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.
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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 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.
Wow, nine hundred ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million dollars! No wonder they’re not profitable!
I honestly think their spicy chicken sandwich with a mix of the new honey mustard and ranch is god tier fast food.
Is there a list of the closures?
Interesting. A brand new one just opened near me within the past month.
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.
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer … 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.
A lot of sit down restaurants are about the same quality as fast food used to be and twice as expensive. It’s just not worth it to eat out
That hasnt been my experience at all. If I go somewhere for 2x the cost of fast-food, the quality is usually far ahead
Wendys has the best deal on a meal that I know if, if you are really hurting. You can get the $6 bag which is about 800 calories plus drinks. You could technically survive on $7 a day there if you drank a few drinks while there.
America is so cooked with the low wages. The workers in these places are usually terrible. Sometimes they are literal slave convicts in my state. I can hardly imagine someone I would want touching my food less than a criminal drug addict. The food isn’t terrible for the price. I was wondering how they were so cheap despite the inflation.
I looked it up, and assuming I’m looking at the right one, the price and availability differ depending on location. I’d be kind of surprised if it’s that cheap where I live.
Of all the fast food restaurants, I still go to Wendy’s like once a year. And you aren’t kidding. The 4 by 4 shrunk, and before, it was $4, but now $7.
The one-use app coupons brought it back down. But f that noise.
It’s still cheaper than the average lunch in my city, where meals cost $12-15.
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Not till the government reopens. Maybe this week?
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Oh right, I forgot. This is how we get our numbers now:
In the late 80s and early 90s, Wendy’s was the best for dumpster diving. You could get a basketball-sized sphere of ground meat out of the trash around 2-3am. Peel off the outside inch or so, and you’d have meat for days.
Dominoes dumpsters were another source of awesomeness back then. It was a very different time.
When I said bring back the 90s I did not mean health and food insecurity!
There’s a Wendy’s by me, a few summers ago in the drive thru lane cockroaches would just climb on your car, windshield, it was nasty as hell. This happened twice and I told a friend about it, and he’s like “Oh you mean the roach Wendy’s.” Sigh. I was coming down off meth binges so I didn’t really care, just needed enough hot food to pass out.
And that’s my pitch for a Wendy’s commercial, which hasn’t happened yet.
Jesus christ…
Hope you’re doing better.
4 years clean as of last month, thanks for caring :)
That’s incredible, well done. I’m sitting here in awe of your fortitude and determination. Four days of breaking dependence is great, four years is magnificent. I hope conditions and your strength see you through another four, and many, many more.
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Sir, this was a Wendy’s.
Now it’s a weed shop.
Not for long!
Was looking for this comment. Was not disappointed.
Wendy’s was a big part of my coming of age days…1$ double stacks sustained me during my senior year in HS…These days their food is shitty and overpriced.
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…
I ended up at one this weekend and was taken aback by the prices.
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
They really do.
Have they tried enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings?
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.
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.
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.
Good. Fuck Wendy’s. Worst food poisoning I have ever had.
If they close them ALL they will save big time.
Remember that buffet?
