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Allentown, Pennsylvania

• September 6, 2004 - "Everything a Denny's should be. (But too much cigarette smoke). Pancakes needed a knife to be cut. A little too thick. Great sausages. Excellent service! This was the first time I wore my Project Denny's t-shirt to a Denny's. The staff was impressed."
  - Eric Robinson

Altoona, Pennsylvania

• "This Denny's in Altoona Pennsylvania has to be the money makin' bonanza of all the Denny's in the universe !! This Denny's was in Altoona, before Altoona was Altoona. So the fact that it's been there on the main drag and on the main way to Penn State University, from anywhere in the U.S.A.(e.g. you can't get into State College, Pa without travelling past this Denny's) well, it gets business all 24 hours a day - seven days a week it's open .... in a row too!! The place has all the original stuff when it was built, I mean before the Wisemen and Sheppards stopped by on their way to State College. I kid you, not! Carpet that's some odd shade of brown by now, but who cares, the "service" is unbelievable and the food at 3 am is out of this world! Who cares that they've probably depreciated this building 21 times and never added a new chair. Denny's in Altoona is still packed all day and all night here, even though they've added all those newer food chains that look more yummy ... bla ... Let's go to Denny's in Altoona !" - written prior to September, 1999
  - Denny Paul

Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania

• "I visited the Denny's in Belle Vernon, PA, last December with my ex-boyfriend. He and his friends were regulars there, so we were treated nicely by all. Our waiter was really cool and gave us free drinks. I also visited a Denny's on a trip to Toronto once with my high school's chorus. I'm not sure what town it was in; all I know is that it was at a truck stop somewhere in New York. This Denny's was pretty cool because it didn't have a the normal Denny's cuisine. . . instead, it had a special trucker's menu that was guaranteed in fifteen minutes or less. It took much longer than that (close to an hour), and we almost missed our bus." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Hayley

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

• "After years of visiting a Denny's Restaurant in Bloomsburg PA, I have grown increasing disgusted at the conditions the female restrooms are kept in. Just walking in to use the bathroom, I am overcome by a terrible stench and loud, blaring music. There is never any toilet paper, or if it is the rolls are usually in the toilet bowl. I have also entered the stalls many times to find urine on the floor, toilets that are so blocked up that they cannot even flush, and no seat guards. In addition, I could not even get either of the doors on the stalls to close since they are both broken. Where the sinks are, I sometimes find mounds of paper towels... I highly suggest that something be done to correct the current problems, including remodeling the restrooms, which are obviously in dire need of some repairs and attention!" - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anonymous

• February 20, 2003 - "As a 9 year employee of Denny's I can honestly say at times I have been imbarest to say I work at Denny's. But at this moment I can say iI am proud to work at my store! This summer we had a complete remodel including the restrooms, new management staff and pruning of the dead wood. As I till my family come to Denny's in Bloomsburg and you will get the best dennys has to offer."
  - realist

• March 21, 2003 - " We just got a remodel ($500,000 worth of one) and it wasn't just one of those cheesy retro fits. My Denny's #2102 is located off interstate 80 in Bloomsburg PA. if you let me know when you will be coming, i will try to get you cool free stuff (perhaps a Denny's Shirt, and a 4 star Name Tag??????) but any who, i think our Denny's is one of the best in PA, we kick every ones asses in our region, and area, (and yes we do put parsley on our plates as well)"
  - Philip Bennet

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

• January 10, 2005 - "ok now we all preety much know how if you go to a denny's enough they either get really tired of u coming in at 1 or 2 in the morning or they get so used to you being there its kind of a relief to see a friendly face at 1 or 2 in the morning (in most cases its the friendly face one) and you could almost hear the cheers theme playing in the back of your head cause you know (you want to go where everybody knows ur name dum dum dum) yeah .... moving on but we have our fair share of interesting stories to tell of good old denny's such as recently there was a "fight" in the parking lot and it was all staged and then we had 6 cop cars roll up into the parking lot or the time when the manager from burger king came in and was either so drunk or tiered that he fell asleep spilled his coffee on the table where he was laying , laid in the scolding hot coffee and when they brought his food out couldn't do a dman thing to get him up even waving the smell of his moon over my hammy at him didn't revive this man from his slumber the list goes on and on but there was a sad part to our treks to denny's after while we were staying there from about 10 pm till about 4 or 5 am and they kinda got tired of us being there so long so they made us have time limits on how long we could stay according to what we ordered 35 mins if just a drink and 47 mins if u got food why 47 mins is still confusing us to this day but thankfully the problem has been resolved and we no longer have time limits plus as they see it if were in a booth that mean no one else could come in and order more food thus making them do more work so at times they love us to sit there for hours on end having cigarettes and coffee and the occasional meal whenever any of us have money especially after a long night of poker but eventually we all must return to our domiciles and sleep because the caffeine wore off and there's nothing to keep us up except bad b-movies and adult swim witch most of us fall asleep somewhere in the middle of then we wake up the next day go to school or go to work and start the cycle all over again and we always end up at denny's but like everyone knows the best night is either Friday or saturday because you get a whole smoking section full of drunks and its kinda cool to talk to em and find out what they do why there here ect.. (not like its hard to see why they're there its 1 or 2 am who else is open ?) and denny's got some prime property when they moved in there's a hotel right next door and there's a bar in the back called razzles and they get so much business just from that one bar along its amazing but its is getting late and i have actually just retuned from denny's and must get some sleep b4 school in the morning so until later denny's people keeps those coffee cups filled"
  - Kenny Akehurst

Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania

• "I highly encourage you to patronize the establishment (Denny's) on Baltimore Pike in Clifton Heights, PA. The town is about 20 minutes (give or take)wast of Center City Philadelphia. This Denny's is rather jumpin' on Friday & Saturday night when all the High School squirts and Fuct Punx show up. There is a Barney Fife-esque security guard on duty on these two nights, just to make sure no one starts flingin' their Grand Slams at each other. It's pretty funny, 'cuz other than talking loudly, and doing VERY obnoxious things with the parsley, I don't think there has ever been an incident. There is another Denny's in West Chester PA (about an hour or 45 mins. west of Philly) that is known as much for it's interesting horde of mo-hawked college kids in the smoking section as it is for its bottomless Cup o' Joe.
  P.S. My entire silverware set (service for 7) was stolen from the Clifton Heights Denny's... along with a mini teapot, mug, juice carafe, etc." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Theresa M. Hayden (mudpuppy)

Cranberry, Pennsylvania

• October 19, 2000 - "Well well I must say Im freaked out that people actually have an interest in Dennys LOL.. I .... of course ....am a waitress/cashier/hostess/cook/Unit Aid for Denny's in Cranberry PA Unit 1556. I myself love dennys (cept when you get all the BS) like 80 yr old men pointing their finger in your face at 6am.. screaming "DAMMNNNNN YOUUUUUUUU!" (due to the fact he couldnt have the buck 99 special on the weekend... (Course actually I thought it was hilarious and asked him if I could get him coffee and a midol" hehehehe Gawd that was a hoot.. (that was also in California 4 yrs ago) I must say being a waitress at Dennys is the best job code I could've ever picked.. I love people and I love to tease people... ITS GREAT! Specially if ya get the spunky ones who can take it and dish it back :) Makes my day! The only place you can terrorize the crap outta your customers and have them loving you every second..ÊAND get paid for having a great time!!!! TELL ME NOW.. THATS A FLIPPIN JOB! Now I do sympathize (and excuse me if I cant spell but its late at night... so put those red markers away and enjoy this) :P~~ Anyhow... ah yes there are some real crappy waitresses I mean CRAPPY and trust me I'd fire 'um if I could but ... no dice... ones who cough all over your food and stand around staring at people instead of helping them.. I get so pee'ved its pitiful... but lucky I take my St. Johns Wort (and Major MIDOL) when i work with them.. hehehe and just basically watch them so when they screw up I will be behind to fix what they did... I hate to see people leave Dennys mad.... As for the person who wrote bout some gal in her mid 40's who took on a group of guys in some OTHER state (Thank gawd!) Let me add 'HOLY MAJOR SKANKINESS!" Gawd... Thats disgusting! That gal sure made me and my rep just "OUTSTANDING!" Mind you ANYONE who decides to show up on the Unit 1556 store looking for me.. DONT expect that! (HURL!) Ok... Needless to say I really have nothing intelligent to say cept... ummm Im not racist I love Everybody (Granted they're not assholes) And I hope all yall get better service at Denny's. Love ya and CYA"
  - Nichole

Devon, Pennsylvania

• "If you go the one in Devon after 11p.m. ask for Dave -- and mention Eastern College. He'll gladly sit for a photo or take one for you." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Sarah L.

• "Hmm... Well, I guess "my" Denny's is in Devon, though I'm not sure actually. It's down by Chesterbrook, on Swedesford Rd. where you get onto route 202.
  This Denny's was a mecca for the Stage Crew and many of my freinds when I was a junior and senior in High School. After gigs which would last until the wee hours of the morning, the guys and I (I was the only girl on the crew that year) would head down to Denny's for what they called: Triple F, TDC: FFFTDC, French-Fries, French-Toast and Decaf Coffee. It was a ritual part of every show put on at the high school auditorium. A Wrap-party when there was no wrap-party. ANd I won't forget it any time soon.
  Once, when we went there, we had a psycho-waitress. We called her the Klingon, because she was wearing a Star Trek pin. She came over and we all ordered drinks. My friend Tina asked for a Coke, I asked for Root Beer -- no ice, and everyone else had iced tea or Coke or water. So she comes back and distributes some drinks and then goes "Diet Coke -- no ice". No one says a word, because no one ordered that. She gets miffed and yells "Diet Coke !!! No ICE!! Who had it???" Tina meekly took the drink, just to smooth things over. Even though no one at the table even liked Diet-Coke. Later on when she brought me my dessert, a piece of French Silk pie, the plate was covered with whipped cream in crazy swirls. "Sorry," she barked. "The can exploded" and stomped off. I hope she forgave us all for not being able to contain ourselves any longer and bursting out in wild laughter." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Beth Kelleher

