Denny’s

This is by far the best Denny’s in riverside. The one on Madison is terrible! Worst service there! I have been to this one on a few occasions and always received great service from all of the wait staff and the manager. The reason for this review is because my most recent visit Ronnie blew me away with his kind, prompt service! I have always dined in but on this occasion I just got a to go order. Ronnie did not ignore me or make me feel like any less of a priority. My order was kind of a weird one that needed a not of special prepping but came out correctly the first time! He was so professional and went above and beyond to make me feel welcomed and I will be continuing to come to this location and recommending it to others. Thank you for keeping my faith in 24 hour diners!

I would have given them 5 stars but… I was there today (2−15−16) about 4:30 and not too many people at this time in the restaurant. The manager (she was wearing a blue blouse) decided to semi-​yell at one of her employees. She decided to speak to him in Spanish while he responded to her in English. Just because I am Caucasian I guess she figured she would try to hide what she was saying — little did she know that I am fluent in Spanish and understood every word she said. I had to laugh when she was telling him she was from «corporate» and how she knew everything. I almost went up to her and told her she must not have learned much from «corporate» as she was very rude and condescending to her employee right in front of customers. I go to this Dennys often and I have never seen her before so I assume she has only been there a few months. For those employees that work there, I sure hope she transfers!

Ask for Audrey ! She usually works nights. Always gives good service and she’s very kind and prompt. The place looks a lot nicer now too. since that retard ran his car into the front of the restaurant. Food was good, nothing like a Denny’s stop after a night of heavy, legally irresponsible Bing drinking.

As Denny’s goes, this location is probably my favorite one in the IE. The staff is friendly and the food they serve is consistently of the quality they’ve become known for. I love breakfast and Denny’s serves breakfast all day long which makes them my kind of place. I like their coffee and hardly ever visit without getting a cup of Joe. Three stars make them my I’m hungry for breakfast and wanna eat out go to.

The manager and the waitresses at Dennys on Van Buren and Lincoln are always so nice always greet us very well we always have good meals there we just love going there. Excellent job. We were there Feb 5 2016, 830am.

Good American greasy & salty breakfast
They cook w/​vegetable oil
Waitress brought check with food didn’t ask if we needed anything else. No water refills & stopped coming to the table

Food is great, but service is everything. Waitress not only brought out the check 5 minutes after we got our food, but also never came back to check on us. We never got any refills or nothing. Was unable to finish our food due to no more drinks. Spoke with the manager and all he said was, «Sorry about that, I’ll have a talk with her.» Never coming back here again.

Was just there, 2^nd time they messed my order up. Will be talking too the manger next time.
Horrible…

This place is better than the one on Madison (for a fact!). I live not even a mile away from the Madison spot and I’d rather come here. Like all breakfast hours it’s packed but if you get seated and get an awesome waitress you’ve won half the battle! This place has never disappointed me on serving me my food. Everything comes out hot and ready to eat! Love taking my parents to this spot

The service is slow and the food is bad. And the worst part you have to pay for the ranch. Denneys has gone down hill i will never go back.

No sense of urgency! Just ordered pancakes n it took then like an hour! Restaurant was almost empty!

Before the remodel it wasn’t great furniture but half the staff was good. The new furniture is not comfortable, especially if your taller. The booths are more narrow and almost painful to sit at. The staff is good but they are cutting back on food. My son got yogurt and the strawberries that came with them were ice cream topping. The child’s milk is smaller now $ 1.20 with no refill. My pancakes weren’t very good either My wife’s burger with egg on it had over cooked egg and meat.
The air was very humid. The music was bad to add to the negative of the experience. Don’t think we’ll be back as often as we have been in the past. Not sure how the seating could be fixed easily but hopefully they’ll realize uncomfortable guests don’t want to return even if the service is good.

Even though it was packed our service was great. The food however was nasty. Very bland, greasy, and prepared incorrect.

We went on Sunday after services to the Denny’s in Riverside off of Van Burden and I think I was better off making my own food at home. The cups, utensils and plates were filthy. My son was scrapping dry eggs off of one of the cups. I got served coffee in a cup full of lipstick. I wasn’t wearing any lipstick. Then the coffee that I got served the second time was the end grinds which was gross. When I informed the manager all he said was, «I’m sorry. I’ll bring it to there attention.» Really? Very disgusted and disappointed.

My wife and I has breakfast here.
Newer Denny’s — that is, the décor inside was new and upbeat. This was a plus. Staff here seemed to enjoy their jobs; good vibe from everyone.
Meals were good, not great. My wife’s omelet was over cooked and the ‘3-​cheese’ aspect was missing, not sure there was even –one cheese– on there. Fillings were good as was the OJ.
My Grand slammwich was delicious, I mean everything was perfect. eggs cooked well; perfect amount of cheese, toast was perfect… all was good.
Clean restaurant and clean bathrooms.
Overall good experience; one of the better Denny’s we have ever been too.

