John Metz, Denny's Franchisee And Hurricane Grill & Wings Owner, Imposes Surcharge For Obamacare

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56. You are misinformed. Denny's and Sambo's have always been completely separate chains.

Sambo's still exists, but it has shrunk down to a single restaurant - The original Sambo's in Santa Barbara, California.

http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/ - It's still popular and gets good reviews.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/sambos-restaurant-santa-barbara

When I was growing up in the 1960s my family dined at Sambo's restaurants often. I loved the burgers and fries.

The building that once was the San Diego Sambo's on Pacific Highway is still a restaurant - Perry's Cafe a.k.a. The Breakfast House.

I eat breakfast there occasionally. The service is good, the food is decent and reasonably priced. The murals depicting the story of Sambo and the Tigers are long gone, but I remember them well.

The owner, Perry, takes very good of her employees. When the restaurant was closed for several months because of a storage room fire a few years ago, she continued to pay for their health insurance. When it reopened, almost all of the same people returned to their jobs. Some of the employees have been there so long that they used to work at Sambo's.

ETA it's probably true that many of the more than 1,000 former Sambo's restaurants were taken over by Denny's.