• November 22, 2000 - "I can not believe this site! I saw it listed in the access portion of our local paper & had to check it out. Not that I'm a Denny's fan but I was a Denny's waitress & manager in the mid 80's in West Chester, & Devon Pa. I worked at the City Line store to so it's a blast to read this! F.Y.I. the Devon, Pa store (which was the best ever) was closed down several years ago when the Music Fair closed. A real shame. Almost all the entertainers came to eat at that Dennys as they shared a parking lot with the music fair. One day Kenny Rogers came in & the hostess (who was Chinese) didn't know who he was soooo when he asked to sit in the back where it was private she wouldn't let him! Anyway the rest of us knew who he was & let him sit there. He still had to sign tons of autographs.....We had the Monkees come in. Menudo (with Ricky Martin who was only a little kid then) Steve & Edie Gorme, & I can't remember who else. I do remember a graveyard waitress who used to do speed .. I loved her because when I came in the morning the place was spotless! We had a staff there that had been together forever (really, like 12 years) so we were family. It was great. There are tons of stories in my little brain....I worked in bad Denny's to..No Fun...All told I spent 5 years in the Denny's camp but I haven't set foot in one since I quit...But I still have friends from then & we love to remember the "ole days" Like the one cook who on his last day was tied to the ladder that led to the roof, covered in whipped cream. & chocolate syrup! Or the Manager who flipped out & lined up the whole staff & did "army" type inspections. Or the time a drunk sent back his steak so many times the manager finally put in on the kitchen floor & jumped up & down on it then sent it back to the guy. The guy said' finally it's the way I like it" !!! Well there is a book written by a Denny's waitress that was published by a local college in Pa. I know they have it at the library in Exton Pa. but I don't remember the name of the book. Anyway thanks for the site & the memories......."
  - Anne R.

East Norriton, Pennsylvania

• March 20, 2001 - "My name's Glor, and I live in Blue Bell, PA. East Norriton is a short distance from Blue Bell, its not even technically a town. It's pretty much between Blue Bell and Norristown. Anyway, there is a Denny's there, in the same shopping center as K-Mart and Sally Beauty Supplies. I just recently joined a church group (!!) and found that every Sunday, after it, a few choice members hang out at Denny's. This made me nostalgic for the days when I could convince my dad to drive me to Exton for Rocky Horror, but I sucked it up and went in, anxious to get a nice booth in the smoking section and some chili fries. Well. The pastor's fiancee is "allergic" to smoke, so my friends and I had to alternate between our ucky crowded table in the NonSmoking section, to the dirty bar where employees bothered us in Smoking. Anyway. It was about 11 at night, and everyone just got an appetizer or breakfast of some sort. I wanted real food, but didn't want to seem gluttonous, so ordered chili fries, which I know to be good. They were ,but my vanilla coke tasted suspiciously like root beer. Oh well. My Grasshopper Blender Blaster was not as chunky as I'd expected, but I guess cooks are lazy late at night. Anyway. I know I would've loved it had a movie theater been nearby, or had I been with non-religious friends who would smoke with me and not try to quiz me on Bible trivia. It was still a good Denny's experience though."
  - Glor

• July 13, 2001 - "guess what! i now work at dennys! in east norriton, pa. if you ever come to pa, visit me. my name is gloria. i can now give you all the dirt (and there is plenty of dirt at dennys, literally) on the behind-the-scenes activities at dennys. here are a few secrets: we scoop the salad out with our hands, usually. ssh. sometimes we mix old coffee with new and try to pass it off as fresh. we get free sodas. we get meals 50% off but sneak food on the sly anyway."
  - glor

Granite Run, Pennsylvania

• "February 1991 1am, Granite Run PA
  We all migrated to Denny's EVERY Sunday night after Pulsations. Every blue haired boy and black laced wearing girl was there. We're making fun of someone, drinking coke and munching mozerella stix, the waitress was a doll. Especially when Dave stood up and realized gum was on the seat and now clinging to his wonderful black leather pants. The waitress brought us the ice and a wash rag and wished us good luck. Gotta love it." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Russell Fabry

