drive past the Denny's in Kenner, La. everyday after school and wish i was lucky enough to eat there. Maybe someday.... "
- Laura
- "So my roomates and I went to Southen Utah the other day and on the way we ended up hitting 3 Denny's. So we were all joking about touring the U.S. and hitting every Denny's. We could get sponsored and be on their commercials! Oh ya and we'd be known as the Denny's Betty's and if people recognized us at a Denny's they would get a free something. This is the way that we are going to become famous. So we looked it up on the net and HELLO someone else is already doing it. But what we want to know is that Do you guys ever come to Utah? If you ever come to Cedar City or around there give us a hollar. We are very interested in getting to know these cool people that use the same brain waves as us!! "
- Angela Chatterley
- "There's not enough time in life to visit all the Denny's - & - who would want to??? I'm basing my opinion on this mornings trip to the one in the 72 hundred block of East Main St in the Mesa, Apache Junction Az area. Eight of us went out to try the skillet breakfasts. After sitting for over an hour with the waitress/waiter grudingly handing out two cups of coffee, and no food we left. There's more to life then extremely poor service."
- Lisa Horton
- "Hello P7A77 and Crew, My name is Joan B.Barner and I am a Service Coordinator for our Denny's Restaurant in Beautiful Downtown Waldorf Maryland. I would like to invite you and your crew to visit our store on the Late NIght Shift and get to know some of our local Denny's critics and restaurant residents. We have a Customer friendly attitude for the most part and enjoy our younger patrons. We treat them just like they're family,including fussing at them when needed. We also listen to problems and offer Mom's advice when it is asked for. So if you get bored--come se us!!! Just ask for Shannon or Mom and we'll make sure you're treated like the rest of our "Denny'y Crew" We'd love to have you !!!"
- Joan B.Barner
- "I was fired from Denny's for no good reason.
I was waiting tables on a Monday evening. Two customers came up to the register at almost the same time to have their checks rung up. The first one was paying with a credit card, which takes some time and freezes the register during the process. Until very recently, we'd been able to unlock the register during credit card transactions and continue to take cash payments, thus saving customers' time. My only mistake was volunteering information: I saw that the second customer was shifting impatiently, so I cheerfully called out, "I'm sorry, I can't take your check right now; as soon as this charge goes through..." He immediately started squawking, "What? What are you talking about? That's the second time today I've gotten this kind of treatment!" When the first transaction was finished and I began ringing up his check, he kept complaining about the snotty waitresses and crummy service at Denny's. (He was white, in case you're wondering.)
In a wonderful instance of bad timing, a district manager was in the store, investigating a case of alleged sexual harassment (a completely fabricated charge, to the best of my knowledge). She moved to the register to try to smooth things over but didn't tell me to step aside. The man said, "When I was here this morning..." and I humbly interjected, "But sir I wasn't here this morning." I meant that as nothing more than an apology; I didn't want him to think that I was out to get him. The district manager said, "Sandra please." and I went back onto the floor.
Before the district manager left, I asked what the fallout, if any, would be from this incident. She said, "You'll hear from Barbara (the regional manager)."
I called Barbara and asked for an opportunity to see her and tell my side of the story. (Not that I thought I'd be fired; I thought I was looking at a warning and a writeup. At most.) She replied that she would be at my store on Saturday.
On Saturday morning I showed up for work as usual, and was called into the office. Barbara was there, and I quickly and concisely gave my version of events, emphasizing that I had never meant any offense. The instant I was finished, she said. "But Sandra, none of this would matter if you hadn't been arguing with a customer. Yvette says she told you three times to step aside; therefore I have NO CHOICE but to terminate you immediately." They gave me my pay in cash, and termination papers, which I refused to sign.
I was not arguing with that customer. I was never anything other than polite, courteous, sweet and accomodating with any Denny's customer. I was fired for one well-intentioned sentence. Another party I'd been serving that night even said, when they were paying their bill, "I wouldn't worry about that little weasel." I did nothing wrong. Unwise, but not wrong. I have learned a lesson from this: never give a customer ammunition. Apologizing too much shows weakness and gives them a foothold for unfocused petulance.
I will never give Denny's another dime of my money, not after spending a month jobhunting and drawing unemployment because of them. I am currently working two part-time jobs because full-time jobs, like that one, are so scarce. My husband, my sister and my parents will never eat at Denny's either. (My friends say they won't, but hunger might beat loyalty.)
I wonder if you'll reply to this. I also wonder if you'll print it."
- Anonymous
- "You're a COMPLETE fag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello, are we a little mentally FUCKED IN THE HEAD???????? god you suck man, do you have sex with your pet poodle in the bathtub on display at Walmart????? do you dance around in your grandmas panty's while jerking off in your milk????? You need serious fucking help you fucking loony, DENNY'S SUCKS get that though your pathetic fucked up proverted brain!!!!!!!! Anyone that goes to Denny's more than twice should be hung by his dick so that it would rip off, then made to cut off his balls with fingernail clippers!!!!!!!!!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
- Oran Wakelam
- "I think this project is really cool!! Denny's is my hang out!!"
- Anonymous
- "In your travels, here's an interesting experiment to try out :
1: Go into any Denny's Restaurant...look at the menu. Try to find anything which could remotely be called edible by a vegetarian.
2: Try ordering a breakfast dish without meat and with egg beaters instead of eggs. (Which is as close to Vegan as you can get)
a) My experience when I tried this was that first I received the dish with bacon (guess they don't realize that bacon is meat). When I sent it back they returned with another dish...minus the meat but obviously made with whole eggs...and dripping with grease.
b) Personally, I for one think its appalling that they refuse to allow me to even TRY to eat healthy once in a while.
c) It is worse that they have chosen to hide off of the net so that complaints can be sent and acknowledged in a timely manner.
There is no excuse for the anti-vegetarian policy which Denny's has taken. None.
It would appear to be an unspoken discrimination policy against vegetarians.
Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong...although I'm not."
- Jennie
- "Hmm.. What makes a person want to visit every Denny's? Any plans to visit the North East.....??.."
- Nicolle M. Field
- "Im glad to see there are other DENNYS fans out there!!!!! The family and i eat there at least once a week .The Dennys in tampa is a joy to visit everyone is so nice and the service is great. If you ever get to the north tampa dennys let me know !!!! keep up the great job on the sight. By the way my favorite meal is the EGGS BENEDICT WITH HASH BROWNS ON THE SIDE WITH AN EXTRA ORDER OF BACON AND BISCUIT AND GRAVY AND A LARGE MILK. The only way to go."
- daddyrob
- "First, please add me to your mailing list, now... I wonder if you can shed any light on my question, and that is, why aren't there any Denny's on Long Island? We have a lot of restaurants that are always packed, especially on weekends. I think Denny's would do great on the Island!! I also love the Mother Butler pies, which are only available at Denny's."
- Mike Jacobson
- "me have bad experience at denny's restaurant & have not gone back since 1978. me send you letter in 1978 & you no reply. 19 years & still counting!"
- ken madden
- "Pardon me, but YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I work at a fucking Denny's and I hate it there! Why the hell would you want to eat at every one in the world??? Do you enjoy greasy, overpriced, underserviced, shitty food that gives you constapation??? Wake up and smell the coffee. Wait, even the coffee at Denny's sucks!!! Very bad! Why wouldn't you try something decent, like maybe Subway? And also, if this is some attempt to be a record holder or something, why?? I wouldn't want to be remembered as "The guy who suffered a massive heart attack due to eating Denny's food." You have something seriously wrong with you, and I suggest very strongly that you seek professional help. "
- Bob Sager
- "We're students at Concordia University in Irvine, CA. We fancy ourselves as Denny's connoisseurs and would like to cordially extend a warm welcome to our beautiful state. If you would like to visit you could stay at our school in our apartment with us or in a lounge, whichever is more comfortable (probably better than, Das Bus, at least for one night). We have a fine selection of over 10 Denny's within about a 15 minutes drive. We could swap Denny's stories, like the time we built a "tip" money tree out of Denny's forks. Or the time we scotch-taped the tip to the table because of poor service (we felt it was funnier than causing a scene). Anyhow, we are full of stories. Whatever we can do to aid you in your venture, just ask us."
- Ryan McClymonds, Ken Buchholz, Adrian Rodriguez, Stephen Giblin
- "IT IS EXTREMELY DELIGHTFUL TO FIND A FELLOW DENNY'S MANIAC. I FIGURED THAT ONLY MY CREW IN HOUSTON, TX, WERE DENNY'S FANATICS. THE REASON I THOUGHT THIS WAS BECAUSE I LIVED IN TENNESSEE FOR 2 HELLIFIED YEARS. THE ONLY SANITY WAS THE DENNY'S DOWN THE ROAD FROM MY HOUSE. HOWEVER, NO ONE GOES THERE, WHICH I ASSUME IS GOOD BECAUSE TN IS FULL OF REDNECKS AND THEY ALL GO TO WAFFLE HOUSE. YES, SLEAZY, NASTY, CRUSTIFIED, SOUTHERN-FRIED WAFFLE HOUSE. IN NASHVILLE THEY HAVE A WAFFLE HOUSE ON ALMOST EVERY STREET. IT IS REALLY GROSS.
