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.
Maybe nobody wants a $10 fast food burger
If Dave Thomas was still alive he would shut down all Wendy’s.
Where I live, actual home-style cooking at roadside eateries is cheaper.
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.
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.
Good now do McDonald’s
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.
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.
Why did Wendy leave? The bacon ate her.
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.
What about the CEO’s new yacht though? I’m sure it’s very nice.
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
P. Terry’s if you’re ever lucky.
When is the last time you saw a Wendy’s ad?
Honestly Wendys is the one I would go to if I were to eat fast food regardless of ads. I am just eating a lot less fast food. Prices have converged with sit in dining so it’s just not worth it anymore. Plus the health stuff obviously.
A better question for some is - when was the last time you saw an ad online or tv.
true, but my point was that it doesn’t seem like Wendy’s is trying to survive either.
Too bad because it was great food in the 80s and 90s. Started to slip around 2010. Got pretty bad around 2015.
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.
If you don’t mind me asking, what changed?
I’m sure a Wendy’s has just opened in my town. In England.
Also in england - my town had one for about a year. it recently shut down and is being reopened as … a Popeyes?