Horsham, Pennsylvania

• "Well, here (actually across the Delaware river, DUH, where I live) in Horsham the two all-nighters' hangouts are the Warminster Denny's on Street Road (yeah I know it makes sense) and - dare I say it lest I upset the Great Bacon and Sausage Gods - Perkin's around the corner. Well, the latter has recently gone through a facelift which also lifted average age of attendance about 45 years. Simultaneously cleaning out all the wish-we-were-from-Seattle pot-smoking subgenius homo genexians (the cool people) and replacing them with the Breakfast Geriatric Club, Warminster Perkins has managed to drop on the Coolness-ometer faster than a crowd surfer at a leper mosh. This of course leaves DENNY's to be the saviour of late-night noshfesting and consequent next-day gas. Ahh the good life..." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Chuck Lutz

Johnstown, Pennsylvania

• January 31, 2000 - "Why do i like my Denny's? Why do i like Denny's at all? My coworkers found my obsession with Denny's very odd, baffling, and at times, frustrating. Why not Eat-and-Park, they would say. I would cut back in reply "I want my Zoob dude, dammit." So every night during summer at times ranging from 9 o'clock PM and there between 9 o'clock AM, i would head out to yonder Denny's. Some might say, damn, that's a lot of time spent at denny's, and gas money wasted too. But no, i did not waste gas or money spent on gas, for at the time i was 15 (few months later, now i'm 16) and i live 3 blocks away so often i find myself jumping out the window and heading up for some Millstone coffee at 11 PM. But, back on track. I first started hanging out at Denny's when my friend Amy, another Denny's freak, told me about the cool people up there and there rightous seasoned fries. Personally, i prefer the unseasoned fries, but she was right about the awesome people. We've got quite an age range in our denny's group. There's Steve, who's either 45 years old, 35 years old, or 25 years old (hard to tell. Trust me.)...he's still around. and then, the local King of Dennys, Tim. Tim's emplyed at a local grocery store and used to live with his parents, but now he's living with another denny's local, Ryan. Ryan works selling vitamins at the mall. Tim is 20, Ryan is 20 years in age as well. Then, there's Mona. Mona is a year older than myself (17) and lives in another borough than Richland, where this particular denny's is located. They have no denny's there, and it's only like 10 miles away, so the come to ours. She often brings her sister Sophie (15 y/old) to denny's. well, enough of my babbling, i'll just mention in brief: There's Norm, who can attract attention from every patron of Denny's for 2 hours by telling a single story that would take a normal person maybe 30 minutes to tell, John, who moved to arizona (but has promised to return with completed films...he used to bring in his video camera and tape everything, from a drunk guy babbling about being the president to Tammy taking some harrasment from Tim) Sean and Trish, who are dating, Amy, my good friend, and then there are the Bands. The Alan Smithee Project, She's Amazing's guitarist and drummer, and Attention Benefit Disorder's Joe Messina, and Triple X All-Stars Tim (previously mentioned) and Seth. For the most part, they come in on Friday at about 1 AM, in from college 2 hours away, and stay there for the weekend (mostly). Yup, they travel 2 hours to hang out at Denny's. Sometimes they have a gig at a firehall, but for the most part, it's Coke and the sampler for them. I feel i have to mention a story about these bands and Joe Messina. One day, my friend Dani and i are sitting in a booth, in the smoking section (only frat boys sit in non-smoking) and walks in Joe and Louis, brothers age 17 and 20, and Mike and Matt Miller (of Alan Smithee Project, aged 18, twins.) I've been watching Joe for a while cuz he's really awesome (even tho i'll never admit it to his face) and paints his fingernails in many colors, from pink to black. Since i'd been wanting to talk to him for a while, dani and i decide that now is our chance. so we make our way over to there table in the back room, and strike up a conversation. And we were right, they are damn awesome people. Turns out, mike and matt will be attending college with Dani in a few months, living in dorms that are right next to each other. bonus. anyways, a day or so earlier my friend brandon has told me about this concert by the Alan Smithee Project, who'm i had never head of. So, i go to the concert, and lo and behold, it's Mike and Matt. Damn ironic how fate works out. So, now i'm best friends (or close to) with all these people, and i'll probably never forget them. If you're ever in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and want some good company (and great coffee) then visit our Denny's. Mention this article and get a free cigerette! heh. Oh yeah, i forgot to tell u about the time my heart stopped. We walked up to Denny's one day, and there was this sign "Closed for remodeling" What! Dennys, Closed? SHIT! What were we to do? Luckily, it was a monday, so it was no biggy, Friday is the good night up there, and they reopened on wednesday. supposedly they painting hte place, and u can tell just a bit in the smoking section, the walls are quite as nicotine yellow... as far as the Weird Al Yankovic thing, yes, the manager (well, it varies. during the day, Sue, looks nothing like Al, and the other night manager Randy looks more like Walt Flannigin...) Ed looks like Al, with short hair and slightly more bony face structure. and he used to have the mustache, but he shaved it... enough of my babbling. I've got a booth to get to. Laters."
  - Tricia Mitchell

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

• "As a college student, "Denny's outings" are extremely popular for myself and my friends. We've fit twenty-one people in the semi-circular booths at the Denny's in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and Devon, Pennsylvania. They are both very close to the infamous King of Prussia mall (the second largest mall in the country). I highly recommend both of them." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Sarah L.

