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Denny's Corporation

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Charles Michael Reynolds Gets Life for Murder of Freedom Writers Co-Star Armand Jones

    Armand Jones​A Long Beach gang member has been sentenced to life in state prison for his role in the murder of Armand Jones, a rising actor who had just wrapped filming Freedom Writers in March 2006 when he was gunned down in Anaheim.Ironically, in the movie starring Hilary Swank, 18-year-old Jone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Taste Test: Koko's Cafe in Irvine

    Edwin Goei​This is a taste test. Only a test. Not a formal review, but a quick, dirty trial of two dishes from Koko's Cafe in Irvine, which as I noted in an annoucement post last week, opened recently in Irvine. It took the place of Dickey's BBQ at the corner of Irvine Center Drive and Jeffrey, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    A Lesson in Why to Avoid Del Taco at 1:30 A.M.

    ​Does anything good ever happen at Del Taco at 1:30 in the morning?A 20-year-old Newport Beach man obviously knows the answer to that after being threatened with death at gunpoint while eating on the Del Taco patio at 1720 Superior Ave., Costa Mesa, around that time Aug. 2, having his car followed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Eric Naposki's Murder Alibi Defies Einstein's Space-Time Continuum

    OC Register media pool photoNaposki has a surprise for Albert Einstein​Nobody alive saw Eric Naposki enter William McLaughlin's Newport Beach house, fire six hollow-tip bullets into the wealthy businessman's torso and flee the murder scene on Dec. 15, 1994. Nobody found McLaughlin's blood spatters ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Stanley Miles Simons, Murderer of Freedom Writers Actor Armand Jones, Poses for Ugliest Police Mugshot

    Simons​OK, to be honest, a high-speed pursuit suspect's police mugshot was uglier than Stanley Simons' shown here.But this week's winner committed a much, much uglier crime.Simons, 24, helped take from the world rising star Armand Jones, who was gunned down in Anaheim shortly after he finished fil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Teens Take Advantage of Denny's All-You-Can-Eat Pancakes for 24 Hours

    ​Us Simpsons freaks will forever recall the episode when Homer and Marge went to an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet at the Frying Dutchman, only to have Captain McAllister boot Homer and utter the immortal line "'Tis no man; 'tis a remorseless eating machine." Homer sued, of course, and reached a s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Two Dollar Baja Bowls, Courtesy Of Baja Fresh

    Better than any two 'Dollar Menu' items from what's-their-name.​ Headquartered in Cypress, Baja Fresh had CEO David Kim embark on an emotional journey on Sunday's Undercover Boss. The waterworks would not stop as he worked alongside four dedicated employees and learned their stories of family valu ... More >>

  • Food

    March 31, 2011

    Koba Tofu Grill Offers Lovable Lava

    This new Irvine entry in the Korean chain offers many soft-tofu soups that burn and roil, but, boy, are they delish!

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Cracker Barrel Releases Another Top-Selling Country Album, This Time With Kenny Rogers!

    ​I'm sorry, but I can't get enough of Cracker Barrel, the Denny's of the South that's now turning into the Grand Ole Opry of chain restaurants. Actually, I'm not sorry: It's releasing some good jams, available exclusively at its restaurants, none of which are in California. It was the Grascals ear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Cracker Barrel Releases Billboard-Charting Bluegrass Album

    ​Take that, Starbucks: Cracker Barrel, the Denny's of the South, except with much-better food, is also playing the exclusive-to-its-store music game, and recently put out a winner: The Grascals and Friends' Country Classics with a Bluegrass Spin.

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Cookbook Review: Cook This, Not That by Zinczenko and Goulding

    ​There are, it seems, two kinds of cookbooks in the world: One kind provides a thrilling sense of alchemy to cooking, opens new doors in the cook's mind, introduces new ingredients, and explores unknown techniques.The other kind makes promises of a different kind: enjoy the foods you love, but mor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Tony Hawk Reverse Pelvic Thrust 900 Skating Trick at Downtown Disney Doesn't Pan Out

    ​Musing about Tony Hawk 11 years ago, an OC Weekly cover snidely stated, "Dude, You're Old."It's also been opined here--or maybe it was elsewhere--that skateboards should have an expiration date.Hawk, who is 62 (check that: 42), gave credence to both notions Saturday afternoon at Downtown Disney.

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2009
  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    Disguster: The Choice is Yours

    ​Over at our food blog, Gustavo Arellano (perhaps you've heard of him) rather amusingly skewered the many more unfortunate choices in our recent "Best of OC" readers' poll: Starbucks for best coffee, Chipotle for best burrito. Not so insightful or adventurous, you see, kind of the equivalent of gi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Is There ANYTHING Salvageable from the Weekly's Best of OC Reader's Poll Food Winners?