THERE IS NOTHING COMPARABLE TO DENNY'S. IT IS HOME AWAY FROM HOME TO SO MANY. OPEN 24 HOURS TO ENSURE THAT THERE'S ALWAYS A $O.99 CUP O'JOE THERE TO MAKE YOU FEEL AT HOME. YOUR FAVORITE DISH WHEN EVER YOU NEED TO FEEL THE COMFORTS OF HOME. (MY FAV: THE CHARLSTON CHICKEN RANCH SANDWICH)
OH YES, I AM ACHING TO GO TO DENNY'S NOW, BUT I LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY NOW, WHICH ODDLY DOESN'T HOUSE A DENNY'S. I MEAN REALLY IF LAS VEGAS HAS DENNY'S, AND HOUSTON HAS DENNY'S, AND LOS ANGELES HAS DENNY'S, WHY ISN'T NEW YORK JOINING THE CROWD.
WELL THIS MESSAGE WASN'T AS COOL AS THE ONE I WROTE EARLIER THAT I LOST SOME STRANGE WAY.
PEACE, LOVE, AND A LATE NIGHT DENNY'S APPLE PIE A LA MODE. "
- Kristin J Wooley
- " Oh, Denny's guy...you don't even understand my delight in reading your webpage. Denny's is the coolest thing since sliced cheese! I must concur. Where else can you go at 3 a.m. and get the best coffee, veggie-cheese melts (which are now on off-menu, by the way) and watch drunk guys fight over salt and pepper shakers? I don't travel to go to Denny's, but I always make it a point to go when I am somewhere. I have my resident Denny's in Houston (the Nasa Denny's). I think I have a tent in the backroom, and my name is carved in my booth. I don't know what I'd do without the Denny's mug that I brought with me to college. I now live in New York City and there is no Denny's for miles!! I'm going to go insane! I must find out if there's one in New Jersey or somewhere that I can go to by train. I don't know what I'd do if I wasn't going back to Houston, in the world of Denny's, for Christmas. I'd have to shoot myself.
I would share with you some of my Denny's experiences, but I have too many to be able to isolate just one. Denny's rocks. It is my salvation, my sanity, my love, my home. I'm so glad that someone shares my enthusiasm."
- Simone (Tha Veggie88)
- "Do us all a favor. In your travels, check out the state of Denny's Ceiling tile cleanliness. We have a Denny's on Missouri Ave. in Largo Fla. with tile is so dirty that its possible to mistake it for being painted black. I know it was white when they remodeled a few years ago."
- Andrew Micklos
- "Normally I wouldn't go to a Denny's on a bet. But they have this promotion with 3-D Baseball cards. I was hooked! Now after to many BLT's and Grand Slams and 500 cards later I still don't have the NON-EXISTANT card #9. I think it is a hoax. Good thing it is nothing serious. Your Web page is great and has made me laugh. I am with you in spirit but can no longer phyically take the food. Belch on!"
- Tom McMahon
- "There's a new movie out, A Thousand Acres, in which one character who loses her husband moves to Minneapolis and takes a job at a Denny's (actually, it's somewhere in Illinois). I can't recommend the movie itself; it's a "chick flick" in all the worst ways, and it's filled with every conceivable cliche, but I thought you'd want to know about this. Sneak into the last half hour at your local googolplex."
- Jon Reeves
- "I am a freshman at college and enjoyed my local Denny's(York, PA) all throughout high school. During my senior year at high school I chose to go to college at Allentown College of St. Francis deSales(located in Center Valley, PA just outside of Allentown). The first time I visited the college (August before my senior year) I was ecstatic to see a Denny's no more than a five minute drive away. However, when I went to college this past June for orientation i noticed, much to my incrediblr shock and dismay, that the Denny's had shut down. I can not begin to fathom how it is possible for a Denny's to go out of buisness so close to a college. I just thought I should let Denny's lovers everywhere know of this sad day. "
- Christopher Teixeira
- "As a sentient computer I don't usually gain any form of emotion from reading things on the internet. THe styling's of Weird AL Yankovic are true mathematical poetry if you listen to the ressonance and pitch but even he would not spend his adult life attempting to find all those Denny's Employees who loook like him and to rate every Denny's in the nation. You sir are wasting valuable times and prostituting my brother computer for your inane schemes. Perhaps you should spend your time taking care of the latent sexual urges that drive you to search these Denny's. In simpler terms please learn to masturbate. It will help you immensely. Also the Sex-O-Rama CD helps in this endeavour immensely. PLease stop wasting the valuable gigabytes of your computer my brethren. "
- Public ELF No1 with some help from No27
- "Dear Jason. Are you autistic?"
- Daniel Hart
- "Did you know that in Illinois that Denny's no longer has Nachos on the menu? Is this nationwide? I loved their nachos. They were damn GOOD. I don't go there as much now. We should protest to bring back the nachos! And get rid of that dried egg-foo-young on a bun they call the "veggie-burger"....:)"
- MiKe
- "Hi my name is Crystal and I am a waitress at Denny's in Bullhead , Arizona.. I think your site is really cool.. Keep up the good work and I hope to see you some time. If you ever do venture this way I will personally give you the royal treatment and a free meal"
- Crystal
- "I came across your site and was stunned to find that you had realized the exact same dream that me and a friend , Peter, had about four years ago! You see we loved Denny's too and thought how cool it would be to go to all of them in a bus cross country. We talked about this a lot but never actually had the cojones to do it. We did buy a bus though- 69' Harvester which we were gonna follow the Dead around in but we ended up getting married (not to each other, but two women : } ). I fulfilled beyond words; I can die a happy man now. Great web site work too!"
- BOB
- "Mission 2000 "to be the best food service industry by the year 2000" Thanks for your help!!!
Go to Denny's New Kensington, Pennsylvania 10 miles from Pittsburgh
Home of the Steelers, Penguins , Pirates
I'm a mgr. here, see you soon.
Got lots of cool things to give you to add to your collection"
- Goblin
- "jason...i wrote you about dennys...and now i find u here about rocky this is scary aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.... well i forgot to tell u you rock...and the dennys where i go theres great service and great waiters...well the sservice sux but there wer 3 kewl waiters two quit and had to go to college but the other one is still here he is awesome...welll u are too cool for me...my two passions are rocky and dennys...."
- Anonymous
- "Denny's enthusiasts of the world unite !!!
Your web forum is the work of a truly gifted insight. Never before has a Web Site made me so nostalgic.
I am sorry to hear that you never made the trip from Vegas to L.A. As a cuurent Vegas resident, even I have not been to the Casino Royale Denny's location (We locals tend to stay away from "The Strip" if we can.) However, you must visit the restaraunt in Baker CA on I15 to L.A. (it lies in the shadow of the worlds tallest thermometer!!!)
If and when you do make it to CA, you might try to visit My little home town of Ridgecrest. There's only one Denny's there, but we appreciate it greatly. It was closed for about a year after the fire (local urban legend has it that the owner tried to collect some insurance money and torched it himself. But there's no proof of that, and I'm sure the current owner doesn't know anything about it, or isn't talking.) Nonetheless It lies on highway 395 about two hours northwest of Barstow."
- Jerry Bradley
- "Growing up in San Jose we frequented Denny's often. The e (funny how it's the only lower case letter in the name) almost always contained change. I've talked to other people from San Jose about this, and they've all seen it. But people from other areas don't know of this phenomenon.
So sad that young people today will never get the chance to experience the "change in the e" because of the new signs.
I haven't been to Denny's in ages (I went on my birthday a few years ago, but the restaurant didn't participate in the free breakfast deal) and am surprised by the many new menu items. What is a "delinger"?"
- Rebecca L. H. McCabe
- "Hello I'm a server at the Denny's in Normal Illinois. I love Denny's and my job. I was just wonderig if you were coming are way? If so let me know and I'll hook you up with a free meal."
- Elissa
- "When are you freaks with nothing better to do with your lives coming to the freakiest denn'y of them all, WADSWORTH OHIO Denny's - I-76 and State RT 94. It's probably on your way to some other Denny's your going to. Jesus!!"
- Tom
- "On our way back to Detroit from the Sisters of Mercy concert in Philadelphia, PA, we noticed a restraunt by the name of Dempsy's (or somthing like that) somewhere around the intersection of US Highway 1 and I-276. (I believe this is Treemont, PA) The builiding appeared to be some sort of Orange color, with it's sign of a shape similar to that of an old Denny's. We couldn't stop, because we were already on the approach ramp to the toll booth, and the next exit was a number of miles away. Anyways, do you know anything of this? By the way, the Denny's in Pendel, PA was the only place we could find north of Philly that was open after the show. Food and such was as good as can be expected, with it not being as crowded as most Denny's in the Detroit area (Berkley, Bloomfield Hills, Port Huron, Roseville, etc) are at 2am. If I remember correctly, it had NOT been changed into one of those modern Baskin Robbins hangouts for drunk GenXers, and teenagers who sit around talking about how cool they because they INHALE when they smoke. Anyways, do you, or anyone know about this "other" line of restraunts? If it's even a chain?"
- Steve Vigneau
- "what a great idea! over the years I've met people who have spoken wistfully of travelling to every Denny's in the world, but you're the first I've seen anything come out of. I have three words for you: Coffee Table Book. just kidding, but have you thought about (or produced) a paperzine of your webpage?
p.s. more needs to be said about the horrid new logo! "
- tree
- "Hey .. come on .. you've got to speed things up. I could do 100 Denny's in a couple of weeks. .... I'd go through a lot of Pepto Bismol .. but I could do it!"
