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Good riddance. I haven’t given them a dime since their new CEO tried to make his mark at the company by introducing
dynamic pricingprice gouging.Apparently that POS left Wendy’s in July 2025 and now works at The Hershey Company, but the damage is done. I’m never going back. There are better local burger joints around here anyway.
And before that, PepsiCo, so if “CEO” wasn’t enough indicator that he was a complete ghoul.
Yeah Pepsico 2019-2024… And Pepsi is still operating in Russia today unlike competitors that left because of the invasion of Ukraine.
Guy is a complete piece of shit and regularly makes the shittiest decisions. At this point it seems like he’s one of those CEOs the Board hires to implement the shit they want but don’t want to take the flak for.
Has Hershey’s made any changes like that yet? If not, it’s probably around the corner.
this was the last time I had wendy… after the variable price story I went elsewhere for my fast food burger. everywhere has a big bacon burger… so no loss.
Wendy’s deserves to go under.
Few other places have hyper-inflated their prices to not pay their employees more nor improve their food quality quite like Wendy’s has.
Culver’s and maybe some local joints are some of the very last places its worth buying a burger from. Might as well solely make them at home for now on.
Yeah, the last time I ate at a Wendy’s I was astounded by the decline in quality, especially in comparison with their increased prices.
Last time I ate there I got a deal where I got two burgers and 10 nuggets for free. Nuggets tasted fine. The burger was atrocious. I opted to not even bother unwrapping the second burger because it had been so unpleasant to choke down the first. If I hadn’t been so hungry, it would have been one bite and nope.
Their spicy chicken sandwich is okay. Not my favorite, but good when they’re doing a buy one, get one.
But I agree the prices in general are way too high and the only reason I eat there is because I have a deal where I sometimes get their food for free (in which case I think the price is absolutely fair).
Culver’s is the goat
I worked at Culver’s when I was younger, so when I make burgers at home they essentially ARE Culver’s burgers. Right down to the seasoning.
But I do still love me some Culver’s. I can’t easily do custard or fried cheese curds at home.
The only thing I’ll miss from Wendy’s is dipping their fries in the frosties.
Culver’s is great it’s just too bad they refuse to set up shop in California. The closest ones are right past the border in the side of Arizona.
Culver’s is… interesting.
I find I don’t like the paper-thin style burgers much (though the fish sandwich is probably the best fast-food fish sandwich on the market) but it always gives the impression they’re trying a little harder. The restaurant always seems clean and a bit of effort was done on the appearance, like they’re still in 1978 and taking the family for a sit-down meal there might be an option.
OTOH, the customer base seems to be people who have been going there since 1978, but that could be my location.
They’re opening a new one 3km from my house, next to a McDonalds that hasn’t made a single order correctly since it opened in ~2015, so it will be interesting to see how the market shakes out.
P. Terry’s if you’re ever lucky.
Why can’t I get past the Terry Pratchett similarity?
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
What about the CEO’s new yacht though? I’m sure it’s very nice.
“you’ll continue to see hamburger innovation as we move throughout the year,” Cook said.
Everyone eating real food elsewhere due to a lack of “hamburger innovation” at Wendy’s, raise your hand. Thought so.
The last thing I want in my cheeseburger is “hamburger innovation”. The defining selling point of a burger is its elegant simplicity
Just raise your prices more, I’m sure that’ll help!
I literally stopped going there after spending $15 and still being hungry.
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I never ate it a lot, but I would sometimes grab something if I didn’t have time to cook or make something at home
If your health was an issue due to you barely eating out to begin with, it wasn’t what you were eating that was affecting your health.
“Sir, this is…n’t a Wendy’s anymore. Hasn’t been for, oh i don’t know, years by now. Closed sometime during the Tramp Presidency mess.”
We’ll be saying “when the mess started” for decades.
Too bad because it was great food in the 80s and 90s. Started to slip around 2010. Got pretty bad around 2015.
Food is still good at my location, just not worth $15.50 for a medium combo.
Completely disagree as my partner and I ate it all the time between 2018-2021. The reason we don’t now is because it costs twice as much as it did 5 years ago for less food, and we live a half hour from town now so by the time I’d get home with it it’s cold.
I wish I could give you a double from 1996 …or chili …or the spicy chicken sandwich
If you don’t mind me asking, what changed?
The price. Upwards. Too quickly.
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.
How did stagnated wages hurt their sales?
I’m not sure where the question is coming from, but stagnated wages means that as prices rise due to inflation, people make the same wage and their spending power goes down. And when their spending power goes down, they have to spend more on necessities like rent/mortgate, transportation, groceries. It leaves less disposable income for things like fast food, entertainment, et cetera.
Oh I thought you were saying that’s why Wendy’s was going out of business, because they didn’t pay their workers enough.
Ahhhhhh, gotcha. Well, something like that can indirectly hurt because lower wages means shittier employees who care less and make crappier food slower. Many fast food locations across all the brands suffer from this. But if you have a good one with good service and food quality, it’s more likely you’ll patronize them.
For a long time I didn’t eat Burger King because the only ones near me were crappy. But we’ve moved to a place where we have one that’s decent, so it’s something I get very occasionally.
But yeah, most of fast food’s problem is the larger problem of companies in our country: Nobody can afford to buy anything. Or rather, at all levels, budgets are tighter. :)
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.
Thankfully I have other choices, so I choose neither.
At least post-COVID, there’s been a mini-revival of locally owned and operated restaurants owing to the space cleared by the office park real estate bust.
Lots of new little shops opening up. We’ll see how long they last.
Why did Wendy leave? The bacon ate her.
The Wendy’s by me are all owned by the same guy and the service is terrible at all of them. I haven’t been to one in years.
Cheap - Fast - Good
You only have to pick 2 to be successful as a fast food joint and they picked none.
I’m sure a predatory shareholder scheme is at work here too
Sir, this isn’t a Wendy’s anymore.
Sir, this was a Wendy’s
20 years from now:
“What’s a Wendy’s?”
If Dave Thomas was still alive he would shut down all Wendy’s.
Maybe they shouldn’t have started price gouging to such a ridiculous degree.
It always cracks me up to see how pissed off at fast food restaurants people on social media get over really specific things like “I’ll never eat at Wendy’s again after what they did to the chicken sandwich.” Or, “They ended 5 for 5 Tuesdays and since then I’ve never been back.”
It’s especially funny on Lemmy though where people are pretty left and in one comment calling for abolishing capitalism and in the next they’re getting pissed about how McDonald’s chicken nuggets only come with 4 pieces instead of 5 now, or something.
To me it’s all gross and not even food, so I don’t ever eat there. But, yes, abolish capitalism and don’t eat shitty corporate fast food.
People tend to get pissed when their g5ood gets more expensive, or when the quality drops. I dunno what else to tell yah.
Fast food was never quality.
All things have a measure of quality, even the crappy things.
Maybe not, but at least it was affordable calories.
Now it’s neither.
I some times browse their menus when I’m in a depressive state, but in reality, I havnt had fast food, out side of one crunchwrap (that absolutely sucked) in the last 5-7 years. I got a black bean crunchwrap sometime last summer, and it just confirmed why I don’t go to these places at all anymore. It’s so unhealthy anyway, and there’s absolutely no benefit if you ignore that either. In my youth I went ten years with no fast food. Broke my veganism for Wendy’s sometime in 2014… Aye, but were getting back there.
I feel like cooking is an act of defiance in today’s capitalist world. There are many benefits to doing so. Don’t support them, it’s simple.
