Denny's reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(3,248 total reviews)
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Kelli Valade

46% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Denny's has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 3,248 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Denny's employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Mar 1, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

For the most part, it's a high volume restaurant. One bad tip or stiff won't ruin your income for the night as at restaurants with more limited seating. It's a 24 hour restaurant so there are a lot of available hours. If you're willing to work overnights, you can often pick up shifts that way.

Cons

Management will make or break you. I've worked for great managers and worked for terrible ones. I worked for a franchise, so the rules were never quite clear; they claimed they followed corporate brand standards, but one look in the brand standard book would should quite a few things that weren't followed. You never knew if you were breaking a rule because the rules changed at least once a month. Denny's tends to have weird rushes when you're not staffed for it. 2 PM on a weekday should be dead, but I've sold a $250 hour by myself at the time in the past (consider that your guest check average is less than $10) The food kind of sucks and you'll get sick of eating at work in a few months.

2.0
Jan 26, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Make friends around the community, meet intersting people, paid based on job performance (tips)

Cons

management was not very great or supportive-they played favorites, no benefits, not much room for advancement

2.0
Jan 21, 2012

So So

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Guests are nice and because they are open 24 hours, shifts are always available

Cons

Managers not really leaders and spend too much time in the office and not enough on the floor. Hours always being cut if business is slow. You drive in and then only get two hours of your shift

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