Wayne the Denny's Guy

I had the greatest experience at Denny's a short while ago. Yes, I did say Denny's. Most people have good experiences here the morning after they've been partying all night and are ridiculously hungover. I, however, went there for the sole purpose of meeting up with a friend and we would both term this Denny's location "epic". Generally speaking, when you head into a restaurant of any sort, you get the typical server who is polite and cheerful and gives you pretty good service for the duration of your stay. Then you get the occasional server who you know doesn't want to be at work that day and it shows in the way you get treated. On this day, however, we walked into Denny's and right off the bat our server and seater, Wayne, was the most flamboyant server I have ever seen. He was amazing. He whisked us to our seats and took our drink order immediately, and then was back in a flash to take our food order. When it was my turn to order, he turned and said "fire at will!" rather than your typical "what can I get you?" As he was running in between tables, Wayne continued to look over and, while running by, would yell "you ladies okay?!" We'd always laugh and say yes and then he'd be gone again to help another table. When our orders did come, Wayne came to our table and stood there, setting down one item at a time and letting us know what it was.

"App sampler. Marinara sauce. Honey mustard. Jam. Butter. Grand Slam. Syrup. There you go! Enjoy!"

Then he was gone again. We ate our meal and as Wayne tended to another table of two guys, he asked them how they were doing. Clearly annoyed, he walked by our table saying, quite loud, "That's okay, don't answer me. I like to be annoyed." Awesome. Because quite clearly, the table of two guys were not enjoying this service as much as we were.

Wayne came back to clear away our plates and when asked if there was still pumpkin pie to be had, Wayne joyously told us there was and quickly brought a piece to the table along with a can of whipped cream.

"Say when!!" He seemed quite excited about placing the whipped cream on the pie.

Probably the best server I have ever seen. He wasn't at some high end restaurant, where you are expected to act classy. He works at a Denny's and has fun with his job, which more servers should be like.

Needless to say, we tipped him quite well at the end of the night. While leaving we let him know that the money was on the table and his response was, "Alright ladies, thank you so much! Have a great night! See you later! Bye!"

Epic.