wendys currently now is just a slop. i remeber going into for the first time 20+years ago, it was more restuaranty feel with better food. i dont think i have even went into one since, by parents still go there to buy the current stuff.
Another US company going under?
Oh noes.
Oh well.
Next.
I wonder if they ever tried, ya know…making their food taste good?
They tried raising prices, they tried shrinkflation, they tried paying their employees as little as legally possible, they tried lowering staffing levels to the least number of employees humanly possible, they even floated the idea of surge pricing in fast food…but the whole time I’ve known Wendy’s to exist, at least in my area, the burgers have been bland and the fries have been soggy and tasteless. And I’m old enough to remember Wendy’s having a bland salad bar to go with the rest of their bland food.
i call it cheapflation.
I would settle for cheap again. I used to always have a go to wendy’s meal that was a small chilli, 2 spicy chicken snack wraps and a Jr bacon cheese burger with a small drink (you put the chilli in the wraps and burgers). Since it was all off the cheap menu it used to be well under $10, then it was $15, then $17 and the last time I was there it was just over $20, that is just not a thing anyone can look at and think worthwhile.
Maybe they shouldn’t have started price gouging to such a ridiculous degree.
Maybe nobody wants a $10 fast food burger
If Dave Thomas was still alive he would shut down all Wendy’s.
Cheap - Fast - Good
You only have to pick 2 to be successful as a fast food joint and they picked none.
Where I live, actual home-style cooking at roadside eateries is cheaper.
Have they thought about not charging exorbitant prices on their food? I mean, a salad shouldn’t cost ten bucks. Especially when they halved the god damn thing out of nowhere and pretended like they didn’t. As one of the three people who enjoyed Wendy’s salads, I fucking saw what you did.
The problem is not fast food prices, the problem is stagnated wages.
Oligarchs. Guillotines. That’s the solution.
Have they thought about not charging exorbitant prices on their food?
I’m sure they have. But when rental prices are skyrocketing and margins on meals are collapsing, there’s not a ton of wiggle room. One of the smart long-term moves that McDonalds made - way back in the 1980s - was to make sure they owned the real estate under all of their corporately owned restaurants. This was an expensive move up-front, but it paid enormous dividends long term.
Burger King, Wendy’s, Taco Bell & KFC, etc - they’re all largely operating out of a retail rental market that’s consolidated into a handful of mega-REITs. And as those REITs demand steadily increasing ROI, the cost of operating storefronts has driven quite a few of these storefronts out of business.
It was a smart move for mcdonald’s corporate, but they’re using that advantage just to squeeze the franchisees all the same and the high prices for their awful offerings reflect that. Wendy’s has better beef than mcdonald’s sad meat discs, so I’d rather eat at wendy’s if I had to choose between the two. Thankfully I have other choices, so I choose neither.
They forgot to put THE HAMBURGER PATTY on my burger about 8 years ago. I’ve never given them money since.
Hope they go out of business with their $10 burgers and soggy version 2.1 fries.
I was eating something I made at home for lunch today and pondering how much it cost me for what was a good, hearty, healthy meal. Even eating in generous proportions, I was eating for about $2 a meal. I had carbs, fats, protein, fiber, and various minerals as well vitamins. I don’t think I could get a single cheeseburger from Wendy’s for that price. Even their cheap ones. As well it’s not just them, it’s all fast food. They forgot the idea is you go there, spend like $5 for a meal that you don’t have to make at home. Giving some variety.
making it yourself is much cheaper, fast food and restuarants are quite expensive. if one were to eat out everyday, it would be like 50-100$/day easily this is an extreme example, due to enabling partners, thinking they have infinite amount of money i know people that spends beyond thier means and the wife is always doing this.
Sir, this isn’t a Wendy’s anymore.
Sir, this was a Wendy’s
20 years from now:
“What’s a Wendy’s?”
The inside of the one near me always has a wet floor from some kind of leak, and the light flicker, like it was built in the Rapture food court from Bioshock.
Good now do McDonald’s
Great news! That is happening, McDonald’s has had a few bad years but takes longer.
Why did Wendy leave? The bacon ate her.
