If your Saturday morning ritual involves a booth, a bottomless cup of coffee and a Grand Slam, this one hits close to home. EYM Diner of DFW, the Dallas-area company that runs 30 Denny’s restaurants across Texas and Florida, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Nov. 4, 2026.
The paperwork landed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas under case number 4:26-bk-44986. It is the kind of filing that makes regulars stop mid-bite and ask the obvious question: is my diner going away?
The Numbers In The Filing Are Eye-Popping: Under $50,000 In Assets Against Up To $50 Million In Debts
Here is the part that made people do a double take. The filing estimates the company’s liabilities at somewhere between $10 million and $50 million, while its assets come in at under $50,000.
Read that again. Tens of millions owed on one side of the ledger, and less than the price of a decent used car on the other. That is a gap big enough to drive a whole fleet of delivery trucks through…