I’m guessing it’s really to extract shareholder wealth and then declare bankruptcy once everything has trickled up
I’ll guess something with “equity” or “capital” in its name is behind it.
Good. The quality is laughable and the price is horrendous. I used to love Wendy’s. In the last 10 years they’ve managed to become the worst fast food chain around
I noticed the same. I was all about Wendy’s back in the day. Then the good mobile deals left, the quality dropped, they changed their nugget recipe so it sucks ass and I can’t even eat the spicy nuggs anymore. Dave would be upset by the drop in quality.
One thing I liked about Wendy’s is that the chain uses/used real vegetables on its burgers. Even the cheapest burger on the menu (the deluxe) has a real slice of tomato, an actual leaf or few of green lettuce, and a couple of rings of onion.
Of the places I’ve eaten at in recent history, they’ve all clearly dropped in quality and increased in price to varying degrees. However, I’m surprised to see people say things like Wendy’s is the worst fast food chain because that doesn’t exactly align with my experience at all. And for the record, I’m not saying it’s great food, either, just that it’s not the worst by far. Obviously it’s a very subjective measure and there’s lots of variation from location to location or even between regions and it also probably depends on the types of things you’d typically order.
To me, the worst offender of all the ones I’ve been to in the South and Midwest USA is Taco Bell, by far. At least for the things I would typically order, the price has gone up the most while the size and quality has gone down the most. While the service is sometimes good and sometimes bad, the food itself is consistently terrible seemingly regardless of location. No, it was never good food, but it’s definitely gone from meh to yuck.
All that aside, Wendy’s doesn’t exactly strike me as the type of restaurant where closing stores makes the remaining ones more appealing. For that to work, it seems like the current stores would have to be too densely placed (i.e. Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks and a Starbucks in the store next to that Starbucks) OR the food would need to be good enough to actually motivate people to drive further away for it. Honestly, I know it’s not the latter, and from my experience, there are fewer Wendy’s than most other fast food chains, so it seems like the former wouldn’t apply either.
KFC is the one that fills that spot for me. They use fresh ingredients but their volume on everything other than the buckets of chicken and salads is low enough that that fresh produce might start to go bad. I used to love their big crunches and chicken bowls, but it’s offputting when the potato in the chicken bowl tastes like it should have been used a few days ago or thrown out.
It sucks because when they did use fresh fresh ingredients, they were stillpretty good, but when they used not so fresh fresh ingredients, they were bottom of the list. And most places can have bad moments, but I found KFC to be more consistently iffy rather than it being a blue moon thing.
But busy locations are probably more consistently good because I’m guessing it’s due to managers/franchise owners trying to keep costs down at struggling locations.
They recently switched to shredded lettuce, and their chicken is now inedible.
Reduce revenue (instead of addressing the store issues) to raise profits. Got it.
They removed my favorite sandwich, the grilled chicken, from the menu. It had the best macros out of all fast food chains too :'(
“Sir, this is a Wendy’s” “Where you you think we are right now?”
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Wendys, if you stopped reheating your burgers so they’d taste better, maybe you wouldn’t have to close so many stores.
Good. Fuck Wendy’s. Worst food poisoning I have ever had.
I stopped going to Wendy’s maybe over a decade ago when they switched from clean, classic fries to fries with potato peel & extra dirt flavor. Marketers will advertise potato peel & dirt as premium value, and dumbass Americans will pay extra to eat it up.
Interesting, in Canada they never changed from the clean cut.
Do you cut the crusts off your bread too?
Do the crusts taste “earthy”, ie, like dirt?
Dirt is good for you. :)
Does this mean that people will finally stop posting that stupid “sir, this is a Wendy’s” line?
we can replace it with the saints row parody alternative Freckle Bitch’s.
They probably will as soon as the concept the meme is pushing dies.
This is all because of the bad service they gave me back in 1997. Screw them!
I actually enjoy eating at Wendy’s. But the Wendy’s half a block from me is so bad on service that I finally swore off going there. They never get my order right they act incense when I ask them to do the slightest little thing that involves customer service. Their pricing is incorrect because they don’t update their menu to reflect what they’re trying to charge you. Their chillis fucking amazing but I’m sad that I can’t go there and enjoy it because the services just so fucking bad.
I was just kidding.
I often rely on fast food when I’m away from home. I sometimes check Wendy’s if one is nearby, but pass on it every time because their vegan options are completely abysmal. It pains me to say, but one cannot live on potatoes alone.
Their food about killed me so good riddance
This is why I stopped ordering from them.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
It’s completely on brand though.
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!
Good to know, thanks.
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.
I stopped ordering because the food is shit, but now I’ll never give them another chance
so they did this to themselves. nice.
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.
Damn now I have to add it to the list with Steak and Shake
Go woke go broke lmfao
That Wendy is kind of a bitch wow
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.
So, comparable to everyone else in their “food genre”
Yes…
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.
