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accession: "0000852772-25-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000852772"
company_name: "DENNY'S Corp"
filed_at: "2025-02-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T01:15:26.507282+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Denny's adopts bylaw amendment enabling special meetings by 25% shareholder request

## Summary
- Board approved amendment on Feb 3, 2025, effective Feb 5, 2025.
- Special meetings now callable by beneficial owners of at least 25% of outstanding voting shares.
- Amendment modifies Article II, Section 8 of Denny's Amended and Restated Bylaws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000852772-25-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000852772
- company_name: DENNY'S Corp
- filed_at: 2025-02-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/852772/000085277225000039/0000852772-25-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/852772/000085277225000039/denn-20250203.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000852772-25-000039.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  DENNY'S Corp: Amended Bylaws to allow stockholders holding at least 25% of outstanding shares to call special meetings, replacing prior provision with no such right (effective 2025-02-05).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-02-05
  source text: At a meeting of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Denny’s Corporation (the “Company”) held on February 3, 2025, the Board approved and adopted, effective as of February 5, 2025, an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “Bylaws”) amending Article II, Section 8 of the Bylaws to provide that special meetings of stockholders of the Company shall be called upon the written request of the beneficial owners of at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the outstanding shares of the Company entitled to be cast on the matter or matters to be brought before the proposed special meeting who comply with the notice procedures set forth in the Bylaws.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/852772/000085277225000039/0000852772-25-000039-index.htm

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