Denny’s Restaurant closes in Sherman

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Posted: 6:01 PM Sep 29, 2008
Last Updated: 6:24 PM Sep 29, 2008
Reporter: KXII-TV Staff
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SHERMAN, Tex. -- A Sherman restaurant has closed its doors. Regulars of Denny's Restaurant on Texoma Parkway need to find a new place to eat breakfast. The facility closed on Thursday.

Authorities at the Grayson County Health Department say the closure has nothing to do with health inspections. They say they actually inspected the restaurant on Tuesday, and it passed with flying colors.

A spokesperson for Denny’s says the decision to close the restaurant was based on "personal business issues" but they hope to reopen in the future.

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Posted by: Robert Location: Bonney Lake, WA on Oct 14, 2008 at 07:17 AM
Well maybe conditions did deteriorate at this old Denny's. I have no way of knowing. I was franchisee of this unit in the early seventies and know for a fact that it was clean and that the food was superior. Unless the Denny's inspection system has gone to hell since then, I can only conclude that the semi-literate critics who have been posting here have other reasons for taking potshots. In Sherman, a likely motive could be the cultural jealously common to innately inferior classes. In my time I would have said, "maybe it was too good for you."

Posted by: Sharon Location: Sherman on Oct 3, 2008 at 10:41 AM
It was a good place in its time. There was a time when that was all there was to eat at in Sherman. I had many good times in Denny's in the late 60's and early 70's. That's where everybody went.

Posted by: shermanite Location: shertown on Oct 3, 2008 at 09:45 AM
Midniteryder:Actually i didn't have their waffles. Silly huh? but i did like their breakfast. :) I have to have a taste for waffles.

Posted by: denison Location: denison on Oct 3, 2008 at 07:12 AM
well i was upset yes i not spell two words write but i am sure you got the point ha ha is yall you have to do sit around and down writers on here get a life and no i dont need to go back to schooland aswell i went to collage oh i might have beem typing to fast hope you can read this i am sure can can with your outlook have a good day me

Posted by: Anonymous Location: Denison on Oct 3, 2008 at 04:28 AM
If it was so nasty and so bad why did some of you stay and not get up and leave? Never ate there and sounds like I am glad I didn't.

Posted by: Tootsie Location: 'round here on Oct 2, 2008 at 06:48 PM
Someone give the spell checker a day off. No matter how you spell it, dirt is still dirt. The Chefette was in Sherman a long time, lots of 'elite' ate there, but believe me I went in once, the smell I can still remember. Denny's wasn't much better.Buildings so old. You can't clean dirt.........

Posted by: Dookey Location: Shermboro on Oct 2, 2008 at 01:43 PM
Don't forget Speedy's and Inez's place!

Posted by: SHERMAN Location: SHERMAN on Oct 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM
TO DENISON : WHERE YOU TYPING FAST OR DO YOU NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL TO LEARN HOW TO SPELL CLENE IS CLEAN, ON RUG IS OWN RUG , NO WHATS SHE'S DOING IS KNWO WHATS SHES DOING. I BET IF DENNY'S WAS STILL OPENED YOU COULD BE ITS GM WITH SPELLING LIKE THAT EGS OVR EZY HA HA HA SORRY

Posted by: OOTO Location: Texoma on Oct 2, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Great place, wasn't it Judge, even though in appearance it was somewhat lacking?

Posted by: me Location: denison on Oct 2, 2008 at 09:04 AM
i eat there more than once and my waitress was very nice and clene so if you think they were all dirty look under your on rug befor you talk by the way her name i belived was deddie and she is very clean and nice and by the way she must no what she is doing she is now a gm of a store of her own

Posted by: Judge on Oct 2, 2008 at 07:10 AM
Umm the chefette. Now that brings back good memories. I remember OOTO.

Posted by: Leroy Location: Out There> on Oct 2, 2008 at 06:50 AM
Waffle House, YES, YES, YES!!!1 I love me some Waffle House Hashbrowns!!!111onejuan!

Posted by: Lou Location: Sherman on Oct 2, 2008 at 06:46 AM
It was about time this place closed. Let me count the ways. Poor service. Not honoring televised specials. Lack of cleanliness. Breakfast not too bad, IF they got your order correct. I'd much rather have a Waffle House. Now that's your basic breakfast place!

Posted by: dave Location: sherman on Oct 1, 2008 at 09:57 PM
poor homer would be turning over in his grave if his dennys was gone.

Posted by: mamma Location: fannin on Oct 1, 2008 at 06:15 PM
I hope they get some one in there that will clean up the place we like eating at Dennys just not at the one in sherman the people are nasty and so was the restaurant

Posted by: granpa on Oct 1, 2008 at 05:51 PM
sorry,ooto i do admit i am a little dislecsic

Posted by: OOTO Location: Texoma on Oct 1, 2008 at 01:43 PM
The whole post, granpa, the whole post. I am really not sure what you said there. The sentence kind of ran on, and I am not real sure where one idea ends and the other begins. But I think I have it figured out now.

