Earlier this week, we did a little bit of analysis on behalf of Denny’s largest shareholders (including BlackRock, Wellington Management, State Street, GAMCO, Citigroup, Two Sigma, and AQR) to help them decide whether or not they should increase their stakes in DENN on account of a physical altercation that took place between a couple patrons (our findings said yes). For those who missed it, let’s review the tape.

At the time, reports noted that the scene above started when one group of diners, finding themselves sans syrup, asked the table over if they could borrow theirs, which resulted in the response, “Bitch, your pancakes look fine to me!” and the above mêlée. The police report, however, tells another tale, one which is not entirely clear but seems to involve the respective parties all being at the same bar and independently making the decision to head to Denny’s, cutting each other off on the road en route.

According to a Chicopee Police Department report, the male and female brawlers (whose names were redacted from the document) had departed the Maximum Capacity bar when their respective cars were involved in several vehicular confrontations. The fighters, as it turned out, were all headed to the chain restaurant. “Both vehicles arrived at Denny’s at the same time and words were exchanged in the parking lot,” cops noted.

Inside, it wasn’t long before punches began flying. A Denny’s manager told investigators “that he observed an argument outside between the aforementioned parties.”

Cops: Maple Syrup Not Cause Of Denny’s Brawl [TSG]
Denny’s Brawl Police Report [TSG]

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Comments (42)

  1. Posted by Me | February 24, 2011 at 7:21 PM

    America’s finest

  2. Posted by Me | February 24, 2011 at 7:21 PM

    America’s finest

  3. Posted by Me | February 24, 2011 at 7:21 PM

    America’s finest

  4. Posted by Homosaurus | February 24, 2011 at 7:25 PM

    pancake tits…

  5. Posted by Homosaurus | February 24, 2011 at 7:25 PM

    pancake tits…

  6. Posted by Guest | February 24, 2011 at 7:26 PM

    it moved.

    -guy who gets turned on by syrup wrestling and doesn’t bother to read the whole story

  7. Posted by Guest | February 24, 2011 at 7:26 PM

    it moved.

    -guy who gets turned on by syrup wrestling and doesn’t bother to read the whole story

  8. Posted by Dave | February 24, 2011 at 7:27 PM

    People helping people…gotta love the bystanders.

  9. Posted by Dave | February 24, 2011 at 7:27 PM

    People helping people…gotta love the bystanders.

  10. Posted by Dave | February 24, 2011 at 7:27 PM

    People helping people…gotta love the bystanders.

  11. Posted by speechless | February 24, 2011 at 7:30 PM

    These fine Americans brought you Hope and Change. So proud.

  12. Posted by GGGuest | February 24, 2011 at 7:31 PM

    there’s a funny joke in here involving this video, those two traders fighting, and UBS sucking, but I just can’t find it.

  13. Posted by NakedShort | February 24, 2011 at 7:33 PM

    Did they finish their food or not?

    -guy who wants the whole story

  14. Posted by Been there...hated it | February 24, 2011 at 7:36 PM

    In Chicopee this qualifies as dinner and a show.

  15. Posted by Homosaurus | February 24, 2011 at 8:04 PM

    White people are such animals. I wish they would go back to Europe.

  16. Posted by Anonymous | February 24, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    Agreed. It has something to do with Moons over My Hammy, Pork Sausage and Mohamed El-Erian. I can’t find it either.

  17. Posted by Anonymous | February 24, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    Agreed. It has something to do with Moons over My Hammy, Pork Sausage and Mohamed El-Erian. I can’t find it either.

  18. Posted by Anonymous | February 24, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    Agreed. It has something to do with Moons over My Hammy, Pork Sausage and Mohamed El-Erian. I can’t find it either.

  19. Posted by Guest | February 24, 2011 at 8:15 PM

    Yes, you can probably tie it all together with a Minetta, Russian, and NKI comment.

  20. Posted by Supraman | February 24, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    This is just the sort of behavior you can expect from a group of people who willingly went to a bar called “Maximum Capacity.”

  21. Posted by Lindsey | February 24, 2011 at 8:28 PM

    The pig who filled out the report is clearly short Dennys, this is insider trading.

  22. Posted by Lindsey | February 24, 2011 at 8:28 PM

    The pig who filled out the report is clearly short Dennys, this is insider trading.

  23. Posted by 1 + 1 = ? | February 24, 2011 at 8:32 PM

    In Soviet Minettas, pancake fighting you is the NKI???

  24. Posted by 1 + 1 = ? | February 24, 2011 at 8:32 PM

    In Soviet Minettas, pancake fighting you is the NKI???

  25. Posted by 1 + 1 = ? | February 24, 2011 at 8:32 PM

    In Soviet Minettas, pancake fighting you is the NKI???

  26. Posted by 1 + 1 = ? | February 24, 2011 at 8:32 PM

    In Soviet Minettas, pancake fighting you is the NKI???

  27. Posted by Guestronomist | February 24, 2011 at 8:41 PM

    Nope. That’s definitely not it.

  28. Posted by Guestronomist | February 24, 2011 at 8:41 PM

    Nope. That’s definitely not it.

  29. Posted by Guestronomist | February 24, 2011 at 8:41 PM

    Nope. That’s definitely not it.

  30. Posted by PasteSpecialFormats | February 24, 2011 at 8:54 PM

    I always pictured UBS traders working in a nice building in Stamford, New York, or Zurich, not a Denny’s in Chicopee.

    But I guess that’s UBS for you: continuously underwhelming.

  31. Posted by Guest | February 24, 2011 at 9:22 PM

    Chicopee? Why did it not surprise me that this is Massachusetts, and western Mass at that . . .

  32. Posted by Guest | February 24, 2011 at 9:22 PM

    Chicopee? Why did it not surprise me that this is Massachusetts, and western Mass at that . . .

  33. Posted by Fingerlickingood | February 24, 2011 at 9:52 PM

    That’s nothing.

    LaRonda
    Assistant to the Assistant Manager – 6pm-2am shift
    Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits
    125th St
    Harlem, NY

  34. Posted by jeff | February 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM

    you cant break up a girl fight, you might accidentally hit one of them

  35. Posted by jeff | February 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM

    you cant break up a girl fight, you might accidentally hit one of them

  36. Posted by Anonymous | February 24, 2011 at 10:43 PM

    The story was funnier when “bitch, your pancakes look fine to me” was the cause of the fight.

  37. Posted by Finn Alexander | February 25, 2011 at 7:28 AM

    This is appalling on two fronts: the racism of blacks dressing in whiteface and acting like crazy Appalachian people, and bringing a canine in a thong and crack inside a fine dining establishment.

  38. Posted by Guest | February 25, 2011 at 3:06 PM

    You’ve got to admit it, though. Bitch’s pancakes did look perfectly fine.

  39. Posted by Guest | February 25, 2011 at 3:06 PM

    You’ve got to admit it, though. Bitch’s pancakes did look perfectly fine.

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