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Bedford, Massachusetts

• "If you get off Route 128 (known to non-native Bostonians as I-95) at the Route 4/225 exit and go a few blocks toward Bedford, there is a Denny's on the left in front of the Holiday Inn Express. It is NOT open 24 hours! I believe one of few that isn't. There isn't much else special about it though." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Phil Lerman

• "hello mr. p7a77, I will tell you about my dennys now..its in Salem, New Hampshire and it is one of the most evil places in the world....would you like to know why?? Ill tell you anyway, they kick me out on a regular basis...why you ask? oh, no reason really...all except the fact that the scared little man (the manager) HATES me and anyone I come in to contact with for no good reason whatsoever. I feel violated...but yet..somehow attracted...I go back night after night for lack of anything else fun and exciting to do. well I suppose I shouldnt be too hard on them..(I said hard on) they do, after all, sell cum covered meat and various other things that keep me amused when all else fails. and the waitresses are nice...but they dont stick up for me...so I have a resentment. I cant help it! by the way my name is Tammy, and if you would like to hear more of my amusing denny's antics I will be more than happy to tell you of them...lord knows I've nothing better to do." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anonymous

• "I just wanted to ask you if you can have a special spot for Grace, our waitress, on your page. A group of 10-14 of us go to the Denny's in Lexington/Bedford MA on Thursday nites for the past 3-4 months, and Grace has served us 80% of the time. She is AWESOME!!! She is probably the best waitress I've ever had. She is the reason we habitually go to Denny's every week." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Shaunt Kiredjian

Boston, Massachusetts

• "I live in Boston, and there's not a Denny's within miles." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Joel Risberg

• "I live in Boston, MA and as someone else noted, there aren't any Denny's here and I sorely miss them. I miss their milkshakes the most." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Jackie Agnew

Chicopee, Massachusetts

• "I went to the DENNY'S off the MassPike(exit 5) Chicopee. I wasn't dissapointed. The silverware wasn't bad, just a few water spots. And the hookers from Springfield provided a touch of ambiance. It made me feel like selling my house and moving to a trailer park. Or getting my CDL and buying a Tractor-Trailer rig. The coffee was great, the food.....well it wasn't quite galloping off my plate but..............." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Scott M.

• " this is my review of the denny's in chicopee massachusetts. it is alot worse than told in the other review. even the water makes you sick! at about 2am once all the freaks leave the WHITE TRASH comes in. there is no better entertainment than denny's entertainment!! the apple pie heated with everything on it with NUTS is the best thing offered. even though there are so many frightening parts to denny's for some reason i fing myself there at least twice a weeks. i'd have to say that denny's is the best restaurant ever invented; where else can you go to eat, get sick and entertained at the same time." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Brian Janik

• January 31, 2001 - "The sad thing is, there's a large group of us that meet at Denny's in Chicopee, Massachusetts just about every night and a couple of them were seriously considering going "denny's hopping" accross the eastern US. I think they'll be disappointed when I let them know of your site (but hey, it's entertaining), and even further disappointed when they find out "our Denny's" isn't listed on there. Especially since the night crew waitstaff are so kind to us. Would be nice for them to have some recognition. Especially since all of the guys in the group are trying to get with this sweet waitress that works there. I feel bad for her. But keep up the good work, and come visit sometime! It's VERY easy to find."
  - Jessica Manos

Danvers, Massachusetts

• "my fond memory of dennys involves the dennys in danvers mass. myself and some of my friends arrived at around 3:00am after a drunken party in a room at the motel that shared the parking lot at the time. we had all ordered our food and were ,i dont know if enjoying it is the right phrase, lets just say we were tolerating it. well halfway through my cheeseburger i found a lovely surprise......several good size pieces of eggshell. well to my good fortune i was given a new cheeseburger(minus the eggshells) and i only had to pay for my coke! god truly smiled on me that day!" - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anonymous

