Dear Wendy’s CEO,
This is not Uber. This is a Wendy’s.
I’ll simply never go again myself.
I haven’t been in years. Their food has been terrible ever since they changed their fries so many years ago. I used to eat there when I could get jr bacon cheeseburgers for 99 cents but now even that’s like $3.
Yeah, just a run of the mill chicken sandwich combo is 15$ and it looks like a toddler slapped it together with food he found in the trash.
toddler slapped it together
They’re going to start charging for the boogers, which are not optional.
and it looks like a toddler slapped it together
I think it’s funny how food quality is down, service quality is down, yet they still want to charge higher prices.
Like, it’s not even worth getting fast food because I don’t want to deal with the disgruntled employees who blame me for making them do their jobs.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
Wendy’s CEO Kirk Tanner would be wise to remember that fast food is a convenience not a necessity. I’ve got a nice little propane grill in the backyard and I know how to make a square patty. I don’t need you, you need me.
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People are not gonna like that. They will pull into the drivethrough line to buy the same thing they paid $3 for the day before, and leave or buy something cheaper when they see it’s $4 right now.
Most of them are going to be on their lunch break, and have already wasted 15 minutes waiting in line to order. So they’re going to order anyways, because they’re stuck. They won’t have time to get in the new line somewhere else. They just won’t come back afterwards.
I remember when Dave Thomas was still alive. I loved Wendy’s quality over most everyone else, so I would prefer them even if something else was closer or cheaper.
THE VERY NEXT WEEK after Dave died, there was a very noticeable drop in burger patty size and quality. I basically stopped eating at Wendy’s after that.
I’m sure this is also what Dave would have wanted.
Damn, I like some of their food. I guess this is a good reason to stop going there.
Fuck you, Wendy’s.
Patronize your local burger joints instead, it’s an excellent opportunity to get to know the local businesses.
I do that too. But they don’t have a drive thru and are getting rarer and rarer.
In my town there are only tourist traps and major chains left. The last mom and pop style restaurant that was around for 100 years was demolished to make room for a McDonald’s parking lot.
Awww.
Baconator ain’t worth it
Yeah, and I’m introducing “no more eating at Wendy’s” pricing.
Wendy’s seems blissfully unaware that’s there’s plenty of adequate competitors in the burger market. It’s a great time to get to know your local restaurants.
McDonald’s is already out of the running. A mcdouble and medium fry is 8 bucks.
Burger King is my go to, Impossible Whopper is great for vegan me and it’s reasonable still. I mostly go to local places though. It’s worth it.
… planning to invest approximately $20 million to roll out digital menu boards…
Wendy’s will also invest an additional $10 million over two years…Have you tried not spending $30 million dollars to sell hamburgers?
I mean, holy shit. You sell burgers and fries. Does everything need to be digitally and AI enhanced?
A spokesperson for Wendy’s confirmed the news with Food & Wine, stating the company is focused on providing “great-tasting” food and is “making a significant investment” to grow its digital business, including rolling out digital menu boards in some U.S. restaurants. “Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing a variety of enhanced features on these digital menuboards like dynamic pricing, different offerings in certain parts of the day, AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling based on factors such as weather. Dynamic pricing can allow Wendy’s to be competitive and flexible with pricing, motivate customers to visit and provide them with the food they love at a great value. We will test a number of features that we think will provide an enhanced customer and crew experience.”
The digital menu boards are there so they don’t have to hire as many cashiers.
Wouldn’t this run afoul of most states weights and meaures?
In an environment of painful (almost insulting) food price increases everywhere, Wendy’s decides to remove price predictability from the equation, ensuring that I never know what I’m going to pay, except that I can guarantee I’m going to be gouged when I most want to eat.
Yeah, I don’t care what they sell. I don’t want to be treated like that.
I just go to local burger joints now, it’s the same price and the food is better, and (probably) someone local is getting money and not some ceo across the world who doesn’t care about my local economy or people.
it’s the same price
You know, this wasn’t true until recently.
Fast food as gotten stupidly expensive.
Well of course but we aren’t talking about 4 years ago we are talking about now.
Yes, I’m just highlighting how the rhetoric has changed.
