I’m eating out a lot less, these days. I used to head out for the day with the idea of grabbing lunch first, but now I usually eat lunch at home first. At the price of eating out, with the quality of fast food slipping so badly at the same time, it’s cheaper and far more satisfying to eat at home anyway. I found myself eating some poor approximation of food, and wishing I had just made a sandwich at home, so that’s what I started doing.
Wendy’s has always my favorite burger joint, after Culver’s, so my change in eating habits is directly contributing to their downfall.
The other lesson here is that if Wendy’s is slipping this badly, so are all the others.
AND finally, this: If they are slipping so badly, and much of it due to rising labor costs, this will motivate them to start automating their fast food operations. Every fast food company has been researching robotic preparation, and they could easily implement it tomorrow. The only reason they haven’t is because there will be a huge outcry when the first one does it. After that, they fall like dominos, and with a few years after the first one, ALL fast food restaurants will be mostly automated, and MILLIONS of fast food workers will lose their jobs. It is inevitable.
AND finally, this: If they are slipping so badly, and much of it due to rising labor costs, this will motivate them to start automating their fast food operations. Every fast food company has been researching robotic preparation, and they could easily implement it tomorrow. The only reason they haven’t is because there will be a huge outcry when the first one does it. After that, they fall like dominos, and with a few years after the first one, ALL fast food restaurants will be mostly automated, and MILLIONS of fast food workers will lose their jobs. It is inevitable.
And the price will stay the same or go higher allowing corporations to fatten their bottom line.
Absolutely. Just like these tariffs. When the tariffs are eventually removed, will we see lower prices in the retail stores? Here and there, maybe, but generally, this will be the new price baseline. And the saving from the tariffs will just go to the corporate profits, not to lower prices, or even higher wages, just bigger executive bonuses.
Not Wendy’s, but 3medium whoppers at burgerking costs more than 3 family sized entrays, crab ragoons, and eggrolls at my Thai place. Bk is a single sitting, the Thai place is 3 meals worth of food for the family and cooked by a sweet old lady that lives in my neighbourhood. Why would I ever eat corpo trash if it’s not cheap, fast, or easy to get?
As for Wendy’s, they dug their grave when they mentioned surge pricing. I’m just pissed that it took them this long to lay down in it.
But in Wendy’s defence, the little line for the stock holders went up for one more quarter. Who needs long term success when you can just make line go up by a 1/4 of a percent for a few more months?
Don’t forget they were also cool and funny on the internet once upon a time. So they definitely should get a pass here and we should bail them out as loyal customers.
They aren’t closing due to rising labor costs. If anything, the US gov is making sure the hourly rates don’t move with inflation.
Didn’t we hear lately of a state that actually LOWERED the minimum wage for teenagers ?
I’m eating out a lot less, these days. I used to head out for the day with the idea of grabbing lunch first, but now I usually eat lunch at home first. At the price of eating out, with the quality of fast food slipping so badly at the same time, it’s cheaper and far more satisfying to eat at home anyway. I found myself eating some poor approximation of food, and wishing I had just made a sandwich at home, so that’s what I started doing.
Wendy’s has always my favorite burger joint, after Culver’s, so my change in eating habits is directly contributing to their downfall.
The other lesson here is that if Wendy’s is slipping this badly, so are all the others.
AND finally, this: If they are slipping so badly, and much of it due to rising labor costs, this will motivate them to start automating their fast food operations. Every fast food company has been researching robotic preparation, and they could easily implement it tomorrow. The only reason they haven’t is because there will be a huge outcry when the first one does it. After that, they fall like dominos, and with a few years after the first one, ALL fast food restaurants will be mostly automated, and MILLIONS of fast food workers will lose their jobs. It is inevitable.
And the price will stay the same or go higher allowing corporations to fatten their bottom line.
Absolutely. Just like these tariffs. When the tariffs are eventually removed, will we see lower prices in the retail stores? Here and there, maybe, but generally, this will be the new price baseline. And the saving from the tariffs will just go to the corporate profits, not to lower prices, or even higher wages, just bigger executive bonuses.
Not Wendy’s, but 3medium whoppers at burgerking costs more than 3 family sized entrays, crab ragoons, and eggrolls at my Thai place. Bk is a single sitting, the Thai place is 3 meals worth of food for the family and cooked by a sweet old lady that lives in my neighbourhood. Why would I ever eat corpo trash if it’s not cheap, fast, or easy to get?
As for Wendy’s, they dug their grave when they mentioned surge pricing. I’m just pissed that it took them this long to lay down in it.
But in Wendy’s defence, the little line for the stock holders went up for one more quarter. Who needs long term success when you can just make line go up by a 1/4 of a percent for a few more months?
Don’t forget they were also cool and funny on the internet once upon a time. So they definitely should get a pass here and we should bail them out as loyal customers.
They aren’t closing due to rising labor costs. If anything, the US gov is making sure the hourly rates don’t move with inflation. Didn’t we hear lately of a state that actually LOWERED the minimum wage for teenagers ?