• "i think that you should sometime before you die you should pay homage to the DENNY's in king of prussia pennsylvania. it is my personal favorite of any denny's i have ever been to." - written prior to September, 1999
  - susannah

• "They there! You must check out the Denny's in King of Prussia, PA. Security guard, surveillance cameras and everything. Right next to the HUGE mall. And the service there, is, well, you can find out for yourself if you want. And wierd Al is in the form of a bus boy. A must visit." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Stacey

• "As one of the few places that I can get some coffe and the occassional plate of food in my neighborhood at 4:00am in the morning, I have to say that the Denny's in King of Prussia deserves some consideration. Service is O.K. (although I can usally only squeze two cups of coffe out of the waitress) and the grilled cheese deluxe is fabulous, outside of one I might concoct myself. To my knowledge, no one that works there looks like Wierd Al, but one of the people does look kind of like Jim Carrey, but that's a different matter. If you ever decide to go, ask for a vanilla coke, and don't let the waitress give you any guff about how she can't do it because there's no way to charge you for it." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Aaron U.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

• "When I was in college we would frequent the Denny's in Lancaster, PA at least once a week, sometimes much, much, more. It was one of those "Well, I'm not home in Jersey, so I can't have a home-base diner, so Denny's may as well be it" situations, but in time, the waitresses came to know us by name, and we have many a story to tell. In my four years I ate breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner there; watched people I know pass out, get sick, or get kicked out of the dining area; have been amazed at how busy it is at 4:30 in the morning; stolen milk crates; forgot to pay; forgot to be given a check; enjoyed a free birthday meal; and even ate dinner there on Valentine's Day with my girlfriend at the time. About the only things I didn't do was buy one of those charity ties and order a pie. Visit it when you can: Columbia Avenue, off Route 30, just outside Lancaster, PA. Ask for Amy and tell 'em you know the Skull House boys. (You'll probably get a free milkshake.)" - written prior to September, 1999
  - David Wertheimer

New Kensington, Pennsylvania

• "Dear P7, I hope you don't mind me calling you P7. You have to visit the Denny's in New Kensington, PA. It's a real gas (excuse me). I heard that they were going topless, so I'd take an umbrella in case it rains. You had better hurry though, because their sign says that they are only open for "24 Hours"." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Gary Nitowski

North Versailles, Pennsylvania

• "Hi, I work at the Denny's located at 1830 Lincoln Highway in North Versailles, PA I'm just a dishwasher. For some reason, they hire a lot of nutcases to work in the dishroom. Diane for example. She talks to herself and is always bitching about something. Emerson is a mental guy...has a few handicaps and until he quit, always seemed like he was going to kill someone. And there is Rosie. She's nice, but is sorta out there most of the time...and she's very quick. You should see the forearms on that girl...she'll beat Popeye in an arm wrestling contest. Other wise the place is a great place to eat and the graveyard shift is the best time to work...especially with Kay. She's the coolest." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Bill "Hardcore" Krausmann

Norwin, Pennsylvania

• "I didn't get any free stuff there, but a friend of mine slept with one of the waiters - so I guess that's free stuff for her." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Robert Bresner

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• "I must say that Denny's has been a bit of a fascination for some of my friends and I at school. I wanted to share an extreme disappointment that I had with a Denny's out here in Philadelphia. My friends and I drove twenty minutes from campus and got there at 11:30 only to find that they already locked the doors! They closed at midnight, which is the first offense, but then wouldn't let us in a half-hour before closing! This was the Denny's located on City Line Avenue, if you ever make it there. We had to take drastic action but luckily found another one that's open 24/7 only five minutes past this poor excuse for a green interiored Denny's. My advice to you is to visit all the Eat 'n Parks in the world and let Denny's go out of business." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Doug Hoerster

• "I always go to Denny's for breakfast but I don't know why. The service in Philadelphia sucks. Not only do you have to wait 20 minutes to get a seat, but once you are seated, you have to wait 20 minutes to get any service. I always get super frustrated and swear never to tip. Of course, I always order French Slam and coffee. After that, I'm pretty stuffed with grease that I'm ok with calories for the rest of the week. But I always go back." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anonymous

• "Denny's Restaurant number 1574
  Location: 4020 City Line Avenue / Philadelphia, PA 19131
  Waiter's name: Roosevelt Johnson Jr.
  Manager's name: Richard A. Coley
  Table# 012, Ord# 0094, Tty# 01
  On July 2, 1998 at 20:30 the waiter approached our table and made smart comments in reference to not have vegetables on the menu and salad dressing. After requesting for corn and ranch salad dressing the waiter stated " What do you want me to do make it myself". Finally he brought out some corn and no ranch dressing and stated "Look I found the corn just for you". When serving my son he knocked over a large Coca-Cola beverage all over my son's $90.00 polo shirt and $75.00 jeans. He never apologized or showed any compassion for what he had done. He stated"I will just decrease your bill in price". I requested to speak to a manager. The manager stated with no compassion he would only take off what my son ordered. I wasn't satisfied with the answer because no one seemed to care. They were awful rude, curt and displayed an I don't care attitude. I immediately called the police. Officer Franklin Badge# 6643 came to the restaurant and stated to pay the bill and report the circumstances and situations to Denny's corporation. I would like to be reimbursed for my son's apparel and for the bill in the amount of $29.93. Please respond as soon as possible." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Roth D. Perkins