• "I frequent the Danvers, MA Denny's cause there's nothing else to do after midnight around here! It's the only thing open besides Dunkin Donuts. So everyone goes to Denny's. There are some really freaky people there. Of course, half of them are my friends. The food sucks, but it's Denny's, what do you expect?" - written prior to September, 1999
  - Elissa S. Goldberg

• "Some dusty stellar lore + a brief review ... my girlfriend & I have been frequenting the Denny's in Danvers, Massachusetts, since we began dating some 3 years or 5 lifetimes ago. Our most special Denny's moment something like the time that I stumbled across the parking lot from the same hotel mentioned by another reviewer (Melissa & I shacking up there for a 'romantic' evening) in a transpersonified state, wine bottles wrapped in a towel, asking to borrow a corkscrew & goddam if they didn't lend me one then and there. Did so. [This is actually a recommendation of the highest order & those waitresses nothing less than angels in disguise. Quality of food inversely proportional to 'decency' of the hour. Go late.] Since then we've relocated to Somerville, which is Bickford's country, surrounded by an IHOP interzone. The enemy has run amok in Massachusetts, that most puritan of commonwealths (as in Boston, that most puritan of cities), and liberation remains a 40 minute drive & many Moons Over My Hammy away. Yet on those divinely-appointed nights of conjoined planets, auspicious omens and the like, we veil ourselves in secrecy and make pilgrimage back to that shrine of all that is cheese-covered, where I can bask in the rebellious purity of nascently gothic teenagers and drink cup after cup of bitter coffee until visions of a denuded Madeline Albright dance before my eyes.
  Thanks & thanks a lot for it.
  [please do not post this message if you intend to cut any parts ... please remove this line if you intend to post this message. you do wonderful work -- cheers]" - written prior to September, 1999
  - Matt Johnson

Fall River, Massachusetts

• "Hello Denny's chroniclers! I just had to write you about my favorite Denny's, located in Fall River, Ma. The atmosphere at this Denny's rivals that of Bob's Big Boy. It's cozy, yet also has a touch of sophistication. Lovely brass hangers overflowing with plastic geraniums add just a splash of color to the dining area. They brighten up the lives of every haggard truck driver that happens to stagger in. Ahhh, their French Slam is to die for, and the hashbrowns there--well, I can't even get into it with such a short space. I couldn't pass up the chance to add this to your viewer's list. Please visit Fall River sometime, you won't regret it!" - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anonymous

• April 9, 2000 - "I've been hanging out in this place for years. They only close for a couple of hours every year, on Christmas. The waitstaff rules, but AVOID THIS PLACE LIKE THE PLAGUE DURING "BAR RUSH". All the local bars close at 2 and Denny's is the only place open; the locals can get unruly, to say the least. If you're looking for a fight you can find one pretty easily, but there's a cop on duty for the weekend nights. I've sat in this place for 7hrs. a pop; I even cross-country skied from my house in a blizzard for miles just to get there (there was a driving ban in effect). When I arrived, the plow drivers and staff pooled some cash for me to jump the plowed snow in the lot across the street.... If you go, ask for Barbara; she rocks and is the world's greatest waitress.
  P.S. We're only 45 minutes from Boston; all those people complaining about not having a Denny's need to do their homework!"
  - Kevin Grant

Holyoke, Massachusetts

• "Route 5, Holyoke, Massachusetts. this Denny's has been a part of my life for well on 16 years now. As far as I know, there is no worker who resembles Wierd Al, the Saint of Yankovic, his most holy blessedness. I do have to admit that I have never been to this restaurant in the daytime, so perhaps he works the morning shift. I do know that one of the dishwashers resembles the actor who played Al Bundy on Married with Children. (well, ok, I am ashamed to admit I dated this man, but there it is.) This dishwasher has been working there for nearly 10 years! Food is usually good, and the coffee is excellent. I particularly enjoy the Southern Grand Slam." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Toria Dunbar

