A food fight at a Newtown Road restaurant led to injuries and two arrests early Saturday morning. When officers arrived at Denny's about 2:30 a.m., they found a man with a missing tooth and cuts to his face and another man and a woman with several scratches, police said.
The three victims said they were attacked by two Bethel men after a verbal argument, according to the report. But police said restaurant managers told them the dispute began as a food fight. School resource officers were in the courtyard about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday when they saw the teen take a full tray of pizza and salad and throw it onto a crowd of hundreds of students, police said. Many of those students then jumped on picnic tables and began screaming, trying to encourage more "food fighting," according to the report.
"These acts proved to be very disruptive to the entire student body and staff that were in and around this area at the time," officers wrote in the police report. Earlier that day, school officials had made several public announcements advising students that "any questionable behavior" would not be tolerated, police said.
Administrators told police there have been food fights and other disturbances on the last day of school in past years. The teen who started the fight was charged with creating a public disturbance. He was released to his parent on a promise to appear in juvenile court on June 29.
His name was not released because he's a minor. The Fight occurred in a Denny's restaurant. Denny's is known for always being open, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert around the clock. Unlike many other restaurant chains, Denny's does not close on holidays or nights, except where required by law.
Harold Butler and Richard Jezak opened Danny's Donuts in Lakewood, CA in 1953. In 1955, after Jezak's departure from the then-6-store chain, Butler created and changed the concept a year later in 1956, shifting it from a donut shop to a coffee shop with store #8. Danny's Donuts was renamed Danny's Coffee Shops and changed its operation to 24 hours.