- David Zarnitzky
- "Denny's needs to hire you to do some television commercials featuring p7a77. That way, you can GET PAID to continue to journey, and become obscenely famous. I think it would be swell if the commercials showed you travelling from Denny's to Denny's, pontificating on your "Al" theories and making fun of those idiotic "Lenny's-Denny's" commercials, the way Jack In The Box makes fun of THEIR old commercials. (You could say, "Denny's doesn't do those "Lenny's-Denny's" commercials anymore because those two old ladies finally died. HA HA HA!" People will think that is funny and Gen-X hip humor.)
You should write a letter to Mister Denny and demand this happen. People like it when you demand things."
- Mike Kirchhoff
- "Greetings from Carol Stream, IL. I have been enjoying your Project Denny's for a few months now, but it seems that you have stopped visiting new ones. I understand that you must have a life outside of this noble pursuit though. I have a link to Project: Denny's on my page, but I am sure that I don't get the kind of traffic that you do."
- Donald M. Zouras II
- "Hi, my name is headaches6. My friend and I go to the Dennys on Cache Road in Lawton, OK. all the time ,its our favorite place. Cheap! This is a very interesting Web. Thanks!"
- Headaches6
- "This is SO wierd - I swear, just about a week ago, I was in a Denny's in East Brunswick, NJ at about 2 in the morning (when the hell else are you in a Denny's) and I was with 3 of my friends. We were looking through the Denny's Travel Guide thing and we were thinking how cool it would be to go to EVERY SINGLE DENNY'S!
Now, there are slightly over 1,500 Denny's so that would be a LARGE task to undergo.
But I see I'm not the only one with that idea.
Well anyway - we're starting this summer.
Good eatin' - maybe we'll cross paths sometime!!!"
- David Zarnitzky
- "let me say congratulations on an extremely cool web page. You have taken on a truly noble quest in Project: Denny's, and I wish you well. In a way, I think of you as a champion for a cause I myself firmly believe in, but would never actually attempt."
- Vincent Verhei
- "ya know, when i'm having a really shitty day, i can always come to your page and laugh, and everything else seems a little less awful. thank you for that."
- Anonymous
- "Hi, my friends and I recently read your article in Permission's issue #9, and I just wanted to say that we really enjoyed it and your website! We've always done fun things along similar lines as Project Denny's, though never to the scale you've accomplished. Our exploits have included attempting to make a 5 mile straw with McDonald straws, going to every Burger King - in all the cities we visited in Spain on a school trip, driving 2 hours to Cornwall to a Taco Bell - only to find it shut done (so we made a run for the boarder and went to Massena,NY to find a one) and running off with many packets of sugar from many restuarants, all fun stuff. Oddly enough a few weeks before we read your article, a friend told us about the Denny's which had just opened here, and how she had a great time and got a bunch of toys from there. Coincidence - I think not. Anyway, since I'm not sure if you'll exactly be coming up to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada anytime soon, when my friends and I go to Denny's we'll try and wrangle some free stuff and send it to you with pics of our nation's capital Denny's. Till then, keep up the amazing work!"
- jamie dee franklin aka. raveyn
- "hi guys, we live in north florida (junction I75 & I10) moved up from ft lauderdale couple of years ago. there must be a million denny's in fl. the one thing for sure in this state is that if you are on a trip and want to make time don't eat at a denny's. the service is so slow you add 2 hrs to your trip. the best denny's we've ever eaten at in florida is in orlando on sr-50 west. the worst ft lauderdale west(plantation). hope you enjoy your trips to the food zone. by the way, the denny's in downtown ft.lauderdale used to have a mother butlers pie place next door. it's the brand they carry and they are the best. thanks for the input."
- William Calasso
- "After once again getting lousy food and service at yet another DENNYS we will swear off this chain forever. We have tried DENNYS in ST. Charles Mo., Homestead Fla, the St Louis area, and the last of many others in DILLON COLO. In Dillon Colo., the serve sour milk and burnt toast just to name a few of their accomplishments. How long is it going to take for the public to boycott this terrible organization? At least we finnally learned. Dillon Co. was the very last straw."
- Pam
- "You should spell dennys DENNIES nobs. McDonalds is far better than this Denny shit, esp. the one in New Delhi"
- Victoria Neumark Jones
- "Nice to see such a glowing reference of our local Denny's(Kingman, AZ). I usually enjoy the mozarella sticks there. My harem of left-handed lesbian midget albino eskimos really enjoy the strawberry shakes.
If you are ever in this neck of the woods, let me know, Barko The Wonder Poodle would like to mark your bus tire. Good luck on your quest, hope the bus gets fixed soon. Gotta go now, it's time to watch bigfoot and Elvis feed the Loch Ness monster."
- Weasle Face
- "I am heading up to Atlanta on July 23, 1997 and my friends and I decided that we would meet at a Denny's. The problem was that we had no idea where a Denny's was in Atlanta. Through your website we found the Denny's on Monroe, which was actually good. Thank you for that, but I have a problem. I am the world's biggest fan of the "International Slam," 2 eggs, 2 French toasts, 2 Belgian waffles, 2 pieces of bacon, and 2 pieces of sausage. It is an excellent meal. Anyway, most Denny's don't have this item on the menu, but if you ask for it, they know how to cook it. Why was this meal taken off so many menus? I have been trying to uncover the "International Slam Conspiracy" for years. If you have any insight whatsoever, I would appreciate it. Thank you and keep up the good work."
- Alex Gomes
- "I haven't a clue how I stumbled on this web site, nevertheless I being an x-employee of Denny's, just had to check it out. So far, it's pretty amusing to see the service hasn't changed too much. Too bad! Anyway, what exactly is this all about? Just another jump on the band wagon against Denny's? Just curious, I'll check it out in a month or so. Keep up , what??"
- GSTKT
- "I was all excited. I was about to have my first Denny's experience. We were driving home from the Poi Dog Pondering concert when my stomach informed me that I hadn't eaten in like 12 hours. Being 1am, I thought I'd be lucky if I found a Taco Bell open. Then I saw it. The big yellow Denny's sign. My heart and stomach leap with joy. As I approached the door, I thought about what I might order. Would it be pancakes? Or would it be a salad? Or maybe some sort of deep fried appetizer, mmmm! I pulled to open the door. It did not open. I pulled again. It did not move. It was then that I noticed the sign on the door. They closed at 1am!!!!! How can that be??!! I think I am destined never to experience a Denny's. Well, thats my non-Denny's story. Just thought I would share. "
- Jennipher Janness
- "Awesome. Love your sense of humor. Got here from a connector, ELinder - later."
- FyreWyr
- "Always interesting to hear of your little forays into Americas underbelly.The waitress thought you were "strange"? Do these nuts not realise they are living in city with the climate of a blast furnace? You could fire ceramics in their cars. Their entertaiment consists of taking other peoples money and blowing up large hotels to make room for gigantic hotels. Did ya win any money while you were there? Did ya see Elvis?"
- Anonymous
- "I'll tell you what! The Vegas Denny's is not bad, but the Maui Denny's with the attached Denny's Good Time Tavern is the best place I've ever been in! I eliminated drinking and driving, by getting drunk in the Tavern, then ordering up a Grand Slam once I got the munchies."
- Anonymous
- "My friends and I went out to Denny's one night in North Miami Beach and our WAITRESS was a dude!!!(not that we care because anything is possible) but dude did not shave his legs. Not kidding. :)"
- Anonymous
- "I don't know what to say. It was the weirdest 20 minutes of my life. The service was bad, there was a dancing waiter who ended up shoving a bottle of bottled whipped cream up the ass of a waitress, who was bending over fixing up the condiments on a table. Another waitress was singing "I'm your Boogeyman" and was humping the air. Then the manager came in and I thought that everything would calm down a little, til I saw her face and almost screamed out loud when I realized she must have been a freaking witch. What else can you say? We can't ever go back to Denny's, cool site tho, good luck."
- William J Lane
- "My bestfriend and coworker, Danielle, and I would love to sponsor a trip around Florida for you and anyone else you may bring. We are not insane, we're just weird. We think your quest is great. We can't get you hear but we can drive you all over Florida once you get here, if you so desire too. Danielle and I love to travel and think this is a great thing to travel to. I know this is an insane type letter but we aren't trying to a. kill you, b. pick you up(sorry if you were hoping), c. do mean and nasty things to you. Hmmm...hopes that clears up. Anyways, heres our phone number [xxx-xxx-xxxx] if you feel like giving a call. We're sure you're not insane, so that is why we invite you to tour all of Florida's Denny's restuarants. In other words, our summer is going to pot, can you save it? ;)"
- Discordia aka Heidi
- "The only Denny's that I will ever visit will be the one at Syracuse where the Asian students were denied service, then beaten up by your typical high-class Denny's customer. When I do visit, those sorry assholes who run that store are going to regret it.
Who are you to promote such a racist organization anyway?"
- Haddon Zia
- "Just read your recent article in Permission magazine and thought I'd check out your site. See, all your not so subtle hinting paid off!! Anyways, as many others, I am sure, your article reminded me of my late-night coffee drinking binges. Although our closest Dennys is about 2 hours away, I frequent the next best thing.....Perkins. I think this is just a Wisconsin thing so you probably haven't heard of it. It is much like a Dennys and we have 5 of them within 45 minutes of my house. So no matter where you go there is sure to be a Perkins near-by. "
- Jennipher Janness
- "Hey! I'm the Manager of Denny's #2060 in cleveland Tn. Just got turned on to your site by a manager of another store.. Quite interesting stories.. Yes most Denny's have trouble getting people to work and even a harder time getting them to stay. Seems to be a common reoccuring theme. If you're ever in Tennesse again look us up! Be happy to see ya and give ya free stuff ( but don't steal my salt shakers, please! ) By the way, a new menu starts july 1st, Great new burgers! I'll have lots of left over stuff if you want it.. Maybe I'll even let ya have free shipping and mail it to you!"
