Yeah, and I’m introducing “no more eating at Wendy’s” pricing.
Wendy’s seems blissfully unaware that’s there’s plenty of adequate competitors in the burger market. It’s a great time to get to know your local restaurants.
Theyre probably hoping people wont notice
McDonald’s is already out of the running. A mcdouble and medium fry is 8 bucks.
Burger King is my go to, Impossible Whopper is great for vegan me and it’s reasonable still. I mostly go to local places though. It’s worth it.
Just a heads up, the Impossible whopper isn’t exactly vegan
https://www.today.com/food/new-burger-king-impossible-whopper-isn-t-vegetarian-t160203
Not sure how strict you are. No judgement here, just thought you might want to know
OMG I am strict. Ok that’s done. Thank you.
BK has a bankruptcy issue rn. Same with Sonic and a couple other American chains
Oh wow I didn’t know.
I only eat from the deals menu, redeeming points or when they do something like the chicken sandwiches 2/$6. You have to be smart about eating at mcdicks, if you just roll up and order whatever you will definitely spend more money than the food is actually worth.
Cool, guess I will continue to avoid fast food.
Smart.
I just go to local burger joints now, it’s the same price and the food is better, and (probably) someone local is getting money and not some ceo across the world who doesn’t care about my local economy or people.
it’s the same price
You know, this wasn’t true until recently.
Fast food as gotten stupidly expensive.
Well of course but we aren’t talking about 4 years ago we are talking about now.
Yes, I’m just highlighting how the rhetoric has changed.
Where I am, the price of fast food is just about equal to some restaurants. There’s no point in doing fast food anymore.
Seriously. Fast food just isn’t for poor people anymore.
We have to use grocery stores.
Thankfully, grocery shopping online is much easier now.
Same with me in Canada. I go local almost all the time other than my annual Burger King impossible Whopper
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.
I say this to some many people. Wendy’s can get some good deals sometimes. Like BOGO spicy chicken, but if I order a meal from any fastfood place around me then just no. I would be better off just going to my Mexican restaurant across the street. On Tuesday is taco Tuesday (obvs) and you get 3 tacos, beans and rice for like $8-$9. They other deals weds, Thurs, but not as good as that Tuesday deal.
A Dave’s Single combo already costs 12 bucks here. Fuck off Wendy’s, like hell we’re paying more for that.
Edit: And that’s for a small combo. Want a large? Fuck you, pay 15.
Wouldn’t this run afoul of most states weights and meaures?
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.
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!
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Bars are scams.
You can get an entire bottle of liquor for $11.
You can get an entire bottle of wine for $3.50.
I foreseee never stepping into a restaurant like that.
In an environment of painful (almost insulting) food price increases everywhere, Wendy’s decides to remove price predictability from the equation, ensuring that I never know what I’m going to pay, except that I can guarantee I’m going to be gouged when I most want to eat.
Yeah, I don’t care what they sell. I don’t want to be treated like that.
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
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.
Dear Wendy’s CEO,
This is not Uber. This is a Wendy’s.
Sir, 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 $3.
I thought the burgers tasted like sawdust myself.
Indeed but as a broke teenager on my own those 99 cents deals kept me somewhat fed.
Yeah, just a run of the mill chicken sandwich combo is 15$ and it looks like a toddler slapped it together with food he found in the trash.
toddler slapped it together
They’re going to start charging for the boogers, which are not optional.
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.
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.
Wendy’s won’t last. Their quality is so bad, their menu is terrible, they deserve to die and this will help.
It’s amazing the nose dive their quality has taken
Wendy’s is the busiest fast food restaurant in town where I live, and I consistently see most locations being very busy, so… no? They’re not going anywhere.
Based of this line of thinking then they’re absolutely going out of buisness. The one near me is lucky to get a couple of cars at a time.
Probably due to the 6$ biggie bag. If prices keep going up, I cant imagine people will keep going. I had to stop after they got rid of the 5$ menu. The food taste too trashy to be worth any more than that.
We don’t have the biggie bag here in Canada, least not where I live.
They aren’t the busiest here, they are the slowest though. They always have a line wrapped around the building, but that’s because the line hardly moves.
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.
ITT: people who didn’t eat fast food anyways stroking themselves at the thought of the poors getting poorer. The only people eating Wendy’s go here because it is their comfort food and they probably feel like it’s the best option. They will pay the higher prices.
Imma broke bitch, it sucked giant ass when the biggie bag went from 4 to 5 then to 6 bucks in my area. There is no delusions of grandeur when eatin at Wendy’s, is jus cheap an becoming less an less.
I mean, I used to eat fast food before it became ridiculously expensive.
You have a point about that ‘comfort food’ thing. Some people are legit addicted to this stuff and will never admit they can’t afford it or it’s too expensive.
These are the people the businesses are banking on exploiting.