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• "But there's only one Dennys that my friends and I go to and that's here in Pittsburgh, Pa. We drive to that golden neon sign in Mt. Lebo every weekend to chill out and I guess "bond" like the idiot college students high on caffeine that we are. Here at our Denny's are the coolest waiters in the history of waiters. Shawn, P.J. and Matt. They are the best. We once tried to order their famous "common sense made daily" but these guys told us that it's not availble on the late night menu. What would we do without Denny's or the cool waiters?!?! That place would suck if it wern't for those guys and I just hope they find this site to read it. Long live our Denny's tradition." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Mit

Robinson Town Center, Pennsylvania

• " At the DENNY'S in Robinson Town Center (a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA)there is a waitress who works there by the name of Madonna, as if the name wasn't enough to clue you in, she was the world's worst waitress! She got mad when we asked for silverware! Ten minutes after the food was served she finally brought it to us. But back to the beginning of our story...after we went to a concert that was canceled we decided to stop at this DENNY'S. The first waitress got too busy to wait on us so we got another waitress....I still don't know why the first one didn't want to help us. The second one came to our table and neither of them volunteered the specials but they both wore a button saying that the meal is free if they forget to tell the specials. After being completely abused by this bitch we received our food (no lie!) an hour and 20 minutes later. After the silverware incident we ate then told the mgr. about the specials not being told to us and that our meal should be free, so the waitress comes out and starts screaming at me and my friends, and the mgr. just stood there and agreed with her, calling us cheap liars, we really weren't lying! They made up 3 different excuses why that button didn't realy mean what it said and they finally charged us 1/2 price because they knew they were wrong and we weren't paying for that meal that should have been free. We were mistreated throughout this whole ordeal and it was all because we were teens. They knew that we were probably about 18 - 20 and they discriminated against us for that. Do try to hit as many DENNY'S as possible but please try to avoid the one in Robinson Town Center, PA!!!!! " - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anonymous

Scranton, Pennsylvania

• "I am writing a complaint about this dining facility. The current manager, Tim Farrell, cost your company at least two hundred dollars in sales on the evening of April 5, 1997. After a local high school's production of "Annie", several of my friends and I decided to eat at your resturant. This was a poor decision. There were nine students in my party. Our bill was totaled at $47.13. although I do not believe the attitude of the resturant itself, let me explain. After we were seated at a table, a group of actors from the play came in. I go to a different school, and my school is also preforming the play. Several of there group, wanted to talk to us and compare the two shows, but unfortunately, there was your manager...Tim Farrell. I believe he was correct in asking the group of thirty to sit, but asked in an offending tone. He acted if he was the supreme god of the world. Your manager, TIM FARRELL, addressed them, literaly shouting, "If you have been seated by a waitress, please return to your tables, if not go back out front and wait". Well, I thought that was reasonable, but when only three of this high school's students came to talk, they were met by a very unpleasent person, Manager Tim Farrell, he asked them to sit, and if not they would be escorted from the building. After hearing this, the 30 or even 40 high school students walked out, costing your business hundreds of dollars. As a student, I feel that on a Saturday night after a great performance, there should be a good place to talk with people that you will possibly never see again. What bothers me most is after the mass vacany of the room, only fourteen adults remained and nine students. I was one of the nine students who stayed behind to see what was going to happen, not because I want to, because I was appaled! Worse yet, Manager TIM FARRELL, came around to all that remained and appologized for being offending. He said, "I'm sorry if I offended anyone, but that was nessecary...". Manager TIM FARRELL would not have to go around appologizing if he did not throw customers out. If I owned corporate shares of stock, which I was considering, I would sell them. It probably does not matter how much money I was going to invest, but let me tell you p7a77@concentric.net, you could buy several truck loads of hamburgers or what ever you call them at your resurant chain. That was the first time I ate at any Denny's resturant, and I will never, eat at your store in the future. Also, I have petitioned my friends that were with me, and the thirty or so people that were "thrown out" and they will never eat at any Denny's Resturant again. So, in conclusion, how much money did Manager TIM FARRELL cost your company???" - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anonymous