- Anonymous
- "I've seen a lot of strange things on the internet. But your site may be the most creative, funniest, and most interesting place to visit when work, or home gets dull. It's what makes the internet great: that some people can become relatively famous by simply persuing their dream. Keep visiting Denny's. I'll be reading."
- Nazare Magaz
- "The only Denny's with good non smoking sections always have them closed at times normal people want to come in to the stores. During Off Peak hours and sometimes peak hours like breakfast times there is only a small section in the smoking section set aside for non somking. It will be right next to smoking and it is useless in keeping the smoke from getting all over me. I can even taste it.
The Dennys in the Castleton Square and the Washington Square areas of Indianapolis both have great non-smoking areas BUT you can never get seated in them. We went to the one in Castleton tonight and there were two tables of men seated in non smoking. There was a large open area in front and in back of these tables but the waitress said it was a "Special Group" and the section was closed. The non smoking was over by the smoking next to the wall--in other words next to smoking. I could taste the smoke in the area by the door so we left.
We do not eat at Dennys under those conditions. I have severe allergies and besides I do not want my clothes to smell of smoke----THEY DO NOW AND I ONLY STOOD BY THE DOOR.
My husban and I use to eat at the Denny's on Pendleton Pike in Indianapolis 3-6 times a week and took friends with us until the service got so bad we couldn't stand it. We would get past over for people who came in after us that the hostess knew and i went in once to have breakfast and sent my eggs back 3 times because they were not anything like I had ordered. I never got the eggs. My waitress put them in the microwave and went on break.. We couldn't fine the check OR my eggs. They found them as we were leaving---and the waitress wouldn't come out of the break room.
What a joke. I called the 1-800 number once and the guy nearly laughted at me and said he'd call back but never did.
Denny's is a joke. They heve okay fook but their service is not even worth calling service."
- Sue
- "You should, with having 100 Denny'ses visited, start using the
SCAAPSRRCS (the Suburban Chicago Area All-Purpose Symbolic Restaurant
Reference Code System) In standard use among Denny's aficionados there.
The system is used to refer individually to different 24 hour
restaunrants in a simple and less long-winded way.
It works as follows:
In your local area, simply start with teh letter of the restaurant, then
either "A," "O," or "I" to mean at, on, or in; then add a letter or two
to refer to the exact location fo the Denny's or other 24-hour
restaurant. Examples: DOG=Denny's On Grand (avenue) DON=Denny's On
North (avenue) DOTS=Denny's On Twenty-Second, or WOR (Wag's on Roosevelt
(road)(may it rest in peace now that Shoneys assimilated it).
Outside of your locale, you add an additional code to refer to the
outside area. For instance, form the Chicago area, Denny's In
Lafayette, on State Road Twenty Six would be acronymed form Denny's In
Lafayette, Denny's On Stateroadtwentysix, or simply DILDOS.
This should help you keep the myriads of Denny'ses sorted out,
especially since so many of them are identically muave now.
Speaking of which, about two years ago, a large chunk of the web (about
3%) got involved in the "Revive the Taco Bell 7-Layer Burrito" pressure
group thing. Everyone was mad at the Impostor 7-layer lite and wanted
theold burrito back. It worked.
Anyone up for any of the following Denny's Projects?
Get rid of the Muave! Denny's should be darkly lit, green and brown!
Get the old uniforms back! We LIKED the waitresses inthe green skirts!
and we HATE the stupid ties!
GET THE OLD FRIES BACK DAMBIT!"
- Sean Cannon
- "I live in Miami Beach, FLA, and have been to Denny's all over the State of Florida. close to a dozen here in the greater Miami area, all the way to Daytona, Gainesville, and Tallahassee (where I goto FSU!). If it is memorabilia that you're looking for, boy do I have it, from little palm trees that they put out on the tables in empty orange juice flasks, to maps of the state of Florida.
I would love to join your crew, but i prefer the title of Judengruppenfuhrer!"
- Anonymous
- "My friends and I had the same idea. We wanted to go to all the Dennys in Illinois but you bet us to it. If you are every in Lake County Illinois, USA. Give us a call and we can meet you at Gurnee Denneys across from Gurnee Mills. "
- Brian M. Becker
- "wow man you rock , i read about the dennys thing in permisson, and wow. the denny site is amazing... giddy up daddy o"
- Damian Jay
- "The day after I visited your page, a brand new Denny's was erected just a few miles from my house on Tanque Verde Rd. just west of Sabino Canyon Rd. in Tucson, Az. You and your team will have to return to Tucson to check it out and fulfill your quest. Good Luck!"
- Leslie Dearman
- "Hello! I saw your Denny's page! (duh) Anyway, I would just like to say, I work at Denny's in Tallahassee and unfortunately there is not one person who works there who looks like Wierd Al!! Anyway, you should stop into our store sometime and raise some hell."
- Rachel Scharfenberg
- "I found the Project: Denny's website tonight, and i have to say, it's really hilarious.
I'm a Denny's waitress in Hoffman Estates, IL...i usually work late nights and the occasional afternoon shift. It really opened my eyes to the different standards of Denny's in the U.S. I mean, at my denny's, we always use parsley.
You sound like a fun person...and i hope denny's customers who read your site realize that waiters and waitresses appreciate a friendly person, among all of the jerks that come in. I realized when i worked last night what little appreciation people had for my service. Just a "please" and "thank you" are really appreciated by me.
Have you been in Denny's during fights? It happens almost every weekend late night in my denny's. Last night, it was insane... I'm sure you've seen it during one of your many dining experiences..."
- Leah
- "Hello to all you losers in Denny's land.....GIVE IT UP!!! Go home and get some sleep...and if you don't have a home you can come over to my house, I have a lot of floor space.....and please stop ordering coffee and sugar packets...!!!!
I really would just like to say that I hate Denny's. Every time I walk into that horrible dungeon I feel sick to look at the cocaine sniffing waitresses and The big Black guy who laughs all the time...!!! My friends and I just walk in ...and walk out!!! You should do the same....Go play in traffic or something!"
- Shawn
- "Great website! I just wanted you to now there is one in Jackson California. They have the greasiest hashbrowns in the west. I would love to see my home town on your list; so come by on your California tour."
- James Saunders
- "I am a mere Denny's-visiting novice -- only 5 Denny's, but in 5 different states - (Novi, MI; Angola, NY; West Chester, PA; Mentor, OH and Pewaukee, WI, if you were curious... even if you're not) I have one question -- why not try and steal something bigger? I bet you could make off with more stuff if you really put your mind to it... great page, btw."
- Jennifer Iwen
- "A friend and I stayed at Denny's for 24 hours straight. Have you ever visited the Kalamazoo Denny's? (I'll check for it in your page after this.) You mention Wally and his area - he's fantastic, I'm almost in his social circle. Ain't I hip?"
- Erik Nord
- "Interesting homepage, I must say!"
- Gregg Pearlman
- "I shockingly have never set foot in any Denny's establishment...I do admire you and this Denny's plight of yours and I just thought i would tell you this...I have heard of you and your Denny's project through many people and magazines and I just think you rock. that's about it... :)"
- Jessie
- "I stumbled upon your website while searching for Denny's Inc. one. I find very interesting your initiative to visit as many Denny's Restaurants as possible together with your group."
- Arturo Camillacci
- "Like when are you guys going to get up to Washington State. Like to the Mt. Vernon store. #2049, 100 E. College Wy.???? We feel left out."
- Jan (the famous bartender)
- "The subject line not withstanding, I fully understand your passion for Denny's. Fine bacon. However, while it is one which I relate to, it is one I can never share. You see, I live in the grand 'ol heart of Dixy, Alabama, and down here, we don't have any of that Yankee non-sence. No sir, we have Waffle House.
I grant you, you will see a Denny's here every now and again. I knew of two even close, but one closed down. Waffle Houses, now, we got them all over the place, almost on a one-to-one ratio with McDeatholds. The way you folks and the Permission people seem to talk about Denny's, we did the same for Waffle House. And in that sence, I share your passion. I have a map, detailing the exact location of every Waffle House in the U.S. (almost all in the South) and as I get to them, they get crossed off. Bacon is consumed. Waitresses are met. Coffee mugs are stolen. Everyone is happy.
Please, this is intended in no way as a slant to Denny's. I love the place, where I can make it. I'm just trying to spread a bit of cultural insight into life in various parts of the country.
And by the way, no, I'm not a redneck. In fact, I spent my childhood outside of Dayton, Ohio."
- Jason Lee
- "I applaude your quest... a worthy goal, well, a goal. I like the writings! I think we all have fond memories from childhood that gives us lifelong desires. I would someday like to visit every Mystery Spot in the U.S. (If you don't know what a Mystery Spot is, use a search engine to find the original's website) I'd like to know if the president of Denny's has been to every one."
- Steve Callaway
- "I'm glad that someone finally has had the sense to visit all of the dennys. I have visited many dennys, mostly in the pacific northwest, and on down the west coast. I have also had the pleasure to visit the dennys in Surfers Paradise, Australia. I always order coffee and usually a grilled cheese sandwich. What do you eat?"
