[2][3][4] Denise owns a restaurant where the employees have crazy adventures.
Chez Denise was the first television show in Quebec to have a black character,[5][6] played by Normand Brathwaite.
According to the le Huffington Post Québec, certain scenes are a dubious "copy of American blackface", going so far as to have Brathwaite perform Al Jolson's "Swanee" in blackface in an episode.
[7] The series is also the first in Quebec television to have a gay character and to try and change minds on the subject of homosexuality.
[8] Christian Lalancette (played by André Montmorency), a caricatural hairdresser, has become one of the most memorable characters of the series, despite the fact that the character was only supposed to appear once.