Denny’s has built their own custom semi truck and is traveling across the country providing disaster relief in the form of free bacon and pancakes.
Last year in Houston, Texas following hurricane Harvey, Denny’s rented a mobile kitchen and used it to feed the flooded city free of charge. Since then, Denny’s has deiced to make a rolling disaster relief kitchen a permanent feature of the company and hired CGS Premier, a custom vehicle builder in Wisconsin, to build them what they are now calling a “mobile diner.”
The red tractor trailer houses what looks like a scaled down version of a regular Denny’s back-of-house with a freezer, ovens, large coffee brewer, and grills, reported Ad Week.
Although the kitchen was designed to be able to cook up much of Denny’s menu, Denny’s Chief Marketing Officer, John Dillon, says that Denny’s is sticking to serving breakfast to those in need for now.
“There’s something special about pancakes and bacon and coffee… There’s something comforting about that meal in particular,” Dillon said.
Denny’s mobile diner has already provided 14,000 meals to hungry displaced citizens and emergency responders in both the Carolinas following hurricane Florence and in California following the wildfires, but is capable of operating at an even higher volume.
“[My plan is] to serve and cook as many pancakes and strips of bacon as possible,” continued Dillon.
Updates on the truck’s current whereabouts are posted to Denny’s twitter and anyone interested is encouraged to follow its journey there.