Back to say that from 1 star bringing it to three now. I’ve given this place another few tries since I was with company and didn’t want to refuse this Denny’s since it was easier to get to.
Haven’t seen this guy since, I’m starting to think maybe he was a cook because they were short staffed. All of my last visits have been a pleasure and everything has gone well and smooth. Server staff was fantastic! I’m glad I gave this place another go even though I wasn’t as willing at first.
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#7939 STORE ID
Recipet returned to me has no name; and its little wonder why. But we were served by a Lebron if I remember correctly.
I will NEVER return to this store ever. I am super unhappy with how everything went.
First off, the intro was great. Was greeted by another host and she was incredibly friendly. She either took a break or was done for the day and our new server Lebron came in.
At first he seemed like whatever. Took our order, no big deal. Everything was fine.
We get our food and I’m not gonna lie, some of it was undercooked. Mostly the sausage. But I was all eh, it’s fourth of july. No big deal I understand they probably don’t wanna be here so i let it go. It wasn’t so undercooked I couldn’t eat it, the center was a bit pink and not too warm but hey, it’s one sausage and my stomach can take it. I just hate confrontation.
But it got worse.
My buddy drank his glass of water, so we asked for a refill. He brings back a glass that’s half the size. My buddy drinks it immediately and I laughed at him and ask the server «Sorry, could we get another water?» He goes «Yeah, sure I’ll bring you a bigger glass.»
He returns with a whole pitcher of water and slams it at the table end and stalks off.
What. The. Absolute. Hell.
My buddy and I look at eachother and I’m just amazed. I start back tracking to think if anything I said could’ve offended him, but all we were talking about was arts and crafts. So my buddy and I are so irritable we’re like FINE, we’ll drink it ALL so we both did just that. Drank all that water. Challenge accepted.
But regardless even after that he was rude. Never asked to refill my tea (like I care, we had enough water for four tables) took forever to take our plates. Took forever to get our to-​go box. At one point I told my buddy «Dude, forget it. He’s not gonna bring you a box.» To which he laughed and said «He will if he wants this table clear.»
Overall our server made this otherwise casual outing tense. He irritated both of us and I thought nah, I’ll go home and see if I still feel this way tomorrow.
Well. I do.
I will never come back. I don’t know what Lebron’s problem was. I’ve had bad days too. I’ve had to work holidays. I know food service is a tough job and it was busy (not packed mind you) but honestly, all his guest were smiling and cheerful. No one seemed to be ready to dish him as hard a time as he dished us. I don’t know what his beef us, but Denny’s – or whoever manages this joint call him in with this review and ask him what the hell his problem was. If he doesn’t like his job, tell him to go somewhere else. Put him in the shoes of unemployment and remind him to have some courtesy.
Seriously.

Everyone knows about Denny’s food — it’s pretty much a hit or miss. It’s Denny’s, so you know what to expect.
Considering I was about half asleep when I ate here, I believe I was most happy that the service was friendly and they had hot coffee.
The restaurant is clean, the servers are friendly and attentive and the food is good for the price. I enjoyed it. i had scrambled eggs when i go to dennys, they never seem to get the runny part cooked when fried.
If you’re hungry and want something simple and filling, it’s a great choice.
oh and the bathroom was clean too

Ordered the eggs in a basket with bacon. Waitress made fresh coffee for me and the food was hot and tasted very good! The restaurant was very clean inside. One of the better Denny’s I have been to.

Some hot chocolate and pie sure sounded good after the drive in. Now a 15 minute wait with only two customers in the restaurant, not so good. Right as we showed up the waitress told us if we could give her a minute. That was no problem but after ten minutes we approached her again. This time she seemed annoyed and told us to wait again. After waiting longer we finally were seated.
As we were being seated, we were moved around due to the dirty tables. The only good experience here was the hot chocolate. The pumpkin pie was okay but the apple pie was soggy and smashed. I kind of wished I got some pie at McDonald’s next-​door! Not only was the food unimpressive, the service was even worse. After just constantly waiting in the beginning, we waited another 20 minutes to just pay. Keep in mind, this place was basically empty. The reason it took so long was because our waitress was yelling at the cook saying rude things like «uh do you think you can make this order right this time?.» She totally just kept embarrassing him in front of everybody.
This specific Denny’s needs to either be completely flipped or shut down. From the other reviews I read here they mentioned bad service, food poisoning, and did I mention bad service? Save your time and money, go somewhere else.

Avoid this place at any cost. We came here on a not so busy night and service was non-​existent. Food is average just like any other Denny’s but the service is what really ruins it. Waitress kept forgetting to bring items we’d ask for.