    ​Fair is fair, folks. A couple of weeks ago, I blasted the Orange County Register's "Best of Orange County" for the horrible selections readers picked as the best representation of a culinary category (Peppino's as best Italian! Subway as best Sandwich! Daphne's as best Greek!). Our Best of OC iss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Last Night: The Used at Chain Reaction

    ​Last Night: The Used at Chain Reaction, Anaheim; August 31, 2009.Better Than: Paying $4 billion for something.Questionable Moral Stance: Bert McCracken encouraged the crowd to not be "pussies" and steal the album online, but to walk across the street to Target and steal it there. (Perhaps even mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    "Waiter, There's Too Much Salt In My Food!" "Dangerous" Denny's Sued Over High Sodium Levels

    ​A class-action suit filed in New Jersey by longtime Denny's patron Nick DeBenedetto and backed by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) alleges that "Most meals at Denny's restaurants meals are dangerously high in salt, putting the chain's customers at greater risk of hig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    A Bahamas Vacation Not In Your Budget? Eat At Denny's And You Might Get One For Free

    OK, the odds are small: from now until August 31 just 42 diners will snag a five-night trip for two to Nassau (the Wyndham Nassau Resort & Crystal Palace Casino, to be precise). That's not even one a day.But someone's got to get lucky, right? So how do you know if you've won? Customers ordering ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    In The Battle Of The Beans, Starbucks Should Be Worried

    Just as the new ads for Starbucks are lazy, the ones for McDonald's new coffees are horrendously grating, not to mention lowbrow. "McCafé Your Day" is bad enough, but how about "A Better Day is Possiblé"? Huh?. Or  "It's All About The Accent Mark"? Accent mark???.So I naturally assumed that t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    Reminder: Denny's Free Grand Slamwich, Wednesday April 8

    Don't forget: you get a complimentary Gran Slamwich at Denny's tomorrow (6:00am-2:00pm) when you bring a friend and order a Grand Slam breakfast. That's $4.99 of free food. And 1,320 calories.

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    No Joke--Denny's Has Another Freebie (Kinda) April 8

    Hot on the heels of its massively successful Grand Slam breakfast giveaway in February (which was enjoyed by two million people, no less), Denny's is offering a follow-up deal.Next Wednesday, April 8, between 6:00am and 2:00pm, the chain will be giving away a free Grand Slamwich--with the purchase o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    McDonald's Makes The Grade; Others Must Try Harder

    A few weeks back we brought you news of a survey of America's healthiest fast-food chains (Panera Bread topped the list). Now comes the reverse: America's unhealthiest fast-food restaurants. A report by health and nutrition experts David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding, authors of "supermarket survi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    The C Word

    No, not that one. I'm talking about Champagne. Or, rather, the lack of it. Picture it: Cedar Creek Inn, Brea, Valentine's Day dinner. I was already mentally black-marking the restaurant for informing me just the day before, when confirming the reservation, that there was a "strict two-hour table tim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

    High rent prices make me wanna Ralph

    Santa Ana residents living near the Weekly's HQ are going to have to find a new place for late night liquor runs - the Ralph's at 1523 W. 17th, near the Denny's and Target, is closing. It's a strange sight, seeing a major corporate grocery store branch having a clearance sale, with shelves half emp ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 27, 2008

    No Big Payout for the Laguna Art Museum's 'Las Vegas Diaspora'

    Santa Ana residents living near the Weekly's HQ are going to have to find a new place for late night liquor runs - the Ralph's at 1523 W. 17th, near the Denny's and Target, is closing. It's a strange sight, seeing a major corporate grocery store branch having a clearance sale, with shelves half emp ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 17, 2007

    Late Bloomer

    The long-deferred dream of Myron Conan Dyal

  • Film

    December 7, 2006

    Fa La La La LaAaaand Cut!

    Deck the halls with boughs of Hollywood

  • Music

    August 31, 2006

    Grease Bandits

    How I learned to stop worrying and love the grease

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2006

    This Newsrack Will Self- Destruct in Five Seconds...

    Color us crazy, but we'd have thought someone would have raised an ethical concern or three after the Los Angeles County Sheriff's arson squad blew up an LA Times newsrack in Santa Clarita on Friday. The concern we refer to is not whether deputies were under orders from the Sheriff Lee Baca to get b ... More >>

  • Food

    December 8, 2005
  • Film

    June 9, 2005

    Pop Will Eat Itself

    The movies that stopped living and became mixed-up zombies

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    The Breakfast Club

    Notes From the Banana Republic: Lawsuit alleges Christian cabal eats at Dennys, controls Santa Ana schools

  • Film

    July 1, 2004

    Cartoon geekboys are go!

    Anime Expo 2004 descends into the heart of Disney

  • Music

    November 14, 2002

    Michelle Kim

    Anime Expo 2004 descends into the heart of Disney

  • Features

    September 26, 2002

    Cram It In

    Where to eat after an all-nighter

  • Culture

    May 16, 2002

    The American Haj

    Pilgrims follows strange affairs of the heart

  • Columns

    April 4, 2002

    Monsters Ball

    Not Halle Berry! Dave Grave!

  • Music

    March 14, 2002

    Sushi Bar or Dennys?

    Wilcos food for thought

  • Food

    September 27, 2001

    Z Marks the Spot

    Fine dining in Irvine rises 50 percent

  • Unknown

    September 13, 2001

    Slam-Dunk Soliloquies

    Fine dining in Irvine rises 50 percent

  • Features

    August 9, 2001

    Active Eats

    And its one, two, threewhat are we dining for?

  • Features

    February 1, 2001

    The People Behind the Food...

    And its one, two, threewhat are we dining for?

  • Features

    November 23, 2000

    Roots Canal

    The fourth OC Weekly local music sampler

  • News

    October 12, 2000

    True Grit, With a Side of Pie

    The fourth OC Weekly local music sampler

  • Columns

    September 28, 2000

    Beer! Porn!

    The baby-sitter economy

  • Food

    September 21, 2000

    Food is Sleep

    24-Hour Dining Adventures

  • Unknown

    July 20, 2000

    Welcome to Long Breach Airport

    24-Hour Dining Adventures

  • Food

    June 29, 2000

    Where famous people eat!

    24-Hour Dining Adventures

  • Music

    April 22, 1999

    The All-Age Sage

    How to set off a Chain Reaction

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