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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000852772-25-000064"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000852772"
company_name: "DENNY'S Corp"
filed_at: "2025-02-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T18:19:21.488009+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Denny's board chair Brenda Lauderback to retire May 14, 2025; succession process underway

## Summary
- Brenda Lauderback notified Denny's on Feb 18, 2025 of retirement effective May 14, 2025.
- She will retire at conclusion of her existing term; Board initiated succession search.
- No replacement named yet; process is part of ongoing board succession planning.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000852772-25-000064
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000852772
- company_name: DENNY'S Corp
- filed_at: 2025-02-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/852772/000085277225000064/0000852772-25-000064-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/852772/000085277225000064/denn-20250218.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000852772-25-000064.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brenda Lauderback departed as Chair of the Board of Directors at DENNY'S Corp.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Chair of the Board of Directors
  source text: On February 18, 2025, Brenda Lauderback, Chair of the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Denny's Corporation (the "Company"), notified the Company of her decision to retire from the Board effective May 14, 2025, at the conclusion of her existing term.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/852772/000085277225000064/0000852772-25-000064-index.htm

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