• August 8, 2002 - "I have been reading all the coments here and laughing. I was a late night cook for Denny's in Scranton for 7 years. It was the hardest, most frustrating job I ever had. I was like banging my head against a wall night after night. I was the only cook on more nights than I can remember. I really tried my best to get the food out hot and fast. The waitresses were in the same boat as I was and depended on their tips to survive. The shift managers were given impossible situations and told to make the best of things. a boss is only as good as the people working under them. When you should have a staff of 10 and you have 4 how can you make things run smoothly? They just couldn't get anybody to work there. Those of us who did show up had to do the best we could. The upper management didn't care how things went as long as the cash drawer was full. I made a game of inventing shortcuts and doing things more efficiently. This was the only way to get the orders out. I cut more corners than you can imagine. I also saw the craziest things working that shift. There was this guy who used to come in and sit at the counter dressed like General Custer. Another time, an out of town gang had a rumble with a local group of kids, right in the dining room. They pratically tore the place apart. I've seen so many fights in there I can't count them all. We would give the police free meals, just so they'd come in there. Management even tried to stop this. The kitchen wouldn't get cleaned for a week because there was nobody to do it. All this while the few cooks who did show up tried there damndest to keep things running. I remember one of the dishwashers finding a coke glass full of urine in the bathroom. He dumped it out and put the glass with the others to be washed! I always drank out of a milk shake tin ;) They had these trees out back. About a foot in diameter trunks. The one cook was on drugs and highly aggravated. He brought in a saw one night. When things slowed down a little he went out back. I went to check on him after a few minutes. He was cutting down one of the trees! He had it about halfway sawed and would 've cut it right down if I didn't stop him. Then he took a bread knife and jammed it in the tree. When the day manager noticed it he thought one of us sawed through the tree with the bread knife. He asked us and we said we didn't see anything. The day shift cooks would literally work over 100 hours a week. A couple times they worked THREE DAYS straight. I have seen the funniest most bizarre things happen at 3am in Denny's. It's like being on the dark side of the moon. Thank you god for letting me get out of Denny's."
  - signet

Sharon, Pennsylvania

• "Let me start from the begining. Before I moved to Pittsburgh to attend college I lived in West Middlesex (quit laughing!!!), PA. Last year I was a bored senior in a high skool full of Nazis. Wait, I mean jerks. Not that the Nazis weren't jerks mind you, I mean hell look at all those Jewish people, it's just that... wait I'm getting sidetracked. The point is that I was not accepted by my peers. Now, in this town all the coooool kids hung out at Eat & Park. I was ostracized from there. Therefore I sought out a place where I could sit and vegetate for hours on end without feeling seperated. To this day I don't know if I found Denny's or if Denny's found me (*wipes a tear*). At any rate, I soon found myself at the Denny's in Sharon, PA every night of my life. There I would sit for hours on end, watching those around me, all the while taking advantage of the Bottomless Cup O Coffee. Soon, I became an expert of sorts on the customers, the food, the employees, and everything else. The best part was, this place was MINE! No one else's! Oh sure, there were other customers, but no cooool people from my skool were there. Just me baby. Just me. But in slunk the dissenting serpent (this is the part of the story that the kids shouldn't hear for fear that they might be badly influenced). For reasons I rather not discuss, my worst enemy began frequenting MY Denny's with MY girlfriend (you see, through an ironic and creul twist of fate, he was/is my girlfriends best friend). I think she started to bring him there since I had often brought her there. What a stab in the back. So now it wasn't MY Denny's anymore, it was theirs. So many times I would come in, only to find Eric (that's his name) with Lindsay (that's her name) in a booth together, sipping coffee (MY coffee!!!) , and whiling away th hours, much the same as I had. So, I turned to the bottle. My NEW favorite passtime was going into Denny's trashed off my ass. Usually about 2 bottles of Mad Dog 20/20 drank in quick succession would do the trick. So off I and one of my non-drinking, designated driving pals would ride up to Denny's. Surprisingly I was never kicked out of Denny's for my drunken escapades there, I guess because I never made any real trouble, I would just talk loud. Many of these adventures have been video-taped by my friend who is a video-phyte of sorts (he's currently in counselling). The BEST time (though I recall little of this and am forced to go on the words of my friends , waitresses, and other assorted witnesses) though, was the time I stood up on the seat and began to give a speach. I think it pertained to people who complain incessently about their shitty lives. The coup de grace, however, was delivered when I said somthing to the effect of, "...blah blah blah. my life sux! thats all they shay all the time. blah blah blah. well guess what! here's the secret! you're gonna die ANYWAY! no matter what! so while you're 6ft under still bitchin about your shitty job and go nowhere career, I'm out fuckin yer girlfriend!" At this point more than half of the patrons decided to leave. Ah yes, sweet memories. If you are ever within say a 200 mile radius of Sharon, PA, go to that there Denny's. It is very bizarre. Not the least of the oddities happens to be this guy who just stares. He will stare at you blatantly. He's middle aged and cripple and you can tell that somthins just not right in his head (rumor has it he fell on a rock in Nam) and you WANT to feel sympathy, but he just won't stop looking at you. So you get really pissed off. He also never leaves. Once I left Denny's at lunch time and returned (drunk) around 1am. he was STILL THERE! I asked the waitress if he had left. She solemly shook her head no. It was scary." - written prior to September, 1999
  - C.C.Colwell