• October 29, 2003 - "The year was 1995. After five years of hiding in my apartment, I took my first timid step towards re-connecting with the world by applying for work at the one place I figured would hire absolutely anyone - McDonald's. [The Denny's part is coming, I promise.] The manager - an Idi Amin-lookalike whose Caribbean accent was so thick that no one ever understood what he was saying - sat me at a table and spoke to me for five minutes. I think he was talking about how important it was to work hard but there was no way to be sure so I just nodded thoughtfully every 10 to 15 seconds. I was hired to work from 4:00 PM to midnight when they closed. Having distinguished myself by having an IQ higher than 100 and remaining there for more than three months, I was promoted to Swing Manager - thus assuming command of some of the crew geeks I had once toiled alongside. This brought me into a closer working relationship with the restaurant's second-in-command and only diligent worker - a McDonald's lifer in her mid 30s I'll call Nora (after the slatternly waitress played by Susan Sarandon in "White Palace"). Nora had done a lot of living in her time - marriage, divorce, bankruptcy, a period of study in the hallowed halls of Hamburger University, and a disciplinary transfer from a more prestigious unit to our relative backwater for having had sex with one of her young supervisees. She was cheerfully candid and unrepentant about the episode and seemed well on her way to repeating it. (Not with me though. I wasn't her type.) This led me to give her the affectionate nickname "Collect All Six".
  One night after a particularly arduous shift, Nora invited any of the closers who were interested to join her for a midnight snack at the only restaurant still open in those parts - the Denny's in Holyoke. [Told you I was getting there.] I was still pathologically shy and knew I'd be uncomfortable but I forced myself to go - recognizing that I couldn't afford to squander one of my few opportunities to socialize with people. It was a long drive but finally there it was - a small bubble of light and activity in the dark somnolence of western Massachusetts. The five of us slid into one of the big U-shaped booths and talked shop until the waitress - who Nora had promised would be a character - came over to our table.
  I haven't the faintest idea what her name was, so I'll just call her Sassy - since that what she was. She was in her late 20s, I'd guess, and fairly attractive. (Which is to say: by the standards of Denny's waitresses, she was Garbo.) She decided to rest her no-doubt-tired feet by hip-butting me to make room for her on the seat cushion and then helped herself to a drink from my water glass. "Hiya, Nora," she said. "Are these those losers who work for you?" I was aghast. I was appalled. I was enchanted...
  When she felt like it, Sassy finally took our orders. When one member of our party dithered over how he wanted his eggs, Sassy gave him a withering look and said, "You're getting scrambled." He protested, "But I've decided: I want them sunny-side-up." She said, "OK. But you're getting scrambled." And by God, scrambled eggs were what she brought.
  After distributing the plates, she sat down next to me again - nodding goodbye to a cop who was leaving. "So what's your story?" she asked me. "I don't have a story," I mumbled, feeling excruciatingly self-conscious at being in such close proximity to an actual woman. She snorted, "Has Nora made a grab for your Egg McMuffins yet?" Nora, looking embarrassed for the first time since I'd known her, asked her to lighten up on me. Sassy - too proud to brook correction - drilled her eyes into me as I focussed all my attention on the torn and emptied sugar packets near the base of my iced tea glass. "It's because you sit all hunched over and don't look people in the eyes," she diagnosed. "Thanks for the advice," I grumbled, smarting at the truth of it. I withdrew into myself for the rest of the evening, came home late to my unkempt little apartment, fed my pet-store cat, and went straight to bed.
  It's eight years later now. Unimaginable as it would have seemed to me then, I'm married and living in Utah. I still sit hunched over and find it hard to look people in the eyes, but I work at it. (Still have the cat too.) Although I never saw her again after my last day at McDonald's, I suspect Nora is still working for them somewhere. But Sassy - I feel certain - has long since left Denny's and waitressing behind. And not just because any halway-sane manager would have fired her. But because a spirit that bold would eventually have to seek out a more adventurous calling than dishing out Grand Slams. I like to think she found parenthood - the boldest calling of all. And I bet her kids turn out really well."
  - Eric Krupin

