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Dear Wendy’s CEO,
This is not Uber. This is a Wendy’s.
I’ll simply never go again myself.
We’re so bad at employee management and don’t want to pay a living wage, so we’ll charge you extra when we’re busy. But wait, there’s more, we’re still not going to pay a living wage to hire more employees, so you’re not only going to pay more, but your wait will still be the same.
Why not just hike the prices and be done with it?
They will, after everyone tells them how much they hate this, they’ll ‘backtrack’ to higher pricing. They’re letting their first idea eat the hate and resistance so they can execute plan B.
I think this is exactly the plan. If the prices are constantly fluctuating, it will be easy to slowly rise them by a bit every week without everyone noticing.
Boiling frogs is literally becoming a business plan
Where I am, the price of fast food is just about equal to some restaurants. There’s no point in doing fast food anymore.
There is a local hamburger joint 3 blocks from my house that is far superior in taste, with lower prices, why the fuck would I ever go to endys?
If that place isn’t getting enough business, maybe you should suggest they advertise their prices.
A simple sign showing how their prices compare to the competition’s goes a long way.
I probably wouldn’t stop in a hole in the wall, just because they usually charge as much or more than chains. Doing what I suggest would change my mind, if the prices were right.
I wasn’t implying they don’t get enough business. They definitely do, it’s the local jam. I’m not sure that they would appreciate any advertising, word of mouth is clearly enough.
Same with me in Canada. I go local almost all the time other than my annual Burger King impossible Whopper
Seriously. Fast food just isn’t for poor people anymore.
We have to use grocery stores.
Thankfully, grocery shopping online is much easier now.
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.
There’s a reason why the powers that be have been focusing on promoting businesses over people.
People have standards. People have pride. They can feel shame. Businesses can’t. There’s no one to blame when they lower their standards. They’re predictable and easy.
Pretty sure there’s a similar story with the Costco founder being the only thing keeping them from raising the price of their hot dogs.
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.
What a bullshit idea. I fucking hate this timeline we’re on.
A combo anywhere I go is over 10 bucks. What do they want from us, consumers are already being overmilked like a skinny cow
What’s going to happen is people will stop buying there. I hope anyway. I like a treat too but I’ll give my local joints money first.
Some people will. But others will never admit that fast food is too expensive.
They’ll just complain they’re not making enough money.
They want us to take out a loan to give them more money.
This is great! Considering I haven’t had Wendys for years and this is another reason not to!
I actually haven’t either when I think about it, I last got my husband a Frosty about a year ago when he was hospitalized and it was the only kind of food he could tolerate, but I can’t think the last time I ate food there.
Baconator ain’t worth it
At least with Uber it made some sense. Higher prices and this payments to drivers was meant to compel more drivers to head out to pick up the increased demand.
But here, there are no surge wages, nor are employees coming in to cover a rush.
Wonder if they’ll only pay them in wages earned during a surge.
Even McDonald’s is seeing lowered sales due to these high prices. People are only willing to pay so much for grease with a side of “chicken.”
Wendy’s has been going downhill ever since Dave died.
Wouldn’t this run afoul of most states weights and meaures?
This should be illegal.
Sure should. Conservatives think it’s great I’m sure.
