DENNY'S have hit back at claims customers have been charged for parking in the restaurant's car park.

As our sister title The Evening Times revealed, outraged diners have hit out at the eatery for sending out parking notices of £100 for using the Renfrew car park.

James McColligan said he would refuse to pay the fine for his one hour and 30-minute stay at the restaurant - 30 minutes was spent waiting in the car for a table - and vowed not to return to the restaurant.

However, the firm claim the notices are an error and have promised to wave the fee for anyone eating in the restaurant.

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When questioned, a spokeswoman for Denny's said: "We have limited car parking spaces at our restaurant, we have 57 spaces in total ... In the car park there are sign posts explaining that it's managed by a ANPR system and these signs have been up since we opened in December.

"The reason we have this system in place is to protect our customers and our car parking spaces from people misusing the car park."

The spokeswoman said there were issues with Glasgow Airport customers using the car park as opposed to using the pricey on-site parking.

She added: "The way the system works is that we have an allowance for any car to use our car park for a four-hour period.

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"Anything more than four hours, the customer will then need to enter their registration into a tablet on our host desk at Denny's ... any customer who has received a ticket which is outside of the parameters will have their ticket wavered and this process is already in motion.

"We would like to apologise to any customer who has received a ticket which is outside of these parameters, and we have already taken appropriate action to reach out to those customers and resolve these issues."

To ask for ticket fees to be waved, contact feedback@dennysdiners.co.uk