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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.
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.
I thought the burgers tasted like sawdust myself.
Indeed but as a broke teenager on my own those 99 cents deals kept me somewhat fed.
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.
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
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.
There are no local burger joints. For several hours drive in every direction from me, every burger place is a chain. Sure some local restaurants also serve burgers, even the Mexican places because burgers are such a staple of American food, but none of them dedicate any real skill or quality to it. No local place dedicated to burgers would stand a chance competing against all the chains and every other bar and grill that makes everything else in addition to burgers.
Oh that’s unfortunate. Come visit me and I’ll take you for a really good burger.
Imagine walking in, seeing a price on the board, waiting behind someone with a big order, and by the time you get to the counter the price has increased. I forsee yelling and fights happening in lines.
I foreseee never stepping into a restaurant like that.
They will stop doing this when the poorest people are just sitting around the restaurant waiting for the price to go down.
If you only had $3 and the price of a burger was above that, you would just wait. The restaurant is sometimes nicer than sitting outside. They can’t kick you out, because you’re waiting to order. Now they’re going have like 3-5 bums waiting around for the price to drop.
It’s just stupid. Although I did go to a bar like that once that was pretty fun. It had a stock market board with drink prices that went up and down. You would go up there hoping to get a particular drink, but come back with something else because it was half off. It’d be like “tequila shots $7” but “red wine $3.50”! Wine it is!
Austin had/has a bar like that.
Bars are scams.
You can get an entire bottle of liquor for $11.
You can get an entire bottle of wine for $3.50.
What a bullshit idea. I fucking hate this timeline we’re on.
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.
This right here. This is what would piss me off. On the off chance I walk in and order, the price changes by the time I get to the register to order.
People need to just go old school and start packing a lunch. It’s probably time I got back in that habit. I drive for a living and I keep a stash of meat sticks in my car, I should probably start bringing some hard boiled eggs and maybe some meat and cheese wraps for when I am really famished.
… 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.”
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It would take more than $30m to pull off that incredible feat.
Why would I, as a customer, be ‘motivated to visit’ to see your magic price changing menu? I’m going to a restaurant that can’t fucking do that.
It’s why Five Guys and In-n-Out have been gaining market share the last 10 years. Give me a good burger, good fries… that’s all I want.
Five Guys is more expensive than the vastly superior local burger joints now. Not a great comparison.
In-N-Out is an unbeatable value, but is only franchised in very limited areas in order to control quality.
Yeah Five Guys is priced higher than almost anywhere else in my area and has been meh when I’ve gone. In n out doesn’t exist here.
It is expensive, but when faced with the choice of a $15 meal from Wendy’s or a $15 meal from Five Guys, I’m always choosing Five Guys.
Also, my local Five Guys is amazing. I haven’t had any issues with quality that others seem to regularly have.
And why are you not supporting your local hamburger restaurants?
Edit: downvotes from Ronald McDonald’s alts
Because there literally aren’t any fast food local hamburger joints in my town.
fast food
Well there’s your problem
Isn’t that the whole context of the thread?
If we were talking about a sit down restaurant and $20-30 a plate, it’d be a whole other discussion.
Baconator ain’t worth it
Cool, guess I will continue to avoid fast food.
Smart.
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.
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.”
