Major Restaurant Chain to Close Up to 90 Locations

San Francisco, November 15, 2022: The Lumberjack Slam (back) and the All-American Slam (front) at Denny’s on Mission Street.

Up to 90 locations of a global restaurant chain that was established in Los Angeles County will close by 2025, the company revealed.

Known for its specialty pancakes and famous breakfast skillets, Denny’s informed its investors that it will close 70 to 90 underperforming locations before the end of the year. This is a part of the “planned acceleration of lower-volume restaurant closures,” according to the 2024 corporation report, which was released on February 12, 2025.

Denny informed SFGATE via email that it does not “provide advance notice of closures.” It’s unknown if any of the 70–90 stores will be in California or when they will close over the next 10 months.

According to the research, Denny’s closed 88 locations in total in 2024. Oakland and San Francisco were two of such Bay Area locations. In January 2024, the company announced that it had closed its Oakland facility, located at 601 Hegenberger Road, close to Oakland International Airport, for the “safety and well-being” of its staff and patrons. It had been there for fifty-four years. When comparing the costs of Grand Slam meals, the 816 Mission Street location in downtown San Francisco, which has been operating for nearly 25 years, was thought to be the priciest Denny’s in California.

In 1953, Denny’s was established in Lakewood as Danny’s Donuts. It gained notoriety for operating around the clock, every day of the year. To prevent confusion with another diner called Coffee Dan’s, co-founder Harold Butler renamed the establishment from Danny’s to Denny’s in 1959. The business began franchising in the 1960s, and its first foreign restaurant opened its doors in Mexico in 1967. Currently, there are over 1,700 Denny’s locations across the globe, including 354 in California.

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