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DOUGLAS, Ariz. -- Denny's has apologized to the U.S. Border Patrol for an insulting receipt given to an agent here after he had ordered a grilled chicken sandwich to go. The receipt, meant for the cook and not the customer, was typed into a cash register by the restaurant's shift manager and inadvertently given to the agent when he went to pay for the $7.50 order. The receipt described the order as for the "Border Ass Whole." The shift manager, who was not identified, has been fired. Officials at Denny's corporate headquarters described the manager as a "rogue" employee, adding...

A former night-shift cook at the Denny's restaurant on Illinois Route 3 in Waterloo has been charged with aggravated battery after being accused of contaminating food and watching customers eat it, authorities said Thursday. Police said that Anthony J. Lindhorst, 26, of Waterloo, deliberately contaminated food on at least two occasions by putting his semen into the honey-mustard dressing that the restaurant serves with its chicken strips, said Capt. Suzanne Sweet of the Waterloo police. The incidents occurred in November and April, police said.

Al-Qaeda Agents Stop At Denny's, Order Bacon (parody) (AP) The FBI office in Denver has received "numerous" calls about the seven people believed to be associated with al-Qaeda pictured Wednesday in newspapers. Monique Kelso, spokeswoman for the Denver office, wouldn't characterize the calls as "sightings," but at least one was reported as such. Samuel Mack, a manager of the Denny’s in nearby Avon, said two men stopped into the restaurant on Thursday. “These two men came in and they acted suspicious,” said Mack. “After they sat down, they kept looking around, which what seemed to me as if they were...

Atlanta-AP -- The Georgia state flag, whose symbolism was initially meant to satisfy everyone, will be retired today after being flown for only two years. Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue plans to sign a bill to take down the controversial flag and replace it with a simpler design. When the 2001 flag was introduced it was considered a political masterstroke. It shrunk the Confederate battle cross and incorporated the symbol in a small montage of older Georgia flags.The flag was quickly voted the nation's ugliest by a group of flag experts. School children couldn't draw it. Around the state Capitol, it...

No more Grand Slams for FReeper Registered After 22 years, restaurant closes its doorsDenny's Restaurant, a virtual institution among late-night diners, abruptly closed its doors for good Monday afternoon, citing lagging business.The Norton shores restaurant, which opened in 1980, closed at 3 pm Monday. The restaurant was hurt financially by safety and security concerns that forced the corporation to stop making it a 24-hour eatery-a "trademark" of Denny's restaurants, a corporate spokeswoman said.Customers (Like Me) and workers were not given advance warning the restaurant would be closing, said Melanie Mathews of Muskegon, a (darn good) server at the restaurant. Employees,...

A representative of Denny’s Corp. said Wednesday the company will investigate whether one of its Springfield restaurants is discriminating against black patrons by locking its doors between 3 and 5 a.m. Sundays. The investigation was prompted by a complaint from the local NAACP. Debbie Atkins, a spokeswoman for Spartanburg, S.C.-based Denny’s, said the company also may look into whether the restaurant at 2905 Stevenson Drive, which advertises that it is open 24 hours a day, is abiding by corporate policy to be closed during the hours in question. Denny’s recently started locking its doors between 3 and 5 a.m. Sundays,...

ANDERSON S.C. - An Upstate man has sued Denny's for discrimination, saying black workers laced his eggs with bug spray because he wore clothing with Confederate emblems. Eric Stephens said for five months, black employees at one of the restaurant company's Anderson locations made him and his friends wait for more than an hour for a table, served them burnt food and contaminated their eggs with bug spray, according to the lawsuit. A spokeswoman for Denny's described the lawsuit as "outlandish and "frivolous."

<p>Three area police officers filed a lawsuit Friday in Westmoreland County claiming a kitchen worker at the New Kensington Denny's masturbated and spread his body fluids into their food.</p> <p>The officers, Leslie Jones of the Upper Burrell Police Department, Keith King of the Lower Burrell Police Department and New Kensington police officer Robert Writt, said the Denny's cook was a well-known drug user with a bias against authorities that led him ejaculate into their meals on Jan. 13, 2001.</p>

A decade ago, the restaurant chain Denny's was nearly synonymous with racism. Some of the restaurants were accused of making blacks prepay, not serving them as quickly as whites were served and sometimes not serving blacks at all. In one case, black Secret Service agents assigned to protect the president said they sat unserved until the whites around them had finished eating. What resulted was a class-action lawsuit that was settled for $54 million in 1994 and pushed Denny's to make an amazing transformation. Today, approximately half of Denny's parent company's 46,000 employees are minorities, 11 percent of them black...