West Mifflin, Pennsylvania

• "My husband, son & I plus 2 other couples went to Dennys on Lebanon church road on 5/15/99. What a joint. The place was filthy, and the service was just as bad. I could understand if we were there at the height of dinner hour, but it was 9:30pm and there was no reason for the pig pen that was on the floor, the waitress couldn't find here order pad, didn't know what kind of soup there was, and the cashier was fiddling with the cash register and ignoring the 4 patrons standing in line to pay for their bill. I and the rest of the group will neve go back to Dennys ever, at least not at that location." - written prior to September, 1999
  - Anonymous

• October 16, 2001 - "i work at the Denny's in West Mifflin. I am a mere Service Assisstant, but I still rule. I must back up your claim that there is a Weird Al at every Denny's, because we have a cook named Brian (i think... i just started there 2 weeks ago) who looks like Al."
  - Jesse Forney

Wexford, Pennsylvania

• "I work at the Denny's in Wexford, PA, and all that I can say is that it's quite an odd place. I'm a dishwasher, so I know ALL the dirt. Actually, there really isn't any...it's just a lot of fun when you're not dealing with some bitch waitress or cook. On all that racism stuff, we have a joke amongst us all that when someone pisses us off (someone meaning one of the people that works there), we say something like "Back off, NIGGAH!" or something along those lines. It helps ease the tension, and it's funny in the context of Denny's being a racially-oriented organization. Obviously, because it's really NOT. So, if you ever need any "favors inside the organization," if you know what I mean, give me a buzz...or an email, I guess."
  - Fostin Cotchen

• October 19, 2000 - "Im also shocked to see that someone (whom I dont know) wrote about Dennys in Wexford! WOW! For those of you who dont know.. it burnt down sometime around Nov/Dec last year.. and the first thing I thought (since I live down the road from the Wexford storeÊBUT didnt work there) was "CRAP! for YEARS I wished for a Dennys to burn down and it had to be the one I didnt work at!! AGHHHHHHHHHH But all and all I sat in my van with my children and watched in amazement while it burnt down across the street at the 7-11 :) So I got some kind of satisfaction :)"
  - Nichole

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

• October 26, 1999 - "I had never been to a Denny's...but was working in Williamsport, pa and went over for Brunch (could not make up my mind...it was to early for lunch and to late for breakfast.....anyway I had the Taco Skillet Breakfast....and it was delicious...our waitress was Marie and she was originally from Texas...her husband job took them to William sport, and then he ran away with his secretary....and left her in Williamsport...believe me I found this all out in a matter of minutes...she was real friendly and received a good tip...anyway if passing through Williamsport, Pa. eat at Denny's on E. Third St. and stay at the Holiday Inn..."
  - Jean M. Ross

Wyomissing, Pennsylvania

• March 22, 2004 - "hello i started working at dennys in wyomissing pa.it was the worst job i ever had . the mangers were great . but the general manger had it out for me from the start.she was rude nothing i did was right even when the mangers said i was doing a real good job it was never good enough for her.surei made i few mistakes who dont?i mean this woman left employees that would come in early sleep out were people eat now what kind of place does that?the cooks smoke dont wash there hands . they clean the floors pick up dirty kitchen mats and never wash ther hands . belive me i saw it all . i hope you all read this. its all true."
  - jennifer sheeler

York, Pennsylvania

• January 2, 2002 - "I am employee #3192 of Denny's store #1411 in York Pa on Hanes Rd. I love your site, and glad to see there are people out there who love denny's as much as I do (if not more than me). Just wanted to say, keep up the good work, and to let you know there is finally a denny's in rhode island. Now the only state left to Wyoming I believe. Well write back, and let me know if you are ever going to be in town. There are two denny's (#1411 and #1286)in york only about 10 minutes apart. so you could kill 2 birds with 1 stone. "
  - Andy Pham

• March 9, 2003 - "I was employeed at Denny's (Haines Rd. York) and take my word for it, management is terrible, they've had six or seven managers quit in about five months. Treatment is unfair, training is poor at best, and my first day I took a smoking break in the designated area which consistently reeks of an unusual and undefinable rotten smell. In front of me was the ice machine and a sign that read "Do not store boxes or trash in front of the ice machine." Directly on the floor was five boxes and four bags of trash. Yummy. On top of this, I've had waitresses attempt to take advantage of my status as a new server and was accused of being responsible for money missing from the register that I am quite confident was not my fault. At any rate, the service is ok at best...Actually, my family ate there, waited an hour for their order to be taken, and it was screwed up in the end and cold. The employees need to realize that they are not royalty because they've worked at Denny's for years upon years, and the management needs to let go of their power-tripped egos."
  - Anonymous

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