“We regularly evaluate each of our restaurants to ensure they meet our business objectives, and in this case, we determined that discontinuing operations is the best course,” Lynch said in a statement. “We cannot comment on future plans for this location, and internal closing matters will be handled privately with employees.”
The restaurant has been a fixture along the South Main Street/Ohio 48 corridor for decades. The structure was built in 1973, according to Montgomery County property records. The 0.42-acre tract and building are owned by a Texas-based investment company, and there have been no recent sales of the property recorded in Montgomery County’s records, according to the county auditor’s web site.
A Denny’s operation inside a food court on Wright State University’s campus is still operating. But the South Main Street location was the last remaining free-standing Denny’s restaurant in the Dayton area.
The Denny’s had shut down for a week in 2009 to undergo extensive renovation that included new lighting, ceilings, carpet and landscaping, as well as renovated bathrooms and a repaved parking lot.
“There’s nothing that was in the dining room before that is here now,” a spokesman for the restaurant said at the time.
>>>>>>>Click here to view a photo gallery of the restaurant after it reopened after extensive renovations in 2009.
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