Change your fucking FRIES already! I love Wendy’s hamburgers but I also like french fries and I will skip you and go to the MCDS right across the street. Not to mention the MCDS app let’s me get crazy cheap deals on meals all month long. I can use the deal every day of the month. Another large chain that fell asleep at the wheel of complacency.
Must be a regional difference or something, because I recently had Wendy’s and was impressed with how good their fries have gotten. Crispy and flavorful.
Meanwhile I haven’t had a bite or sip of anything from McDonald’s that wasn’t absolute shit in like 20 years. I never loved McDonald’s (I’m big on texture), but at least they used to have the best fries and sodas. Then they removed the beef tallow from the fries, making them the actual worst fast food fries available, and they replaced their soda fountains with Freestyle soda cloacas.
I already wasn’t eating their meat because I like meat to be chewable, so that reduced the number of items I’ll order from McDonald’s to zero.
Please never say soda cloacas again… More people do not need to be cursed with this mental img
Dear God that’s horrific
But it’s true.
Oh I totally agree. They’re a crime against god and man. Especially when I just want a fucking Coke.
Fun fact about actual cloacas: when chickens breed it’s called a “cloacal kiss”, and it’s exactly what it sounds like.
The better of the national fast food chains imo. At least they used to be.
Fast food is supposed to be cheap. No reason to eat at these places anymore.
To be fair, ingredients have continued to climb in price, especially beef. The fast food model was always unsustainable without sacrificing quality even further and raising prices.
Im not so sure.
Apparently the current CEO is only worth about 6mil. Fast food isn’t like Tesla or twitter so no billionaires I guess. Idk. How much upper management is there, what’s their salary and how actually valuable is there work? It’s just fast food. What about wall Street investors, how much do they get. How much is wasted on ads? Lots of supply chains in fast food too.
I just think when it comes to food there shouldn’t be any extreme wealth and profit. No megayachts, mansions, or Bentleys. I don’t see why the quality can’t be good, workers can’t be paid much better, and the prices can’t be cheaper. In our capitalist system some people are getting way more money that they did not earn and don’t deserve, at everyone else’s expense. But I admit I don’t know the numbers and 6mil for a CEO seems low (although I’d retire immediately with 6mil LOL).
Fast food likely would have been fine… if wages increased as much as the prices did.
The fact that the minimum wage doesn’t increase every year, yet prices do, meant that this was always going to be a recipe for disaster.
Oh 100%, completely agree with you there.
The fast food model was always unsustainable without sacrificing quality even further and raising prices.
Not true. The people making 6 or 7 figures could all take a hit to their salaries and that would translate to lower prices for customers.
The problem is, why would they if they don’t have to?
shrinkflationed to hell, and people generally stopped eating there when there are better options.
Remember that buffet?
Sir, this was a Wendy’s.
Now it’s a weed shop.
Was looking for this comment. Was not disappointed.
Not for long!
This is why I stopped ordering from them.
Go woke go broke lmfao
Good to know, thanks.
I stopped ordering because the food is shit, but now I’ll never give them another chance
Same I love me some Wendy’s chicken nuggets and sandwich. A frosty once in a while is nice. Even enjoyed some of their breakfast stuff they added a few years back. Not a damn cent since Trump 2024/figured out they repub donors. Eat shit. Love driving by and seeing the Wendy’s empty as fuck.
This is good to know. Now I have more ammo to never go there again. I will miss their spicy chicken sando tho, it’s my favorite of the fastfood chicken sandos, but that’s a small price to pay.
Where does one get this analysis?
This is an app called “Goods Unite Us” on Android. I think they have a site and iPhone app too.
TYVM!
Cool, but I’m skeptical of how accurate this is. According to the app, Amazon predominantly supports Democrats (by a 2 to 1 margin), and donated to Kamala but not the Orange Pedophile. That seems fishy seeing how Bezos was getting the VIP treatment at the inauguration. Am I misunderstanding something (won’t be the first time)?
It does seem out of date. I hadn’t used it in awhile. I hope it’s not shovelware.
Or you can just use the website and not take up room on your device and let them data mine you.
The app has zero permissions and takes up ~65MB.
The apple App Store shows lots of data linked to the user. Eh…
everything has to be an app needs to stop
I could not agree more. One of the very worst things about the “modern” web.
Oooo, that’s a neat site!
Also, they have Palantir AI tangled in their management and running the supply chain.
The same company that is trying to make the entire world a surveillance state, and are giddy about their AI being used to kill military targets.
CEO: I want to have state of the art AI-enabled surveillance on all aspects of our business. No vertical, no horizontal, no customer, will escape the gaze of our panopticon!