Lawrence, Massachusetts

• "so my favorite and, by far, most visited dennys is in lawrence, massachusetts. this luvly eaterie sits right off of rte.495, with its brand new sign easily visible. it's also stuck in the midst of a 12 theatre mega-cinema. so on friday and saturday nights it's packed full of 14 year old movie-goers. fun. this dennys was the primary hangout of me and my best friend- at least before we left for college. we spent hours at a time, drinking coffee, having smokes, stealing the mugs and playing with the magnetic silverware. yup! the knife could actually lift the fork off the table. this dennys is especially memorable because of a certain waitress who is called "bev". bev must be about 93 years old and sounds like she's talking through one of those installed voice boxes. but she provides such quick service and even knew our "regular order" after a couple of months. and she's even known to smoke a fag with you, if you're lucky. the women's bathroom at this dennys is also special, because of all the freaks that you see, and who might start talking to you if you're not careful. my pal kristina was in there one hoppin' night and this bird starts telling her about her dating theory. "only date the ones with cash, honey!" that's true, it really happened. sadly,this dennys has deteriorated over the years. yeah, they sold out and got a new sign and got rid of the employee "we're glad" buttons AND they stopped making the nachos. oh well, onto new territory." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Aura Parks

• "i've been going for years..and i love it. you can almost always count on bad service and sometimes if youre lucky, a big fat attitude. especially from georgette. she once chased me into the parking lot because she thought i called her a bitch. lucky for me i don't see her that often. recently they've aquired a bunch of new waitresses who are quick with the coffee and i always make sure to leave a phatty tip :) tonite i got a special suprise in my coffee....chunks of creme. but bev (gotta love bev) was more than happy to get me a new one! i love my dennys. i've also been known to visit the one in bedford..but it's non-smoking :( (isn't there a law against that?!?) " - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anonymous

Leominster, Massachusetts

• "While I don't actually recall my first experience with the place, I do remember something that really stuck out about the Denny's I go to. The workers used to wear buttons that said "We're happy" which made them look (as individuals) like they were more than one person (weird!)
  Anyway, I love being able to get breakfast at 10 o'clock at night. The Denny's I've visited is located in Leominster, Massachusetts. It's exit 32 off of Route 2. This is the central portion of Massachusetts, in the Worcester county area. It has changed quite a bit since I started going there, however. Now there is a really fat black lady named Sherrie, and she is really amusing. She can be really nice to you when she gets to know you, but I always see her insulting and threatening customers ("boy, I'll beat you like your momma should have!") I'm totally serious too, no lie here, she actually says stuff like that. I think it's her way of dealing with the rude customers she probably has to put up with. But I think most people aren't sure whether it's a joke or if she's serious (I think it's a little bit of both)" - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anthony J. Martino

• "Hey, update on my Denny's in Leominster, Massachusetts. I just visited there Sunday night, and it was the worse experience I've ever had with a restaurant in my entire life!
  We arrived around 11:45 pm. The girls I was with needed to be home by 1:00 am, so we figured we'd have no problem. Well, it took 1 hour for our orders to arrive (there were five of us) and the place wasn't even packed! They were so goddamn slow! And even after receiving the food, much of it was cold. I ordered a two-egg breakfast without meat. Just toast, couple eggs and country fried potatoes (in place of hash browns) Well, they delivered the potatoes and the eggs, but no toast! So I asked for the toast. And then I asked again. Ten minutes later my toast arrived, by then the rest of my meal having been devoured. Not my idea of great service at all. We didn't get out of there until 1:15 am, and we still had to drive half-an-hour to get the girls home.
  Now the other four idiots I was with all were shelling out their money to pay this bill, and were even talking about leaving a tip!!!!! I was shocked by how stupid people can actually be, to just clam up and take it in the ass! I wanted to sneak out while the waitress wasn't looking (she hadn't paid any attention to us the entire time, didn't ask if the food was good or anything). So, we go up to the register, and everyone starts figuring out what they owe and putting the money on the counter. When they start asking me for my share, I say "hell no!" We waited a goddamn hour for cold food, and they didn't even bring the meals over in the correct order. I'm not paying for that. So the manager came over, and says "well, your order was clocked in at 12:10 am" and I'm like "we were here at 11:45!!!!" So she just said "ok, you're all set, have a nice day" (after I told her this was the worst experience I had ever had before)
  So I got my friends money back and we didn't have to pay the $35 bill. So it was nice that at least the manager let that go. But the service was terrible, and I wasn't going to take that shit lying down.
  Denny's in Leominster gets a big fat zero!" - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anthony J. Martino