Posted by: granpa on Oct 1, 2008 at 12:56 PM
ooto be more specific on what your whatin about ?

Posted by: midniteryder Location: Sherman on Oct 1, 2008 at 11:04 AM
Shermanite- you like the "Awful Waffle"? That's about as basic a greasy spoon as one gets. Breakfast ain't bad, but I can't talk about the lunch & supper menus (too afraid to try). Denny's normally has good food as the chain goes, but apparently this one forgot customer service. They messed themselves over here. Maybe with a new franchise manager it can re-open, but a bad rep is hard to overcome.

Posted by: OOTO Location: Texoma on Oct 1, 2008 at 08:58 AM
To granpa: WHAT?????????

Posted by: shermanite Location: shertown on Oct 1, 2008 at 08:38 AM
I ate for the first time at a wafflehouse in dallas recently, lets get one of those. I really love their food!! YUM YUM!

Posted by: jeckyll Location: hyde on Oct 1, 2008 at 08:22 AM
Lynn/Lisa: You 2 are either twin sisters or the same person with personality disorders (multiple personalities).

Posted by: granpa on Sep 30, 2008 at 08:38 PM
the passing with flying colors who the heck wrote that lie.i believe that maybe something was flying in there but it was not colors and im sure its where they got the white rice if ya know what i mean what a shame to loose such an icon as dennys i think we will see a few more places such as this one close soon so if you are not cheap to eat clean and prompt i dont see a future for you in todays market

Posted by: lisa on Sep 30, 2008 at 07:38 PM
LYNN of sherman,she did'nt want your husband,you just wish someone wanted him,I mean look at him.{good luck}

Posted by: JAMES Location: LUELLA on Sep 30, 2008 at 05:38 PM
i only went to dennys one time 1975

Posted by: granpa on Sep 30, 2008 at 04:25 PM
yea we all know it was not very clean at all but you got to feel some sadness when a long time business closes the door i used to eat there when i was a young man after the old elec. company would close @ 2am man how time has flown by it always gave me a nastylic moment when i would drive by the old place after all the years i never at there no more because of fear of what i was eating or who? but yea i remember the good old days now there gone and so is denny :-(

Posted by: OOTO Location: Texoma on Sep 30, 2008 at 01:31 PM
You folks complaining about the place being nasty never did eat at Carl's or the Chefette, did you? You would rather have sterile over character.

Posted by: sherman Location: sherman on Sep 30, 2008 at 01:26 PM
Yes it was nasty. I went about a year ago was put at a dirty table, took forever to clean it off. Finally gave our order and it came out wrong and gross. I have not been back and will not. Made me sick when I saw the football team was saleing the coupons with Denny's on it because it was a waste for me. I hope they tear it down and build something else.

Posted by: shermanite Location: shertown on Sep 30, 2008 at 10:58 AM
yes i know it looked nasty but it was good and i liked it too! but they really need to just tear that building down and start over! its just better than ihop to me!

Posted by: Bob Loco Location: sheman on Sep 30, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Food was not good at all..... IHOP is the BOMB!!!!!!

Posted by: IHOP ONLY Location: SHERMAN on Sep 30, 2008 at 10:14 AM
HOW ON EARTH DID THAT PLACE PASS HEALTH INSPECTION.IT SOUNDS LIKE TO ME SOMEONE IS GETTING UNDER THE TABLE PAY. DENNYS HAS ALWAYS BEEN NASTY AND ALWAYS WILL BE.CAN I GET A HOORAH FOR IHOP THAT PLACE ROCKS. SO LONG DENNYS WE WON'T MISS YOU.

Posted by: OOTO Location: Texoma on Sep 30, 2008 at 09:33 AM
What a shame. We used to eat 2 and 3 AM breakfasts there back in my college days.

Posted by: Lynn Location: Sherman on Sep 30, 2008 at 09:01 AM
Yep. That place was nasty! So gross. Went there about 3 months ago and vowed to never go back. I wanted to leave as soon as we walked in. The hostess sat us at a dirty table, then seemed surprised when we asked to move or for her to clean it. She got an attitude. Then our waitress was slower than Xmas and was too busy flirting with my hubby to pay attention to anything else. She was trying to sell him something other than pancakes!

Posted by: Anonymous on Sep 30, 2008 at 08:18 AM
its hard to believe that it passed health inspection, that place is/was nasty! if you have ever worked in the back, you would have never ate there again..

Posted by: Anonymous on Sep 29, 2008 at 08:37 PM
i liked it

Posted by: Boo Location: Sherman on Sep 29, 2008 at 06:15 PM
I quit eating there cause I got tired of waiting 3 hrs for food. "You want Tea with that?" - Good luck.

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