VP: Sir, this is Wendy’s.
It’s completely on brand though.
A couple months ago I went to a Wendy’s and AI took my order.
That was the last time I went to a Wendy’s.
What was that like?
It was technically smooth and got my order right, but the whole time I was irritated that the money saved on a computer doing the job was not likely to find its way to the employees preparing food.
Or the savings passed on to the customers.
I would have placed a big order, then just drive away
Most drive thrust now are built in such a way that it isn’t really possible with tight curbs on both sides.
Just drive past the window and keep going
Explains why they haven’t updated the menu since forever. Conservatives fear anything new.
Explains why the whole chain is dogshit. Dining areas closed, drinks give you diabetes, chicken is fried to death, nuggets are stale, burgers have forever chemicals in them, cookies are the wrong flavor. Literally everything is designed to be crap.
That Wendy is kind of a bitch wow
so they did this to themselves. nice.
Damn now I have to add it to the list with Steak and Shake
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I stopped ordering from them because they pay their employees garbage wages and expect them to perform like they’re being paid at a king’s ransom.
Case in point the Wendy’s near me was running with two people for over half a year. This was long after the pandemic by the way.
I stopped ordering from them because of the heartburn and reflux. I stopped meeting friends there because of their morals. And I’ll mock them endlessly for sponsoring their own destruction.
I hope that the employees from all these Wendy’s (nutsonyourchin, I’m sorry!) land jobs at Costco and that local restaurants succeed at establishing roots in the ashes of this cursed company.
A spicy chicken sandwich in the solarium was so good.
I learned a new word. I’ve never heard it called anything other than a “sun room”
When is the last time they had a new menu item or an ad campaign. Someone is shooting for a fire sale. Our local Wendy’s closed down and is being replace with a Taco Bell.
Wow its like meatpacking monopolies have consequences.
I went to a Wendy’s last year. They just opened one near me so I figured why not. They wanted me to put my order in on a touch screen. I walked out. If you can’t employ people to take my order I won’t visit your establishment.
I generally don’t mind ordering on a touchscreen, but every time I’ve attempted it at a Wendy’s in the last year (multiple locations in different towns) I had to go to the desk because something wasn’t working
Touch screens are actually pretty great imo. You can see all the options they have (and not just what they put on the menu screens for that day/week/season), see any extra options you can do (like Taco Bell has a “grilled” option for their burritos), customize it exactly how you want it, and best of all you can take your sweet-ass time.
Yeah, I go to the kiosk every time. Saves me a conversation and I can get real granular with it.
OK, I’ve seen this episode before. Which Private Equity is it?
They’re publicly traded but still have a high stock ownership by private equity. Arby’s is directly owned by private equity.
They merged with Arby’s in 2008, so none.
Look at the prices of your salads and then deal with that! They were good salads (before out of the blue you halved the size as if we wouldn’t notice). You even upped the four-for-four without adding anything.
Wendy’s brought this on itself
Over the last ten years or so, every US restaurant got it in their head that salads should cost the same as every other meal on the menu. When I can make seven salads at home for less than the price of one at a restaurant, I’m simply going to make salads at home.
I fucking love the summer salad. I can’t afford it, so I’ve only had it like twice, but it is delicious. I don’t get how a pile of leaves can cost more than $10
This is a shame. Wendy’s was good but the service is getting worse and the food more expensive.
Wendy’s was a big part of my coming of age days…1$ double stacks sustained me during my senior year in HS…These days their food is shitty and overpriced.
Yeah, we used to do the $4.20 meal. Four items off the dollar menu plus tax was $4.20, usually JBC, nugs, fries, frosted. Paired great with a joint. Many, many trips back in those days.
NJ changed their state tax, and thus ruined the $4.20 meal.
I ended up at one this weekend and was taken aback by the prices.
So, comparable to everyone else in their “food genre”
Yes…
Have they tried enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling?
Them suggesting dynamic pricing is why I stopped going there. …Well that, and because for the prices they are already charging, I can simply get better quality food.
Don’t give 'em ideas to drive it into the ground even faster! I didn’t GAF about the corporate jackasses, but plenty of low income people need their jobs - especially with what’s coming soon after all the fuckery Trump has been subjecting the country’s economy to.
They were the first to suggest dynamic pricing. It was received poorly.
I honestly think their spicy chicken sandwich with a mix of the new honey mustard and ranch is god tier fast food.
Is there a list of the closures?
I’m pretty partial to the baconators myself.
God, even that name sounds like it’d clog your arteries just saying it out loud.
