Posted on 10/23/2024 6:56:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Let’s go Brandon!
Let’s go Democrats!
Here in northern Virginia, I eat at a Dennys once a week. The food is a lot better than it used to be, and it’s cheaper than IHOP or Silver Diner. Sometimes the restaurant is very busy and sometimes not.
There is still one Denny’s open within driving range.
We used to go there fairly often when it was affordable. It was never our favorite place but it was never really bad, either. And they had a large selection (breakfast being our favorite meal anyway).
I think there’s still room in the marketplace for a company like Dennys. Especially along major highways, a “reliable” if not always “super great” place ... and very convenient right there by the traffic lane. They need to restore the Grand Slam at its former low price or something close to it. They lost a great deal of patronage when they buried it near the back of the menu and put it in the smallest print typeface. (people generally would add other items to their Grand Slam orders, too).
I don’t see them competing with any good local diners or with any of the many ethnic kinds of foods many people like today.
All Sherri’s restaurants in Oregon just closed, abruptly.
Bad customers.....................
It’s too damn expensive to eat out....Too rich for my blood for sure!
Under these Democrat screw worms, everything is too expensive.
oh. Wasn’t familiar with the corporate details, just knew the Sambos near me in Orlando (at the time) changed to Perkins.
I really liked Sambo’s.
I miss the traditional small family diner with daily ‘Blue Plate’ specials
Humans have allowed Deep State to price them out of the labor market.
agreed!
we are very very very fortunate to have two traditional old fashioned diners within reach (and a couple more a bit further out)
very fortunate indeed.
one will last maybe it is 3 more years until the owner retires.
the other has recently been taken over by a new (third) owner, he’s a younger fellow and is doing a pretty good job of it, I think he might last (first one lasted maybe 20 years, second one was forced to retired due to serious heart problems but he was doing just fine with it)
we happened to discover an old-fashioned neighborhood diner that we remembered from many many years ago, in a visit to a large and now-dirty city. The place looked like the same dump as always so we went in. Food was great, large portions, service Okay, and.... the place was PACKED, we were lucky to get a little table. This place is in a bad district (near a tourist area, however). it is within walking district of about 200 other restaurants and eateries.
we had looked into several of those other restaurants and they were mostly empty. this one, maybe 3 blocks into the wino area, was PACKED FULL in the middle of the day, not even during a meal hour.
There is definitely a real market opportunity in a lot of towns for more old-fashioned traditional local diners (that include breakfasts too!!)
it must have been 45 years since the last of those closed down.
I remember eating there as a little kid and I loved the Tiger imagery.
I can’t remember objectively how tasty the food was though.
so many family favorites that had been around for 50 years closed that year. A sad time.
Here in the Deep South, Dennys is known as Waffle House for those who can’t fight.
Not for all of us-but if it is yours, enjoy. I’ll do yogurt, fresh fruit and fresh-brewed Colombian coffee at home before work-no processed sugar and carbs that cost more than a nice ribeye from the local grocery store...
Denny’s is emergency food when on vacation with the kid/kids, when a real non-chain eatery isn’t available. The only time I’ve ever eaten there was when hubby and I were on the way to Big Bend or the mountains in New Mexico with to go camping and had the cub with us. Hungry kids just want food, or they complain-they are not picky-so Denny’s it was. Hubby and I ordered the healthiest, least processed thing on the menu, which was chicken-while the cub ate a burger-but it was still crap. If I were on one of those camping trips with the cub today, we would have spent a day’s worth of gas for the Suburban to eat that “food”...
Denny’s does make a heckuva salad
I’ll take your word for that-I don’t order salad at a restaurant-salad is cheap to make, and expensive at a restaurant. I don’t like iceberg lettuce, which is bland, wilts fast and is always about 50% of the salad-and I don’t like pasta on my salad, etc. When I make salad, my veggies and greens come from my garden and the local grocery store-all organic The only pricey thing on it is a fresh sliced avocado...
No. My town of 45k has lost Fridays, 99 Restaurants in the last week and Dennys in 2022. Noting time that under Trump.
I find it hard to believe that a 99‘s restaurant closed.
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