Denny’s

Love Love Love Denny’s…hands down, will return and bring all my friends lol. The $$, Convenience, food, & hours you can’t beat. However, this location on Sundays is ridiculous. Its a sunday & its brunch hours, so a crowd & wait is to be expected but this is my 2^nd visit where there’s a crowd waiting to be seated and many free open tables.. in plain sight. Makes no sense, next restaurant.

Great Menu for Seniors, Great value with AARP. Card, love the Salmon dinner, Servers are always friendly and very good at their jobs, eat there at least four times a week, keep up the great service and menu items, see you soon I’m Getting Hungry.

1am-​6am is usually when I come here… does that give you idea of why I’m here?
Basically just order breakfast. It’s very easy to come here and spend $ 10 or less.
The photo with the manger sitting at the counter is funny because I have seen it not only with the manger but with waiters sitting with their friends… it wasn’t a problem for me. Although I’ve never had a chipper over happy waiter at 3am. Most have came back enough times to make sure everything was okay and they food was how I wanted it.

This is the worst Denny’s by far. It is very dirty and has a pungent smell of moldy carpet. Beware of going at night! The waitresses all sit in the back chit chatting and completely forget about you. Waited about 30 minutes before deciding to leave. Will not be coming here again.

Meh…
I’ve been going to this Denny’s 20 plus years. As a young teen, we did as all Denny’s goes, sit there for hours after spending all day outside in the sun or at the pool and just hang out.
As I grew older, gain freedom with a car (and fake IDs. shhhh)… Denny’s became the spot to go to sober up after a long nights drinking. But don’t worry, Karma is out there and I always paid for it in the next day.
The reason I give them the two starts are for some of the wait staff that has been there for as long as I can remember:
–Gail being the first one who sadly passed a short while ago. She was amazing and was always super friendly. and we be greatly missed!
–The one manger, he’s an older gentleman. I would imagine he’s a nice guy to his staff because the staff is always suppppper relaxed (a lot of times too much so). But he has always been nice and friendly to me.
–The Busser. He has been keeping that place clean for years! Most of the time I wish I could just tip him! With the gross ppl that come in there off Mannheim. you would NEVER know because how clean he is, and super fast! If your waiting on your food take a look around. I’m sure he is cleaning the table next to you! lol

Finally something new on the menu! My husband and I have been coming here off and on for over a month. On average at least twice/​week and finally there’s some variety. I usually know if it takes me 10 minutes or more to order and I’ve looked over the menu more than 5 times someone’s in trouble (my husband for suggesting we come here perhaps?). This time though, it was different. I finally had breakfast for dinner. And what a dinner it was.
Due to the new Hobbit movie coming out, Denny’s has some new items. The best one on the menu, and what I chose was two fried eggs inside a cheddar roll with perfectly cooked bacon and hashbrowns smothered in golden cheddar topped with crunchy bacon. In a word: perfection! My eggs were so perfectly cooked, the yolks just the right amount of runny. The bacon was light and crispy. Beautiful color too. And the taters with cheese… that always makes everything better.
I have to find out our server’s name because he’s always there and is always awesome! Really makes for a great experience.
If you’re not sure what to order, go with the salad. It’s decent sized and always fresh, contrary to popular beliefs.

Friendly staff and always quick to take food orders. Orders are taken correctly the 1^st time.

Why? Why did I do it? Am I some kind of masochist? I already knew from childhood that everything about this Denny’s is hit or miss. More missing than hitting. The food, service, and the sometimes shady atmosphere. There was literally a pimp and his hoes dinning here one time. Oh wait, that was me. Nevermind. Hoes gotta eat too.
I wish I could say I was forced into coming here on the last occasion, but it was a knee-​jerk reaction after being sent home from work due to Hurricane Ditka ravaging the western ‘burbs. I had yet to have my coffee, and was hungry. And Denny’s was right there. I wish it had been somewhere else. Far away.
Suffice it to say, I walked out naming all the places nearby where my money would have been better spent. One good thing I can say is the service was spot on. My server was nice, and my less than desirable food came quickly. I wish that made up for the worst omelet I’ve had in recent memory.
I predict it’ll be at least another 8 years before I come back when I need a reminder of why this place sucks.

This is the absolute worst Dennys I’ve ever been to. My boyfriend warned me of the service here, and I should have listened.
We arrived here on a Sunday around 9am. We were seated right away which was nice. That was the only nice thing about this experience though. It took about 10 minutes for the waitress to even aknowledge us. She took our drink order and it took another 10 minutes to get the drinks. That was the last time we saw our waitress. We waited probably close to a half hour before we decided to leave.
I let the manager know and he practically begged us to stay. But screw that, I’ve watched the movie, Waiting, and I wasnt about to let wait staff and cooks spit in my food, or other things you hear about restaurants doing when you complain.
Instead, we drove to the Dennys in Rosemont and had much better service. I will not returning to this Dennys again, and maybe i’ll start listening to what my boyfriend says.
Unless you like spending hours at a Dennys just waiting for service, don’t come here.

Yes, it’s Denny’s and yes, we never expect things to be fantastic. This Denny’s made our already presumed assumption concrete. Sunday afternoon we weren’t greeted, but seated promptly. Our waitress was friendly. But when you’re starving you’re food always seem to take twice as long as, but this time we waited quite awhile and there was only 2 of us. The worse part: my boyfriend’s meal came out before mine and he was almost half way done when I finally got mine and I had to wait for the english muffin (honestly you just pop it in the toaster throw some butter on it, not difficult).
Scott always enjoys his moon over my hammys, but seriously you can’t go wrong with a ham, egg, and cheese sandwich. I tried their new meat lover’s trio and was extremely happy I could subsitute for egg whites, turkey bacon, and chicken sausage at NO extra cost, not many places do that! However, the new hashbrowns with sausage and cheese just overwhelmed me because I already had sausage. Not a bad meal, but service is slow.

I know, I know… what do you want from a Denny’s? Well, I don’t have especially high expectations, really. Really quite simple expectations. I am not going to a Denny’s for a stellar dining experience. I am going because I want breakfast type food quickly. I order my food and it arrives in a reasonable amount of time and it arrives hot or even warm. When this happens, I am content. Seems to be a very rare commodity in Franklin Park to get good service. Not everywhere, but more than a few places lack even basic customer service skills. Too bad, as there really is not a lot of competition, the exsisting restaurants and bars could do very well, if they cared enough to train their staff properly. This does not seem to be the case for some, as they instead, have closed .
Poor customer service was most certainly the case today and we were not alone in that dilemma. We were seated behind the service window and could hear the servers bringing back orders or asking for food to be warmed up, or to add something that was forgotten. Also heard more than one plate being dropped, shattering and a bit of cursing going on. It was almost comedic. We both ordered simple egg dishes, nothing fancy or special order. Our server, Carolynne came to our table several times and promised food was forthcoming. 45 minutes later, we got our food and it was cold-​very cold. Eggs are not edible cold, not in an omlette at least. The place was busy, I will give them that, but the chaos the kitchen was creating was adding to the drama. We got up, told the manager and left. He begged us to stay, but, that was it. Sorry, Denny’s but you lost us. not that we were regulars, but never again. We found another place that was more than happy to serve us in a timely manner.