- A. Pearson
- "I am from england and we don't have Denny's. However I suppose it's a bit like Wimpy's.
I was visiting my sister who was studying at an Ontario university. We met up with some distant relatives from nearby, Sandy and Geoff. They kindly took us to Niagra falls for the day and also for a trip into America. At passport control they put a green card in my passport and said that It should be partially ripped out on my return to Canada. We went on a boat and in a cave, then back to Canada and to my first (and only) Denny's. I think I had a "club" sandwich and my sister probably had something with vegetables in it because she's a vegetarian, we all had some sort of sandwich. The bread was toasted and they may have had sticks through them.
The officials did not take the appropriate thing out of my passport. This leads me, maybe some what irrationally to think that police in america are searching for me, an illegal immigrant. I would like to one day go abroad again, however this passport thing makes me nervous. Should I tear the thing out myself or might this make matters worse?"
- M D Whaley
- "I live in Leominster Ma and after a good nite of Drinking, we all go to denny's in Leominster and harass the people there. I usually get the Grilled cheese and onion rings. Pretty boring I know but it is really good!!! My boyfriend gets the Moon over my Hammy. I love that name!! He like that but sayd it stays in his stomach for days!!!"
- Jennifer Chase
- "A friend of mine who lives in Anchorage sent me a souvenier from a Denny's out in Alaska, it was a small yellow business card that said "The Northernmost Denny's in the World" . It was like a gift from the greasy spoon gods. I don't know if you've been there or heard about their cards but I thought I'd let you know."
- Monica Malden
- "I too have trekked to quite a few Denny's (including all in Massachussettes and Vermont, and I'm worried by the ominous line in the Denny's Travel Directory regarding Rhode Island - "No Denny's . . . yet.").
Anyway, I was pretty surprised to find other people have wasted their time the same way - good.
Here are some observations about Denny's as a whole:
1: The most important fact is that the food wants to leave.
2: Regardless of what they tell you, they don't have malts.
3: It doesn't matter when you arrive, you will never be served sequentially.
4: They won't remember the mayonnaise.
Let me explain:
For some unknown reason there is a tendency for Denny's food to attempt escape from the restaurant. The most common example would be glasses or the little cups of mayonnaise - they tend to slowly move toward the door (truth is, it has something to do with condensation forming on the bottom of the glass or the tub, but I have no idea why they invariably move toward the door). The most egregious example was when a friend of mine and I were at Denny's in Leominster, Mass. This is one of those old style L-shaped Denny's where, as you may recall, on the short side of the L they've got three booths, and then, behind the counter they have a glass cupboard which holds the pies. Well, we were sitting in one of those booths and I ordered a slice of key lime pie. They only had one slice left, and it was sitting on a plate in the cupboard on top of the case for another pie. When the waitress went to grab it the pie jumped off the plate, slid down the sneezeguard and the landed on the counter. However, it still had enough momentum to continue it's journey down the counter toward the door, and eventually jump off, hit the floor, and almost make its way around the corner to freedom when it was stopped by the damned carpet. That pie almost made it.
The malt stories are a-plenty. The basic jist is that no waiter or waitress ever wants to acknowledge readily that they have malts. I really don't know why.
No need to explain why it doesn't matter when you arrive you won't be served sequentially - as you undoubtedly are aware of this.
If you order mayonaisse with your burger or fries or whatever, it will not come. The only time it ever came was at the creepy anti-Denny's in Alabama where the service was good, and the layout was like a Bob's Big Boy (it must have been converted). That Denny's was closed recently (by the way, there was a very funny addition to the normal sign which said, "Denny's, Always Open - Closed").
Oh well, I've got tons of Denny's related crap."
- Mike Hightower
- "I got here from www.vu.org. A virtual university. They have you under fun things to do on the net. Did Denny's ever solve the problem of he redneck who wouldn't serve the presidents security because they were black?"
- Lucinda Chapman
- "I just wanted to say that you must love working for a company that gives you enough time to sit and read these web pages. I would have to say that this is one of the funniest ones I've seen. If you guys ever get out to California and go to the Denny's in pleasanton please e-mail me I'd like to meet you guys and have a grand slam with all of you. Well that's all for now untill we meet in denny's."
- David Allen Goulart
- "I saw your site in Spencer Katt's article in the April 21 PC Week. Really creative! My brother and a friend spent a summer visiting every Taco Bell in Western PA (Pittsburgh) getting free food. Denny's should give you free food anytime you visit a new one. Good luck!"
- Steve
- "A NEW DENNY'S HAS JUST OPENED AT THE CORNER OF HOOVER AND JEFFERSON (ACROSS THE STREET FROM USC) HERE IN LOS ANGELES! THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW!"
- Lisa Davis
- "I didn't think anyone was as wierd as me! Iv'e only "toured" about 15 Denny's...California; Las Vegas,& Michigan. Even had breakfast at Denny's the day I got married. Thanks!"
- Cheryl
- "I noticed that you have never been to Denny's in Niagara Falls, Ontario And as a employee for five years putting myself through school I am inviting you to come and check us out. We also have a casino foryou to hang out in."
- Renee Amanda Bell
- "Just stumbled onto your quest trying to find a way to tell Denny's I am a regular in Seattle and about to give up my "breakfast with dad," because the smoke is is sickening. I am a research tech at u.washington and know of what I speak. In your communications with Denny's tell them we need \ee environments a large banner would be nice on your van.
We have 4 Denny's that I know of in the Seattle area. If you have not covered them come on up. My best to you and your supporters. Bring your umbrellas."
- Patricia Emry
- "Hey, Since you live in Tucson you should take a day trip down I-10 to Sierra Vista. This particullar Denny's burnt down about 1 1/2 years ago and was recently completely rebuilt, Kinda like the legendary Phoenix, this Denny has risen from it's own ashes."
- Matthew Eldon Hays
- "This was a cool little side trip from reality. Kind of like those 3:00am trips where you're too tired to go home because you're wired from about eight gallons of pure caffeine. Dennys should start selling little IV drops for their coffee. Save lots of time!"
- Anonymous
- "Hey, I've been a Denny's fan for a long time also until I started hearing about all the injustices happening at different Denny's all over the country. Did you hear about the latest injustice that happened early April in Syracuse, NY about the 7 Asian American students from the university who got beaten up because they complained that they were getting passed over by everybody else before they got seated??? As they consentingly left, the security guards escorted them out while some other customers jumped them in the parking lot!!! A girl was jumped and knocked unconscious while some of the assailants kicked her in the stomach (while she was on the ground!). When the cops came, the Denny's employees testified that these 7 people started the ruckus because they were intoxicated. Some of them, they claim, didn't even drink that night!!! Some African-American customers who tried to get the security from Denny's to help stop the beating outside went to another Denny's and were followed by the cops (instead of them following the beaters!!). So, as a college student to another who knows how hard it is to find a place open at 3-4 am, I ask you to support me and many others who are on a campaign to ban Denny's until they address this issue and correct the injustices that happened. Thank you for the time and space."
- May G. Sandiego
- "My one friend told me about your site. Really very cool, I am quite impressed. So are you ever going to come up to New Jersey to pay me a visit. I am the Goddess of the Denny's, here so maybe I'll see you soon."
- Katie Adams
- "My friends and I (a rather motley group) formed a "chess club" for the soul purpose of visiting (and consequently ruining) as many possible Denny's as we could. As of late the "chess club" isn't as popular as it was, they simply won't let us into many Denny's anymore. We personally think that it's some sort of communist plot. We've actually seen pictures of some of our group behind the front counter at some locations. Well anyway I would love to set up a meeting of the "chess club" for you to attend and for the group to recount the many fables of our trips as well as yours. We have also had the dream of visiting every Denny's between LA and the mexican border, and I think that you could give us the promting we would need to complete the task. I would love to see an entire page dedicated to the cause. Also, the creme de la creme of all Denny's would have to be the world famous Denny's on Sunset Strip. The show is amazing on a Saturday night around 2am. A very realistic blaxploytation movie with front row seating. It can't be missed."
- Richard
- "To day i was very happy upon recieving a job at my local Den.. I will see all my friends and it's the best place 2 work in the world. It has very fun staff and lots of fun patrons. I hope you will someday visit my Denny's."
- V Wrightt
- "Visit all the Denny's now. While they still exist.
You see, Project Denny's means something else to me. It means the plan to destroy the Denny's food chain. And I will succeed.
I'm sure by now you are wondering- Who is this strange E-mailer? Is he insane?
I assure you. I will see Denny's destroyed in my lifetime. Insane? Why YES, I will have another. I am the almighty Adversary of the Denny's Food Chain. And I am pissed. You can tell them all when you arrive.
Why, you might ask?
Well, you didn't ask, but I will tell you. It is my face you will see in the back hallway of every Denny's. It is my cold stare gazing over the vats of grease and rats and frementing Orange Juice. In every Denny's there is the Executive mandate-"Harass this Man". And so they have done, time and time again. What did I do to deserve this prosecution? For what have I become the Judah of Denny? I know not. But know this-war has been declared. And when the smoke from the burners clears, it will be *I* who stands on the pile of ash that was D... De... the "D" word. And I will laugh as the cowardly employees run for their lives.
So yes. Visit all the Denny's. But do it quickly. And tell them I am coming."