Reading, Massachusetts

• "In May 1996 an old roommate of mine came through Boston on his way home from a two-plus year stint in Vladivostok, Russia where he worked for a consulting firm. They don't have Denny's in the old USSR ... if they did I guess it'd be considered haute cuisine from my friend's description of the local culinary establishments. On our way back from the airport we stopped at a Denny's on Rt. 28 in Reading, MA ... where there was a line stretching into the lobby. My friend hadn't come umpteen thousand miles to wait for service at Denny's, so he used the facilities and we continued on to Zataar's Oven." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Keith Sawyers

Stoneham, Massachusetts

• "i have the great fortune of working right next to the denny's in stoneham massachusetts. someone else wrote a review of one in reading massachusetts, but i think they meant the stoneham denny's which is right on the stoneham/reading line. there aren't really any in the metro boston area so it's good to work next to one, i guess. i often have breakfast there, but i'm sort of boring and just get the two-egg with bacon breakfast. for lunch, i've had turkey clubs (bad idea) bacon cheeseburgers (better idea) and some kind of buffalo chicken salad (good idea). i think it's overpriced in general.
  i sit at the counter and sometimes get waited on by page. she's an absolute babe, but probably too young for me. the last time i was there she had not had time to put her contacts in and was wearing really big glasses. she looked great! there's also a definite weird al match--i think he's the dishwasher. comes out to restock the coffee cups every now and then.
  they are not open 24 hours because of a local ordinance. and they are selling little plush wishbone (tm) dolls." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anonymous

Worcester, Massachusetts

• "I miss the $1.99 Grand Slam. I still go to the DENNY'S on Lincoln St in Worcester, Massachusetts. If you show up real late (4 am) you can watch all the hookers dragging themselves in for a very nutritious breakfast!! At this DENNY'S the waitresses are quite polite!" - written prior to September, 1999
  - Scott M.

• "One of the more surreal Denny's experiences of my life happened at a Denny's in Worcester, Ma. Some friends and I ended up in Worcester, Ma. about a year ago after a concert with no place to stay for the evening. Fortunately, we met this gothpunk girl, I think her name was Darlene, in a park, and she let us stay at her apartment. Before that she took us the the Worcester Denny's, where I guess she was very well known, since they sat us in the staff (or extra) dining room, where we had a great view of the kitchens. I couldn't tell if they put us there because we were special and deserved special treatment, or if they were afraid we'd contaminate the other customers. Anyway, they didn't give us free food or anything but I stole a mug as is my habit whenever visiting a new Denny's." - written prior to September, 1999
  - tree

• June 11, 2000 - "Worcester, Massachusetts on Lincoln Street - Probably the most interesting Denny's I have ever been in. I was a regular here for about three years. I worked third shift and a friend of mine worked second shift and worked the days I had off. Sinc ewe were both night owls, we would often wind up at Denny's after he had closed up shop. The Denny's was moderately clean and recently remodeled, although they still held onto the 70's color and design. The best way to describe the food is "don't ask, don't tell." Also, be sure you stay clear of this place from 1am to about 3 am. The after bar crowd is in there at that time and Worcester actually assigns a police officer to nip any shennanigans in the bud. The place is packed and fights have broken out. The funniest thing I've ever seen there was a non-regular friend of mine who accompanied us once smarted off to the waitress and (no kidding) she grabbed him by the shirt front and hauled him across the table. We tipped REALLY well that night."
  - Raymond C Conrad

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