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Owner blames rampant crime as last Denny’s closes in San Francisco
The Washington Times ^ | August 14, 2024 | Brad Matthews

Posted on 08/15/2024 7:55:59 AM PDT by Salman

San Francisco’s last Denny’s diner has closed, with the franchise owner blaming vandalism and alleged dining and dashing for the store’s shuttering.

The restaurant location closed on Aug. 1 with a sign saying such displayed in a storefront window and a yellow Denny’s sign outside painted over as of Monday.

The owner of the restaurant, who previously closed another San Francisco location he owned in 2019, said people kept skipping out without paying their bills.

“We’re the only store left, and we operated until the last day that we could,” Denny’s franchisee Chris Haque told local news site SFGATE Monday. “The cost of doing business is tremendous. There’s vandalism, and people come and eat and walk away, and there’s no one to stop them.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; california; crime; dennys; dystopia; gavinnewsom; newsom; newsomfornia; sanfrancisco
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1 posted on 08/15/2024 7:55:59 AM PDT by Salman
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They should have made people pay before they got their food. Just like fast food places do.


2 posted on 08/15/2024 7:57:20 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Salman

This is why we need teleportation portals.
Put one on every road leading out of San Francisco and teleport every one who passes through it trying to leave San Francisco deep into an African Jungle.
Make a reality TV show out of them trying to survive.


3 posted on 08/15/2024 8:00:31 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: circlecity

Yep. But that might be discriminatory in a sit-down restaurant.....just kidding. More proof of a society in decline. You ain’t seen nothing yet if Trump isn’t elected.


4 posted on 08/15/2024 8:00:32 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: Salman

The culprits are the Democrat party, including Greaseball Newsom and Willie Brown’s Mattress.


5 posted on 08/15/2024 8:00:42 AM PDT by twister881
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To: Salman

Why are snickers bars marked for sale at $996 in San Francisco?

Because shoplifting up to $995 isn’t treated as a crime there.


6 posted on 08/15/2024 8:04:59 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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"...the franchise owner blamed alleged dining and dashing"

There's that sneaky "alleged" again. I'll bet the owner was just imagining people were leaving and not paying. Why else would the author toss in that "alleged" modifier?

7 posted on 08/15/2024 8:05:58 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: DannyTN

I’d settle for a time portal that takes us back to 1956.


8 posted on 08/15/2024 8:06:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Salman

I’m surprised SF city hall or the state of California didn’t force that Denny’s location to remain open or else be punished severely.


9 posted on 08/15/2024 8:06:47 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Salman

Existential question du jour:

If a crime isn’t reported to the FBI by local law enforcement, is it really a crime?


10 posted on 08/15/2024 8:07:32 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Salman

Why is murder up and property crime down in Democrat cities?

Too difficult to hide the bodies.


11 posted on 08/15/2024 8:08:17 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Salman

In CA, those that care are leaving. Which means it’s only going to get worse.


12 posted on 08/15/2024 8:08:41 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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Hmm, which people?

San Francisco... oh, where Kamala reigned. Great job she did.


13 posted on 08/15/2024 8:12:35 AM PDT by bgill
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To: CatOwner

Now there’s a lousy food desert.


14 posted on 08/15/2024 8:16:01 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Salman

Trump’s fault!

/S


15 posted on 08/15/2024 8:16:18 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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“Skipping out without paying”. Jammie Kammie/Timmy Walz voters. “Land of the Free” has taken on a whole new meaning since we started allowing freeloading foreigners to take over the joint. They’ve got a strange definition of “a new life” also. It means “a free ride on the backs of American taxpayers”. The bass turds have figured out all they have to do is vote for the DemonRATS. Alexis de Tocqueville stuff.


16 posted on 08/15/2024 8:16:47 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Banana Voo Doo Queen is putting illegal scumbags on a Free Ride on the American Dream Express.)
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To: Salman

“and there’s no one to stop them”

I think I found the problem 🤔


17 posted on 08/15/2024 8:17:57 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: circlecity

👍


18 posted on 08/15/2024 8:21:47 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: DannyTN

Based on the current state of San Francisco, they might actually feel right at home!


19 posted on 08/15/2024 8:22:11 AM PDT by howlinhound (Tagline in the shop for repairs.)
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To: circlecity

Dine n Dash was a late night thing at Dennys back in the 1970s.


20 posted on 08/15/2024 8:26:29 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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