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Tomorrow's city today.

That's the motto of the City of Lakewood

A plan southern California development that became the blueprint for suburban post-World War II communities.

Lakewood's 1949 founding was naturally followed by the establishment of local businesses,

including Danny's Donuts in 1953 situated on the corner of Bellflower and Delammo.

Owners Harold Butler and Richard Jezak expanded Danny's to a half dozen locations

then reconceptualized it as a diner named Danny's coffee shops with Jezak's departure.

Legal action from competing chain Coffee Dan's forced it to take on a new name, the one we know today.

It subsequently grew to be a brand as ubiquitous as the suburbs themselves,

and though it's had setbacks over the years, including a humiliating racial discrimination

lawsuit in the 1990s, it's continually reformed and evolved and now both 1700 locations across the globe.

So just as countless people have grown up in Lakewood, California, including this humble host,

even more people have grown up eating the signature grand slam breakfast of the self-proclaimed America's diner.

This week on Doe Boys, we're open 24 hours, because we're talking Denys.

Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, alongside Mike Mitchell, the Spoon Man.

Mitchell, how are you everybody? I'm doing well. How are you doing? I didn't like wood, huh?

Yeah, that's well. That's my hometown.

Yeah, I'm excited you get to throw it in there.

It's where Denys is based. The first Denys is in Lakewood, California. I think it's a fair thing to throw out that I'm also from Lakewood.

Interesting. Okay.

I thought about a middle of the road things come from that.

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