# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000852772
**File Stem:** 0001193125-26-022736
**Filing Date:** 2026-1
**Character Count:** 3579
**Document Hash:** 140af9885f688691cbb69551f571f922
**Contains OCR:** False
**Source Format:** 

## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-26-022736.hdr.sgml**: 20260126

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-26-022736

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 15-12G

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260126

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260126

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20260126

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** DENNY'S Corp
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000852772
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 07 Trade & Services
- **EIN:** 133487402
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 15-12G
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 000-18051
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26561144

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 203 EAST MAIN STREET
- **CITY:** SPARTANBURG
- **STATE:** SC
- **ZIP:** 29319
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 8645978000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 203 EAST MAIN STREET
- **CITY:** SPARTANBURG
- **STATE:** SC
- **ZIP:** 29319

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** DENNYS CORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20020801

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** ADVANTICA RESTAURANT GROUP INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19980107

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** FLAGSTAR COMPANIES INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19930722

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

**FORM 15** 

**CERTIFICATION AND NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION** 

**UNDER SECTION 12(g) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934** 

**OR SUSPENSION OF DUTY TO FILE REPORTS UNDER SECTIONS 13 AND 15(d)** 

**OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.** 

**Commission File Number 0-18051** 

## Denny's Corporation
**(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)** 

**203 East Main Street** 

**Spartanburg, South Carolina 29319-0001** 

**(864) 597-8000**

**(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)** 

**Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share** 

**(Title of each class of securities covered by this Form)** 

**None** 

**(Titles of all other classes of securities for which a duty to file reports under Section 13(a) or 15(d) remains)** 

Please place an X in the box(es) to designate the appropriate rule provision(s) relied upon to terminate or suspend the duty to file reports:

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|:---|:---|
|  Rule 12g-4(a)(1) | ☒ |
|  Rule 12g-4(a)(2) | ☐ |
|  Rule 12h-3(b)(1)(i) | ☒ |
|  Rule 12h-3(b)(1)(ii) | ☐ |
|  Rule 15d-6 | ☐ |
|  Rule 15d-22(b) | ☐ |

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Approximate number of holders of record as of the certification or notice date: One.\*

\* On January 16, 2026, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of November 3, 2025, by and among Denny's Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), Sparkle Topco Corp., a Delaware corporation ("Parent"), and Sparkle Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent ("Merger Sub"), Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the "Merger"), with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Denny's Corporation has caused this certification/notice to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned duly authorized person.

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|  | **Denny's Corporation** | **Denny's Corporation** |
| Date: January 26, 2026 | By: | /s/ Robert P. Verostek |
|  | Name: | Robert P. Verostek |
|  | Title: | Executive Vice President and<br> Chief Financial Officer |

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