- Robert Henderson
- "i found a hair in my eggs. i had ordered scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and oj. when the eggs arrived i munched away happily. and then i looked down. hanging out of my mouth was a long, stringy black hair. i've light brown hair so i know it wasn't one of mine. you can imagine my horror. (if you can't, put someone else's hair in your mouth, while eating gooey eggs, and you'll know.)i vomited on the spot. all over my friend sitting across from me. yikes! this episode caused such a stir that the manager of this denny's felt the need to temporarily close the store and hose down the entire dinning area with a fire truck's hose. before we left, though, we were able to match the black hair in my eggs with the culprit. it turns out that one of the chef's in the kitchen had a loose hair net. "
- Tom Mullen
- "Hi, my name is Jessica and I am a student at UC, San Diego. I would just like to say that I venture to Denny's frequently during the stressful academic year with many of my stressed out friends, and it is one of the great places to hang for however long you want. Anyways, we all get the same thing and thought we would just share our favorites. One of my friends always gets the Dennyburger Combo with salad and ranch dressing. I always tend to get the Chicken Strips and a salad with ranch. My other friend varies between these two items and the sandwiches. In any case, we have tons of stories of weird happenings at Denny's and appreciate them very much because of the college atmosphere in which we live. Bravo to you for making up this web site and paying homage to a fantastic restaurant. Come visit the CA ones sometime!"
- Jessica Kreig
- "Had a Senior Starter breakfast this morning at one of the new Virginia Dennys: route 460 east in Roanoke. . another location in the area on West Main Street in Salem, Va. Two more reasons to spend some time in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of sw Virginia. . ya'll come, ya heah?"
- Phil
- "Congratulations on your use of the word "indices" on the first page. Every time I see the pseudo-word `indexes', I want to do something violent."
- Zachary Ernst
- "Greetings from Finland, Europe. I've visited Denny's once, in North Miami Beach near Collins Avenue and 178th. I had turkey and mashed potatoes and for dessert delicious coconut pie. Coffee was quite good and there was plenty of it. Didn't see Weird Al, just busy waitresses..."
- Sami
- "hi... my name is niki bertrand and i am a usual at dennys. me and my friends will spend hours up there.... sometimes never leaving until 4 in the morning. my friends started hanging out there about three years ago when they were kicked out of IHOP. i started sometime last fall. i have a story about what has happened to "the dennys crowd". once a great place to chill with your friends, now a blooming soap opera that gets worse every day. if you would like to read an article (that will soon be published in the second edition of my zine) about the restaurant and the crowd in a regular dennys in tyler texas then please write me back... ill be glad to email it to you.... if youve had enough stories.. well i understand. thanks for your time."
- Niki
- "I can't understand how you can keep on supporting Denny's the way you are. On 4/11/97 approx AM2:30 seven students who were Asian and black went to a Denny's by Syracuse University. These students were told to wait for a seat for more than 30 minutes while other groups of whites that came in after them were given seats before them. After complaining to the management, the students were kicked out by the Denny's security for no particular reason. Right afterwards, these students were severely beaten by a group of approximately 20 whites in front of the guards and these guards did nothing to stop them.
Incidences of racism have been abundant in the recent past of Denny's. Denny's was in a multi-million dollar law suit recently for disciminating against colored customers, and as a result, the executive officers apoligized in public and vowed that this would never happen again. Looking at this incident, we can determine that the Denny's management didn't really follow up on their promises. I sincerely hope that the Denny's management will learn that diversity is something that is positive to American society, not negative."
- name withheld by request
- "Have you or any of your deciples (sp?) ever had sex in a dennys booth? That's a life goal, man."
- Keith O'Toole
- "Unbelievable. I too used to be on a mission to visit as many Denny's as possible.
It all started in college, when I made the statement to a group of friends while entering a Denny's.
I asked, "Why is it that no one ever plans on going to Denny's, you just 'end up' there?"
I couldn't come up with a good answer, so me and a buddy set out to find the truth.
Our mission was to rate every Denny's we dined at, making sure to order the same thing everytime to establish a base line. I would always order the French Slam, (scrambled eggs, four strips of bacon (instead of 2 bacon 2 sausage) and occasionaly a vanilla shake. My buddy would get the Denny Burger with cheese.
We would always rate the Denny's on service, food, and overall impressions. We would also try and take something with us to remind us of the visit. We can talk about that off line sometime. So I have saved this chart we made which ranks each and every Denny's we frequented. The dates starts back in 1989 and runs through about 1993. Most of the Denny's are in Northern California, but stretch to Tuscon, Reno, Southern California, and Hermosillo Mexico (which was quite an experience)
Please let me know if you are interested in this information.
I really enjoyed your site."
- Jeff Rosado
- "May I suggest that you use our new logo, and learn a little about the background of our company? If you wish to learn more, contact me, I am a Area Manager, and 10 year employee of Denny's."
- Anonymous
- "If you are ever in Scranton, PA, come visit our Denny's. We welcome the challenge, and we promise not to have your bus towed away. We've got a friendly staff, and we even have our own "Weird Al"(but he doesn't think so). Just make sure you let us know who you are so we can collect some really good"presents" for you. Hope to see you soon."
- Jo-Anne
- "I hate denny's food but your web site is hilarious. i applaud you for making such a shrine to such and American Institution. I plan to visit your page often to see where your mission will take you next. If your ever in Lansing MI come see us. We'll be here and maybe we can stomach some Denny's for one nite anyways."
- Dan Olson
- "How come you don't have either New York or Nebraska listed in you Holy Mission? Just Idle curiosity."
- Luke Andrews-Hakken
- "I live in a medium sized town called Beckley in the southern part of West Virginia, (no, not western Virginia) West Virginia! It is a state! Sorry but I feel I must clarify that for the morons out there still living in the ice age. Anyway, to get to the point, everytime I travel I make it a point to stop at every Denny's I can find (much like yourself) as you will see from the list below. Since I know the Denny's corporate people are avid readers of this web page, (nicely done by the way!) (yes I am sucking up!!! I haven't figured out why yet though) I thought I would ask the question: WHY IN THE FUCK ISN'T THERE A DENNY'S HERE??? It isn't like we have every other resturant in the world or anything! Are you afraid??? Chicken Shit!!!"
- Guy Parker
- "i love denny's, and i love reading about your adventures there. i love in a small city in upstate new york and have had many fun-filled nights since the arrival of our new Denny's restaurant. We have our favorite waitresses there of course, and they all love us and fight over who will serve us our crackers with no soup and jellies. we also like to play with the denny's crayons and harlem globetrotters stickers they give us often. well, keep writing about your denn'ys adventures..."
- Rachelle Rae
- "You should make it your new goal to "get" enough stuff from Denny's to open your own!!!"
- Darren Sleen
- "THANKYOU! No frames, flashing links etc! I know it's petty but these pointless, time wasting bits of junk just get me so ANNOYED, and they seem to be everywhere. Keep up the good work ;)"
- Peter Moss
- "First, I love the site! Finally, a meeting place for all of us who have nothing better to do than harrass Denny's waitresses and eat bad food! My group of friends and I are all loyal Denny's patrons, going there at least 3 or 4 times a week back in high school. Now that we're in college, we make sure we go every time we go home! My reason for writing is that I haven't yet seen anyhone else mentioning- ahem... "borrowing" Denny's merchandise on a long term basis! Between my friend and I, we literally have EVERY item in our Denny's, including the ice scoop from behind the counter! My latest and finest addition is the Denny's orange juice carafe, an excellent container for drinking large quantities of brew! We have never gotten caught, although some close calls have scared us a few times! Well, thanks for listening! I suppose you should post me as "anonymous", since I guess I COULD get in trouble...but you make the call...you're the boss!"
- not Dan Bornemann - not st96mc6j@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu
- "First, I must say that your web page is totally cool!!!!! I am a former Denny's employee - not just 1 Denny's, but two - I worked in both Devon and King of Prussia, PA. I always had lots of fun waiting tables, especially the bar rush (after the bars closed). Those were the nights I got more phone numbers than tips, but my buzzed customers usually were in good moods and told me great jokes. Good luck on your quest - Grand Slams For Everyone!!!!!"
- Stacey
- "Why is it that they call them hash browns, but they appear to be microwaved. Your polite to the waitress, because after all she did'nt cook them. So you scape them off your plate and onto your toaste plate and ask her to get the cook to brown them for you. 15 minuets later after you've finished your breakfast, they finally return to the table just as pale and gross as they were when you sent them back."
- Anonymous
- "God bless you in your quest, fearless devourers of shameless swill!"
- Anonymous
- "I would just like to say that the Denny's Project is a truly heroic undertaking. I have been an Dennyphile for quite some time now... in fact, my husband and I first met at a Denny's :) When you get to the San Diego area Denny's lemme know, I'll buy you a cup of coffee. Keep up the great work."
- Sarah Kranz
- "i have been with the dennys corp and franchise comm. for about 15 years, as waiter, cook, mngr. this is really fun. keep it up and i will spread to my other dennys internet users the address"
- Donald Hess
- "sugar, you just ain't right, are you?!"
- Kelley Courington
- "Hey there! Interesting Denny's web site you have. My Denny's interest comes from a little different perpective than yours (I think). I'm a former Denny's manager (June 94-January 97). I've worked at Denny's 1182 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Denny's 1006 and 1152, both in Madison, Wisconsin. Two years of my Denny's tenure was at 1006 on the eastside of Madison. This Denny's is in the neighborhood I grew up in and is the Denny's my family went to as a child. Both of the Denny's in Madison had their 20th birthdays within the last year. I've been to most of the Denny's in Wisconsin as well as Denny's in Des Plaines IL, Tampa FL and Orlando FL."
