Denny’s Closing Only Restaurant in Oakland Due to Crime
“However, the safety and well-being of Denny’s team members and valued guests is our top priority. Weighing those factors, the decision has been made to close this location.”
Denny’s quietly closed its only location in Oakland after 54 years because of the crime taking over the city.
Citing crime concerns, @DennysDiner on Hegenberger shut down for good today, the latest restaurant to close in @oakland. 5:30,6:30 p.m. @KTVU pic.twitter.com/oacftUflZa
— Henry K. Lee (@henrykleeKTVU) January 31, 2024
In-N-Out closed its only location last week. The city’s largest private employer, Kaiser Permanente, asked employees to eat lunch in the building.
Others have felt the strain.
Employees only learned of the closure on Tuesday. Denny’s closed at 1 PM local time on Wednesday.
Denny’s regretted closing the doors, but it had to be done.
“However, the safety and well-being of Denny’s team members and valued guests is our top priority,” the restaurant stated. “Weighing those factors, the decision has been made to close this location.”
Denny’s did not speak to any media outlets.
Denny’s was popular. From KTVU:
Jeff Lee visits every Wednesday with his mother and brother for the breakfast slams. Now they’ll have to go to another Denny’s, either in Hayward or Emeryville.
“Terrible that Oakland’s like this,” Lee said. “This is probably the oldest business on the block, and it’s closing down. It’s sad.”
Lee added, “I’m proud of the Bay, born and raised. It’s sad because when I was out of state, I was proud [of] where I’m from…now, I just shake my head because of all the crime going on.”
Jerry McComb emerged from the restaurant with a Super Slam with pancakes, country potatoes with onions and bacon, unaware that it would be his last visit to the Hegenberger Denny’s until told by KTVU.
“It’s overwhelming, it is, because I’ve been coming here for years,” McComb said.
KTVU pointed out that others spots have closed near the airport: Black Bear Diner, Subway, and Starbucks.
Oakland residents want to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, who is backed by George Soros, because of the rampant crime.
The Oakland Police Department even told residents to use air horns to alert neighbors to intruders or suspicious behavior.
The Oakland NAACP called out the progressive leaders, blaming the defund the police movement for making the city unsafe.
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This much more than story about one dennys. With oakland abandoned by all its major sports franchises, this specific area around the oakland coliseum has become lawless no-mans-land, with homeless vehicle dwellers taking over the vacant parking lots, and street crime running wild.
Major employers like blue shield and clorox are providing security escorts for employees to try to get them to come into the office. When office leases expire, they will probably be relocating farther out to the suburbs, or else they won’t be able to retain office employees.
There are also now pirates based around the harbor in Oakland. They’re venturing out into surrounding harbors and stealing stuff off of other boats and waterfront businesses.
So you’re saying there are… Oakland Raiders?
I’ll see myself out…
sir, I believe you dropped your microphone
Did you tip your waitress?
Or try the veal?
Quelle surprise.
With all the vagrants, it’s more like Well Surprise.
KWELL (ferschlugginer spell Czech)
Forewarning staff just 24hrs before closing. That’s downright mean. If a weasel manager did that to me he’d be spitting [self censored] for a week.
Why?
Why telegraph that the owner is closing the doors? So the asshat politicians who let the problem fester can crow about how closing their doors is racist?
If a “weasel manager” did that to you, then YOU should be willing to open your bank account and open another restaurant in its place.
No. Instead you want to beat the fuck out of the weasel manager. Put YOUR money where your mouth is.
Is it “mean” that employees live in fear and owners lose money? Feelings, nothing more than feelings.
I don’t censor. I leave that to LI to do that.
You ask why from that high horse of indignance.
I’ve never done any employer wrong. My employers responded in kind and always treated me with respect – and that respect fashioned loyalty beyond money.
In fact, one of my former employers is worth a cool $2 billion dollars. Twenty years on, we’re still on friendly terms.
