everything in the world is getting worse in the stupidest way possible for the worst reasons!!!
will employee wages be dynamic based on demand! of course not!
Wendy’s was one of my favorite “cheap eats” back in the day. For less than $5, I could get a drink and 2 burgers that would mostly keep me from starving for the day. And they used real, fresh veggies on the burgers – slices of tomato, sliced onion, real lettuce – unlike some of their McOmpetitors.
I haven’t been in the post-covid era that I can recall, but I’m hoping they haven’t gone the route of the other fast food places I have been to post-covid. Seems like they’ve all gone way down hill on quality, made poor or unnecessary changes to menu items, prices have gotten ridiculous, and the service is – well the service was usually pretty bad even back in the day so maybe no change there.
There’s a brand new (within a year) Wendy’s near my house, and I feel like the food is still OK, however the burgers feel really small now. And it’s a lot more expensive.
Everywhere got more expensive, so that’s not a new thing, but still.
The only thing working well for Wendy’s is their social media. Can’t remember the last time I ate there.
Make your burger at home. You don’t even need to have gone to the grocery store recently. Buns, cheese, bacon, ground beef all freeze well. Pickles and other condiments also don’t go bad in the fridge. Take 'em out, cook 'em up, enjoy your meal at a fraction of the cost of a fast-food visit. You even get a burger that looks good, not something that was smashed together at a fast-food place.
Ive never had Wendys, nor do I think it’s available in my country.
But homemade food never scratches that itch for takeaway food. Sure it might be technically better, but sometimes you just want that greasy sloppy poorly made mess of a meal.
The biggest difference I have noticed between home cooking and not is people are more aware of the calories they are putting into their meal when cooking it themselves. That restaurant alfredo tastes real good because they threw a whole stick of butter into it. Yes, an entire stick of butter into the single serving. Meats, leave the grease and fat in. Salt, only a pinch? Keep shaking. Sugar? Why would this meal have sugar? It’s not a sweet meal! (add the sugar, a lot of it)
Want to recapitulate the fast food taste?
Add shit loads of sugar, salt and butter/oil when you cook.
Like add three times more than you normally would, then add some more.
Nah I’ve tried that, even bought some lard to use, doesn’t compare.
The fast food places aren’t doing anything magical, you can do it yourself. Remember, these are recipes they teach 16-year-olds to mass-produce for minimum wage.
I can testify, fat in ground beef makes a heck of a great burger.
Must be nice to be able to swing by home on your lunch break and cook up a burger. Good thing for you you’re not one of us filthy poors.
Microwaving a cooked patty works well. A burger fits in a lunchbox just fine. Just separate out the wet items from the bread in the lunchbox.
I just bring a peanut butter sandwich and an apple to work. Sometimes it was a lunch meat sandwich back when I ate meat.
I’m not poor, but idk how people justify regularly eating fast food for work lunches. It never made financial sense to me.
Also you can freeze single burger amounts of beef in flat ziplock bags that defrost in water in under 5 minutes.
Huh, that’s interesting. Well, guess I’m never eating there ever again. It’s bad enough with gasoline, no way I’m paying inflated pricing for fast food.
Well the Wendy’s by my house abruptly closed a few weeks ago, so I’d say the demand indicated they should lower their prices
Yep, the two Wendy’s in my medium-sized city closed down abruptly with no sign of return. Seems like they’re on the way out.
Wild days ahead where we’re trading Wendy’s delivery futures on Robinhood.
Make sure to sell it before the contract matures or they show up with a truck of fries and dump it on your yard.
This presumes that there is demand for Wendy’s.
Yeah, I can’t wait to get free Wendy’s all the time.
Is this why my Texas Double went from 1.79 to 3.19 in the course of a week? I just stopped going there completely.
Fast food is just too expensive for what you get now. You used to be able to get some cheap food there. Now it’s expensive, but still cheaply made.
McDonald’s app has been doing this fun thing over the last year or so where they’ll suck you in with good deals that repeat a few times, then change them for the worse.
Remember when McDonald’s had a 99 cent menu and you could get a Taco Bell taco for 59 cents?
Spent over fifty dollars at shake shack last week treating two friends. Just another place crossed off the list.
Yeah, at this point you may as well go upmarket. That’s why they’re going all in on being “car food” because that’s the last niche that would make someone go
Easy way to lose customers.
It’s never going to get cheaper than it is currently.
If I don’t know what it costs, how can I budget for it? If I can’t budget for it I’m not going to drive over to check out the prices, fuel “fluctuations” have seen to that.
If anything shouldn’t they be charging more during the slower hours?
Basic supply and demand economics. When supply is high and demand is low, prices fall. When demand is high and supply is low, prices rise. They think people will willingly sit in line regardless of the price because, in reality, people have.
Conversely, they wouldn’t want to drive people away when business is slow and can easily jump into another drive thru.
Food is a very price sensetive industry. If you rip someone off after making them wait they’ll go elsewhere and never come back
This is how I act, I don’t complain, I leave a poison review and then never go back. Sometimes I tell people about it for years.
Exactly, I hold grudges against food places for years. Conversely, I’ll frequent good places for just as long.
It never has to go long for non-chain places. They always go out of business so we can’t be the only ones. I bet this is really common.
I do the same thing when we have garage sales and multiple groups show up all at once
So, are they raising wages for those surge times as well or providing bonuses for the workers that work harder? No? Just more bottom line?
Now introducing #SurgeWages, get paid less when you’re not working during lunch/dinner rush!
Working for tips, then?
It won’t happen but if they could really demonstrate this improved employee retention and improved moral for their lowest paid workers I wouldn’t be against it. Like I said it won’t happen. This is clearly yet another fucking cash grab and just adds to the misery that is modern life.
So basically scalpers on fast food chains, right?
I’m going to reserve judgement until this is verified by a better source. This is the NY Post referencing a DailyMail article. Neither of those two sources inspire confidence, and they’re both classified as tabloids.
NY Post MBFC: Medium Credibility (honestly, surprised it’s that high)
Daily Mail MBFC: Low Credibility
It was on the earnings call
This is a restaurant news service that talks about it. Not sure how credible it is, but it seems more credible than the Post and the Mail.
https://www.nrn.com/quick-service/wendy-s-expects-test-dynamic-pricing-and-daypart-offers-2025
Thanks. So it seems like it does have some truth to it. Damn.
All the stuff in the article sounds expensive and unnecessary. Like, just bring back Yellow Wendy’s.
The AI menu thing is just baffling.
It’s less baffling when you realize 90% of AI is thrown in needlessly by pointy-haired bosses just because it’s trendy.
New way to kill 5 minutes of their 20 minute quarterly presentations.
Haha I was just about to say wtf are “AI-enabled menu changes”?
Daily Mail MBFC: Low Credibility
I’m surprised the Daily Heil is that high…
I still miss my $5 biggie bag from 2021 that is now nearly $8… I guess the poor defenseless shareholders really do deserve even more profit…
Which one is that? I still see 4 for $4.44 or 4 for $5 deals plus I think some that are $6 where i live (and i live in one of the most expensive places in the US). It’s still one of the best deals for fast food, plus using the app gets you something else for free to add on normally. Like right now it’s a free 6 piece on Wednesdays with any purchase. So a burger, fry, 10 nugs, and a drink for $5 is a good deal these days, even if it is terrible for you.
They’re $6 in my area. Still a good deal. Not so much at $8
Biggie bag has a nice name, but i miss the 4 for 4.
It’s already like $12 to eat the basic meals there. What are they trying to bump it up to during these “surges?”
Squeeeeze those customers! More! The executives need more moneyyy!!!