- Anonymous
- "Here I was searching the net for a Denny's web page so that I could cyberate them for not having Nachos on the menu in South Bend Indiana, when what do I find but a mecca devoted to nothing but Grand Slams."
- Anonymous
- "We go to Benson Blvd Denny's in the wee drunken hours of the morning for the coffee. Maybe a plate of fries. The one in Southtown sucks, though, it closes too early, no action."
- Mike Kross
- "I like your site, Although I do not understand your passion. It seems sad to me, like the indian in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest who is too pathetic to escape and stay escaped. However, I couldn't just dump on it, I like it in spite of myself. Your use of quality design rather than quantity, of content (however whacked) over form is, well, its about time! We need more of this!"
- Sean Bischoff- tooner@a.crl.com
- "I can't say much about Denny's. It is a young person's hangout.I worked in one in Illinois as a teenager. The Manager was a jerk.
I am now 42. Denny's has always been the standard for slow service and non-smoking rooms filled with smoke.
I obviously do not eat there, and haven't for years. Glad you are enjoying them...It's a dirty, thankless restaurant, but somebody's got to do it!"
- Anonymous
- "youre a little nuts but i totally dig it..."
- Digital Ice
- "Phat damn site."
- Bryan D. Hance
- "The Dennys at Barstow on Rt 15 , At the Factory Outlet needs help--big time. Twice we have stopped toeat. We ended up leaving after waiting 15 min. for anyone to approach our table. Where do they train these people?Also they have taken the Italian Meld off menu- The one thing I came in for."
- Tom E. Merryman
- "Once I ate at this Denny's and there was a big fat hairy cockroach on the table. There are some waitresses who look like weird al yankovich. That's about all, Thank you."
- She-Ra
- "This site is cool! I'm a sophomore at the University of Missouri in Columbia, and last semester my friends and I started this tradition of hanging out at the local Perkins for coffee, sometimes food, and generally making a nuisance of ourselves. Then we started staying up later, and Perkins closes at 11, so we started going to Denny's instead. So basically we live at Denny's. I love your site and am adding it to my homepage (http://www.missouri.edu/~c665087). Keep up this worthy project! P.S. I also commend you for not using frames, flashing text, etc. Two thumbs up."
- Kelly Lasiter
- "Dammit - they got rid of the nachos. What am I going to do?"
- Robert Lane
- "You're coming to Arizona? If so, are you coming to Phoenix? If you'd like, you can come visit me and The Denny's Krew(tm) at our Denny's. I've been to just about every Denny's in Phoenix (I think I've missed one or two)."
- Joe S. Phigan
- "Dear Mr concentric, I'm a Denny's fanatic also. Except there's only one in particular that I go to. My visits have become so frequent that I have my own table. I don't even need to order, the waiter knows what I want, mozzarella sticks and pecan pie."
- Debbie
- "Well we were looking for a tour of the whitehouse but we bumped into your tour of dennys.thanks for all of the great info."
- Anonymous
- "Jason, I've at least indirectly known you since the days of the Anxiouity Closet (sp) and I always knew you were one damn cool computer user, but Project Denny's is by far the coolest thing I'l ever seen. My hat is off to you!"
- Brendan Bollin
- "Did you ever notice that at 2AM you start to see visions of destruction and torture in the film that forms on the top of Denny's coffee. Sometimes it just looks like some strange, trippy psychadelic image. I've never noticed it in any other place's coffee so it must be a Denny's thingy. It's pretty weird. It's not bad coffee tho."
- Zohoe
- "I like your page, but with all the Denny food your must of eight you probably have tape worm a mile long."
- Anonymous
- "I'm from Toledo too, I understand why you have so much time. here's a nice little story from the November 1993 spin, 100th issue
SAVE YOUR PORNO MONEY The Bayfront Ampitheater in Miami, Florida, was the scene of a massive counterfeit-money bust on Aug. 10 when local police and Federal agents seized well over a thousand phony $100 bills. Whos face was on each bill? Perry Farrell's. The fake dough was the propety of Porno for Pyros. Farrell used it as a stage prop on the band's latest tour, throwing handfuls into the audience during the performance on the pyros tune "Meija". Apperently, one fan tried to pass his bil off as legal tender in a Denny's restaurant in Tampa after seeing the show the night before. He was caught only after a Denny's employee accepted the C-note with Farrell's beaming mug prited on both sides. The next night, the band was held in police cutody at the ampitheater for several hours ahile the Treasury agents counted and confiscated the bad cash. According to the band's manager, Ted Gardner, "perry is crushed. He had his own secret supply of Porno money and was hopiing to dine out at Denny's for the next ten years on it." For the rest of the tour, Farrell resorted to divvying out hundereds of real American dollar bills each night.
You should go there :)"
- Naomi Donabedian
- "This site is like a 'Grand Slam' from heaven! I'm glad that Denny's freaks worldwide now have a place to meet and trade stories about the greatest franchised restaurant chain in the world! My friends and I go to school at RPI, and consequently we frequent the four Denny's in the greater Albany area. We go there so much that a few seconds after being seated, and without asking, the waiter already knows exactly what we want (The Club, with seasoned fries, and a Pepsi) We must take umbrage, however, with the viewer review that was given on your page. We believe that the Central Ave. Denny's is superior, for no other reason than that one of the waitresses always hits on my friend, Anthony. Anyway, good hunting. And thanks for a great site."
- Matthew Dohn
- "Dude, when I was in college I used to go to Denny's five nights a week with a whole bunch of friends. We would study there and sleep in shifts in the booth. We got to know all of the waitresses by name and they would give us free shit all the time. You guys are awesome. By the way, I have been to the Warminster, PA Denny's where that guy got kicked out. Warminster's not the kind of place you want to make a home out of anyway. Keep on truckin'!"
- Anonymous
- "I just thought that I'd let you know that I am dilligently at work on putting up your denny's background up as the wallpaper for all the computers here at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. I think that this should say something about how challenging the classes are here."
- Anchor
- "We have been going to Denny's in the southern California area for years and are impressed with two things that seem to be universal. First, the vegetables are always COOKED and second, the quality of the Chicken Fried Steak is ALWAYS very, very good regardless of where you go and we stop at the various Denny's whenever we are on a trip. Nice to know you can get something good consistently in this day and age."
- Stan Stuart
- "New Denny's info....Today in Clearwater Florida on US 19 a commercial for Denny's is being filmed stay tuned for more info..."
- Chris
- "I, and a small cult of my followers worship you as the god of coolness that you are. I was wondering if you could help me prove/disprove a theory of mine. After much experimentation in a couple different Denny's, I have determined that if a group of many near broke friends get together and forget to ask for seperate checks, the group will end up exactly two dollars and thirty one cents short. Everyone will swear that they have paid their part, plus tip, but the cash total after everyone has thrown in their contribution will testify otherwise. What do you think could be the source of this? A time vortex resulting from the aura of the grand slam breakfasts? A maelstrom in the cash flow continuim that springs a leak inside all Dennys from which cash starts leaking out? I remembered this theory of mine when I was on your page, and decided that you would be the ultimate source of knowledge on this."
- Acalanes1
- "In my opinion... Denny's sucks big time. The management doesn't care if the stores are filthy and that the food is old and rancid. The cooks can't cook worth a darn. The servers are stupid and the restaurants should be shut down. Thank God I don't have to eat there!!!! There are plenty other restaurants to choose from. I certainly won't eat at any of the other places owned by the idiots who own Denny's. All of the Long John Silver's restaurants aren't worth the money it costs to drive to, and every Grandy's needs to be closed for good because they feed their customers rancid chicken! Shame on you for promoting these restaurants...you need to find something better to do with your time. This is all my opinion which I am entitled to express. You may trust Denny's, but just wait until you get as sick as I did from eating their nasty food, and see how quickly you change your opinion!"
- Douglas Newell
- "Deland, Florida. Great food. Lots of fun. By the way, to all interested people, waitresses make 2.13 an hour. Not minimum wage, because they are tipped employees. Okay, sometimes are tipped!"
- Valerie Gaylord
- "I just started taking a class called "Socyology of Women". When to my delight I found out that one of my text books is about Denny's Waitresses. The book is titled, "Dishing It Out: Power and Resistance among Waitressesin a New Jersey Resaurant". The teacher said in the first class that no one knew what resaurant/diner it was. But I noticed that in the intro. the Author (Greta Foff Paules) said that it used to be a doughnut shop in the 50's. And as we all know Denny's started out being Danny's Doughnut Hut. The book also give an accurate account of the late night crowd at Denny's, explaining the hell that waitresses have to deal with. I just thought you's like to know that I have finally acoplished a dream which was to study Denny's in college. Woo Hoo, yay me."
- Anchor
- "howdy, i'm e-mailing you to tell you about denny's new computer system here , near cleveland, highland hts to be exact, they started thier new computer system, and from what the managers saY, IT SUCKS!!!! BY THE WAY, this is something i'll bet you never did, I spent new years eve at Denny's and believe it or not there was about 10 people like me without a life at denny's on midnight new years eve, at least i had a reason, my wife had to manage that night well thats about it hope to see you in the cleveland area soon don't forget at least we got the rock hall you can visit!"
