CAN I TAKE YOUR ORDER? MY PERSONAL STORY
Finding New Wrinkles Denny’s played a significant role in my development, as it did for my uncles and aunts. I’ve spent more than half of my life working alongside my family. In order to understand how Denny’s reshaped my life and led the way to educational success, we must go back to the beginning. Our move to a bigger home in 2002 also coincided with my mother’s new job at Denny’s. The living circumstances were not all that different than they were during the McDonald’s days. My mother was working every day, from dusk to dawn. It meant that I had no 50
other place to go other than Denny’s after I got off school. I recall one occasion where I was left stranded at school, only for the principal to personally deliver me to my mother at Denny’s. My mother was engrossed at work. Granted, that was as extreme as it got. I spent many days sitting at the restaurant’s counter, quietly waiting for my mother to pick up her bags and signal us to depart from the back door. More agonizing than the next, each instance tested my patience and capacity to find new wrinkles in the mundane Denny’s experience.
