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.
Culver’s is the goat
P. Terry’s if you’re ever lucky.
What about the CEO’s new yacht though? I’m sure it’s very nice.
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.
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.
I wish I could give you a double from 1996 …or chili …or the spicy chicken sandwich
If Dave Thomas was still alive he would shut down all Wendy’s.
I’m sure a predatory shareholder scheme is at work here too
When all the combos are $10 or more, I no buy the burger anymore
Dave’s Single, Med Fry, pop: $10.59
Nearby sit down restaurant has a Cheeseburger twice the size and a side of fries: $13.99.
I’d rather spend the extra 3 bucks.
When is the last time you saw a Wendy’s ad?
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.
Maybe nobody wants a $10 fast food burger
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?
Wendy’s went to shit when they ruined their chicken sandwich by trying to copy Popeye’s shitty sandwich and cheaping out on their french fries by leaving the shitty skin on them, ruining the cheese fries. They never had good burgers and the frosties were always outclassed by a real milkshake. And I ONLY went to Wendy’s as a kid. Really fucking sucks they made the choices they did but at least now they are paying the price. Now if only pizzahut would get owned too for removing the nice dine in experiences with the saladbars for “modern” aesthetics.
I mean, potato skin, in my opinion, fucks. I can’t disagree with the decline in quality, though.
Have I got great news for you!
Where I live, actual home-style cooking at roadside eateries is cheaper.
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.
Good now do McDonald’s
I went recently and it felt shallow. I instantly regretted from a $$ and upset stomach standpoint.
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.