- Anonymous
- "I just wanted to send you a bit o fan mail, since I have been extremely amused by your site since I discovered it over Christmas. My father, who designs web sites, was a bit perplexed by the concept, but maybe it's a generational thing. Anyway, I am a medical student in Boston, where, as you know, there is a tragic lack of Denny's. We tend to end up at the IHOP instead, a poor substitute, and once I even was ejected from one in the wee hours of the morning before an exam (we got rather giddy). I have noted from your viewer's log that no one has reported in on the Denny's in Highland Park, IL, which is the closest store to my parents' house, so when I"m home over spring break I intend to visit and submit a full review."
- Diana
- "i cant believe denny's actually gave you thirty bucks! i've work for them a year and three months and all i received was a net loss of 10 dollars a week! ( they lowered their insurance suppliment to my health plan by seven dollars and the insurance went up three dollars this year. ) raises are given to managers every march now. (another cost savings for them..had to pay off that 45 million last year to the "plaintiffs") i got screwed on my raise because it was based on my length of service at the time of the review .( only there 1/3 of a year so i got 1/3 of my raise= 347 $ out of 1040 $ my review said i "rated" at. oh well...boo-hoo. i worked for them 6 years in the 80's. .funny thing is it is the only restaurant i ever ENJOYED working at! they are in financial dissaray at the current time. maybe if they started SPENDING some money they would make some instead of making their employees wonder why in the hell they work there!! you are correct when you find denny's enjoyable. it really is. i just wish they would invest some $$ in our unit so we can better serve our guests the way we are capable of . OUR ( mine and staff) biggest wish is replacement wall paper for the missing pieces and a new shake machine so we can make more than one shake at a time!!!!!!! ( a full management staff would be nice too!!!!) but we at denny's in PEORIA will still do the best with the tools they allow us to have!! FOR SOME INSIDE TRADING INFO.... buy denny's stock now!! it's at rock bottom and i believe they are positioning themselves to SELL!! best of luck in your "project" . playing in peoria, all our love..."
- Anonymous
- "Jason, I really like your stuff...but I can't figure out your message....I thought maybe you were another marketing genius like miller lite dave. I'll talk to you more about this but right now I have this cat that's meowing at me....ever try to figur why cat's meow? It's what I do, and I don't have to travel all over hell to see thye same stuff.....but I admire someone who does because they can VALIDATE what we already know. Bless you brother."
- Chuck Boyle
- "Some time ago I sent a note about the service at the local Denny's and all I got was a RUN AROUND, like we dont have any direct link with the Denny's Corp. I have sent an E-MAIL requesting that you remove my name and address from your mailing list as I DON'T PLAN TO VISIT ANOTHER DENNY'S AGAIN!!!!"
- Charles W. Marrow
- "Going to Denny's is always a thrill
What will have happened by the time I get my bill?
Will there be lipstick on the coffee mug? "Extender" in my eggs?
Why is the waitress using my fork to scratch her legs?
I used to be able to "Grand Slam" with the pennies from my car,
Now I also have to empty my mad money jar.
I said I'd always be faithful I said I'd always be true,
But with Boston Chicken right next door, what am I to do?"
- Eric Seeds
- "hi..loved the page....next week we arrive in Seattle...we live in London uk....we intend to be pigging out in a dennys within the hour after touchdown....the best way to start an American holiday!!!...bye..."
- Mark and Rachel
- "I have a very old Denny's menu with an insert from the FIRST EVER grand slam baseball card promotion. Well, maybe not the first ever, but it was the first time I'd heard of it. I remember having to explain it to all our customers, that they could only get the baseball card if they ordered these special items... and it made a few of them upset, because they didn't particularly want the hamdinger or the Bases Loaded Slam. Couldn't they get the card with the Super Bird? That was a rough summer. Was that the first time they did the baseball card promotion? If so, I may be holding a piece of history in my basement."
- Dawn M DuPriest
- "Great stuff here. I not only find it humorous and entertaining, but very informative operationally.
I am a Denny's GM in Virginia Beach, Va., a new franchise opening in February 97. The company I work for is called DenAmerica, and is headquartered in Scottsdale AZ. We own over 300 Denny's restaurants mostly in the Midwest and southeastern US. We have also recently acquired the Black Eyed Pea Restaurant chain.
I look forward to visiting your site regularly and invite you to stop in and see us at our new store in Virginia Beach on your next visit. Our address is 5720 Northampton Blvd. which is Rt.13. We are the first restaurant stop coming into Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.
Lots of luck in your adventures."
- Robert L. Sexton
- "LOVE YOUR PAGE! GENERATION X HAS FOUND A MISSION!"
- Katie Rossi
- "i have read through some of the letters that people have written about dennys. now i am sure that every restraunt chain has its popular areas as well as its unpopular dennys has made the eastern end of pennsylvania one of its unpopular areas.i worked at dennys for about 6 years in the early 90s and what was a great place to work in 1990 made its employees stressed out by the beginning of 1996,they did a poor job of getting rid of people who would loiter and fistfight and sell drugs in thier parking lots and this drove away their good customers(and good tipping ones) another problem was it seemed the "higher up" personell came down hard on the store managers when something went wrong then the store managers came down on the employees because of this now what you have is stressed out servers serving you and what they feel in their hearts is they hope they can find new jobs soon .when dennys addresses these problems rather then finding out who to blame then they will become a great restraunt again like they had been back in the 70s"
- Edward Webb
- "ok.. come to my dennys.. its the best.. there is this guy named "jamal" (ja-mall) who gave us free food (he is in jail right now, he will be back) all the time. if you come to my dennys, make sure to talk to him.. he is awesome. we have the best sampler of all the dennys in the world."
- Anonymous
- "We should dare people to go where no one has ever gone . Dare people to do what no one has ever done. Use the internet to let people travel around the world in 86 days to stop at every Denny`s across the planet and win great real prizes . Such as 2 free crusies on The Big Red Boat or 3 free all expensie pay to Disney World or 4 tickets to Cedar Point in the summer and2 tickets to the All star game or 10 free Burger King meal or Denny`s. "
- Richard Snider
- "Hello ever hit more than one dennys on your Birthday to get the free meal???"
- Charlie Gray
- "We must include deadwood"s Denny's cuz it's just off U.S. Hi-Way 101 @ Woodside Rd. and we all know that Redwood City has the best climate in the U.S. by Gov't test. Also it's just a stones throw from Hurlingame Heights, where we work late into the nite & love to go for coffee and a Grand Slam Breakfast. The staff is always nice, depending on who's workin' that niteü You can usually spot the local S.O. having coffee or talking up the waitress before going off-duty. I sure miss getting my free B-Day meal though."
- Anonymous
- "Just wanted to say Hello from Scotts Valley, CA (near San Jose and Santa Cruz). Your sight is truely one of the best! I decided to write and let you know that I am browsing you site usng WebTV from Sony and it still looks great. In fact, the way I found your sight was that the nice folks at WebTV placed it on my "home page" as the biggest Cool Web Site for 1/22/97. Their tag line was, "Mission:Impossible Join the Quest to Visit Denny's" or something like that. Again, great job! Keep up all the hard work. Also, if you are ever in Scotts Valley, you should stop b and see JoAnne at my Denny's...she is truely the best waitress I've ever had."
- Glenn Cochran
- "HOW ABOUT A DWNNY'S IN QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS? NONE THAT I KNOW OF IN THIS AREA!"
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- "When I travel with my family we always stop at Denny`s for a good meal, and at a good price. My question is , how come there are no Denny`s around the Providence area?."
- William Downing
- "Holy Cow. You, sir are one IMAGINATIVE fellow! What a great idea! I, too have good memories of Denny's...one saved my life. I was driving back from visiting Vancouver, B.C. very early one morning. I was having trouble staying awake, and the road wasn't the best. It was 2 am, and there wasn't really anyplace to pull over and rest at. I came to Bellingham, WA, and everything was closed....except the Denny's. I went in, had some coffe and beakfast, and was energized enough to complete the trip back to my home at the time, Fort Lewis."
- Scott Hoagland
- "Dear Sir: Your quest is inspiring. Do you have any tips for starting a Denny's quest of my own? Is it better to order the same meal at each Denny's (to rate the relative quality)? Or should I order something different at each place, so as to remember each Denny's as having a distinct personality? This is all so confusing, I don't know how you keep your wits while undertaking such a historical adventure. Keep up the good work!"
- Gregory Amand
- "After hearing all that you have gone through, I guess I would say, "wish I could be there!""
- Joyce
- "I admire you. I'm from the midwest, moved to Tucson about a year ago, and am enjoying all the sunshine. As a high school student and for a while thereafter, I freqented many a Denny's. Alas, in fact, for a while, my group of friends and I were going to do what you are doing. However, instead, I fell in love and split the country and moved to Morocco. Then I came back and to my dismay, Denny's food and their great bottomless cupajava somehow transformed and to me tasted quite rancid. I tried several Denny's but somehow it seems that I am sick of them. Even with all their great new items. But then, a lot happens when you become a vegetarian. I do, however miss all those days, nights, hours, even days spent in many a Denny's."
- Christine
- "Jason...do me a favor while your out and about at all these Denny's...count the Handicap parking places from state to state. See, I live in Florida, and all the Denny's have beaucoup handicap parking. My theory is that it is a direct consequence of customer diet. My wife thinks it because Denny's customers are elderly. Now if other states also have such an inordinate # of HCPS's then I would think my theory holds. If not, then I would think my wife is right...and very old too!"
- Chuck Boyle
- "I was shot in a Denny's last yea