I only ever fired people who weren’t performing – and they always got fair warning. Construction. Workers sometimes fall into substance abuse, typically booze. One highly competent journeyman (non-union) fell hard. I told him we’d help him out financially – if he’d sober up – on his own initiative for a week. That financial help came straight from the top. The $2b dollar guy okayed it. By the by – Mr. Moneybags owns the 8th largest brewery in the US. He’s a self made man and a sharp operator. He’s seen his share of grifting creeps. And through all of that, he’s still a damn fine person.
So, yeah, I don’t need cheap advise about how capitalism works, or how owner-employers and employees should behave.
And I’ve now spent twenty years as a freebooting, self-employed, blue collar worker.
Good for you.
So when you get a chance to dismount your high horse, you and your “Billion Dollar Man” can use your own money to open a new restaurant in that former location.
I too have spent my own money to open a company, and the entire amount was paid by me, requiring me to forego certain pleasures to keep the company profitable, so I didn’t default on my debts and lose everything.
Absolutely NONE of those employees spent a fucking dime to open and maintaining the business.
Not a damned one of them would ever think of passing on a paycheck when times got tough for me. So they got paid when I couldn’t.
I went on my own after putting up with 29+ years of military bullshit, as well as working for know it all ass hats like you.
Most of the beginning years were running a small margin as I sunk my entire 403b into the company, as well as a portion of my home equity, and praying to God that two nickels would rub together and produce a few pennies.
I treat my employees with dignity and respect, pay reasonable salaries for their contribution to the company, holiday bonuses, as well as giving money to the productive ones when they were down on their luck.
But I don’t owe my entire life savings to anyone whether they work for me or not. If the location of my business jeopardizes my entire financial future – I’m dafk outta there.
I curious whether they closed down because of intense criminal activity that occurred over the weekend.
Perhaps the staff were offered positions elsewhere. That would be the proper thing to do.
But we don’t know exactly what happened at that Denny’s — there may have been a recent episode that caused everyone to say, “that’s IT!! We’re outta here!” Hard to argue when something like that happens.
But yes, you have to look after your people.
Is Denny’s a franchise?
Yes.
If they get 60 days of pay in lieu of the requirements of a 60 day warning I’m good with it. If the employee count is under the WARN minimum and they get some decent severance I’m good with it.
But, if he left them hanging with nothing then yes. He’s a weasel, but, I’ve worked for worse.
My response was to the the facts at hand. If they got 60 days pay, then that’s a fair alternative. Two weeks pay ain’t cutting it andI’ve no idea what state unemployment pays out.
I’ve spent much of my working life watching people get screwed over. Sometimes they’re the employers, sometimes they’re the client, and sometimes they’re the contractor.
I once had a $4,000 bike stolen out of UPS distribution center in Oakland.
No doubt an inside job.
I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you that another business is closing up shop do to rampant criminal behavior in the area. No, not really. When you elect a soft on crime County District Attorney I don’t know why you wouldn’t expect businesses to close up shop. Just ain’t worth the hassle to remain open.
where are these poor criminals suppose to go to rob and do damage to private property…
has no one thought of THAT !! /sarc.
Don’t worry, most criminals have that special blend of being both stupid and enterprising. They’ll figure it out…
No!
Shortly ” The city’s largest private employer, Kaiser Permanente” will be closing its doors as well and “these poor criminals” will just have to Go West across the bridge for their daily ravaging.
The surrounding communities will be targeted.
Residential and commercial.
Why wouldn’t they?
Who’s going to stop them?
Eventually, once property values have been driven down far enough , Big Money will swoop in and buy up huge swaths of urban real estate — at huge relative discounts.
(Remember Parker Brothers’ MONOPOLY?)
Pfizer managed to get an entire neighborhood declared a blight. This was in Connecticut. They were going to build some sort of a research laboratory on the property, thus improving the neighborhood. Last I read the property is still empty.
The good Prof. Reynolds at Instapundit reminds us that the role of police isn’t to protect citizens from criminals, but to protect criminals from citizens. Before we had a professional police force in Western society, citizens used to settle these things themselves, and it wasn’t always pretty (or just).
