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Mannu | Some day, when Josh Richardson finally finds a job, he'll pay for a meal at Denny's. (DENN) But in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, the unemployed medical assistant from Greenville, S.C., waited 40 minutes in near-freezing temperatures outside a Denny's restaurant for a free Grand Slam breakfast. Roughly 2 million other Americans lined up at local Denny's for the too-good-to-pass-up deal."It's definitely a blessing," says Richardson, 35, who has been out of work since May. "I've put in applications everywhere — Wal-Mart, Kmart. I haven't heard nothin'." With the economy in a tailspin, Denny's shook up the restaurant industry — if not the nation — Tuesday by doing something no family dining chain had done before: giving out free meals coast-to-coast from 6 a.m. until 2 p.m. More: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2009-02-03-dennys_N.htm
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AcousticGod | There's a Denny's across the parking lot of where I work. No one from my bank got in for the free meal. It was too crowded. |
katatonic | this reminds me of the 60s (and probably beyond) when doing the dine-and-dash at denny's was extremely easy and fashionable among the young impoverished...doesn't seem to have hurt denny's at all either!! |
26taurus | In the 90's we would sometimes skip school and go "chew and screw" at Denny's too. |
26taurus | I feel sorry about that now - for the waitresses. |
26taurus | Hopefully these people getting the free breakfasts still know enough to tip their server. |
juniperb | I would have had to drive 50 miles to get the "free breakfast".... gasoline would have been more than the freebe ------------------ ~ What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~ - George Eliot |
katatonic | great advertising gimmick! and a great example as to how we could all turn this "depression" into an orgy of generosity which in turn comes back to us! |