But the CEO did receive his yearly 999999 milion dollar bonus, right?
Of course he will as will the shareholders see record profits. Doesn’t matter if they kill the brand to do so either.
With how expensive fast food is now, you might as well just go to a slightly more expensive place and get a higher quality burger or whatever.
I used to love Wendy’s and went to Wendy’s a little while ago and just got a burger no fries nothing else and it was like 9 dollars. I was blown away and never want to go back. All these cheap chains jacked up their prices and saw temporary profits but then customers realize it’s not a good deal and stop going. Late stage capitalism really sucks.
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer … or whatever…
In the late 80s and early 90s, Wendy’s was the best for dumpster diving. You could get a basketball-sized sphere of ground meat out of the trash around 2-3am. Peel off the outside inch or so, and you’d have meat for days.
Dominoes dumpsters were another source of awesomeness back then. It was a very different time.
When I said bring back the 90s I did not mean health and food insecurity!
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There’s a Wendy’s by me, a few summers ago in the drive thru lane cockroaches would just climb on your car, windshield, it was nasty as hell. This happened twice and I told a friend about it, and he’s like “Oh you mean the roach Wendy’s.” Sigh. I was coming down off meth binges so I didn’t really care, just needed enough hot food to pass out.
And that’s my pitch for a Wendy’s commercial, which hasn’t happened yet.
Jesus christ…
Hope you’re doing better.
4 years clean as of last month, thanks for caring :)
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
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.
But it’s true.
This is why I stopped ordering from them.
Damn now I have to add it to the list with Steak and Shake
Go woke go broke lmfao
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.
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.
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.
I would have placed a big order, then just drive away
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.
It’s completely on brand though.
Good to know, thanks.
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.
so they did this to themselves. nice.
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.
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.
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.
TYVM!
Or you can just use the website and not take up room on your device and let them data mine you.
everything has to be an app needs to stop
I could not agree more. One of the very worst things about the “modern” web.
The app has zero permissions and takes up ~65MB.
The apple App Store shows lots of data linked to the user. Eh…
Oooo, that’s a neat site!
I stopped ordering because the food is shit, but now I’ll never give them another chance
What a shame, I kinda liked their burgers back when meat didn’t make me kinda nauseous.
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.
That Wendy is kind of a bitch wow
McDonald’s owned a large number of it’s locations prior to the real estate boom. As a consequence, they were more aptly described as a real estate management than food services business model by the late '00s.
A lot of their relative success has come from avoiding the crippling rent increases other fast food vendors have had to endure.
Interesting. A brand new one just opened near me within the past month.
You near Calimesa? Cause they opened one there recently as well, drive thru is fucken wide because it’s an old bank.
I’m in the UK and when one opened in my city last year and they made a huge deal of it, with a grand opening with balloons and giveaways lol. Always seems busy.
Presumably because it’s a new market, and it has some novelty appeal compared to the chains which are already incumbent.
But even within the US there will be some locations which are on the up and doing well, even if the majority are doing poorly.
I used to love Wendy’s! Then one day they shrunk the patty/tomato/lettuce they put on the JBC to the point where the thing is like 80% bun and I was done with them.
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.
I ended up at one this weekend and was taken aback by the prices.
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.
So, comparable to everyone else in their “food genre”
Yes…
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.
shrinkflationed to hell, and people generally stopped eating there when there are better options.
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.
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.
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).
Sir, this was a Wendy’s.
Was looking for this comment. Was not disappointed.
Now it’s a weed shop.
Not for long!
Messed with the fries four times too many.
Yep their fries are awful
Their fries are super mid, but always had the better tasting burgers out of the FF chains in my town which balanced it out. Now it’s more like I don’t want to spend 10.89 on a basic burger only, not even a fucking combo.
Honestly, for me, it was when they took the grilled chicken sandwich off the menu. They had the best grilled chicken in fast food, and they replaced with a thoroughly mid wrap.
Wraps all suck
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.
They were the first to suggest dynamic pricing. It was received poorly.
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.
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
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
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.
