On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Joe Petrow wrote:
> On 1/18/11, 'CuSO4' Yung <cuso4@cuso4.com> wrote:
>> 2011/1/18  <goemon@anime.net>:
>>>> the sign they left behind that clued me in to the fact that Denny's
>>>> Japan is actually a subsidiary of the JT tobacco company.
>>>> I haven't been to a Denny's since.
>>> No, Denny's japan is a subsidiary of Seven & I Holdings (eg 7-11).
>> Come to think of it, ex-MLer Shimizu Kenji worked for 7&i several
>> years ago as a conbini store chief, and he informed me back then he
>> could get staff discount from Denny's.
> OK, here's the sign in front of the ruins of Dennys:
> http://twitpic.com/3r4hrj
> Does this mean that JT owned the land under which Dennys operated?

Looks like it. So you've been boycotting denny's on erroneous pretenses 
^_^;;