Western society developed a criminal law system, from laws to prosecutors to judges to public defenders to rules to due process, precisely so that we wouldn’t take the law into our own hands. It’s more just. That’s what we citizens said we wanted.
But if the Oakland DA and the legal system there don’t wish to enforce the law and defend the legal system we built, we citizens are perfectly capable of taking the law back into our own hands. It won’t be pretty and it will more than occasionally not be just or fair. But criminals will wish for the day when we had a legal system that worked.
It’ll be time for another vigilance committee.
It’s happened in CA before. And for similar reasons.
“None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!”
IMO the blue enclaves where we see business shuttering and employees who can’t/won’t/are told not to come downtown have engaged in far too much self sabotage over far too long a period to be turned around. The dependency class draws far too much of the limited local resources to fund the needed reforms. Even if the political climate changed overnight how many additional LEO would Oakland need to accomplish it? Who would be willing to serve and at what rate of pay? How much space in local jails to house pretrial detention? (limited bail opportunities do have a cost) How much to fight off the wave of lawfare attacks on those implementing the new tough policies?
That’s just the tip of the costs. How much to revamp the public schools? How much to dig out the ideological teachers and administrators? How much to give the boot to ideological City and County Employees? Yes diverting funds from lefty cosplay activities will free up some of the costs but not all. The homeless population largely speaking is 80% drug addicted, has severe mental issues or both.
The public can absolutely make a difference but only before the tipping point is reached. After that the costs are far too high for most people to be willing to pay.
Detroit is the model. Just let it crater, fall to the ground and go back to nature. Then perhaps rebuild again if anyone cares enough to try.
Yes and that ‘anyone’ who may care enough to try should be local residents w/o Federal $. No bailouts or boondoggles funded from the taxpayers in sane States. The local residents broke it so they can pay for the repairs or not.
The point to remember is that Defund the Police started as a BLM offshoot as a way to protect black people from white police. Now the white police are gone and the blacks are now subjected to black thugs, with a 30% increase in black on black murders. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 3, 4, 5 … times, maybe we are effing stupid after all. I will now rank the htreats on the overall black community. 1) white liberals with good intentions. 2) other black people. 3) white people who have better things to do with their lives than harrass black people. Even white supremacists fall into group #3.
I bet that black police are also bailing.
Suck it, ghetto rats. You keep biting the literal hand that feeds you, and now you get the backhand.
That’s fine and good, as far as it goes. But as their children grow up, they’ll be taught to believe that their woes are due to oppression. And they will become your family’s looters, rapists, murderers, etc.
And it’ll be legal, not illegal. Via newly recruited socially just police forces; via 80,000 newly hired, newly armed IRS agents: etc.
It’s already happening — cf. J6 v. Epps, Rittenhouse v. civil payouts to the BLMs, pro-life hymn singers v. church burners, etc.
The Denny’s in my town has also shuttered for good. It was badly managed and nobody went there anymore.
But it must be because of racism!
😉
Oakland would be better governed if it was just handed over to the Mexican drug cartels.
the squad is calling out as racist ( you dont say!!!:) any company that leaves their crime ridden welfare-for-lifers
the usa is still printing up the flase money that will send us into a hurt that will be the crowning achievement of the left as the new
energy>>bitcoin system emerges that will be dealt out by race and you knowwwwww where and who will benefit from that as the masses will stay huddled up to protect themselves from having to get on the freight cars that lead to those re-education camps
I mean alll for our own good of course
“People need to get everything they vote for, in spades, good & hard, until it grinds them to powder, and, they blow away like dust in the wind.”
They need to stop saying: “unprofitable.” Say “un-sustainable.”
Keeping failing “services” going in communities that can’t sustain them is a kind of wealth-transfer on the sly. (It’s a “food desert” because you think there should be more available there of types you think other people should eat. If something providing that would hold up, it would be there.)