I will experiment with not eating at Wendy’s in 2025.
I’m done until they realize this is fucking stupid. Or somehow catches on with other restaurants and industries, then I’m going to live in a cave
You know corporations can’t resist an opportunity to price gouge, this is probably only the beginning.
There was some discussion on Marketplace on NPR saying they might just end up reducing prices during slow times to attract more people but if that’s their plan then their communication of this has been disastrous. If they actually raise prices during peaks then they’re fucking greedy douchebags and fuck them all.
Cool, this will make it even easier for me to avoid eating fast food!
It’s fast food. Not wait-for-surge-pricing-to-come-down food.
I hope they do this! It’s such a great idea!
(Oh, now that it’s just us: I hope they do it so that they fail and go bankrupt. It’s such a stupid idea and anti-consumer.)
Yeah, Wendy’s! We’re with you!!
What fresh hell this is!
People can avoid Wendy’s when this first rolls out. But if it’s even a little successful McDonald’s and Burger King and every other chain will roll out the same kind of thing. Hopefully there’s a local mom & pop burger shop in your town.
I’ll be the devil’s advocate.
It might make things more efficient, less people waiting in lines at some times, less bored employes at other times.
What you’re going to have is fewer people during the lunch/dinner rush, meaning employee hours are going to be cut because there’s less to do. Which is just going to drive business to other places. So they’re going to set up this whole process and all that’s inevitably going to happen is no one shows up for lunch or dinner because they’re expecting higher prices. And the price is there already too high. It’s $6.50 for a spicy chicken sandwich… Which I can almost guarantee has been sitting under some sort of heat lamp and then thrown together.
